Rob Perrin, President, opened the first meeting of the year

Old Business

Thank you’s to John & Fonda Hillman for decorating for the Christmas party and Dave Clark and his wife for getting all the gifts and wrapping them for our give-a-ways and also for Dave & Harold for picking up the food from the Baker’s Rack.

Dave, please send let Kay Shackelford (731-742-3844) know how much everything was so she can cut you a check.

Previous Minutes

Christmas Party…no minutes

Welcome Guests/New Members
Laura Bell – New Member
George Gaffney – New Member
Jerry Hensley – New Member
Jim Jones – New Member
Kim White – New Member

New Business

Elections/Volunteers…2008 Officers/Teams are as follows: as always I encourage everyone to “get in the game” and be an active rather than a passive member; this is your club. I like to view most of the positions below as “Teams” rather than just individuals. We are all busy, but everyone can give a little…that said…just because “Elections” are over, doesn’t mean you can’t jump in with anyone listed below to help out.

Workshops/Field Trips is still open for someone to lead. Also, Tina Todd is by herself with Programs…I’d like to see a few more folks step up and help her out. Programs is the hardest position in the club.
President: Rob Perrin (2nd year of two year term)
Vice President: Steve Parrott
Secretary: Melanie Lucky / Tina Todd
Treasurer: Kay Shackelford / Judi Garner
Programs: Tina Todd
Public Relations: Aaron Sanders
Contest Chair: Tina Todd / Melanie Lucky
Baker’s Rack Curator: Harold Perciful
Workshops/Field Trips:
Hospitality: Cathy Coleman / Laura Bell
Webmaster: Shawn Wiley

Club Logo Contest: We’ll vote on a Club Logo at the March meeting. So all you creative types…get to work. J If you have an idea…but not the skill to created it…through it out to the club…there’s probably someone with the skill but no idea.

Club Biz/Contact Cards: Aaron Sanders brought up the idea of a Club Business card. Tina Todd is going to make a few temporary cards for us. Steve Parrott said he can get some made for free once we know what we’d like to have on them. The Club Biz card would have meeting and contact information on them and a place to write in your name and number. We can give them out to folks who are interested in the club.

January Contest: GOOD EATS
Steve Parrott – 1st Place, Rob Perrin – 2nd, John Hillman – 3rd

February’s Contest Theme: MACRO

Note: with any of your images for Show-n-Tell and/or the Contests, jot down the camera info (time of day, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, etc.) so you’ll be able to share with others who are interested.

Program Ideas: One of the biggest challenges for each meeting is a program. Please help Tina this year with ideas…AND helping out on programs. Here are some of the ideas that were shared during January’s meeting:
Photographing Groups
Composition
Photoshop (Elements, CS, Lightroom)
Blue August (someone will have to refresh my memory on this one...I have no idea what it means now.)
Havner’s Frame Shop or Framing
Mid-South Color Labs
“Rules of Photography”
Stock Photography
Child Photography
Wedding Photography
Exposure – understanding what your camera sees and what is does in the various settings
Zoo
Black and White Conversion
Pictography
Understanding your equipment (how to use it – beyond Program mode)
Abstract Photography
Wolf Camera

Also, here are some ideas from the January meeting of the Northwest Tennessee Photography Club….
Black and White tips and tricks
Color Management
Night Photography
Reducing Noise – Low light pictures
Choosing the right lens
Choosing the right flash
Setting up flash, fill flash etc…
Have small groups, who have similar software, work together on laptops.

Show-N-Tell
Sorry, but I didn’t take notes during Show-N-Tell…I was enjoying the show.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, Feb 5th…see you there!

Rob

The meeting was called to order by President, Rob Perrin. There was no old business. New business: Next meeting is the Christmas Party. We will plan on meeting in the basement room at Regional Hospital if it is available since it is bigger and there will be more people for the Christmas party. The date will be our usual meeting time, 6:30 pm and the meal will be catered by the Bakers Rack. The food will be good and the company excellent so plan to attend!

