Morning All

Great news: if you remember a few weeks ago we sent, to Peter Frankish, 19 Lake District images, taken by some of our members, for him to mount and frame and sell on to raise money for the St Catherines Hospice Care.
Well, Peter has very recently, sent me 2 emails, see below. Well done to Stan and Lewis!

Email 1 – You will be pleased to know we enjoyed early success yesterday at the Ladies Friendship group in Garstang.
We held a raffle for the winner to be able to pick any picture on display. The winner chose Stan’s Ashness Jetty, from about 50 options to choose from. The raffle raised £67 but the winner then donated a further £5. So effectively our records show a contribution of £72 from Stan’s kind donation. Please let him know and thank him from the team.

Email 2 – You may remember I was at Calder Vale WI on Thursday. A lovely little lady thought she wanted a Lakes photo but wasn’t sure about size for her wall. So, I went round to see her today and she has just bought Lewis’s Blea Tarn. It is hanging beautifully above her fireplace and a photo of her late husband.

Both images are attached for you – who says you can’t make money from photography!

Notices:

Plein Air Competition:
Many thanks to members who managed to get out and about with their cameras. We selected 24 images which are now at the printers and will be delivered to Sheila next week and these will then be shown, together with the actual paintings, in the Arts Centre in due course.

Coffee morning:
The camera club is hosting a coffee morning, in the Arts Centre, on Saturday 28th September. This will coincide with our print exhibition, the ‘The Garstang Photographic Competition,’ a slide show of our latest digital images and the ‘Plein Air Competition’ (see above). So, lots going on!
As usual, we are looking for cakes etc to sell on the morning, it’s going to be busy, so, please contribute something edible and let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta!

Message from John G.
As he mentioned at the last meeting, if anyone has an old 8mm cine projector capable of playing films with sound, I would be very keen to borrow it to digitise a film I am currently working on. If you have or you know someone who has please contact Mike on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and I’ll pass the message on or speak to John next time you see him – thanks for any help.

Owls:
I’ve been in touch with Steve (Owls), again, and said the consensus of the members is to photograph the owls in flight, not just on a perch. He has replied that maybe in 3 or 4 weeks’ time, 2 maybe be ready and he will be back in touch to give us an update.

Badgers:
The link, below, looks good (plenty of info) re Badger photography from hide in Haweswater for small groups run by RSPB – https://events.rspb.org.uk/browse?filter[schedule]=3160
Looks like this will be next year – April? So, if you are interested just register that with me – cheers.

Calendar:
The Art Centre calendar is now on sale and Adrian will have some ready for you to buy, on Wednesday, at only £8.50.

Events Cup:
A reminder! The last date for entry is Wednesday 18th September – 3 days! Please bring in any prints and your digital image on a USB ‘stick’ this Wednesday.

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday September 18th: Justin Garner: ‘Live.’ Macro workshop; set ups include watches, flowers and others! Plus, focus stacking. This session/talk is linked to the Members Evening on 30th October – ‘Show and Tell’. I’ve been in touch with Justin and it looks like an exciting evening, not too be missed!

Wednesday 25th September: Members Evening with John Moxham, on image critiques. Many thanks to all members who have sent some images in.

Saturday 28th September: Camera Club coffee morning – see above!

Wednesday 2^nd October: Eddie Leach: ‘Live.’ I do portraits, sports and composites. My talks are generally a mix of all three or on the creative side of my photography.

That’s all for now folks,
Cheers

Mike