Morning All

This weekend’s newsletter is being sent early so that you can all read it first before the BIG final – The Lionesses v Spain!

Who’s going to win? I haven’t a clue, having, perhaps to my shame, not watched any of the games so far, let alone Spanish ladies! And, I have no Union Jack flying proudly outside the house; though I do hope they win! If you believe the BBC, it’s their ‘destiny;’ Eh, oh, ¡vamos – Hey Ho in Spanish!

I can remember watching the 1966 world cup final with my late father and being extremely excited and I had no doubt that we would win. Some goals will forever remain controversial. England were on the right side of one such dubious effort in this final against West Germany, as I’m sure many of you will remember. A certain Tofiq Bahramov was the infamous linesman and there was no way he was going to disallow the third goal – to German fans, Bahramov was the villain, who had fought against them in World War II; and to the world, a linesman who effectively decided the outcome of a World Cup final. All I can say it’s a good job there was no VAR!

Anyway, back to photography!

Oaklands

Today we are at Oaklands Care Home, Dimples Lane – it’s their open day. We have a stand in the gardens promoting the camera club, weather permitting, if it’s raining, we will be inside, so fingers crossed! It is open from 1.30pm – 5pm. Please join us if you can and come and say hello. There is usually a lot going on plus music – all in a good cause.

Sheron Hall

If you cast your minds back a few weeks Lewis asked members to send in some images for a Sheron Hall from Bowgreave Care Home. Lewis sent a great selection and Sheron replied:

“Hi Lewis, thank you for the selection of photos on the USB stick. We think they are a fabulous selection and will work very well in the home.

Both our residents and staff team have so enjoyed selecting their favourites. I think originally, we were looking at 6 prints, but there are 21 that have been chosen!”

Lewis and I think it’s so good we can be of help and it can only be great publicity for us. Thanks Lewis.

Bob Sapey

Sometime back Bob gave a great presentation, to the club, about astrophotography and took some of us to Pilling Sands for a crack at it. Well, Bob has emailed in and the message is below:

“I’ve been checking conditions for Milky Way photography and my Nightshift App forecasts the first 3 weeks of September as good, starting about 10pm and gradually getting a bit later.

However, it also depends on the weather.

We will be aiming to take photos with a wide angle lens (16-24 FF) with a 20-30 second exposure at an ISO of about 3200, so tripod is essential.

We talked about going to Ribblehead Viaduct so I guess we’d be leaving Garstang about 9pm.

I’ll start to keep an eye on conditions and in contact with you.”

Thanks Bob.

So, if you’re still interested in trying some Milky Way photography – let us know and we will keep you on a circulation list. Don’t forget it will probably mean a bit ‘last minute dot com’!

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday August 23rd – No meeting as there is a committee meeting at 7pm.

Wednesday August 30th – No meeting.

Thursday August 31st – Trip to Heysham and area with Morecambe Camera Club (MCC), 7.30 – 9pm. If you remember MCC ‘visited’ us, in Garstang, back in May and this is a return get-together.

We will split into groups of 2/3 and MCC will show us around Heysham and area for the best photographic vistas! Results will be shown and discussed on Thursday 28th September at their club-house.

Please email in to us so that we can begin to arrange car sharing, if required, and let MCC know numbers.

Saturday September 2nd – ‘Paint Garstang’. This is the 2nd ‘Plein Air’ open Art Competition organised by the Arts Centre. ‘Painting’ begins at 9am until 4pm and the judging and presentation of prizes is 4pm – 5pm.

They have asked us, at the camera club, to capture the day’s events as part of the occasion. We would really appreciate members to take part, even if only for a couple of hours! Considering the current weather conditions, it may give a whole new meaning to the term ‘Water’ colours!’

If you are willing to partake in this venture, please just let us know – cheers!

Wednesday September 6th – First meeting of the new ‘season.’ We have several ideas/thoughts for our first meeting, however, if anyone has any ideas that they think should be incorporated into the meeting please email in – any suggestions considered! Last call!

That’s all folks, and enjoy THE match, if you can!

Mike and Lewis