A good start to our season

Meeting Report

Twenty people attended our opening meeting which is about the same number as we get on a normal club night. We know of at least six members who are on holiday and of others who could not attend for one reason or another.

Jane Coward our Treasurer was kept very busy receiving subs for the new year.

We welcomed one new member, John Young, who told me about ten years back he used to carry a Bellingham bag stuffed with bodies and different lenses but had had a break just using a' happy snappy'. I gave him the low down on our club telling him that we all enjoy our photography very much but draw the line at getting 'het up' when things like judges comments did not go our way.

We had been asked to bring three prints of our summer activities with us and this resulted in about twenty prints which Daisy put up on the print board one at a time and which we all gave marks out of twenty on sheets that she had prepared. Embarrassingly I won the very nice bottle of wine provided by the Chairman with a print of a 'Brimstone' butterfly which I had taken up on the Downs last week.

After the break myself, Liz Barber, John Gauvin, Alex Swyer, Janet Brown and Ruth Calvert-Smith all gave a short resume of our efforts explaining where and how our pictures were taken, which I hope proved interesting for the audience. I certainly found it very entertaining.

We must all do our bit trying to encourage new people to join us as we always lose a few members each year for one reason or another. We do now at last have a dedicated publicity member in Glenn Donnelly which we hope will spread the word. Good luck Glenn.

May I wish everyone a good and interesting season ahead.

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