Well, a quick count through the meeting programme for this season shows we are approaching half way already. How time flies the older you get!
Many thanks to all who managed to get to the Christmas get-together; and, lots of thanks also to all for supporting our club throughout 2023 together with the many thoughts, suggestions and ideas which are suggested. We would like to wish all members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Up and coming programme of events.
December 20th– no meeting.
December 27th– no meeting.
January 3rd – Justin Mimms, delivered via Zoom; presentation on Wildlife and Nature Landscapes.
January 10th– 3 way ‘Battle’ between Garstang, Morecambe and J36; Judge: Erica Oram CPAGB AFIAP BPE3, delivered via Zoom.
January 17th– Andrew Stewart, ‘live’ in the Arts Centre; Wildlife Presentation.
January 24th– Environment Competition judged ‘live’ in the Arts Centre by Lee Metcalf.
January 31st– Richard Davis, ‘live’ in the Arts Centre; A variety of topics in mostly Monochrome style.
Thanks to members who managed to get out and about last Monday and/or Tuesday and who sent in their photographs. We sent off to the organiser 66 images to be possibly shown on the Garstang Facebook pages; either ‘Garstang Social’ or ‘Your Garstang.’
Dear Garstang Camera Club As I am shortly retiring, I would like to give your members the opportunity to see the list of well cared for film camera and darkroom equipment I am selling. The items can be viewed in the Fulwood area. Many thanks Hazel Martin Camera Equipment List Canon EOS 5 Body with cap and strap, Mint Minus, V Light use, Boxed Canon VG 10 Vertical Grip for EOS 5, Mint Minus, V light use, Boxed Canon BG – E2 Battery Grip, Excellent, V light Use EF 430 ST Electronic Flash for Canon AF, Excellent, V light Use Canon EOS 100 Body with cap and strap , Fair, V light Use, Boxed Sigma SA5 Body Silver, Excellent, Boxed as set (with lens below and 28-200 F3.8-5.6 AF exchanged for usual smaller lens (28-80)) Sigma Lens 100-300mm 4.5-5.6 AF with 55mm Hoya UV Filter with lens hood, Silver, Excellent, Boxed with above. 2 x Sigma RS21 Controllers, Excellent, Boxed. Sigma Lens 28-200 F3.8-5.6 AF, with 72mm Hoya UV filter, Very Good, Sigma EF 430 Flash, Excellent, in protective case Sigma SA 300 Body with cap, Black, Fair (Slight stickiness to grip) The first three Canon items were purchased new by myself and lightly used for around 3 years before upgrading to digital. The second two were purchased second hand, but again lightly used by myself. The Sigma Equipment was only lightly used before upgrading to Canon Darkroom Equipment Fujimoto 60 M-C computer colour enlarger (with manual) 35mm film carrier and medium format film carrier. 6 lenses incl 1 Nikon 50mm and 1 Minolta 75mm f4.5. 1x 105mmf4.5. 1x 75mm f3.5. 1x 135mm f4.5, 2 x 8”x10” easels Paterson neg strip box, glass covered for making 8”x10” test print Test Strip box with 6 leaves Ilford EM10 Exposure monitor Paterson Focus Scope 2 x Nova Double Slot (8”x10”) Heated Print Developers (older chemical replenishable ones) + 3 paper holders Nova print washer (8”x 10”) Photax Heater for developing trays Paterson System 4 35mm Film Developing Tank Red Darkroom light Photographs available on request from Hazel Martin at eandhm@outlook.com
If you are interested in any of the above, please contact Hazel directly
Christmas get together – please arrive by about 7.15 ‘cos we will be starting at 7.30pm – cheers. Also, please bring any drink you may want – alcoholic or not! Coffee/tea/water always available though.
Up and coming programme of events.
December 13th– Christmas get-together.
December 13th– Last date for entry in the Environment Competition
December 20th– no meeting
December 27th– no meeting
January 3rd – Justin Mimms; presentation on Wildlife and Nature Landscapes.
Huge thanks to all members who managed to gather together images and who entered into the competition. And, well done to all who managed to impress Sheila enough to gain an award. We really did appreciate the time and effort Sheila put into the preparation as well as the presentation on the night; her comments on each image were constructive and we thought well received by us all; hopefully!
Coffee morning
Many thanks to Rhona and Robin who helped us out on the coffee morning and also to all those who provided some very edible produce! We raised the princely sum of £122.50.