This month's contest was "Harvest" and the winners are...........
1st place: Tina Todd - Cotton Boll
2nd place: Steve Parrott - Old Tractors
3rd place: Bill Farmer -" Bucolic "Colorado scene

Next month's contest subject will be "Good Eats".

Rob Perrin presented a program on Studio Lighting highlighting the use of umbrellas, back lighting and strobes. He stressed that experimentation is the way to getting the "look" you want and recording the values used once you achieve that "look".

We welcome a new Member, Nancy Tripp, who showed us some lovely examples of her photography and welcomed guest, George Gaffney.

Steve Parrott showed us his Holga camera medium format simple plastic camera and some excellent examples of photos he took with this camera including lots of multiple exposures and b/w film.

Respectfully submitted,

Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Rob Perrin, Club President, opened the meeting and welcomed our guests and prospective new members, Debbie Shell, Vicki Stewart, Bridgette Spivak, Charles Moore, and George Gaffey.

Old Business:

Land Between the Lakes Trip rescheduled to October 13, 2007. Contact Harold Perciful if you want to go.

For sale items on web site: Contact Rob Perrin with any equipment you might have for sale.

New Business: Next month's meeting will be on studio lighting.

This month's photo contest was "Anything Goes" Winners were:

1st place a tie Harold Perciful and Tina Todd
2nd place: Rob Perrin
3rd place: Melanie Luckey

We enjoyed show and tell especially Tina Todd's presentation of her great western adventure in the Tetons and Yellowstone Park.

Our program this evening for on cleaning our digital cameras especially removing spots from the sensor. Rob did an excellent job of taking the scaryiness out of tackling this delicate procedure. Here is a web site that describes the procedure as well. cleaningdigitalcameras.com.

The theme for next months photo contest will be "Harvest". Tina really would like e-mail entries if at all possible. Please send these to her at ttodd@jaxnet.net

Respectively submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Rob Perrin, Club President, opened the meeting with a short report on Kid's Fest and thanked those who had come to help out. The day had been hot, but everyone had a good time.

The theme of this month's photo contest was "Humor."

1st place " Rattle Snake Right of Way " Cathy Coleman
2nd place" Udderly Ridiculous" Dave Clark
3rd place "OOPS " Kay Shackleford

The contest theme for October will be "Anything Goes" which should be self-explanatory.

Harold Perciful is putting together another trip to Land Between the Lakes and Fort Donnelson on Saturday, September 29, 2007. Plan on leaving about 7:00 am to go with the group from Jackson. Plans are to look into renting a van for the trip. Please contact Harold Perciful by e-mail for telephone if you would like to ride with the group. percih@aeneas.net

Next month's program will be on camera maintenance and cleaning. Rob will help us clean our cameras including cleaning the dust from our sensors. Bring any cleaning supplies that you have with you. Also we will look forward to Tina Todd's pictures of the Tetons.

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Rob Perrin called the meeting to order. There was only one entry for the contest. It was a sparkler picture by Melanie Luckey. The theme for next month is "OLD", and can be interpretted any way you like.

Rob talked about how to put a portfolio together and resume samples for photographers. He will email the paperwork to everyone.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at Regional Hospital. Tina Todd will show pictures from her trip. Some of them can be viewed at www.pbase.com/ttodd.

Mellanie Luckey

Rob Perrin, club president, opened the meeting and introduced a prospective new member, Tim Britt. Tim is a professor at Jackson State in the Math department.

Kids Fest is only a couple of months away; and though our role will be different, we will still be taking part in this event. No more pictures with characters, but candids and exit interview stuff, possibly video. Rob would like to know asap how many of us will be able to help and how many tickets we will need (adult and children). Please let him know. photopilot@mountup.us

Rob did a presentation of histograms and calibration and we also discussed ratio as it pertains to the size of the photo sensor in digital cameras.

