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Tom Buckard was the winner of the raffle for the free 3-day pass to the FCCC Conference.

Remember, we will be meeting in our new location, the Royal Palm Retirement Center at 2500 Aaron St in Port Charlotte at 7:00 pm.

Monthly Slideshow Presentations

Following is a list of slideshow presentation topics for the year 2012. 

A digital projector will be available to show the slides (digital images).  The presentation should last no longer than three to four minutes.  Images should be resized so the longest horizontal dimension is 1024 pixels or the longest vertical dimension is 768 pixels.  The presentations will be on the 4th Thursday (2nd meeting) of the month. Following is a list of the topics for each month.
 

January	Open
February	Instructional
March	Birds
April	Instructional
May	Open
June	Instructional
July	Vacation Memories
August	Instructional
September	Open
October	Instructional
November
December

Note:  Instructional signifies instructional presentations by members on topics such as Pro Show Gold, Photoshop etc.

FCCC 2011 - Third Triannual Competition Results


Digital Division

Print Division

Flash Photography

There is an interesting blog called the Strobist that provides a lot of information about flash photography.  There are over 1000 articles and postings, many of which have been indexed.  In addition you'll find video tutorials discussing flash photography.  Worth a visit!

     www.strobist.blogspot.com

This is a reminder that your $10 yearly membership fee is due.  Our membership list will be updated on March 1, 2012.  Only paid up members will appear on the membership list and receive future emails.

February 24th Field Trip

Florida Flywheelers will be holding their 20th Annual Antique and Tractor Show from February 22-25, 2012.  Their location is 7000 Avon Park Cutoff Road, Fort Meade, FL 33841.  Check their web site for more information: www.floridaflywheelers.org

Our club will be having a field trip to visit the Show on February 22nd.  More details to follow.

New Meeting Location

Starting in September, we will be meeting at a new location:

     Royal Palm Retirement Center
     2500 Aaron Street
     Port Charlotte, FL  33952

It is located at the corner of Aaron St & Harbor Blvd.  Park in the parking lot to the left of the building on Aaron St and enter under the canopy in front of the building on Aaron St.  Diagonal parking on the grass in front of the building is also permitted.  Our room is the LEFT dining room section.


PSA Interclub Nature Competition

The second Nature Interclub Competition is scheduled for January, 2012.  The following six images were selected and submitted from 19 entries.

               
                   Flamingo Preening by Beverly Aker

              
                Osprey with Catch by Bernie Hynes

            
                           Gator by Kathy Buckard

                          
                    Protective Egret by Ted Thelin

               
               Singing Meadowlark by Tom Zinneman

               
                     Stilt Reflection by John Livernois

The third PSA Nature Interclub Competition  is scheduled for April, 2012.  Each PSA member club can submit six images for each interclub competition.  If you're interested in entering, submit a maximum of two images to Norm Collin.  Local judges will then select six images to be sub-mitted into the PSA competition.

Following are some rules to be followed:

Images may not be larger than 1024 x 768.

Images must be in the jpg format and the file size should be no larger than 1.7 MB.

The image file name should include your name and the picture title.  For example, john livernois blue bird.jpg.

Save your image as SRGB as it looks best when displayed via a projector.

The official entry rules are here.