The blue Vodka bottle and Bench are Steve Frasers
Here some of our members are a little wary of the cows looking rather worried about going to close
Hey Neil you've done it now, they all want you to take their photo !!
And Heres Helen in the water Hopefully she will post me her take on this
Mick please send me some of yours
Alan send me your capture
GLEMSFORD PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB
Chairman’s Report - AGM – 10 May 2010
At our last AGM, after a very successful first year, I finished by saying “Let’s have an even better second year”. Reflecting on the last twelve months or so - I think we have done just that. This Club has always tried to cater for the needs of the members and to improve our photography by experience, predominantly by including a good mix of practical sessions, constructive critique and outside speakers in the programme. Since the last AGM we have tried to do just that and I think this has been reflected in the quality of the photography that we are all now producing. This was very evident recently at the ‘can you tell what it is’ evening. There was no particular requirement on that evening to produce quality photographs, but it was obvious that a lot of thought had gone into techniques such as composition, exposure and depth of field and the results were some pretty impressive photography and I think we should all take credit for that..
So what have we done during the past twelve months? We have had practical sessions exploring aperture, depth of field and shutter speed. We have looked at mounting, cropping, still life, photographing difficult objects such as glass and Scalextric cars and we’ve revisited water sculptures. We have held beginners nights in both photography and photoshop and have had field trips to Sudbury meadows, Lackford Lakes, Bury St Edmunds and the local church. We have purchased a professional mounting rig and have a club storage cupboard. We have a very good website, with a separate blog to showcase some of the work that we do. We have arranged for the professional calibration of computers, printers and the club projector and we have a club logo. We have insurance for the club and are now mentioned in some of the local publications. We have had speakers on subjects such as Photoshop, night sky photography, colour management and HDR. Finally we are now affiliated to the East Anglian Federation of Photographic Societies. All in all quite a busy year!
So what for the next twelve months? The membership of the East Anglian Federation of Photographic Societies allows us to bring in quality speakers, some of which are already booked over the next twelve months. It also means that we are now recognised in the East Anglia area and I hope that we will soon be competing against the other clubs in competitions. We certainly have the quality of pictures to do this and to try and kick start this a little, I am looking at holding our first official club competition later this year to be judged by a qualified judge. I would also like to see us producing more in the way of larger mounted prints and we will be looking at the best ways of achieving this. The website will be extended to include a facility for club members to have their own individual pages. We are putting together a calendar with the Local History Society depicting then and now photographs of the village, to be published for Christmas this year and have been asked to contribute to a book that the Local History Society are preparing. As ever there will be both indoor and outdoor practical nights and we are hoping to get some practical demonstrations on two particular areas - flash and studio photography, amongst others.
I would like to thank the committee for all their hard work over the last twelve months. There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes with running a club like this and without their commitment we simply would not have a club. But finally I would like to thank you the members. I have said this before and I am not going to apologise for repeating myself, and that is that the quality of the photography being produced by you all makes this worthwhile. The pictures displayed tonight are testament to that. Thank you all and let’s have an even better third year!
Steve Fraser
Chairman
10 May 2010
Thanks Steve A good report for an overall good year for our club
And now for the competiton
There was a good turn out with each club member displaying 3 photos the rules being :
· Maximum of 3 entries
· Pictures to have been taken since last AGM
· Two categories – Beginner and non-Beginner
· Members would be able to vote on 5 pictures awarding 1-5 points pro rata
· Members would be asked what category (Beginner and non-Beginner) they wished to enter,
I have two pictures here as nobody else has sent me anything
The Winner of the beginners was Alan Game with his water drop photo which was taken on one of our club practical nights. Congratulations to Alan who won a Manfrotto monopod
And also to steve for his brilliant swallow photo He didnt win a prize because he is the chairman and won last time
I Think first prize was won by Tony wilcox and second Bob Mitchell.
WINNERS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SEND ME YOUR WINNING PICTURES WITH YOUR PLACING AND I WILL ADD THEM HERE THANKYOU
