Morning all

Early this week!

We were very impressed with our speaker this week, Adrian Almond; excellent images of not only a good range of subjects but some detailed info on camera settings. Thanks, John, for your choice!

Congratulations!

To Sarah (Kinghorn): Sarah has been successful in The Disabled Photographers’ Society annual competition.

She came second in the Nature Projected and she travelled to Wakefield to collect her award. Well done from all the club.

To Lewis, Stan and Mike: For 4 images, in total, being chosen for the ‘Lancashire Mind’ 2023 calendar.

Exhibition

We are having an exhibition at the Arts Centre from Saturday 24^th September for a month.

Big thanks here to Maurice for doing the sorting and organising. The exhibition is for all the print winners (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd plus highly commended and commended for the 2021/22 season).

We could do with 2 volunteers please to help hang the prints; Saturday 24^th 10am for about an hour – coffee/tea and cake – what more do you want! Please email in to Mike and/or Lewis.

Reminders

• The 5-Way Battle, scheduled for 10^th November (Thursday) – 15 PDI’s. Deadline for images to Stan is 28^th September, max 6 images per member to be considered for selection.stanley.pearson@talktalk.net 
• The maximum image size for the 5 Way Battle is 1600 x 1200. If any members have difficulty with correctly sizing their image, they can send them to Stan and he will resize.
• Whole-Year Project; Photograph something every week/month. Possible ideas: plants, trees, view, lake, pond, child. Show next September, but 12 max images per member.
• Events Cup – Last one; September 25^th Sunday – destination Blackpool Zoo. Details at the end of the newsletter.
• Photographic ‘social-outings’. In our last newsletter we outlined ‘Out and about’ and ‘In-House’ activities put forward by Sarah. It would be greatly appreciated if members could either email in or speak to Sarah next week indicating what they may be interested in – it’s so Sarah can put together, in October, some events that we can join in.
• Sarah has also proposed the following: Preston BMX to go on a Saturday to photograph the training sessions. Many thanks to Paul, Ian and Freda who stepped in to help Sarah.
• Events Cup: deadline for entry to this internal competition is Wednesday 28^th September

Next speaker

• Wednesday 21^st September ‘live’ in the Arts Centre presentation by Alan and Julie titled ‘Bulgaria and Beyond. Below is a quote from their website:

Discovering Nature Photography……..Bulgaria and Beyond’

Our latest adventure to find Nature images that break some of the rules and push the boundaries of Fine Art Photography with the emphasis on finding stunning competition images. We travel this time to Bulgaria and then nearer to home in the UK to the Cairngorms, Skomer, Hampshire, Mull and…. Saltee in Eire, concluding in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

• Wednesday 28^th September: Members evening

Blackpool Zoo

• Open from 10am
• Under 60 – £19.99 – cheapest buying on-line
• Over 60’s – £17.99 – cheapest buying on-line
• Map: on-line
• Post code: FY3 8PP: take the M55 to junction 4, then follow the ‘brown elephant’ signs to the zoo. 
• We can discuss possible car sharing on Wednesday evening
• Any questions email us.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis