Our first meeting of the season was very successful mainly because of the very encouraging number of new members who signed up to join us. Jane Coward nearly wore her pen out writing receipts. We have sadly lost two members to our friends at Steyning. Tim and Clive both felt that they would get more of what they want for their photography at Steyning which is a bigger club and offers more workshops and speakers. Both of them had committee jobs at Storrington and we are very grateful for all the work that they did for us.
Once the 'initial flurry' of 'signings up' had died down, Chairman Di Walker greeted everyone, especially all of the new members. She then went on to demonstrate simple mounting of a print to a 50cmx40cm board, which is the size that all pictures which are entered into our print competitions this year must be. She also told us of attempts to negotiate a deal with SeaWhites of Partridge Green, who supply mount board, cut to size if requested. However we would not be able to order enough between us to qualify for a discount.
I then took over doing my best to show how to cut bevelled mounts. This gives a more professional appearance to prints; but I for one do not use them all the time as they take quite a time to do and are a bit of a fiddle! I am prepared to try and help anyone struggling to do them. It is worth repeating here that if you do them they must be finiished off with a sheet of thin card stuck to their reverse to protect other prints from the sticky tape used to stick the print to the mount.
After the break, Paul Haywood gave us a very colourful, intertesting and informative travelog of a recent trip to Bhutan. I for one did not even know where it was! Thank you Paul.