Morning All
The print exhibition is up and running!
Massive thanks to Maurice for his organisation and planning which seamlessly helped us hang 66 prints in total.
Lewis and I would also like to offer our thanks to Sue and Adrian for their sterling efforts!
Sad news. You may remember that the club, via Michael, tried to organise a trip to Southport Dunes last spring with Trevor Davenport, but it didn’t go ahead because of the very dry weather at the time. Michael also booked him to give us a talk, in January, on Insects and nature photography.
Michael has received an email from him saying he is facing a very uncertain few months having been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer requiring extensive treatment and he wanted to express his disappointment at probably not being able to present to our members. I know, probably, that none of us knew Trevor, but very gloomy news nevertheless.
Notices
Doug Allan: Doug looks back over his successes and setbacks during 35 years of natural history filmmaking. Part retrospective, the show is also Doug’s perspective on climate change and its impacts on the world’s wild places. What change of emphasis and direction should we now be incorporating in wildlife films?
Just a reminder that this talk is on at The Platform in Morecambe on Tuesday 3rd October at £20 – £23 pp. If anyone wants a lift just email in.
Fylde 4 way battle: this is a camera club competition between us, Poulton Photographic Society, North Fylde Photographic Society and Lytham St Annes Photographic Society. (It should have included Bispham PS, but due to issues with declining membership, they have decided to withdraw from the comp this year).
Event Details
Start time 7.30 pm on Wednesday 15th November at the Methodist Church Hall, Queensway, Poulton-le-Fylde. (Free parking available opposite.)
Judge: Steve Proctor DPAGB BPE5* PPSA
Competition Rules: One Open category only.
20 PDIs (Projected Digital Images) per club with a maximum of THREE per author. Anonymised with image title only. Jpeg in sRGB colour space with a maximum image size of 1600 pixels (wide) x 1200 pixels (high), using filler if necessary. Maximum file size 2 MB.
All elements in an image must be the work of its author.
Stan (and his team) have very kindly offered to organise our entry to this year’s competition.
So, message from Stan below:
- Give the image a title
- Do not include your competition number
- Do not include the image number
- Images to be jpeg, in sRGB colour space with a maximum image size of 1600 pixels (wide) x 1200 pixels (high), maximum file size 2 MB
- Submit a maximum of 6 images
- Send to Stan by email stanley.pearson@talktalk.net
- Include your name in the email
- Do not send by WeTransfer
If my maths is correct: we need to enter 20 PDI’s with a maximum of 3 per member so we will need at least 7 members to partake! So PLEASE have a go – you don’t need to enter 6 any number less that that will be ok.
Stan and his team will then review all images submitted and chose the 20 to be entered.
Images for consideration need to be to Stan by Wednesday 4th October.
Any questions? Email in on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk or chat to us at the next meeting.
Bob Robinson Trophy: If you wish to attend this ‘live’ competition and listen to the judges it is on Sunday 8th October, at Elm Bank Conference Centre, Eccles. Starts 10.30am, no cost.
Image Critiquing: On our next October members evening, Wednesday October 25th this will be our second critiquing of members images. Stan has very kindly offered to look and comment on the images this time.
How to send them in:
Reminder: The idea is for any club member to submit a maximum of 3 (ish) images for a constructive critique by Stan and he will guarantee that at least 1, if not 2 images, from each member, will be critiqued.
Theme = ‘Open;’ any image taken recently if poss.
All images submitted and shown will be anonymous.
How to send them in:
- In an ideal world please send the images in the form of a DNG file
- OR, send them in as a TIFF file
- OR if you are struggling send in as a JPEG file, that will be fine.
If members are using Lightroom then in the Export Panel, under File Settings, the image format can be changed to DNG or Tiff.
Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 18th October.
JPEG Images can be sent to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject – Image Feedback.
DNG and TIFF files must be sent in via Wetransfer.
If you are struggling then please ask during next week’s meeting or phone Mike on 07340 314408.
Visit to Morecambe CC (Thursday September 28th) to review images taken on our visit in late August: If you wish to attend in person, no problems, the address is Heysham Library, 396 Heysham Road, Heysham, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA3 2BJ.
There is a small car park to the right of the building and plenty of on-street parking, both on Heysham Road and round the corner on Knowlys Road.
If you wish to ‘attend’ via Zoom the invite is Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85040377165?pwd=aEU1dnZyu0PYCZhWreychZna5RjKfr.1 The meeting will start at 7.30pm.
Up and coming programme of events
- Wednesday September 27th – Members Evening; image critiques by John, images from Morecambe CC outing, images from the themed outing in Garstang and other things!
- Thursday September 28th – Visit to Morecambe CC; see above.
- Saturday September 30th – Coffee mornings (we ‘do’ 4 in total), hosted by us – anything edible please to sell! The coffee mornings we ‘host’ are used to raise funds for the club, so, please, pop in and see us!
- Wednesday October 4th – Harry Emmett – Towards CPAGB (The Credit award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) – Prints.
- Wednesday October 11th – Garry Cook – ‘Street Photography and a project in Israel.
- Wednesday October 18th – Events Cup Competition, judged by Nicki Greenwood.
That’s all folks
Mike and Lewis
Garstang Camera Club 