Notices
Calendar 2025
You may recall, from a previous newsletter, that the Arts Centre Committee (Muriel Burnham-Airy, Chair of the Executive Committee of Garstang & District Arts Society), said: “It was decided to repeat the exercise, (The Calander), next year and we need to contact the Camera club. It was agreed to keep the photographs within the Garstang area as there were plenty of sales outlets in the town.”
We suggested that they may wish to expand the area to cover Garstang and District (Arts Society). Our suggestion would be South of Lancaster to the North of Preston, as far East as Trough of Bowland and West to the coast.
However, they have decided to keep any images restricted to Garstang and the town boundary. We just need to use our common sense and judgment on the extent of the boundary! The Committee’s thoughts are: it should reflect ‘places people go to when visiting Garstang.’
Provisionally, this calendar will be sold, from possibly August onwards (thinking here Garstang show), to raise much needed funds for the Arts Centre.
So, as per last year, the camera club has been tasked to provide the images to be on the calendar:
Images to be in colour, sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, ratio of roughly 3:2, and landscape.
So….!
Time scale? If last year is anything to go by images from members for possible selection were submitted to us (Mike and Lewis) around late April – so we suggest this is the target date.
If you recall images were shown, on a members evening, anonymously and were voted on to finalise a group of roughly 36 images which we sent to the committee to pick from.
So, we will follow the above unless the Arts Society ask for something different.
These images can be historical, of say The Children’s Festival or any other Garstang event or you can get out and about and take current pictures, it’s up to you! Eventually each selected image for the calendar will have the name of the author on it.
PLEASE take part over the coming 5 months; so, when you are out and about in Garstang, take your camera! We appreciate that you may be thinking that there are only so many photographs of Garstang you can take – so use your imagination and think out of the box – so to speak! And keep your eye on the weather – snow?!
We think that this is a great opportunity again to show the club’s individual skills and great opportunity to advertise our club.
Victorian Evening:
Message below from Madeline, the new assistant curator at the Arts Centre:
On Monday 4th we have Garstang Musical Productions 6:30 – 7pm; followed by Buzz Cadillac and The Lightning Rods Ukulele Band at 7:15pm.
On Tuesday 5th it’s June Baker Singers 6 – 6:45pm; then Garstang Ukulele Group at 7pm.
We have organised a pop up pizza van for the courtyard for both evenings.
Pop in for a free mince pie whilst you are out and about taking photographs.
Photographs
We hope members will participate over 1 or 2 days of the Victoria Evening; at the moment Tuesday is looking best, weather wise, but, of course, all could change!
If you take any photographs that you wish to be sent to the Victoria Evening committee please send them, as soon as possible, to Mike at the usual email address of: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk
Please ensure images are: sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, max 2mb – cheers. Mike will then forward them on.
Any questions – just email in or ring Mike on 07340 314408
Battles
Please don’t forget today, Sunday 3rd December, is the final date to submit to Stan any further images you would like to be considered for the two Battles in Jan and Feb next year. Please send directly to Stan – his email is: stanley.pearson@talktalk.net
Up and coming programme of events
Monday December 4th and Tuesday December 5th– Garstang Victorian Christmas festival.
December 6th – Kevin Pigney, ARPS DPAGB ASINWP, delivered via Zoom – Passion for wildlife.
December 13th – Christmas get-together.
December 13th– Last date for entry in the Environment Competition
Many thanks to all who were able to get to Poulton – we counted 13 members there; a grand turnout!
Result? Well, at least we took part!
Final Scores
Between Garstang, Lytham, North Fylde and Poulton
Club
Scores
Difference between Garstang and others
Average
Poulton
357
+43
17.9
North Fylde
344
+30
17.2
Lytham
329
+15
16.5
Garstang
314
15.7
2 consolation prizes:
Our average score last year, 2022, was 15.4, this year it was 15.7; so, an improvement there!
We did very well in the raffle, scooping many prizes!
We’ve attached the table showing all the images with the committee’s score, the members score and the judge’s score. Makes interesting reading, in the sense that we weren’t far off.
Next Battles?
3 way Battle – Wednesday 10th January, in the Arts Centre, between us, J36 and Morecambe.
2 way Battle – Wednesday 28th February, in the Arts Centre, between us and The Rangiora Photographic Society, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Looking forward to winning these!
