Morning All
 
Many thanks go to Stan and Robin for their 2 presentations last week – ‘Local Sports part 2’ and ‘Excursion to Chile’ respectively. 
I know that a lot of time and trouble goes into these presentations and it’s not easy getting the timing right and commentating! So, thanks again, it’s very much appreciated. 
Also, many thanks go to Rhona and Tim for putting the ‘Anything Goes’ competition winners on Facebook and our website respectively.
 
Notices:
 
Attached is a copy of the agenda for Wednesday’s AGM; please have a read so that you are up to speed!
 
2025 Calendar. Just to reminder everyone the deadline to submit images is Sunday May 5th, that’s today! We will take very late entry images up to and including Monday evening, so you still have time!
 
Message from Linda Seed: Linda asks if anyone would like some free carousels for both Kodak and Gaf 600 slide projectors plus, the projectors. 
If you are interested, please email me, Mike, on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk and I’ll send you the contact details.
 
Events Cup, second visit, details below; just to remind everyone you must chose only one of the days!
 
Up and coming programme of events:
May 7th (Tuesday) – possible visit to Leighton Moss to take part in the second Events Cup.
May 8th – AGM
May 11th (Saturday) – Our final coffee morning for this ‘season’ at the Arts Centre. As usual, if anyone would like to bring along anything edible, PLEASE do so!
May 12th (Sunday) – possible visit to Leighton Moss to take part in the second Events Cup
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening with the Presentation of Certificates and trophies. Please don’t forget to book a place! The cost this year is £16 per member. Please book with Freda as soon as poss – cheers. LAST chance!

That’s all folks!
 
Mike and Lewis

Morning All
 
Quiz: I’m sure you will all be pleased to know that the Charles Flatt intergroup quiz competing for the Charles Flatt Trophy went very well on Saturday night. There were 13 teams, including our own – thanks to Elaine, Jenny, Claire, Barry and Rhona for putting their names down and having a go! Unfortunately, they didn’t trouble the eventual winners, The Song Birds, who now have the enviable(?) task of organising and compiling next year’s quiz! 
Many thanks go to Sue, Adrian and Freda for all their invaluable help before, during and after the quiz night in making it a very successful evening. 
The 200 club draw was also held and you will be disappointed to learn that we failed to win any prize! Sorry, Robin!
 
Anything Goes Cup: Attached are two documents, one showing the winning images and the other showing the highly commended and the commended images. 
Thank you to all members who managed to enter the competition and also a big thank you goes to Alan Walker, our judge for the evening; many of you have commented that Alan did an excellent ‘judgment’ and he was, by far, the best this year – I’m sure we can ask him again!
 
Events Cup: We hope that some of you managed to get to Silverdale and Arnside last Thursday or Saturday. The weather was really against us but, hey ho, you never know!
 
Media City: We had a very successful visit, with Lee, to Media City on Tuesday. Get location, Lee extremely helpful and importantly the weather behaved itself, though got a little chilly about 9.30pm! Lee will be organising further trips for the club, hopefully, in the near future.
 
Notices.
 
AGM. Any agenda items? This gives you, the members, an opportunity to put forward any ideas or thoughts you may have with regard to the running of your club. If you have any suggestions please email in (info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk)  and we can put it on the agenda. This is your chance to influence the direction of our club to hopefully change and/or improve what we offer!
 
2025 Calendar. Just to reminder everyone the deadline to submit images is Sunday May 5th, 2 weeks from today. Many thanks to members who have already submitted their photographs. Need help? Just email in.
 
Up and coming programme of events:
 
April 24th – No meeting
 
May 1st – 2 members presentations: Presentation one is by Stan titled ‘Local Sports part 2; the second is by Robin titled ‘Excursion to Chile’. Many thanks to both members for their individual time and trouble to put these talks together.
 
May 7th (Tuesday) – possible visit to Leighton Moss to take part in the second Events Cup destination.
 
May 8th – AGM
 
May 11th (Saturday) – Our final coffee morning for this ‘season’ at the Arts Centre. As usual, if anyone would like to bring along anything edible, PLEASE do so!
 
May 12th (Sunday) – possible visit to Leighton Moss to take part in the second Events Cup destination.
 
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening with the Presentation of Certificates and trophies. Please don’t forget to book a place! The cost this year is £16 per member. Please book with Freda as soon as poss – cheers.
 
