The first meeting was well attended by members, but sadly only one potential new member arrived. We had hoped for at least three.
Paul Hayward, one of our three joint chairmen, took charge, greeting us all back and reporting on our new features. For instance John Gauvin’s tutorials on Lightroom, which will commence once he returns from Africa where he will be teaching Lightroom in the sun! Jane was thanked for organising our Coffee mornings which have proved to be popular and well attended. Those who have not been to one yet should try to go as soon as you can, as it is a great opportunity to get to know fellow members better.
Janet gave us an update on our monthly Flickr competitions which have a new subject every month. Paul awarded three certificates to the latest three winners, Daisy Kane and David Seddon who claimed two.
David then said a few words about the new programme for this season. He drew attention to some of the events and a couple of items were discussed.
We then carried on with some members showing us some of their images taken over the Summer. We had agreed at a Committee meeting held in my house one week earlier, that each presentation should be limited to 10 images only so we could get through them all.
Joint Chairman Chris started by showing us about 100 images, in a very well presented slide show with music. We saw lots of pictures taken in Spain where he travelled with his caravan.
David, another Committee member, then showed us about 30 very varied and interesting pictures, including some nice stuff from his home town London.
Our Secretary Daisy, who sent out an e-mail to members telling them that we wanted only 10 images, was next and she showed another 100 pictures of her family playing games with some very sweet images. She apologised for the fact that she had thrown her presentation together this very afternoon, with music.
We then had our break and I was 'firstoff' afterwards. I showed my short presentation. (for those interested, the butterfly was a Small Copper).
Then Jane showed some amazing pictures of the Gay Parade in Brighton. She said that it was a very happy day with lots of fun and some amazing outfits and ‘make up’ jobs, which she recorded for us to enjoy.
Janet then showed us the regulation number of images, with several in Black and White, taken on a day out in London with Will Chung which carried on into the night. There were some wonderful pictures which we all loved.
Martin then showed us a presentation which although containing more than 10 pictures ran through quite quickly. They were very interesting showing us a house and extensive gardens with a very strong Indian influence which was fascinating.
As there was now about 25 minutes left before throwing out time, I was allowed to show my longer presentation which I had brought along (just in case there was time over). Again the un-named butterfly with its wings at 45 degrees was one of the Skippers.
This took us to just before 10pm.