Notices
Environment Competition
Description: Landscapes, architecture, dereliction, sculptures, street art, environmental issues and transport. People and animals must show scale or add to; not focal point.
Prints: If you are using Fine Arts, Garstang, for mounting, to Sharon please by 29th November.
Last date for entry: Wednesday 13th December – prints and DPI’s.
Coffee morning
Saturday December 2nd – we are hosting the coffee morning at the Arts Centre, 10am until 12.15. Please come along and support us as monies raised go towards the club funds. Also, please, we are open to accepting ‘food’ donations to sell; anything edible! Cakes, pastries, biscuits, etc – all welcome! Many thanks.
Garstang Victorian Christmas festival
As per last year we have had an email from Julie from the Garstang Victoria Festival committee asking if anyone in the camera club would be interested in taking voluntary pictures throughout the evening for them.
The event is being held on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th December, 6pm – 9pm.
So, if we take images, edit them accordingly, then send them to me, Mike, (I would suggest 6/8 ish as a maximum each), I’ll forward them on to Julie.
I think this will give some publicity to the club, as well as a good opportunity to hone our skills!
Christmas get-together
Christmas get-together is on Wednesday 13th December. This is getting to the ‘last call’ stage, ‘cos we will need to tell Betty our final numbers soon. So, please speak to Freda/Mike/Lewis as coordination is well under way.
Open to all members and their respective wives/husbands/partners etc! I think we have over 25 so far – please support the club in this social occasion AND there will be quizzes and prizes!
The menu will be a Hot Pot or an equivalent vegetarian Hot Pot plus a choice of 3 sweets, all cooked and served, as usual, by the excellent Betty and her team; all for the princely sum of £13 pp.
Also, we will need, please, some prizes for the raffle – any donations will be very gratefully received!
Calendars for 2025
The Arts Centre Committee said: “Provisionally, it was decided to repeat the exercise next year and we need to contact the Camera club. (That’s us!). It was agreed to keep the photographs within the Garstang area as there were plenty of sales outlets in the town.
Lewis and I have sent them an email asking for clarification; we await a reply.
Up and coming programme of events
November 22nd – Gordon Watson – ‘Iceland in winter’.
November 29th – Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP.
December 2nd, Saturday – we are hosting the coffee morning at the Arts Centre.
December 6th – Kevin Pigney – Passion for wildlife
December 13th– Christmas get-together
December 13th– Last date for entry in the Environment Competition
3 Way Battle (us, J36 and Morecambe) PLUS 2 Way Battle (us and The Rangiora Photographic Society of New Zealand.)
Stan and his team will shortly be selecting images for the above 2 Battles.
Already included in possible selections are:
Images sent in for the 4 Way Battle
Winning images from last year’s competitions
Winning images from this year’s competitions held so far.
If any member wishes to submit any other images for possible selection (up to 3 or 4 images) please send them directly to Stan by Sunday 3rd December. Stan’s email address is stanley.pearson@talktalk.net Many thanks.
When submitting images for the Battles please: –
Give the image a title
Do not include your competition number
Do not include the image number
Images to be jpeg, in sRGB colour space with a maximum image size of 1600 pixels (wide) x 1200 pixels (high), maximum file size 2 MB
Description: Landscapes, architecture, dereliction, sculptures, street art, environmental issues and transport. People and animals must show scale or add to; not focal point.
Prints: If you are using Fine Arts, Garstang, for mounting, to Sharon please by 29th November.
Last date for entry: Wednesday 13th December – prints and DPI’s.
Coffee morning
Saturday December 2nd – we are hosting the coffee morning at the Arts Centre, 10am until 12.15. Please come along and support us as monies raised go towards the club funds. Also, please, we are open to accepting ‘food’ donations to sell; anything edible! Cakes, pastries, biscuits, etc – all welcome! Many thanks.
Garstang Victorian Christmas festival
The event is being held on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th December, 6pm – 9pm.
Please edit images accordingly, then send them to me, Mike, (I would suggest 6/8 ish as a maximum each), I’ll forward them on to Julie, the organiser.
I think this will give some publicity to the club, as well as a good opportunity to hone our skills!
Christmas get-together
Christmas get-together is on Wednesday 13th December. This is getting to the ‘last call’ stage, ‘cos we will need to tell Betty our final numbers soon. So, please speak to Freda/Mike/Lewis if you haven’t booked already!
