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.
The main event of the evening was a very interesting and informative talk on moths given by Bob, a near neighbour of Di's, illustrated by projected images of the insects taken by another moth enthusiast together with some of Di Walker's. We recruited Bob's wife as a new member as well, so that was a double RESULT!