Newsletter 04/12/22

Posted on by timflesher

Morning All

Well, here we are in December already, frost in the air next week, 3 weeks to the big day and no cards written or posted! Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!

Many thanks to all members who managed to attend last Wednesday’s meeting and took images of the Garstang Christmas lights. I would like to show your images on Wednesday 28th December during members evening. Please send them, (up to a maximum of 6 really), soon (by Monday 26th December), then I’ll have time to put them on a PowerPoint presentation. I have 6, not the best, but my efforts with my thoughts! Have a go please and send them in!

We had a very productive coffee morning on Saturday; very busy! We raised £117.22, (25% of which goes to the Arts Centre), which left us a net contribution to the camera club funds of £87.82. Many thanks to all who made/bought cakes or biscuits for us to sell, and those members who popped-in, and thanks also to Rhona, Sue and Robin for their hard work and time.

An extract below from the minutes of a meeting of the Garstang & District Arts Society:

  • Woodcocks, Haworth & Nuttall, Solicitors informing us of a bequest of £5000 from the estate of the late Ken Harrison. A thank-you letter has been sent, from the Arts Society, to the solicitors.

Message from Stan:

I have a Nikon D70 camera and a Nikon 18-70mm lens plus a Nikon 70 – 300mm lens. Bag included!!

The camera has one fault but there is an easy ‘work around’

Free to any member.

Thanks Stan.

Report from Lewis about the recent ‘Knockout Competition:’

We had to enter 8 photos with the first 7 being for possible use in the rounds and number 8 as a tie break. The number of entries to be used was dependent on the number of entries received. There were 33 clubs entered and it appears the L&CPU only used the first 4 entries from each club. Scoring was 1 point if knocked out in the first round, 2 if knocked out in the second etc.

Poulton won with 21 points, Chorley second with 19. The overall winning entry was the greenfinch dispute, seen in the Fylde 5 way, by Poulton.

We scored 4 points as did quite a few other clubs, meaning all our used entries were knocked out in round one and we were equal bottom. Still, we entered and tried and know the system better for another year.

A few reminders of future events and dates:

  • Monday and/or Tuesday 5th and 6th December respectively – Garstang Victorian Festival; Take images, edit them accordingly, then send them to me (I would suggest that roughly 6 as a maximum each). I’ll then send them to Julie who is on the organising committee. There is no particular deadline for these images but I would suggest within the next couple of weeks or so please? I will show the images during the members evening on Wednesday 28th December.
  • Wednesday December 7th – Environment Cup Competition; 12 mono and 18 colour prints and 23 mono and 39 colour DPIs. That’s 92 images.
  • Wednesday December 14th – Our Christmas social get-together. If we could please arrive by 7.15pm ‘cos the food will be served at 7.30.
  • Wednesday December 14th – Last date for entry for the Creatures and Plants of the World Cup; prints and DPIs.
  • Wednesday 21st December – no meeting
  • Wednesday 28th December – Stan will show, with commentary, the chosen 30 images to be submitted to the 2 up-and-coming Battles – see below. I’ll show the Christmas lights images and also any images taken on the Monday/Tuesday – 5th and 6th December – of the Victorian Festival.

Battles (Morecambe and New Zealand)

Stan’s email address: stanley.pearson@talktalk.net

Please ensure any images sent have a title!

We are asking any members to submit up to 6 images for possible selection by the team by Wednesday 7th 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 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.
  • The maximum images allowed per member is 3. Please make sure any image has a title.
  • 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 21st December and be shown during the members evening on Wednesday 28th December.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis