Morning All

Coffee morning: A very busy morning at the Arts Centre on Saturday so a huge thank you to everyone who managed to supply some very edible edibles, helped out in the café and popped in to spend some dosh! We took, by the way, £137.70; after a small deduction to the Arts Centre; this money goes straight into our coffers! Robin looked pleased!

So, thank you, (in no particular order), to Elaine, Brenda, Terry, Robin, Maurice, Stan, Sue, Rhona, Barry, Jenny, Michael and Freda. This is what we call a team effort! If we’ve missed anyone out – many apologies. Also, it was really nice to see Lucienne, as sprightly as ever and Vernon and his wife making a visit to Garstang! Even Bob Sapey popped in!

Humanity Competition. Many thanks, also, to all members who managed to enter prints and digital images into the competition to be judged. We thought that Carol Watson did an excellent job spending time on each photograph and giving her thoughts, her positives and her constructive criticism to them all. Attached are the full results for you to look at.

And, a big well done to Tim for not only winning 2 of the 4 sections (digital monochrome and digital colour) but his image – Spinning with Grandma – winning the overall prize – ‘best in show’! Congratulations Tim! Attached to this newsletter is an image from our club member Ted – from South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. He says: In preparation for the talk on the 20th of March … “Shackleton & South Georgia” a picture from Grytviken July 2023…Thanks Ted, so glad you are still receiving and reading the newsletters!

Notices

Events Cup.

Thanks to all members who have voted for the top 8 destinations; if you haven’t cast your selection yet, there is still time – but only just.

Member’s Evening 3rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

· Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.

· Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!

· Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.

· Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Calendar images

Following on from last weeks newsletter, and from various discussions, the deadline of April 21st has now been extended to Sunday May 5th.

· When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 8th May (that’s also AGM evening), in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.

· Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.

· The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union

Attached is the Annual Individuals Competition 2024 for Saturday 18th May & Sunday 19th May.

A full rules & guidelines for both competitions will follow but the attached is a summary of key dates.

When the rules appear, we will send them out. Any questions? Speak to Mike or Lewis on Wednesday.

Up and coming programme of events:

· March 20th – Keith Snell PhD EFIAP MPSA LRPS* – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia. Featuring landscape and wildlife photography during an expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica, following Shackleton’s renowned journey.

· March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.

· March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.

· April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell; see above.

· April 10th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis