Afternoon All

Just to say, first of all, there will be no newsletter next weekend so the next one will be weekending 3^rd/4^th December. If you have any comments or questions though just email as normal – it’s no problem.

Garstang Victorian Festival

We have had an email from Julie from the Garstang Victoria Festival committee asking if anyone in the camera club would be interested in taking voluntary pictures throughout the evening for them?

The event is being held on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th December, 6pm – 9pm.

After discussing this in the last meeting I forwarded onto Julie a few questions.

She replied answering our queries; “We don’t want an official photographer, we would just like some photos we are able to use for future posts on our Facebook page to show the evenings events and atmosphere.

We would like pictures of the stalls attending, entertainment and a few of the Christmas grotto, we expect some of the councillors and organisers to be wearing Victorian outfits so a few snaps of them would also be great. 

Ideally the type of photos would be fun, but we would be grateful of any style. Ideally just roaming around the evening snapping away.  We may use the photos to advertise the event in future years.”

So, if we take images, edit them accordingly, then send them to me, Mike, (I would suggest 6 as a maximum each), I’ll forward them on to Julie.  

I think this will give some publicity to the club, as well as a good opportunity to hone our skills!

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions or comments, we could chat about them on 30^th November during our members evening.

A few reminders of dates:

• Wednesday November 23^rd – Carol McNiven-Young. Her talk will be focused on Creative Portraiture and how she builds composites. This will be available via zoom so if you wish to have a zoom invite please email to Mike or Lewis.
• Wednesday November 30^th – Members Evening – photographing the Christmas lights in Garstang. Please bring your camera gear! We anticipate that the first half of the evening will be getting out-and-about in Garstang photographing the Christmas lights and, after coffee/tea and biscuits, showing the 75 images from the 5-Way Battle, with scores and some feedback.
• Saturday 3^rd December – the camera club are running the coffee morning in the Arts Centre from 10am onwards. If you feel like baking or buying anything edible to sell would be very generous! The more the merrier; thanks in advance.
• Wednesday December 7^th – Environment Cup Competition; 12 mono and 18 colour prints and 23 mono and 39 colour DPIs. That’s 92 images in all!
• Wednesday December 14^th – Our Christmas social get-together. We will need, please, some prizes for the raffle – any donations will be very gratefully received! Bring them in anytime, we’ll look after them.
• Wednesday December 14^th – Last date for entry for the Creatures and Plants of the World Cup
• Images – Any real creature or plant that was alive or was once alive. No toys, sculptures, nothing artificial and no people.
• Prints to Sharon (Garstang Fine Art): by 30.11.22
• Competition date: 18.01.23

Message from Barry

Barry has a bird box with a ‘live-view’ camera attached and was wondering if any member has had an experience of setting it up for viewing purposes. If you can help, please speak to Barry at next meeting or email him on: w.barry.till@btinternet.com

Club ‘Battles’ coming up in January and February

As you may recall from previous newsletters, we have 2 ‘Battles’ involving the club soon.

1 against Morecambe Camera Club on Thursday 26^th January and,

1 against The Rangiora Photographic Society, New Zealand, on Wednesday 8^th February.

The criteria for both ‘Battles’ is 30 ‘open’ DPI images either monochrome or colour.

We need to start organising these ‘Battles.’

So, Stan has agreed, with his team that chose the 5-Way Battle, to receive, judge and select the images for these 2 ‘Battles’.

We are asking any members to submit up to 6 images for possible selection by the team by Wednesday 7^th December. But, please bear in mind the following:

• Please do NOT resubmit images that you may have sent for the 5 Way Battle – Stan will be including these images.
• Any image that won an award in the Events Cup has been submitted.
• Any image that wins an award in the up and coming Environment Cup will be included.
• If, on reading the above 3 points, you realise that you have reached the 6 images (or more) you may submit a few more because these ‘Battles’ have not been fought before so historical images can be allowed.
• Members should submit their images at a maximum or within 1600 pixels x 1200 pixels and must be supplied in jpeg format and in sRGB colour space.
• The images submitted will be selected by Wednesday 21^st December and be shown during the members evening on Wednesday 28^th
• The 30 images selected for the ‘Battles’ will be sent to the respective clubs by 1^st January 2023.
• The maximum images allowed per member is 3; so, if our maths is right for 30 images we need 10 members, at least, to take part. PLEASE have a go your club need you!

That’s all folks Mike and Lewis