March Speaker Khrystyne Jamerson Outreach Coordinator for South Florida Wildlife Center

Khrystyne was raised in Texas and completed her bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology at Texas State University-San Marcos. Since she was a child, she has always had an interest in animals and nature. Throughout her career, she has been fortunate to work with sea turtles in Costa Rica, Texas, and Ghana, as well as manatees in Florida. She has since transitioned out of the field and into environmental education to spread awareness about the plight of wildlife in their natural spaces and how everyone can help ensure their survival for future generations.

In her spare time, Khrystyne enjoys paddling, camping with her dogs, and exploring any new trails she can find.

February Speaker Photographer Barry Kulick

ADVENTURES FROM BEYOND THE WATER

 Photographer Barry Kulick is an honorary member and longtime friend of SFDI.  This February, as he has done in at least 30 Februaries past, Barry will wow us with his photography and regale us with his wit.  Since, due to covid, he has not traveled at all since his last presentation in 2020, he'll show images that he has made in Florida since the beginning of the pandemic, including images of birds and other local terrestrial wildlife.  Club old-timers can also look forward to enjoying some fabulous images from past presentations, while newcomers will savor them for the very first time.  And, he may indeed have a few surprises in store!  Welcome to our friend, Barry!

 ABOUT BARRY KULICK

 Barry Kulick is a professional underwater photographer and cameraman. A long time sport-diver, he sold his guitar making business in 1988, and turned his hobby into a career. During the past decades he has had the opportunity to travel the world with his cameras to capture images of a wide variety of marine subjects; ranging in diversity from minute Pygmy Sea Horses, to enormous Great White Sharks, from the murky confines of ancient shipwrecks, to the vibrant color and ceaseless activity of majestic coral reefs.

 Although his major focus is the realm of still photography, Barry's cinema and video work has been seen in several films, commercials, training videos, and television shows. Hundreds of his still images have appeared throughout North, South and Central America, Europe, and Australia in books, magazines, advertisements, newspapers, postcards, puzzles, posters, computer software, art galleries, corporate and government publications, and private collections.

 Originally from New York City, Barry Kulick and his wife Miriam relocated to Florida in 1992, just in time to be greeted by Hurricane Andrew. Things have remained interesting since then.

January's Wacky Gift Exchange

January’s meeting is our annual wacky gift exchange.
Please bring a wrapped gift. The gift should be comical (wacky) or something nice. Please remember that wacky doesn’t mean junk. Try to bring something that you yourself would be happy to receive.
Wear your holiday finery such as ugly Christmas sweaters and or Santa hats etc. This should make for some great Kodak moments.

November Speaker Chris Gug

Please join SFDI Wednesday, November 2, 2022, as we welcome Chris Gug. Gug will be discussing his recent expedition to Misool in West Papua, Indonesia. He'll show some of the images he shot, some of the techniques he uses and discuss the amazing reef surrounding Misool which is a conservation victory because of the Misool Foundation's passionate effort to make it a no take marine protected area. Gug will be presenting in person!

Chris Gug Bio-Regarded as America's foremost underwater photographer, Gug has been making waves in the art scene for well over a decade. With Chris being the most common name of his generation, "Gug" (pronounced "Goog") has stuck since grade school. And since grade school, he has spent tens of thousands of hours creating marine life images that awe, inspire and sometimes confuse.

With no formal photography education, Gug felt that total immersion into his subject matter was the only way to master the art, and moved to the Caribbean to live on a boat where he could dive and shoot every day for seven years. After a year back in the USA where he exhibited his portfolio, he again took off, craving more exotic subject matter, and landed in Papua New Guinea, where he again lived on a boat, for two years shooting underwater every day. Gug has now created images in over 40 different countries, been published in numerous magazines, and been displayed in several of the world's most prestigious museums. The result has been that his art is now being collected across the world, and the value of his limited edition photographs has seen a steady increase, making them a worthy investment for any art collector.

Based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he is now able to serve new clients and long-time collectors alike with a fine art gallery dedicated exclusively to his underwater images from around the world.