That’s all folks!
 
Mike and Lewis

Afternoon All
 
Notices 
Coffee morning. Our final coffee morning for this ‘season’ at the Arts Centre is on Saturday 11th May. As usual, if anyone would like to bring along anything edible, PLEASE do so! We had a cracking coffee morning last time and we would like to repeat the process – don’t forget this helps us to raise funds for the coffers which in turn helps with the overall finances. Ta!

 
Events Cup. The first Events Cup ‘round’ is upon us! The destination is Arnside and Silverdale to include Gait Burrow and the 2 dates to chose from are Thursday 18th April OR Saturday 20th April. Just to reiterate, you must choose only one date to take photographs. Attached is a map showing the boundaries for the visit.
 
2025 Calendar. Just to reminder everyone the deadline to submit images is Sunday May 5th, 3 weeks from today. 
Maximum of 5 images, per member, these images can be historical. We really do need, if possible, as many members to have a go and submit their images so that the Arts Centre committee have a great choice to choose from for the final 12.
Images of? Well, restricted to Garstang and the town boundary. We just need to use our common sense and judgment on the extent of the boundary!
Images to be in colour, sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, ratio of 3:2, and landscape and please add a title.
Please send them in to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk
When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 8th May (that’s also AGM evening), in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.
Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.
The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.
If you need any help/information PLEASE just ask – it’s no problem!
 
Presentation night. We will be having a raffle during the evening so, if anyone would like to donate a prize, it would be very appreciative. Please bring along anytime, not necessarily on the evening.
 
Gardens. We have attached a copy of a gardening club trip, from the Art Centre group. They are all open to non-members. It’s about the York Gate and Grange trip. Not only does it sound an interesting trip, it may inspire the photographer in you! Well, it’s just a thought and it is something different.
 
AGM. Hopefully you will have noticed that the AGM is to be held soon! This gives you, the members, an opportunity to put forward any ideas or thoughts you may have with regard to the running of your club. If you have any suggestions please email in (info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk) and we can put it on the agenda. This is your chance to influence the direction of our club to hopefully change and/or improve what we offer!
 
Arts Centre AGM 2024 – Minutes from last Wednesdays meeting are attached for you to peruse.
 
Up and coming programme of events:
 
April 17th – Anything Goes Competition judged by Alan Walker MPAGB ARPS MPSA EFIAP BPE5* – last internal competition.
 
April 24th – No meeting
 
May 1st – 2 members presentations: Presentation one is by Stan titled ‘Local Sports part 2; the second is by Robin titled ‘Excursion to Chile’. Many thanks to both members for their individual time and trouble to put these talks together.
 
May 8th – AGM
 
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening with the Presentation of Certificates and trophies. Please don’t forget to book a place! The cost this year is £16 per member. Please book with Freda as soon as poss – cheers.
 
That’s all folks!
 
Mike and Lewis

Afternoon All
 
The April print exhibition was displayed very successfully on Saturday morning so all ready for viewing from now until 2nd May. 
Huge thank you to Maurice for all the organisation and resources and also to Robin for his invaluable help on Saturday morning helping with the display.
 
Attachments 
There are the following attachments to this email:
L&CPU Annual Individual Print & Projected image competition 18th and 19th May 2024, Rules and Guidelines.
These rules were attached last week but for some reason were not complete so here they are again – thanks John.
Events Cup schedule for 2024, covering the 5 months of April, May, June, July and August. As you will see in the right hand column there are 2 dates for each destination (for example – Arnside and Silverdale to include Gait Burrow, Thurs 18th April OR Sat 20th April). You must pick only one date to take images for the Event Cup. Any questions – just email in.
Next season’s programme, 2024/25. If you have any comments and/or questions please email or chat during the next meeting.
As you will see in the right hand column we have included the cost for each week; this is to give you an idea of how much everything costs, the total being £1098. 
So, next year’s fees will be £58pp. Last year was £52 so that equates to an increase of £6. This is due to the cost of speakers and judges and also reflects the £5 increase the Art Centre fee. Our finances are sound and a full report will be given in the AGM.
Up for discussion – ideas and thoughts. Please make time to read!

