Morning All

A keen easterly yesterday and today; when is going to get, at least, a little warmer! Roll on spring and warmer weather!

Notices

Message from a Mr Jack Fell

Hello, I have a couple of Cokin camera lens mounts and a few filters which I would like to pass on to any interested user. Please contact Mike/Lewis by email, initially, if anybody is interested and we’ll pass on your details to Jack. There are about a dozen individual items. Regards, Jack.

Calendar images

Reminder and important!

Images of Garstang for the 2025 calendar:

· Maximum of 5 images, per member, submitted by Sunday April 21st. These images can be historical. We really do need, if possible, all members to have a go and submit their images so that the Arts Centre committee have a great choice to choose from for the final 12.

· Images of? Well, restricted to Garstang and the town boundary. We just need to use our common sense and judgment on the extent of the boundary!

· Images to be in colour, sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, ratio of 3:2, and landscape and please add a title. · Please send them in to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk

· When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 24th April, in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.

· Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.

· The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

If you need any help/information PLEASE just ask – it’s no problem!

Exhibition:

Exhibition – Deadline for prints has been extended to Wednesday, 13th March; These prints are ones that have NOT be given an award in any of our

competitions, and they could also be prints that for some reason you haven’t entered.

We really need about another 10 more!

Member’s Evening 3rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

· Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.

· Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!

· Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.

· Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Events Cup.

Don’t forget to vote for your top 8 destinations from the Events destinations list that went out last week. Many thanks, though, to all who have voted so far!

Coffee morning – Saturday 16th March at the Arts Centre. We are looking for cakes etc to sell on the morning so, please contribute something edible! Please let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta!

Up and coming programme of events:

· March 13th – Judging of the Humanity Competition by Carol Watson DPAGB ABPE QPSA.

· March 16th – (Saturday), coffee morning hosted by us.

· March 20th – Keith Snell – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia.

· March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.

· March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.

· April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis