Artist Millie Chadband visited SLIC this month bringing with her a selection of her own paintings and drawings. The first half of the afternoon was spent looking at Millie's work and discussing with her what drives her own art practice. A stimulating and lively session ensued in which she was ably aided and abetted by husband Bill. In the second half of the meeting Millie appraised a number of prints (offered by various members) from the artist's perspective rather than from the photographer's. This ensured another interesting debate.
Another successful and thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. Our thanks to Millie and to Bill who provided the 'reject' photographs and much of the laughter. Thanks!

This was a busy day ............... the First Quarterly Competition followed by the SLIC AGM.
Our thanks to David Platt, DPAGB, from St. Helens CC, who did sterling duty as our judge (details on the Results Page). The Judge's bonus points for 'Best Image' went to Chris Widdall. His job was made doubly difficult because we'd introduced digitally projected images, into the competition, for the first time. Suffice it to say that there are still some 'technical' problems to be ironed out so it's a case of, 'back to the drawing - board', for the present.
The AGM followed and the existing committee was returned for another year.

It seemed a shame to spend such a beautiful summer's day in an upstairs room from which all light had been ruthlessly excluded but it was well worth it. Marion Waine and John Rowell, both members of Wilmslow Guild AV Group, visited SLIC to talk about, and show us, their Audio - Visual sequences. The afternoon was a mixture of technical/production tips interspersed by their own AVs, the subjects of which, unbelievably, ranged from the chimney of an old cottage to the Indian sub-continent. They demonstrated to us that 'simple' is often best, or most effective.
Our thanks to both Marion and John for being so willing to share their enthusiasm and expertise making it a most interesting and enjoyable afternoon.

I have to confess to having missed this month's meeting which was the Second Quarterly Competition but I'm informed, by those that were there, that I missed a really enjoyable afternoon.
Our thanks go to the judge, Graham Dean from Darwen CC, who managed to mark all the prints whilst at the same time entertaining the club with a variety of amusing stories.
Graham is pictured here with the print, by Mike Lawrence, that he judged best in the competition and to which he awarded the bonus points.
Results, and the winning print, on the Results Page.

This month's meeting saw our Third Quarterly competition which was judged by George Steele LRPS. (See the Results page for the details and high scoring pictures).
George had constructive and helpful comments to make, about all the images which passed in front of him, together with some odd snippets of information that he shared with us. This made an entertaining and informative mix which was enjoyed by everyone present. Did you know that 'rugose' means wrinkled and creased? Not a lot of SLIC members did, either! But we do now ........... thanks to George!
I hope George enjoyed the meeting as much as the members did (particularly Chris, who picked up the bonus points this month) and we hope to welcome him, along with Monica, again soon.

Well, unfortunately, Father Christmas couldn't get to the SLIC party (he said that he was far too busy!) but, despite that, we still managed to have a good time with plenty of laughs!

Helen put together another quiz, which brought hysterical laughter from those of us who had trouble finding a question that we could answer! Most of the time, as at all the best parties, was spent chatting with friends, eating and drinking. The only camera, in sight, was mine. Take a look at the 'pics from the party'.

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