The contest winners for the month are as follows:

1st - Kay Shackelford
2nd - Harold Perciful
3rd - Steve Parrott

We are waiting to hear what our contest theme for next month will be.

If anyone has any program ideas and any needs that might be addressed in a program, let Rob know.

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

The meeting was called to order by Rob Perrin, Club President, at our usual meeting place at Regional Hospital.

Rob would like to have club members' specialties listed on the web site so that if a job comes up that is a speciality of yours, he would know who to get in touch with. Another member suggested that we might have a classified section also posted on the site in order to sell used equipment, etc.

The photo contest winners for April's contest are as follows and are now posted on the website

1st place: Karen Wilson
2nd place: Melanie Luckey
3rd place: Tina Todd

May's contest theme will be "Domestic Animals"

Our guest speaker was Rachel Dickson, owner of the Dickson Gallery in downtown Jackson. She shared with us some ideas that might make our photos more saleable. She is still looking for artists to display their arts at the gallery. If you are interested, she would be glad to hear from you. She especially needs photos of historic Jackson for a special show later this year that will benefit St. Jude's .

Meeting adjourned.

Respecfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Steve Parrot presented a Photoshop program on enhancing portraits. He recommended the book The Photoshop CS Book by Scott Kelby. It can be purchased at bookstores or from Amazon.com. He demonstrated the patch tool and healing brush on a senior portrait. He then demonstrated how to make wrinkles and lines disappear on a portrait using the healing brush, lasso tool, and Causian blur among others.

The club then voted on February’s photo of the month. The theme for February was RED. March’s contest theme will be sunsets/sunrises.

The next meeting will be held at the Tulip Tree Wedding Chapel. Members can come at 5:30 p.m. and bring their families.

This month's meeting was a short one as there was no old or new business to discuss. We had show and tell and voted on the winners of the photo contest of the month: "Black and White" Carl Jernigan received 1st place with his b/w photo of the dock at Maple Creek Lake in Natchez Trace Park. There was a 3-way tie for second place among Judi Garner, John Hillman, and Agnes Lemley.

Don Noll presented a short demonstration of a free program from Google "Picasa 2" This free program can be a valuable asset in organizing all photos on a hard drive. There are also printing options, e-mail options, and some basic photo editing that can be done with this program. Thank you, Don, for demonstrating it for us.

Respectfully submitted,

Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

The meeting was called to order by President Rob Perrin. The first order of business was election of new officers. The new slate of officers are as follows:

President:	Rob Perrin
Vice President:	John Hillman
Treasurer:	Kay Shackelford
	Judi Garner
	Shawn Wiley
Secretary:	Agnes Lemley
	Melanie Luckey
	Tina Todd
Contest Chair:	Tina Todd
	Melanie Luckey
	Kay Shackelford
Web Master:	Shawn Wiley
Program Chair:	Tina Todd
	others needed
Hospitality:	Cathy Coleman
	Harold Perciful
Curator Bakers Rack:	Harold Perciful
Public Relations:	Aaron Sanders
	Dave Clark
	Steve Parrott
Workshops, Field Trips:	Harold Perciful
	Carl Jernigan

Rob reiterated that everyone needed to be involved in some way on some committe or office. Make this club your own!

Suggestions received for activities and workshops for the new year included a lighting workshop that Joe Grace is working on right now, field trips of various kinds, photoshop tips and lessons to be presented perhaps at each meeting.

"Show and Tell" time included Steve Parrott with a new carbon fiber tripod, very light and strong that he got on e-bay for $80 and his new chrome dome (no, he hasn't gone suddenly bald), a new reflector from the Gary Fong website.

Rob Perrin demonstrated his new Nikon strobe lighting system that consists of three SB800 flashes that operate wirelessly and his two new VR lenses from Nikon, the 18-200mm and the exceptional 70-200mm.

We voted on the contest entries for the month of December contest theme "Lights." The winners are as follows:

1st place:	John Hillman
2nd place:	Bill Farmer
3rd place:	Tina Todd

Next month's contest theme will be black and white (no sepia tone, just good old black and white). Get out there and start shooting sending all entries to Tina Todd @ ttodd@jaxnet.net.