The menu will be a Hot Pot or an equivalent vegetarian Hot Pot plus a choice of 3 sweets, all cooked and served, as usual, by the excellent Betty and her team; all for the princely sum of £13 pp.
Please pay this coming Wednesday 29th November – cash or cheque
Also, we will need, please, some prizes for the raffle – any donations will be very gratefully received!
Up and coming programme of events
November 29th – Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP.
Saturday December 2nd– we are hosting the coffee morning at the Arts Centre.
Monday December 4th and Tuesday December 5th– Garstang Victorian Christmas festival.
December 6th – Kevin Pigney, delivered on Zoom – Passion for wildlife.
December 13th– Christmas get-together.
December 13th– Last date for entry in the Environment Competition
Many thanks to all members for their entries of prints and DPIs for the Creatures and Plants of the World Competition; it would appear to be a considerable amount to choose from! Good luck to all and to the judge!
Notices
Lens for sale
From: Mr Wayne Collins
I have a Sigma AF 150 – 500mm EOS F/5-6.3 APO-DG-OS-HSM lens with Canon mount that I wish to sell. A case and hood is included with the lens.
I bought it 8 years ago but have not used it very much: it is in very good condition.
If anyone wishes to test it in my garden on their camera, they are welcome to come along.
Given its condition I believe £300 is reasonable for it but open to negotiation. (MPB £449).
Email: wsmcollins@sky.com
My mobile number is 07811300975
If you are interested, please contact Wayne directly.
Programme for 2024/25 season
We are currently planning the 24/25 season and if any member has any suggestions, ideas and/or thoughts please get in touch; don’t forget it’s your club and you may want a talk/presentation on a particular topic – so now is the time to say!
As you will remember Bispham have pulled out, this year, due to various reasons so we will be battling against some odds! Still, we have some excellent photographs so good luck to all!
Reminder: 7.30pm start; venue – Methodist Church Hall on Queensway, Poulton FY6 7ST. So, no meeting scheduled in the Arts Centre. We would suggest you get there by 7.15 to ensure a seat; parking in Booths Car Park, which, we believe, is free from 6pm or 7pm, but please check that out when parking!
Garstang Victorian Christmas festival
As per last year we have had an email from Julie from the Garstang Victoria Festival committee asking if anyone in the camera club would be interested in taking voluntary pictures throughout the evening for them.
The event is being held on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th December, 6pm – 9pm.
Julie says “We don’t want an official photographer, we would just like some photos we are able to use for future posts on our Facebook page to show the evenings events and atmosphere.
We would like pictures of the stalls attending, entertainment and a few of the Christmas grotto, we expect some of the councillors and organisers to be wearing Victorian outfits so a few snaps of them would also be great.
Ideally the type of photos would be fun, but we would be grateful of any style. Ideally just roaming around the evening snapping away. We may use the photos to advertise the event in future years.”
So, if we take images, edit them accordingly, then send them to me, Mike, (I would suggest 6/8 ish as a maximum each), I’ll forward them on to Julie.
I think this will give some publicity to the club, as well as a good opportunity to hone our skills!
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions or comments, we could chat about them on 8th November during our next meeting.
Christmas get-together
Just a reminder that our Christmas get-together is on Wednesday 13th December. Freda is now coordinating and beginning to collect names! Open to all members and their respective wives/husbands/partners etc! I think we have over 20 so far – please support the club and there will be quizzes and prizes!
The menu will be a Hot Pot or an equivalent vegetarian Hot Pot plus a choice of 3 sweets, all cooked and served, as usual, by the excellent Betty and her team; all for the princely sum of £13 pp.
Also, we will need, please, some prizes for the raffle – any donations will be very gratefully received!
Calendars for 2025
The Arts Centre Committee said: “Provisionally, it was decided to repeat the exercise next year and we need to contact the Camera club. (That’s us!). It was agreed to keep the photographs within the Garstang area as there were plenty of sales outlets in the town.
Lewis and I have sent the following email to them.
“In principle we agree but will need to discuss it with our members.
However, we note you wanted photos of Garstang again. The issue here may be getting sufficient photos of the right quality and composition within the relatively small area of Garstang. Can we suggest you expand the area to cover Garstang and District (Arts Society) Our suggestion would be South of Lancaster to the North of Preston, as far East as Trough of Bowland and West to the coast.
