Morning All
Exhibition:
Hanging completed — no ladders or chairs were harmed (much) in the process, our print exhibition is officially OPEN!
A massive shoutout to Elaine, Freda, Maurice, Robin, and Lewis, who bravely battled drawing pins, nails, hooks, and the mysterious “extra screw” on Saturday morning. Thanks to their heroic efforts (and at least one “does this look straight to you?” moment), everything is now up and looking fabulous.
Come admire the results — our images will be on display at the Arts Centre for the next 4 weeks. Go on, pretend you know about photographic art!
Ade Gidney:
I’m fairly certain Ade’s talk last Wednesday has now been officially promoted to “one of the best I’ve ever listened to” (a fiercely competitive category, I assure you).
His tour of the Lake District, Peak District, and North Wales was packed with brilliant tips, clever tricks, and photographs so good they almost made the rest of us consider taking up knitting instead. That said, the only thing better than the images was Ade’s commentary — equal parts insight, wit, and the occasional “how does he even find these places?” moment.
The good news: Ade says he’ll be back in a couple of years with more stunning pictures. The bad news: that only gives the rest of us a couple of years to up our game… or perfect our knitting!
On Ade’s website there are 3 workshops; Valley’s, Wild Camping and Mountain.
Anyone fancy partaking? Probably ‘Valleys!’
I had a chat to Ade after his talk and if we got together a small group of say 4 – 6 he will offer us a good deal for half a day, probably 4 hours around Keswick and Derwentwater for instance.
I would say the cost would be around £50/75 each. If this is something that you are keen on, please email/chat to me; at this stage you would only ‘express an interest’ and then we could go from there.
Notices:
A message from Bob Bonner:
Dear Garstang Camera Club
Some years ago, I used to be an enthusiastic photographer but now seem to only take easy shots of my grandchildren and some holiday snaps on my phone.
I have a Canon EOS 650 SLR 35mm film camera with several accessories – do you think this would be of interest to anyone in your club? If so, I can provide more details.
I get the impression that using 35mm film (rather than going all digital) is coming back into fashion so thought I’d ask.
Here are all the details:
Canon EOS 650 SLR 35mm film camera with original 35-70mm lens
Original Manual
SIGMA 28-200mm Zoom lens with Hoya UV filter
Flash extension bar
Canon Remote Shutter Switch 60 T3
Canon GR20 Grip – which allows connection of the Remote Shutter Switch
5 Cokin Filters with holder and brochure – Circular Pola A; Spot incolor 2; Blue; Gradual T2; Star 8 – great for some special effects
Camera bag – large enough to take camera with zoom lens attached
Camera/Accessories bag
Travelling telescopic tripod – 27cm collapsed; 105cm extended
Canon Speedlite 300EZ flash with case (takes 4 x AA batteries, not included) – there might be problem with this as I cannot get it to work so I’ll include it for free
Many thanks, best regards, Bob Bonner
If you are interested, please contact Bob directly onbob.bonner77@gmail.com Ta. I think Bob is asking about £70 for the lot.
Events Cup:
The first Events Cup ‘round’ is upon us, what already I hear you say!
The destination is Martin Mere Wetland Centre and the 2 dates to choose from are Monday 13th April OR Saturday 18th April.
Just to reiterate and remind everyone, you must choose only one date to visit and take photographs.
If you ‘Google’ the destination there is lots of information available and will take about an hour in the car. I would advise to book your ticket on-line ‘cos it’s cheaper!
Now, I’m going on the Monday 13th April and will park my car at Kirkland and Catterall Memorial Hall car park at 8.45am and leave at 9am.
If any other members are considering the same date we could meet there and car share where appropriate – considering the cost of fuel at the moment!
So, if you are thinking the same, please get in touch via email or ring/text on 07340 314408 or chat next Wednesday so that I have an idea whom to expect!
If not, I’ll see you there, probably!
Calendar:
Just a gentle reminder about images for the 2027 calendar. Time is ticking on!
Boundaries: Focused, where possible, on Garstang and immediate surroundings; however, any images considered between Lancaster in the north, Preston in the south, Blackpool in the west and Abbeystead/Bleasdale in the east. This should give us plenty of opportunity, so please start thinking and snapping!
So, this means that the scope has now widened! Please get out and about, so that we can offer a great selection to the Arts Centre committee.
All images submitted, anonymously, will be shown and voted upon on by you the members on Wednesday 13th May (our AGM evening, amongst other things going on), and the selected top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee for their final selection of 12/14 for the calendar.
So, PLEASE send in your entries, as many as you wish, over the next few weeks to me on the usual email address of info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk
Images will need to be with me by the latest on MONDAY 11th May, that’s only about 5 weeks away!
Coffee morning:
The camera club is bravely (and hungrily) hosting a coffee morning at the Arts Centre on this coming Saturday 11th April.
Cakes, biscuits, mysterious-but-delicious creations — all are welcome, as long as they’re technically edible.
Please let Mike know what culinary masterpiece (or chaos) you’re planning to bring, so we don’t end up with 47 identical Victoria sponges… or worse, none at all.
Happy baking — and may your cakes rise better than our camera club Battles!
Coffee duty this Wednesday:
Coffee and tea duty for this coming Wednesday is Shelly and Paul S. – many thanks in advance!
Up and coming programme of events:
Wednesday 8th April – A talk by Rene, via zoom, titled ‘Blowing Hot and Cold.’
Rene says “This is a presentation and covers my nature photography travels in winter to Scandinavia and my spring and summer trips to Spain.
Scandinavia in winter is a very special place and I take you on a journey that cover bird and landscape photography along the Finnish-Russian border around Kuusamo and to the Varangerfjord.
Spain in spring, summer and autumn is a superb place to be for bird photography. I take you on a journey to some of the most special places in Spain where I photograph birds from hides and hydro hides.”
Wednesday 15th April – The judging of our final internal competition, ‘Anything Goes.’ The judge is Paul Dunmall – yes, that chap from the other week!
Wednesday 22nd April – Members Evening. We have 2 talks this evening; one from Stan titled ‘Sports photography with unintended outcomes’ and for the second part of the evening a talk by Lewis titled “A journey to Brazil”
Many thanks to both Stan and Lewis for putting together their respective talks!
Wednesday 29th April – A talk by Tom Lee ‘live’ at the Arts Centre. The title is ‘Infrared Photography.’
Tom says:
I’ll give a brief introduction covering:
What is Infrared
Types of IR Photography
Filters vs Camera Conversion
Subjects
Workflow
Pseudo IR conversion
All sections will be coved by examples to show what can be expected. A short video showing my photography with infrared. After the break I will work through a few examples in front of the attendees.
That’s all folks and see you Wednesday!
Mike
Garstang Camera Club 