We welcomed Pam and Larry Flemming as our guests this evening.

Respectfully Submitted,

Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Our annual Christmas party was the focus of our meeting this month. Food catered by the Baker's Rack was delicious and plentiful.

We took time to thank Jeff Roush for all the contributions he has made over the 3 years that this photo club has been in existence.

Rob Perrin, our current president, handed out two sheets for us to consider for the next meeting on January 9, 2007. We need to be thinking about new club officers and what we liked, disliked, and what we would like to do/learn/see next year. As you consider these things, send any thoughts you have to Agnes Lemley clalem@bellsouth.net I will compile them and bring them to the next meeting.

The winner of the photo contest "portraiture" is now posted on the website. Go have a look!

The following is the slate of officers that we will need to be filling for the upcoming year

President
Vice President
Monthly Program Team
Workshop/Field Trip Team
Secretary
Treasury Team
Contest Team
Webmaster
Public Relations
Hospitality Team
Baker's Rack Curator

Everyone seemed to enjoy the meal and the fellowship. See you on January 9, at our usual meeting place for this very important meeting to choose officers and the direction for the new year's activities.

Respectfully submitted,

Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

Thanks to Tina Todd for doing the meeting minutes. Here they are!

The Christmas party will be held at Regional and to be catered by The Bakers Rack. Menus will be brought to the next meeting. We had show and tell. The meeting became a round table discussion. We discussed technical issues, as well as how to improve our photography. Rob brought in his new pretty strobe lights and had information pamphlets on the strobes and lighting techniques as hand outs. At our next meeting, we need to figure out what program we may want to learn about. The photo contest (State Fair) was held and the winners were picked by vote. 1st place: Tina Todd, 2nd place: Judi Garner, 3rd place: Dave Clark. Congratulations everyone! The photo contest for October will be Fall/Harvest. Remember to send your submissions to ttodd@jaxnet.net Only one please, I (Tina) hate trying to pick out your best shot. We will have the voting at the next meeting. Please come, hey come as you are. We don’t care. I’m wearing fuzzy house shoes! Who’s with me?

Interim Secretary,
Tina Todd

The September meeting of the Jackson Photo Club was held at Regional Hospital in our usual meeting room on September 5, 2006.

President, Rob Perrin, opened the meeting with a report on KidsFest. The KidsFest event raised approximately $70,000 of which the Photo Club was able to contribute $500. We will probably not continue our booth next year unless we can come up with a more workable format that will bring in more revenue. Many people are bringing their own digital cameras and are taking pictures of their own.

Rob reminded us about the classes Jeff Roush is conducting at Lambuth. To find out more go to the Lambuth web site.

Our display of pictures at the Baker's Rack is up and looking good. If you have a picture you wish to display there, contact Harold Perciful, our curator, percih@aeneas.net We will be changing the pictures out at least on a monthly basis to keep the display fresh and up-to-date. We may be asking the Baker's Rack to cater our Christmas party this year.

Rob asked for someone to co-ordinate the photo contest that has fallen by the wayside. Tina Todd and Kay Shackelford will head up that undertaking and you will be hearing more soon about this.

After having show and tell, the meeting was adjourned. Many thanks to Cathy Coleman for providing snacks for the meeting.

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

President, Rob Perrin opened the meeting at our usual meeting place at Regional Hospital.

