Up, Up and Away!

There was a good turn out for our monthly meeting last night. Hopefully, we have now found the definitive venue (St Joseph's Resource Centre) and it will become our permanent home. It certainly looks good so far. Next month we will include refreshments (tea and coffee) and we'll work at getting the screen a bit higher so the folk at the back can see better!
Members have been invited to submit photos for the Discover Boyle day on October 3rd. Local pictures for a show of work, probably in St Joseph's Hall (to be confirmed), any size or subject, but with a local theme. Images don't have to be framed, but they should be mounted. Contact Louise for more info.
Our photo-shoot/competition on September 26th has been postponed for a month. It will now be on October 24th at Lough Allen. Visit http://www.loughallenbasin.com/ for a taste of what the area's about - we'll post more details about the event nearer the date.
The Motivation for next month is 'Trees'. Try to challenge yourself to be original! Two entries per member, as always. Send them re-sized with your membership number, category and image title all together as the image name to info@boylecameraclub.com. The deadline is October 5th.
The National Hot Air Ballooning Championships take place in Ballymahon, Co Longford, next week. Its a wonderful photo opportunity (40 balloons are expected to take part) and we've talked the organisers into allowing us certain access behind the scenes. We're going to be there at the start - the first launch on Sunday afternoon (September 19th). Meet at 3pm in the car park at Boyle Crescent for a briefing and car pooling, or contact Louise for details.
If you are interested in pursuing the IPF Licentiate accreditation, let Dermot have your name. This follows on from a talk by Conor Dowling; hopefully a number of club members would like to pursue this as a project.
Our next get-together is on Tuesday next (September 21st), a social in Daly's Bar in Boyle, to show our Aran Islands pictures and talk about what a great weekend we had back in June. That will be an 8pm start - every one's welcome, even if you didn't go on the trip. If you still haven't sent in your Aran Island images, get a move on! Send them in to Joe in the usual way.
LGC