Notices:
Summer events programme – an idea! It is proposed that we run some basic photographic classes during ‘our’ closed season, that is, during June – August inclusive. Perhaps called ‘Get Off Auto.’
Suggested ‘topics’ could/may include – Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO. (Exposure), Focusing and Focus Stacking, HDR, Panorama, Lenes and using a Tripod/monopod.
Each ‘topic’ would be proceeded by ‘How a Camera Works’ delivered by Stan, say 20 mins.
All bring cameras and practice the ‘topic’ either in the room or outside by the river/sports area, Garstang etc.
Advertise via local Facebook pages and via leaflets to encourage non-members and free to all.
This idea is very much in the development stage at the moment and any input or opinions by any members would be truly helpful. We are currently planning the above and if you wish to get involved, please just email, chat or call us!
 
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening. The cost this year is £16 per member. Please book with Freda as soon as poss – cheers.
 
Up and coming programme of events:
 
April 10th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica from sea to sea. 
Alan writes: A short trip in Costa Rica in 2019 saw me travelling the country from Capital City, San Jose, to the jungles of the Atlantic Coast, into the mountains for volcanos and cloud forest before a final stay on the Pacific Coast. 
The talk includes birds and wildlife, the wonders of the cloud forest and its humming birds and finally the lush vegetation and mangroves of the Pacific Coast.
 
April 17th – Anything Goes Competition judged by Alan Walker MPAGB ARPS MPSA EFIAP BPE5* – last internal competition.
 
April 24th – No meeting
 
May 1st – 2 members presentations: Presentation one is by Stan titled ‘Local Sports part 2; the second is by Robin titled ‘Excursion to Chile’. Many thanks to both members for their individual time and trouble to put these talks together.
 
That’s all folks!
 
Mike and Lewis

Afternoon All
 
Gardening today ‘cos the rain arrives Monday onwards! “Quelle surprise”, “c’est la même chose”.
 
Notices
 
Wednesday 24th April – there will be NO meeting on this Wednesday ‘cos Mike, Lewis and Robin are all away – sorry!
 
Vacancies – would you like to join the committee? – we are currently looking for a vice chair and a programme secretary, help and guidance will always be given! 
If you are interested why not have a chat with Mike or Lewis at the next meeting.
 
Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union
 
We attached the Annual Individuals Competition 2024 for Saturday 18th May & Sunday 19th May the other week. 
The full rules & guidelines for the competition are now attached. 
Please enter individually and if you need help, please contact Lewis, as competition secretary, on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk, or chat during any meeting.
 
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening; This did prove very successful last year so please support the club (partners of any persuasion all welcome!); so, speak to Freda! The cost this year is £16 per member; just £1 more than last year. 
This is our end of season social and presentation get together with catering from ‘Betty’ and her team. 
Menu: two cold meats, quiches, Coleslaw and salads, rolls and butter and hot new potatoes plus a choice of 3 desserts; meringue nests, fruit salad and café Renoir. If you are interested, please speak to Freda who is taking reservations. 
The main event is, of course, the presentation of certificates and trophies
 
Up and coming programme of events:
 
Wednesday April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements, programme for 2024/25, Events Cup destinations and dates, summer schedule ideas and thoughts, and future discussions for 2024/25 plus ……
Wednesday 3rd April – Show and Tell – please bring your images in on a USB ‘stick’ or send them to our usual email address – info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk – and we will put them on the PowerPoint presentation. You are more than welcome to chat about your images from the front of the room however, if you prefer comment from where you are sat – it’s no problem!
April 10th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica from sea to sea.
April 17th – Anything Goes Competition judged by Alan Walker MPAGB ARPS MPSA EFIAP BPE5* – last internal competition.
April 24th – No meeting
May 1st – 2 members presentations: Presentation one is by Stan titled ‘Local Sports part 2; the second is by Robin titled ‘Excursion to Chile’. Many thanks to both members for their individual time and trouble to put these talks together.

That’s all folks
 
Mike and Lewis

Morning All
 
A fine sunny day, make the most of it ‘cos more rain on its way! Climate change, eh?
 
Notices
 
Reminder, next Wednesday, 27thMarch, no meeting.
 
April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements, programme for 2024/25, Events Cup destinations and dates, summer schedule ideas and thoughts, and future discussions for 2024/25 plus show and tell.
 