The main thrust of the meeting this time is the up-coming KidsFest event. Rob handed out a "KidsFest Checklist" and a sample of the form we will ask parents to fill out in order to obtain a picture of their child. I will include these as attachments with these minutes. In order to cut down on confusion, work, and long lines, we will be burning CD's this time only for those who do not have access to e-mail. Also pictures will be taken only of the children whose parents ask to have one done. There will be 5 characters this year to cover so we needed lots of folks to work. Please see attachment one for details of jobs that need to be done. Don't forget to let Rob know how many tickets you will need for the event by email. photopilot@mountup.us

The new Baker's Rack display was also discussed at length. We should be able to put up our pictures very soon. Please have them nicely framed. They will be displayed on shelves this time. Steve Parrot will make the cards regarding each picture if you e-mail him with the details. He needs the following: Name of photographer, title of picture, size of print, price you wish to charge, e-mail address, and phone number. Steve's e-mail is: luxvivens@charter.net

We ended the meeting with "Show and Tell." Harold Perciful and Cathy Coleman brought pictures for us to view.

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording Secretary

President, Rob Perrin, opened the meeting at our regular meeting room at Regional Hospital.

Tina Todd shared with us her outline and notes from the National Geographic Photographic Workshop in Chicago. She was kind enough to supply a copy of her outline and notes for all the photo club members. Thanks Tina!

Rob then talked briefly about the display that we will have at the new Baker's Rack restaurant in downtown Jackson. He needs volunteers to paint shelves for our display. Steve Parrot will make cards to place on our framed photos. Each member needs to price his/her photo as it is framed and presented at the Baker's Rack. We are not sure when we will be ready to display these. More to follow on this.

We also talked about the upcoming "Kid's Fest" on Saturday, August 26, 2006. Rob stated that we need as many photo club members as possible to work as this is our big money maker and it will be a really busy day. This year we will not make pictures of every child only those whose parents request a picture. All pictures will be e-mailed to those requesting one unless the family does not have internet access. If they do not, a CD will be cut for them to take with them. Steve Parrot has designed a very colorful poster for the event that will be blown up to a large size and displayed at "Kids Fest".

Our next meeting on August 1 will be devoted to finalizing plans for Kids Fest. Please let Rob know via e-mail as soon as possible whether or not you will be able to devote some time to "Kids Fest"

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley, Recording Secretary

The monthly meeting was held at Jackson Regional Hospital.

The members present scheduled the next meeting for July 11th, since the first Tuesday falls on July 4th.

Thanks to Harold Perciful for bringing the remaining photos from the old Baker's Rack location. Rob discussed how photos will be presented at the new Baker's Rack location. Photos should be at least 8"x10" and should be framed. The photos will be available for sale to the public, frame and all.

Joe Grace briefly discussed the possibility of setting up a portrait workshop with Bret Christensen of Christensen Photographics. Most of the members present expressed interest, and so Joe will try to contact Mr. Christensen.

Judi Garner, Cathy Coleman, and Steve Parrot brought pictures for show & tell.

The photo booths for this year's Kid's Fest were discussed at length. Problems encountered at last year's event - such as long lines and the time required to burn CD's - were discussed, as well as possible solutions - such as setting up ropes to control lines, getting photos to people over the internet, and having more people helping out. Details will be worked out over the next couple of meetings. We definitely need as many people as possible to help out. Kid's Fest will be on the last Saturday in August (the 26th).

Respectfully submitted,
Shawn Wiley

Rob opened the meeting thanking John Hillman for hosting our last meeting at the Tulip Tree.

Rob asked everyone to brainstorm about new programs for the club. Please let Kay know via email of any suggestions. Kay will be talking with Charlie Havner at Havner's Frame Shoppe about doing a presentation for us on framing, etc. Steve Parrott might be able to do a presentation on retouching in Photoshop. Tina Todd will be in some photography training in a few weeks that she may be able to share with the group. Everyone feel free to make suggestions or comments to either Kay, Harold, or Rob.

KidsFest is in August and much planning will need to be done in order to make it a fabulous success story for the kids.

The Photo Contest needs two volunteers. Ryan Matthews has a new job and is going to school so he needs help with this endeavor. This will add much to our club, so please think about volunteering for this -- it will be fun!

We are taking down the pictures at the Baker's Rack. They are moving to another location in downtown Jackson. Harold is going to take these down starting next week for everyone and will have them for you at the next meeting. Rob said that the next pictures that we put up at the new Baker's Rack should be framed, any color frame. More about Baker's Rack when information is available.

