Meeting Report

This was an evening of two halves, slide shows shown in the conventional manner and those shown with most images at 90 degrees to the norm giving some of us sore necks!

Ian McBean started the evening by showing us some mouth watering shots of Mauritius, having first showed us where in the world it is. I imagine some of us will put it on our list of places to visit one day.

Then Martin Tomes showed us a very well constructed slide show of his visit to France in the Champagne and Borgogne regions. He showed several of the very many producers premises which were very old and very pretty. But I found his pictures taken aboard a canal boat during a trip which included going through a tunnel the most amazing due largely to Martin's use of zoom effects from his slide show software.

Then Clive showed us how the other half live with shots from his trip to the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner which was enormous and stood up out of the water the height of a tall block of flats. Having gone through several severe gales in the Navy in an enormous Aircraft carrier, my mind is blown by the power of the stabilisers on the ships. Most of us can only afford to go to Bexhill!

Meeting Report

This was the best attended first night of SCC since I joined the club in 2000. Over 30 people came to our first night back with Jane Coward our treasurer working flat out taking subscriptions from 27 members including 4 new recruits.

We had been asked to bring along one print which we had taken during the summer break for our new Chairman Di Walker to make her choice of the best picture. This she did at the end of the evening selecting a really eye-catching image of a silver metallic mannequin taken through a shop window with an interesting refection on it. It was a really vibrant image and very well seen and captured. Well done Liz Barber who took the picture and told us how she made it. Also selected were a very French Chateau picture taken by Martin Tomes on a recent French holiday and a very interesting  image called '7' taken by John Gauvin on a recent 'How to take a different image' type photographic course. The tutor should have been proud of her tuition as John's image was certainly different and very cleverly constructed. Well done to Martin and John.

Meeting Report

Sunday afternoon found us meeting in Sainsbury's carpark, Horsham for one of our photo walks.

The weather shone on the righteous as ever, and a pleasant walk was enjoyed by all who attended.

We started down the Causeway with some of the oldest residential property in Horsham, dating pack to the 1600s. At the bottom of the Causeway can be found St. Mary's Parish Church which in itself is very photogenic. It was a walk down memory lane at this point, as the author was Head Choirboy, married and son baptised here, all of which was a long time ago, no doubt the reason for the shock of seeing a modern extension at the rear of the church, of which none of us approved.

From here we crossed the Arun and ventured up Denne Hill via the railway crossing. I hoped for the appearance of a steam train to ensure a 20 in one of next season's competitions, but even the 6.20 from Bognor was running late, so no special photos here.

The view from the top of Denne Hill in the evening sun, with Cricket Club in the foreground and the two Church spires in the backgound was excellent.

Photography over we retired to the Olive Branch pub (formerly The Green Dragon) for the usual banter and good food. Definitely worth trying if you are peckish whilst in Horsham.