Show and Tell – Wednesday 3rd April – please bring your images in on a USB ‘stick’ or send them to our usual email address – info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk – and we will put them on the PowerPoint presentation. You are more than welcome to chat about your images from the front of the room however, if you prefer comment from where you are sat – it’s no problem!
 
A separate email is being sent to all those members who were interested in the ‘Media City’ event with Lee Metcalf. We have the list of members and if you are on it and DO NOT receive the email get in touch ASAP. Email will be sent later on today, Sunday.
 
May 15th – Member’s Presentation Evening; This did prove very successful last year so please support the club (partners of any persuasion all welcome!); so, speak to Freda! The cost this year is £16 per member; just £1 more than last year.
 
This is our end of season social and presentation get together with catering from ‘Betty’ and her team.
 
Menu: two cold meats, quiches, Coleslaw and salads, rolls and butter and hot new potatoes plus a choice of 3 desserts; meringue nests, fruit salad and café Renoir. If you are interested, please speak to Freda who is taking the reservations.
 
The main event is, of course, the presentation of certificates and trophies.
 
Up and coming programme of events:
 
March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.
April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements etc – see above.
April 10th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica from sea to sea.
Alan writes: A short trip in Costa Rica in 2019 saw me travelling the country from Capital City, San Jose, to the jungles of the Atlantic Coast, into the mountains for volcanos and cloud forest before a final stay on the Pacific Coast.
 
The talk includes birds and wildlife, the wonders of the cloud forest and its humming birds and finally the lush vegetation and mangroves of the Pacific Coast.
 
April 17th – Anything Goes Competition judged by Alan Walker MPAGB ARPS MPSA EFIAP BPE5*
April 24th – Members evening
That’s all folks
 
Mike and Lewis

Morning All

Coffee morning: A very busy morning at the Arts Centre on Saturday so a huge thank you to everyone who managed to supply some very edible edibles, helped out in the café and popped in to spend some dosh! We took, by the way, £137.70; after a small deduction to the Arts Centre; this money goes straight into our coffers! Robin looked pleased!

So, thank you, (in no particular order), to Elaine, Brenda, Terry, Robin, Maurice, Stan, Sue, Rhona, Barry, Jenny, Michael and Freda. This is what we call a team effort! If we’ve missed anyone out – many apologies. Also, it was really nice to see Lucienne, as sprightly as ever and Vernon and his wife making a visit to Garstang! Even Bob Sapey popped in!

Humanity Competition. Many thanks, also, to all members who managed to enter prints and digital images into the competition to be judged. We thought that Carol Watson did an excellent job spending time on each photograph and giving her thoughts, her positives and her constructive criticism to them all. Attached are the full results for you to look at.

And, a big well done to Tim for not only winning 2 of the 4 sections (digital monochrome and digital colour) but his image – Spinning with Grandma – winning the overall prize – ‘best in show’! Congratulations Tim! Attached to this newsletter is an image from our club member Ted – from South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. He says: In preparation for the talk on the 20th of March … “Shackleton & South Georgia” a picture from Grytviken July 2023…Thanks Ted, so glad you are still receiving and reading the newsletters!

Notices

Events Cup.

Thanks to all members who have voted for the top 8 destinations; if you haven’t cast your selection yet, there is still time – but only just.

Member’s Evening 3rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

· Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.

· Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!

· Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.

· Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Calendar images

Following on from last weeks newsletter, and from various discussions, the deadline of April 21st has now been extended to Sunday May 5th.

· When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 8th May (that’s also AGM evening), in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.

· Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.

· The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union

Attached is the Annual Individuals Competition 2024 for Saturday 18th May & Sunday 19th May.

A full rules & guidelines for both competitions will follow but the attached is a summary of key dates.

When the rules appear, we will send them out. Any questions? Speak to Mike or Lewis on Wednesday.

Up and coming programme of events:

· March 20th – Keith Snell PhD EFIAP MPSA LRPS* – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia. Featuring landscape and wildlife photography during an expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica, following Shackleton’s renowned journey.

· March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.

· March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.

· April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell; see above.

· April 10th – Alan Cameron, ‘live’ – Costa Rica

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All

A keen easterly yesterday and today; when is going to get, at least, a little warmer! Roll on spring and warmer weather!