We saw the video produced by Joe Grace from last year's KidsFest. Joe did a wonderful job putting this together. Thanks to all of the photographers, too.

We had a time of sharing photographs and the stories behind them!

Rob mentioned that there is a meeting in Nashville on June 2 of The National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He will be sending out an email on this.

Respectfully submitted,
Kay Crick

The monthly meeting of the Jackson Photo Club was held at the Tulip Tree Wedding Chapel. The members enjoyed strolling in the beautiful setting and taking pictures of family members and friends. The grounds were beautiful with Azleas, Dogwood, and Redbud blooming and ducks swimming on the pond. We all enjoyed a potluck meal with Fonda Hillman's famous chocolate cake as one of the desserts. Our thanks to John and Fonda Hillman for their hospitality and letting us share their beautiful grounds and chapel for the evening.

Joe Grace presented some of the pictures from Kids Fest 2005. We are hoping this year to do an even better job with this event that is our money maker for the year.

With that the meeting was adjourned. The May meeting will be held in our normal meeting place at Regional Hospital.

Respectfully submitted,
Agnes Lemley
Recording secretary

The regular meeting of the Jackson Photo Club was held in our usual meeting room at Regional Hospital.

Old Business: There was more discussion about the status of member pictures on display at the Baker's Rack downtown. Two members were assigned to look into the problem.

We viewed the entries into the current photoclub photo contest. The theme for this month's contest is "Blue". There was still time for members who did not get their entries in to send them to Ryan Matthews if they so desired. Take your chances, Rob stated, your entries may or may not make it in time.

New Business:
Our meeting for April will be at the tulip tree with John Hillman. Directions on how to get there will be sent before the meeting time. All members can bring a guest or family to this meeting. There will be an opportunity to take pictures.

Thanks to Shawn Wiley who has redesigned and updated our website: www.jacksonphotoclub.org . It looks very professional.

Program:
This month's program was presented by Robert Hill. He passed out a guidesheet to good landscape photography and then presented an intriguing slideshow program on his trip to Patagonia.

We ended with "Show and Tell". We all had a chance to view the latest photos from the Reelfoot trip in the snow and other interesting photos.

Respectfully submitted, Agnes Lemley, Recording Secretary

February 7, 2006

The monthly meeting was called to order by Rob Perrin, Photo Club President, at Wolf Camera on Highland Street.

After welcoming our guests for the evening, Rob asked Kay Crick, Program Chairman, to tell us about the upcoming workshop with Jeff Roush. Kay announced that it will be held on March 4, 2006 and will be an all day event starting at 9:00 am. Jeff will cover a variety of topics including digital file keeping and there will be an opportunity to use the studio lighting for a hands-on photo session. The cost is $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

Rob talked about the possibility of hanging some of our photography works at Cajun Cookers and also stated that the photos we have at the Baker's Rack downtown have not fared well and need repairs and rehanging. Those who have pictures there need to go take a look and see what needs to be done.

Ryan Matthews will be putting together a slide show for our March meeting photo competition. The theme for our first competition will be "Blue". E-mail photos to Ryan at ezekielmania@gmail.com . The photos should be sized for the web.

Rob talked briefly about annual awards for club members to be presented at the Christmas party and also asked for suggestions as to how we can use the money that we have accumulated in our club treasury.

Plans for the Eagle shoot at Reelfoot were finalized with club members interested to meet at Englewood Bapist Church parking lot at 8:00am Saturday, February 11, for the trip to Reelfoot.

Rob then turned the meeting over to Michael Poteet and Jeff Stevens, who demonstrated the machines used in photo development and printing at Wolf Photo. Michael took a Club group picture and presented each member present with a copy to take home. Thanks to Michael and Jeff for an interesting presentation.

Our next meeting will be held in our usual room at Regional Hospital on March 7, 2006 @ 6:30 pm.