We are happy to discuss this with you after you have a chance to consider this suggestion.”
We await a reply, but will, of course, keep you all updated.
Up and coming programme of events
November 8th– Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image.’
November 15th– 4 Way Battle – 7.30pm start; venue – Methodist Church Hall on Queensway,Poulton FY6 7ST. So, no meeting scheduled in the Arts Centre.
November 22nd– Gordon Watson – ‘Iceland in winter’.
November 29th– Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP.
Many thanks to Stan for his time and trouble in putting together a cracking image critiquing presentation. We’re sure everyone got something from it.
Notices
Website and Facebook – many thanks to Tim and Rhona, respectively, for keeping these sites updated with the winning images from the Events Cup.
4 way battle: attached is the scoring sheet for our images that we have sent in.
The first column is the image title, followed by the author’s name. The third column represents the average committee score for each image and the next column represents the average score from the club ‘judging’ from Wednesday evening.
We’ve left the final column for the score from the actual judge on the night. It will be very interesting to compare the scores.
Unfortunately, it’s been confirmed that the competition will not be zoomed so therefore we’ll need to chat about who’s going and car sharing; we can discuss this over our next couple of meetings. So, there will be no actual meeting in the Arts Centre on that Wednesday, 15th November.
Extractsfrom the Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee of Garstang & District Arts Society held on Tuesday 17th October 2023
The Plein Air painting competition will be held on Saturday 7th September 2024.
The Calendars are selling well and the remaining stock should go during the Craft fair. Provisionally, it was decided to repeat the exercise next year and Muriel was hopeful that many of this year’s sponsors would be happy to do so again. We need to contact the Camera club. (That’s us!). It was agreed to keep the photographs within the Garstang area as there were plenty of sales outlets in the town.
Victorian Evenings. It was decided to open on both evenings and to only serve mulled wine and mince pies.
Christmas
Just a gentle reminder that our Christmas get-together is on Wednesday 13th December – all details yet to be finalised but Freda is now coordinating and beginning to collect names! Open to all members and their respective wives/husbands/partners etc!
Creatures and Plants of the World Competition
Last date for entry is Wednesday 1st November, prints and digital images.
Up and coming programme of events
November 1st– Boyd Harris – ‘Failure & success in the Himalayas.’
November 8th– Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image.’
November 15th– 4 Way Battle – 7.30pm start; venue – Methodist Church Hall on Queensway, Poulton FY6 7ST. So, no meeting scheduled in the Arts Centre.
November 22nd– Gordon Watson – ‘Iceland in winter’.
November 29th– Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP
Events Cup: we thought the judge, Nicki Greenwood, provided lots of very good constructive criticisms of the images submitted and many encouraging comments so, all in all, lots of very good decisions. Congratulations to those who were in the top echelons and we hope that the overall process has given inspiration to everyone.
Notices
Alteration to the programme
January 31st 2024 – we did have Trevor Davenport (Ainsdale Sand Dunes) on ‘Insects & Nature Photography’ booked for that date, however and very sadly Trevor has cancer so Michael has booked Richard Davis for that spot and he will be covering a variety of topics in mostly Mono style.
Website
Don’t forget, to submit your images to be shown under the ‘members galleries.’
The 4 Way Battle (between us, North Fylde Photographic Society, Lytham St. Annes PS and Poulton PS) is on Wednesday 15th November starting at 7.30pm. The venue is the Methodist Church Hall on Queensway in Poulton.
This is obviously a ‘club’ night so we originally asked if it will be available via zoom, then we could watch the battle from the Arts Centre. However, they are now saying “doubt if we will have the technical capability to support a Zoom broadcast” but we still await a definitive answer!
So, plan B! – this will be car-sharing; we will let you all know the proposal if and when it becomes a necessity.
If we don’t have a zoom connection and travel there by car then there will be no meeting at the Arts Centre that evening.
Creatures and Plants of the World Competition
Last date for entry is Wednesday 1st November, prints and digital images.
Up and coming programme of events
October 25th – Members Evening – Image feedback from Stan and also, he will present the 20 images chosen for the 4 Way Battle; plus, other images!
November 1st – Boyd Harris – ‘Failure & success in the Himalayas.
November 8th – Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image’.
Very early newsletter this week as both Lewis and I are away.
