Morning All

Today this newsletter is wholly created by Artificial intelligence!
Well, I thought I might try, but no, it couldn’t compose it – yet!
But, reading between the ‘lines’ of Susie’s talk on Wednesday, this may not be far away; but in the meantime, you’ll have to put up with me!
All the prints are ‘up’ in the Arts Centre – huge thanks to Maurice (who is away but ‘set us up’ with all the prints, extremely well organised!), Elaine, Freda, Lewis and Robin.

Notices:

Competition: L&CPU
I’ve attached a copy of the Annual Club Knockout Competition organised by the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU).
It is, I hope, fairly self-explanatory but the crux is:
It is an inter-club competition; Projected Digital Image (PDI).
Each club entry must consist of:

• 8 images per club

• No more than 2 images per individual

• The first 4 images must come from 4 different photographers

And basically, at the end of the competition the winner is the club with the most points.
Lewis is co-ordinating our entries, so:
A maximum of 2 PDI’s per member sent to Lewis via info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk (subject ‘Club Knockout’), by Saturday 1^st November. Lewis will then choose the 8 images to be submitted by us.
If you have any questions chat to Lewis or me at our Wednesday meetings.

Image Critiquing: 29^th October
Don’t forget to send in those photos – all info in last week’s newsletter!
All images submitted and shown will be anonymously
How to send them in:
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.
How to send them in:

• In an ideal world please send the original image(s) file AND your edit.
• OR if you are struggling send the original or the edited image

Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 15^th October.
JPEG Images can be sent to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject – Image Feedback.
If you are struggling then please ask during the next few meetings or phone Mike on 07340 314408.

Message from Michael:
Just wanted to pass these on, from one of our new members, Anita, who captured AF1 this week.
Cracking shoots too. See attached and can you guess where Anita was?

Message from Daryl Giles – Lytham St Annes PS
Charlie Waite is visiting us on Thursday 30th October, at our usual meeting room, Well Church Hall, St Albans Road, St Annes, FY8 1UZ
Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30 start.
I can offer you 10 places at £5 each if any of your members are interested.
Ideally, I need to know their names by the end of September so if you could send me the list by 1st October, I’d be grateful.
For those not familiar with Charlie, he is a world renowned landscape photographer, the founder of Light and Land and a very entertaining speaker.

Daryl Giles
If you are interested and wish to book a place, please email ASAP on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and I will pass your name onto Daryl. Obviously, if the demand is there it will be the first 10 that get a place!

Coffee Morning
Please don’t forget! The camera club is hosting a coffee morning, in the Arts Centre, on Saturday 27th September.
As usual, we are looking for cakes etc to sell on the morning, it’s going to be busy, so, please get baking/cooking and contribute something edible and let Mike know so we can organise accordingly.
Many thanks to those who have contacted me so far – ta!

Message from Salina Somalya
Salina is Yasmin’s mother. Yasmin was one of our ‘guests’ on the 4 week Camera Course we ran during the summer months.
She says: ‘Yasmin was wondering if she would be able to view any of the photos taken of her on the last day’ – that was the portrait session and images were taken in the Art Centre courtyard and maybe down by the river.
If you took any images that you would like to share of Yasmin, please forward them on to me at info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and I will forward them on to Salina – cheers!
I have had some images from members but please send me more if you have them!

It’s beginning to feel a lot like………. sorry!
I think Christmas began in Aldi on September 7th; there is so much ‘stuff’ on the shelves, including mince pies, that they have hardly any room for their Easter Eggs!
This year, on Wednesday 17^th December, we are repeating the ‘PPP’ – Pies, Peas and Puddings Supper at only £10 pp.
We are having Hamlets pies and puddings will be a mixture of party type desserts and the full menu in a later newsletter.
Freda is now beginning to coordinating and beginning to collect names! Open to all members and their respective wives/husbands/partners etc – please support the club and I’m sure there will be some kind of entertainment – our thinking caps are on! If anyone has an idea……!
Also, we will need, please, some prizes for the raffle – any donations will be very gratefully received!

Coffee duty:
Coffee/tea duty for Wednesday 17^th September is Shelly and Lewis – thank you, in advance.

Up and coming programme of events:

Wednesday 24^th September – Members Evening: a talk by one of our members, John, on colour photos from 1950s-1970s. John says “I collect old Kodachrome slides and scan them to get an insight into social history.” 
This talk is a follow-up on a previous presentation from John, last August (2024), and it proved to be very interesting! Make a note in your diary!
Plus: we will be voting on the images to be submitted for the 3 ‘Battles’ in 2025/26. Thanks here to Stan for organising and co-ordinating the images.

Wednesday 1^st October – Colin Balls: Sri Lanka by rail’. Colin writes: “Sri Lanka by rail is a tour of Sri Lanka on a special steam train stopping off at various places of interest. The journey goes onto a car trip to Yarla National Park with plenty of wildlife. The presentation is a video movie.

Wednesday 8^th October – Robert Millin: ‘Confessions of a competition addict.’ More details to follow next week.

Wednesday 15^th October – Our first internal club competition ‘The Events Cup.’ This will be judged by Richard Nicholson.

That’s all folks, and see you on Wednesday!

Mike