Morning All

Rain, rain go away, come again another day! I don’t think I’ve ever seen our garden such a deep green in mid-July! Anyone else noticed such a scarcity of butterflies? Bees ok and wasps appearing, but butterflies? I’ve seen a few Red Admirals and Commas and 1 Peacock; climate change, eh?

Message from Stan

I have some analogue videos on VHS tape. Does any club member know how I could convert this it digital and put it on a DVD or memory stick?

Project

If you can cask your minds back to last August/September, we set up a 12 month project to members (thanks Rhona!), to photograph a subject once a month (if possible) over the 12 month period. This period was from September 2022 to August 2023 inclusive. Now, we are planning our first meeting – Wednesday 6^th September – so, could all members who are participating in this project please email in (just to let us know) so that we can plan the timing of our first meeting – cheers.

Reminder

As we are sure you are aware we will have our usual ‘stand’ at Garstang Show on Saturday 5th August. If any member would like us to display their prints please bring them to the Arts Centre on Wednesday 26th July – 2 or 3 per member would be great – cheers!

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday 26th July: Presentation and images from Stan and Mike about an outing planned on Thursday 13th July at Southport Hillside Golf Club plus images from the Lancaster Grand Prix and also a presentation about The Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023, winners and shortlisted images. Some crackers here and all with a back-story!

Also, don’t forget, if you went to Brockholes and would like to show some/any images please bring them along to ‘show and tell.’ Same applies to last Wednesday’s Scorton visit, again ‘show and tell.’ We have had a few of these ‘show and tell’ presentations lately and they are proving very successful, entertaining and valuable for members.

Wednesday 2nd August: Details to follow.

Saturday 5th August – Garstang Show. Please don’t forget we will have a stand at the show and we look forward to welcoming you all throughout the day! AND, The Garstang Show is the FINAL Events Cup Destination.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis