Morning All
 
Short and sweet this morning ‘cos it’s summer today and the grandchildren are present and already in a demanding mind-set! Heyho! 
A great night, last Wednesday, so, a BIG thank you to Stan for his talk, and arranging his granddaughter, Florence, to play football (and providing cake), and finally for arranging Lynn and Sarah for the tango dancing routines – a seriously good and eventful evening! 
Stan has asked me to ask members to send him some images of the dancers and Florence – stanley.pearson@talktalk.net many thanks.
 
Notices  
 
Please don’t forget: 
The Opening Night Competition; 4th September 
Best Projected Digital Image (PDI); Open, any subject, colour or monochrome. 
One only PDI from any member taken in the last 12 months. 
Image sent to me (Mike) by Sunday 1st September. 
All presented, anonymously, in a PowerPoint presentation. 
On the night, each person present will vote, anonymously, on each one; maximum score of 20 points for each image, and a minimum of 10 points. 
The winner is the image with the most points! 
Brownie points only though I might have a bottle of wine/chocolates for the winner.
 
Wednesday 25th September, image critique session by John. 
As mentioned last week John will do an image critiquing evening on the above date. 
However, the closing date for images will now be Saturday 14th September. 
Please don’t necessarily wait until then to send them in, John needs time to organise the evening. 
So, please send in up to 4 images anytime from now onwards to avoid disappointment and to also avoid over whelming the system! 
Just to remind: 
All images to be sent to Mike on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk 
ALL images will be sent to John anonymously, so no names shown!  
 
Up and coming programme of events 
Wednesday August 14th: ‘Get Off Auto’ – last one – Talk by Mike on camera equipment and all the accessories and other things!
 
Wednesday August 21st: No meeting as we are having a committee meeting.
 
Wednesday August 28th: Work in progress, still!
 
Wednesday September 4th: First meeting of the season – including projects!
 
Saturday 7th September: Paint Garstang ‘Plein Air Competition’ We have be tasked, again, to take photographs of the artists painting! More info later.
 
That’s all folks for now, enjoy the (very) warm weather!
 
Cheers
 
Mike