Busy, busy, busy!

Activities continue apace as we gear up for a series of outings and meetings, plus our annual exhibition in the Library during Boyle Arts Festival at the end of July. A working party is currently being set up to organise this year's exhibition (if you'd like to get involved, please make yourself known to the chairperson, Louise Cole at the Greenway Emporium, Boyle, on 071 9664090 or 086 0814683). We will be inviting members to submit two of their best shots – find out more at the next meeting!
Meanwhile, the deadline for the monthly motivation looms: Tuesday, May 4th, a week ahead of the meeting in the Royal Hotel on May 11th. The motivation, set to inspire members to take more pictures, is 'Nightscapes'.
The *speaker for the May meeting will be Tony Geoghegan, who makes a welcome return to the club to talk about taking portrait photographs. There will also be slideshows of the two most recent photo-shoots, one to Cavan County Museum and another to the Marble Arch Caves.
An outing is planned to a Point to Point meeting at Sligo Racecourse on Sunday, May 9th. This will be an afternoon trip, meeting at 1.30pm in the Crescent, Boyle, for car pooling and briefing. (Please note: This is a different type of horse racing to the Sligo Races event advertised for May 2nd). We also plan a visit to the bluebell woods near Knockvicar - we'll let you know at a later date when that will be.
Our annual weekend away is getting closer – 27 members will head for the Aran Islands on June 11th - 13th.
Boyle Camera Club continues to prosper, with almost 50 paid up members, regular outings, and meetings in the Royal Hotel, Boyle, on the second Tuesday of the month, starting at 8pm. As ever, new members are always welcome. We cater for beginners, improvers and experts and have an eclectic mix of ages and professions of both sexes. You can see some of the images created by members on our Flickr site.

* The talk about picture framing due to take place at the April meeting will now be re-scheduled for later in the year, after the speaker, Michael Ewing, was unable to attend at the last minute due to a bereavement.

LGC

Club Meeting - Tuesday 13th April

Joe Kennedy - The Winner

This was a busy a varied meeting, despite the absence of our guest speaker Michael Ewing, who was unable to attend. Peter Boalch hosted the event which began with the presentation of this months Black & White Motivation, judged by local photographer and club member, John Reynolds.

John gave an excellent critique of a selection from this month's members images and subsequently demonstrated a variety of digital darkroom techniques on the most effective way to convert digital colour files to Black & White.

Later in the meeting, Tony Murphy gave a presentation on the subject of Autofocus - What it is, How it works and unravelling the multitude of camera settings in order to get the most out of this often misunderstood and under-utilised function of the digital SLR camera.

Members are asked to note the following dates for their calendars;

Sunday 18th April - Photo Shoot to Marble Arch Caves - Co. Fermanagh

Sunday 18th April - Photo Fest Ireland 2010 - Dublin Airport

Wednesday 24th & 25th April - IPF National Club Finals - Athlone

Wednesday 28th April - Committee Meeting

Tuesday 4th May - 'Nightscapes' Motivation Submission

Tuesday 11th May - Next Club Meeting, 8pm Royal Hotel, Boyle

Full Minutes from this month's meeting HERE.

TM

Photo-shoot on Sunday next 19th April to Marble Arch Caves

The Porridge Pot - Marble Arch Caves, Co. Fermanagh

Our next Photoshoot will be on Sunday 18th April.

We are going underground at The Marble Arch Caves near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, for a photoshoot on Sunday next. The trip will include a boat trip underground through the caves and members should wear comfortable walking shoes and a sweater or fleece. Should make for a great day out. The cost of admission will be £7 STG.

As usual we will meet in the car park at the Crescent, Boyle at 9 am.

For insurance reasons, photo-shoots are only available to paid-up members of the club.

PB

photo courtesy Marble Arch Website

More competitions...

If you are interested in competitive photography, then there are a few competitions around at the moment, including one from Irish Forestry. Together with the Institute of Photography, Irish Forestry is running a competition with the theme of ... forestry. All entries will be displayed on the IPF website, with the winner being announced in early July. Prizes and entry details are on http://www.ifsam.ie/. Age Action, a charity which promotes positive ageing and better policies and services for older people has an annual photo competition. Visit http://www.ageaction.ie/ for details.

The deadline for our monthly Motivation - this month, its black and white images - is up today, as always, a week ahead of our next monthly meeting.

Picture framer Michael Ewing will be at our meeting on April 13th to talk us through the endless possibilities of frames and mounts for changing the finish on our printed photographs. There will be slide shows of our trip to County Cavan Museum and the results of the Motivation, plus a short talk on auto focus by Tony Murphy. The meeting starts at 8pm (sharp!) in the Royal Hotel, Bridge Street, Boyle, and new members are always welcome.

You can view images from club members here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/boylecameraclub/sets/

LGC