Scams
We’re sure everyone is very alert to scams but a couple of members have chatted to us about receiving emails from other members asking them to open an attachment which, it is claimed, is important. It is very likely that if you open the attachment, you will have, in all likelihood, been hacked.
We don’t supply members emails to anyone unless we are specially asked to. So, please, just delete unless you are absolutely sure.
If you are unsure and want any assistance, email in to us at our usual address and we will try to help out.
Notices
Website – Members Galleries
Don’t forget, we are now asking members to submit up to 6 images of their own that they wish to be shown under the ‘members galleries’.
A warm sunny day beckons – time to get that camera out, dust it down, charge the battery, take some photographs and then possibly send them to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk ready for Stan to critique – see below!
Don’t forget, autumn is creeping in as well – more opportunities!
From Michael: Amazon – Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th, big prime day discounts on cameras and goods; maybe interesting!
Notices
Image Critiquing
Image critiquing for the ‘members evening’ on 25th October.
Stan is ‘in-the-chair’ this time and will look and give his thoughts and opinions.
Theme is ‘Open;’ any image taken recently if poss; if not historical ones can be submitted.
3 ish images per member.
All images submitted and shown will be anonymous.
Deadline date: Images in by Wednesday 18th October.
If the images have been edited, if possible, please send in the original unedited image – no problems if you cannot.”
Please send your images to the usual email address: info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and the subject – Image Feedback.
Or if the images exceed the email limit, please send them via Wetransfer.
Great to see that some members have already sent in some images! But more needed; don’t be shy!
Website – Members Galleries
We are now asking members to submit up to 6 images of their own that they wish to be shown under the ‘members galleries’.
You can submit up to 6 images and please send them directly to Tim at timflesher@btinternet.com
All images to be jpeg, in sRGB colour space with a maximum image size of 1600 pixels (wide) x 1200 pixels (high), maximum file size 2 MB; no more than 2MB as this will help keep website storage down.
Thanks to those members who have managed to send some photographs in and many thanks to Tim for putting them on our website.
New Project
The idea is for each member to develop a photographic ‘theme’ over the next 11 months and present their ‘findings’ – good, bad or ugly (what went right and what didn’t!), – at the first meeting in 2024 which will be on September 4th.
Now, we fully appreciate that not everyone likes to present from the front and chat about their topic so you would be more than welcome to put everything on a USB stick and chat from the ‘floor’ so to speak!
Ok, so what theme? Well, that’s completely up to you! A few ideas below to get you thinking and maybe spark an idea! The idea is to pick a theme and experiment from there!
One thought could be that you team up with another member and work together and produce a joint project – only an idea.
Possible themes/ideas/suggestions – usage of a tripod and/or handheld:
Getting to grips with your camera; shooting on automatic, then aperture priority, then shutter speed priority, then even on manual, collecting examples as you go along. Experimenting with depth of field, focus and exposure compensation.
Flowers/Forest/Woodland – perhaps, woodland scenes (Bluebells) and detailed shots.
Water and reflective photography – canals, rivers, sea, puddles! – using long exposure?
Food
Landscapes and seascapes – possibly to include sun rises and sets; again, using long exposure?
Weather, storms, clouds, rainbows
Travel
Macro
Monochrome
Cityscapes/Urban life
Architecture
Sports
Nature and wildlife
Minimalistic
Mobile only images
These are just a few ideas; you may, of course, develop you own theme or combine some together, your choice!
The whole idea is for everyone to have a go and develop ‘what you want to get out of photography,’ learn from the experience and hopefully learn from others!
Please have a chat with us over the next couple of meetings and ask any questions. Please don’t forget this is your club to experiment, learn and most importantly have FUN!
We hope you will join in and, don’t forget, if everything goes pear-shaped – that’s learning!
Up and coming programme of events
October 11th – Garry Cook – ‘Street Photography and a project in Israel.
October 18th – Events Cup Competition, judged by Nicki Greenwood
October 25th – Members Evening – Image feedback from Stan – see above – plus Stan will presentthe 20 images chosen for the 4 Way Battle; plus, other images!
November 1st– Boyd Harris – ‘Failure & success in the Himalayas.
November 1st– Creatures and Plants of the World Competition – last date for entry.
November 8th– Justin Garner – ‘The lighting behind the image’.
Garstang Camera Club 