Notices

Message from a Mr Jack Fell

Hello, I have a couple of Cokin camera lens mounts and a few filters which I would like to pass on to any interested user. Please contact Mike/Lewis by email, initially, if anybody is interested and we’ll pass on your details to Jack. There are about a dozen individual items. Regards, Jack.

Calendar images

Reminder and important!

Images of Garstang for the 2025 calendar:

· Maximum of 5 images, per member, submitted by Sunday April 21st. These images can be historical. We really do need, if possible, all members to have a go and submit their images so that the Arts Centre committee have a great choice to choose from for the final 12.

· Images of? Well, restricted to Garstang and the town boundary. We just need to use our common sense and judgment on the extent of the boundary!

· Images to be in colour, sRGB, within or maximum of 1600 x 1200, ratio of 3:2, and landscape and please add a title. · Please send them in to info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk

· When all the images are in Mike will present them on Wednesday 24th April, in a random order, with no names, and all members present will have a chance to vote.

· Each image can be scored out of a maximum of 20.

· The top 36 will be sent to the Arts Centre committee and they will pick the 12 they want for the 2025 calendar.

If you need any help/information PLEASE just ask – it’s no problem!

Exhibition:

Exhibition – Deadline for prints has been extended to Wednesday, 13th March; These prints are ones that have NOT be given an award in any of our

competitions, and they could also be prints that for some reason you haven’t entered.

We really need about another 10 more!

Member’s Evening 3rd April – Show and Tell.

Please take part, this is a great opportunity for everyone to take part and a great chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members.

· Perhaps show any images or maybe those that are often very different from those entered in competitions.

· Include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out!

· Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show.

· Open theme, colour and/or mono.

Events Cup.

Don’t forget to vote for your top 8 destinations from the Events destinations list that went out last week. Many thanks, though, to all who have voted so far!

Coffee morning – Saturday 16th March at the Arts Centre. We are looking for cakes etc to sell on the morning so, please contribute something edible! Please let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta!

Up and coming programme of events:

· March 13th – Judging of the Humanity Competition by Carol Watson DPAGB ABPE QPSA.

· March 16th – (Saturday), coffee morning hosted by us.

· March 20th – Keith Snell – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia.

· March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.

· March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.

· April 3rd – Members evening – various announcements and discussions plus show and tell.

That’s all folks

Mike and Lewis

Morning All
 
Well, there we go, beaten by 3 points! (Garstang 507, Rangiora 510). Still, we lost by 10 points last year, so an improvement. 
Marilyn, from NZ, sent an email apologising for her failure on the computer, quote “I was a numpty on the screen!” she went on to say “Great images and a very close score between the 2 clubs. We were lucky to scrape in!” 
Also, many thanks to Tim for his talk on Mongolia and how to create a photo book using Lightroom; very useful!
 
Reminders
Arts Centre Calandar – images of Garstang and the immediate vicinity will be needed soon for 2025 calendar; deadline in about 7 weeks, not long!
Project: hope everyone is progressing well with their individual or team project; ready for presentation first week back – September 4th

Notices
 
Events Cup. Attached is the full list (x 12) of possible destinations for this seasons Events Cup; you will see them listed (A – L) in the left-hand column and in the right-hand column is the milage and times to the destinations.
We need to narrow down this list to 5 destinations for April, May, June, July and August.
Please vote and chose your top 8 in order of preference; we appreciate we only need 5 but by voting for your top 8 it give us a bigger range or spread of destinations.
Voting will end on Wednesday 13th March. We will then add up the scores and send out the 5 destinations chosen with dates.
It is proposed to offer 2 days for each destination; one for a weekday and one for a weekend day – but, you will be only allowed to visit on one of the days.
However, as this is a change in the ‘rules’ from previous Events Cups, we would like everyone who votes on the destinations to also vote on whether you like the idea of a choice of 2 days or stick to the 1 day only as in previous Events Cups.

Robin’s presentation March 8th – just a few tickets left; if you are interested, please speak to Robin on Wednesday. 

Coffee morning – Saturday 16th March at the Arts Centre. We are look for cakes etc to sell on the morning so, please contribute something edible! Please let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta! 

Exhibition – Deadline for prints is this Wednesday, 6th March; These prints are ones that have NOT be given an award in any of our competitions, and they could also be prints that for some reason you haven’t entered. 

