Morning All

Many thanks to Stan for his time and trouble in putting together a cracking image critiquing presentation. We’re sure everyone got something from it.

Notices

Website and Facebook – many thanks to Tim and Rhona, respectively, for keeping these sites updated with the winning images from the Events Cup.

4 way battle: attached is the scoring sheet for our images that we have sent in.

The first column is the image title, followed by the author’s name. The third column represents the average committee score for each image and the next column represents the average score from the club ‘judging’ from Wednesday evening.

We’ve left the final column for the score from the actual judge on the night. It will be very interesting to compare the scores.  

Unfortunately, it’s been confirmed that the competition will not be zoomed so therefore we’ll need to chat about who’s going and car sharing; we can discuss this over our next couple of meetings. So, there will be no actual meeting in the Arts Centre on that Wednesday, 15^th November.

Extracts from the Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee of Garstang & District Arts Society held on Tuesday 17th October 2023

• The Plein Air painting competition will be held on Saturday 7th September 2024.

• The Calendars are selling well and the remaining stock should go during the Craft fair. Provisionally, it was decided to repeat the exercise next year and Muriel was hopeful that many of this year’s sponsors would be happy to do so again. We need to contact the Camera club. (That’s us!). It was agreed to keep the photographs within the Garstang area as there were plenty of sales outlets in the town.
• Victorian Evenings. It was decided to open on both evenings and to  only serve mulled wine and mince pies.

Christmas

Just a gentle reminder that our Christmas get-together is on Wednesday 13^th December – all details yet to be finalised but Freda is now coordinating and beginning to collect names! Open to all members and their respective wives/husbands/partners etc!

Creatures and Plants of the World Competition

• Last date for entry is Wednesday 1st November, prints and digital images.

Up and coming programme of events

• November 1^st – Boyd Harris – ‘Failure & success in the Himalayas.’
• November 8^th – Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image.’
• November 15^th – 4 Way Battle – 7.30pm start; venue – Methodist Church Hall on Queensway, Poulton FY6 7ST. So, no meeting scheduled in the Arts Centre.
• November 22^nd – Gordon Watson – ‘Iceland in winter’.
• November 29^th – Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis