March 1st meeting

Hi all!

Judd opened the meeting this evening with 14 members present and 2 guests, Christine Flaro and Carol Cantrell. Welcome to our meeting to both of them!

Judd asked if anyone had brought pictures for him to present to Mike Cullen from the Marshfield Mail as he has a meeting with him tomorrow about our club and was asked to bring a sampling of photos that were done by our members.

Judd and Marcia showed their pictures of 'deconstucting light', 'tired', 'sleep' and 'up close' as they were gone and needed to get caught up on the challenges.

Next we had Show & Tell. Katie showed us her picture of an eagle. She had entered this picture in a contest through Digital Photography Challenge and it came in 19th place out of 500. That is quite a feat! Congratulations Katie, keep up the good work!!!!!!

Marty showed us some pics she had done in a studio setting of a young couple that were awesome!!! She is really doing some fantastic work!

Marcia showed a picture of star trails that she did on her trip to Arizona in February and

Judd showed some of the pictures he took while on that trip as well.

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Judd handed out calendars for March about our next challenges. The challenges for our next meeting will be 'Action', 'Vegetables' and 'Underneath'.

Next we showed our pictures of the challenges that were due for this meeting:

'Romance' - Marty, Katie, Judd and Kelley had photos for this.

'Body Parts' - Katie, Marcia, Jerry and Judd had photos for this.

Good job to all of you!

Our guest speaker this evening was David Eslick from the Southwest Missouri Camera Club in Springfield. He is an Ansel Adams look alike that has 30+ years professional photography experience. Jerry runs in to him at many events and asked him to speak to us this evening. He gave us some insight into his work with a slideshow of events he has covered. He is quite a character and his passion for photography and people really showed. Thank you David for sharing with us!

Our next meeting will be on March 15th at the Marshfield Library. Debbie & Judd will be demonstrating bounce flash and Jerry & Larry will have a small studio setup so bring your cameras to use.

The April 5th meeting will be held at Judd & Marcia's house and we will be doing night photography for sure and star trails if the moon is cooperating. We will have a short meeting so bring your challenge pics this evening. We will also have a weinie roast this evening so if you are coming from work you won't go hungry! We had a good time the last time we did this.

Judd spoke to us about Palo Duro Canyon; a long days drive from here in Texas near Amarillo. He and Marcia visited this canyon on their trip and thought it would be a great location for a club trip if anyone was interested. We would probably get some very good pictures there when the desert is in bloom. This canyon is billed as the second largest in the United States and the nice thing is you can drive through it. We discussed going as a club over Memorial Day weekend. Judd will call and get more info on costs and motels and let us know at the next meeting; we had about 9 people interested in this and if any of you weren't at tonight's meeting and would like to go just let us know.

Until we meet again.

Have fun with your cameras! We love seeing the results!

Marcia