Member’s Evening 3rd April – Show and Tell. This is to give all members a chance to show recent work, talk about their images and possibly receive constructive comments from members. 
Perhaps show images that are often very different from those entered in competitions BUT to include those that went wrong or you weren’t happy about and why, or just didn’t work out! 
Number of images: as many, within reason, as you want to show. 
Open theme, colour and/or mono.
 
Member’s Evening 24th April – would any member like to give a talk on any photographic subject – as long or short as you want.
 
Up and coming programme of events:
March 6th – Paul Slater, ‘live’: Soul to Soul – Creative photography.
I’ve always been fascinated with photography and cameras. When I was young, I saved up for my first Canon film camera a Canon Pellix. Since then, I have various cameras and during the days of film I used to process my own mono shots. However, I took a break from serious photography for around 20 years whilst working on my career. I returned to it a few years ago and focussed on Street and Creative photography, mainly because of its interaction with people. I like the challenge of today’s digital environment, where the pace of change is rapid. Digital photography presents the photographer with challenges like never before. Today the photographer can spend as much time in post processing as he or she does in achieving a good shot. But it’s a choice you can make, take it or leave it. I enjoy time behind the camera and in post processing in equal measure. 
March 6th – Prints for the exhibition.
March 13th – Judging of the Humanity Competition by Carol Watson DPAGB ABPE QPSA.
March 16th – (Saturday), coffee morning hosted by us.
March 20th – Keith Snell – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia.
March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry.
March 27th – No meeting – Committee meeting.

That’s all folks
 
Mike and Lewis

Morning All
 
Many thanks to Lee for an excellent presentation on ‘Planning Landscape Photography’ last Wednesday; we have had quite a few members commenting only positive ‘noises’ about it! Perhaps we can rebook him for 25/2026 – next seasons programme (2024/25) is nearly complete!
 
Notices
 
Tea and coffee for this Wednesday, 28th, is Claire and Michael – thanks in advance!
 
From Robin – 
A Picture Show with Hotpot Supper 
THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS 
On Friday 8th March 2024 
Starts with Hotpot at 7.00pm 
In Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall 
Junction of A6 & A586 Churchtown, Garstang 
All Proceeds to St Helen’s Church 
Tickets £12 Further Details 
Under 16s £7                       Robin Shorrock 01995 602238 
 
April Exhibition: this exhibition of prints is open to all members who wish to submit prints to be shown in the Arts Centre. 
Deadline for prints is Wednesday 6th March although you can bring them in on any Wednesday. 
The ‘hanging’ of the prints will be on Saturday 6th April and the exhibition will be open from Tuesday 9th April until Thursday 2nd May. 
Maurice is co-ordinating all of this and he has asked that all prints have on the back your name and a title.

 
Coffee morning – Our next fund-raising coffee morning is on Saturday 16th March at the Arts Centre. We are look for cakes etc to sell on the morning so, please contribute something edible! Please let Mike know so we can organise accordingly – ta!
 
Outing 
We’ve been in touch with Lee following Wednesday’s talk and we are firming up our ‘shoot’ at Media City, Manchester. 
So, provisional dates are: Tuesday 9th or Thursday 11th April or Tuesday 16th or Thursday 18th April. 
Sunset on the above dates is approximately 8pm; so, we would arrange to get there at 7.15 – 7.30 and probably leave about 9pm/9.15pm – however, it’s weather dependant! 
Parking is fine and safe and I would envisage we would go in car sharing ‘mode’ and it takes about an hour. 
Numbers? 8 – 10 members and the cost will be £10 per person. 
Anyway, watch this space and we will keep everyone up to date.
 
Anything Goes Competition 
Last competition of the season! Hand in date for prints and DPI’s is Wednesday 20th March.

 
Up and coming programme of events. 
February 28th – Battle competition v Rangiora Photographic Society via Zoom, in the Arts Centre, using AV. Plus, Tim’s talk on “His recent trip to Mongolia and also a slot about making photo books in Lightroom”.
March 6th – Paul Slater, ‘live’: Soul to Soul – Creative photography.
March 13th – Judging of the Humanity Competition by Carol Watson DPAGB ABPE QPSA
March 16th – (Saturday), coffee morning hosted by us.
March 20th – Keith Snell – ‘Live’; Shackleton & South Georgia
March 20th – Anything Goes Competition – last date for entry

That’s all folks
 
Mike and Lewis