2007 SLIC NEWS
December
2006
I
was a little late getting the news page updated over Christmas so I thought
I'd tack it on to the beginning of our news for 2007! The annual Christmas
Party was held at our new venue - Elton Liberal club, this year. We had
our usual splendid buffet prepared by Maureen Glynn and a quiz and brain
teasers brought by Helen Spillane and Jim Perkins. It was a fun afternoon
as everyone relaxed and chatted over food and drinks ....... an enjoyable
end to a good and interesting year for the club. Click HERE
and visit the party page for photographs!
January
to April
2007
First
of all - my apologies to anyone who might have visited these pages in
the last few months and wondered why there had been no updates. Using
the time honoured, but rather 'careworn' phrase, 'owing to circumstances
beyond my control', sums up the fact that I've been unable to keep the
site up to date. Hopefully, problems are being resolved and things will
return to normal. fingers crossed!
To catch up briefly on the programme so far: ................ January's
meeting saw a welcome return visit from Barry Colquhoun FRPS, FBIPP who
didn't disappoint us with another really interesting talk and demonstration
of Photoshop skills.
In February it was the Quarterly competition for prints and digitally projected images. Our judge was Tony Redford from North Cheshire PS. There were around 60 prints and 40 projected images and Tony found a positive and constructive comment for each one. The top pictures are on the 'Results Page'.
The March meeting saw yet another return visit - this time from Tony & Marjorie Furmston (both FRPS), from the YPF. They brought their new talk entitled Totally Digital Mark ll. We'd thoroughly enjoyed the Mark l version so were looking forward to the new one - and we weren't disappointed. We enjoyed an afternoon looking at some terrific images and enjoying the tales that accompanied them.
In April, Just when we thought it would be difficult to match the last speakers we had a visit from Margaret Salisbury, from North Wales, with her talk Digital Dragon. SLIC members were treated to some wonderful images from the Three 'I's of the 'dragon', Italy, Ireland and India. The icing on the cake came from the stories and anecdotes that made them all come alive.
May
to August
2007
Things
didn't go entirely to plan so the fingers are still crossed!
The biggest piece of news for club members was that we were successful
in our application for a grant from Awards For All and we were
able to purchase a new computer and digital projector etc., enabling the
club to offer more to both its own members and the community as a whole.
The May meeting saw the AGM which produced no major changes. Afterwards
we had the First Quarterly Competition, for Prints and Projected Images,
which was judged by Mike Lawrence from Oldham. There were a few 'technical
hitches' but Mike didn't let these bother him and he came up with lots
of sound advice and good judgement. The top pictures are on the 'Results
Page'. Normally the comptition has 2 categories, Open Prints and Open
Digitally Projected but at the last meeting a new category was introduced,
that of 'Experimental images'. This will attact, hopefully, those images
that are 'for fun', experimental, 'way out', etc.; in other words anything
that wouldn't normally go in front of a judge! The ones entered this month
certainly lived up to expectations!
In June the club was visited by Chris Widdall
from Oldham. She brought her talk entitled In My View. I wasn't
able to be at the meeting but I've been told that I missed a really good
talk in which Chris showed many of her own pictures and started some lively
debates. We'll be welcoming her back in September when she visits SLIC
to look at members' AV sequences.
In July (again, unfortunately, I wasn't able to be there) SLIC
had speakers from t'other side o' t' Pennines, from Leeds in the the White
Rose County. Alan & Lee Davies brought an interesting talk about their
approach to Natural History photography called Natural History Through
The Lens. Their photographs were all captured digitally and projected
onto a screen. Again, I'm told that I missed a great afternoon.
The August meeting was SLIC's Second Quarterly Competition. Our
judge was Ian Whiston from Northwich who found something positive to say
about all the images and offered constructive criticism when necessary.
The top pictures are on the 'Results
Page'.
