October Activities

At our October meeting there was news of our forthcoming Winter Exhibition in Boyle, when members can sell their images, just in time for Christmas! The show will be from December 10th to 13th (to be confirmed) and members are asked to start preparing the pictures they would like to submit. This will be a different type of exhibition to our Summer event – this will be for any ready-to-hang photographs which will be for sale at a price set by the individual photographer. More details will follow.
Our speaker for the evening was Castlebaldwin photographer John Daly who enthused us with the range of creative possibilities using commercial printing services. John showed samples of different materials and techniques he has used for best effect on some of his own images. More from John on http://www.lumicreative.com/.
Peter Boalch gave a short slide show of pictures from a recent holiday in Spain – other members who are willing to share their images in this way are invited to come forward. Peter's show, set to music, ran for just three and a half minutes, and such shows offer us the chance to discuss each other's work, techniques and equipment.
Information about our next outing was revealed, the competition to shoot at Lough Allen on October 24th for some great prizes (details here later).
Two camera courses are being run at Roscommon Learning Links in Boyle by Tony Murphy on Monday evenings, each five weeks long. One is on using digital SLR cameras and the other is for beginners using compacts. The first course starts on October 18th. More details from 071 9664510.
Members are invited to make suggestions for our Christmas meeting/party/AGM in December and to consider who they would like see on the committee next year.
The Motivation for October was 'Trees' and it was interesting to see how inventive members had been in getting an original take on the subject. Next month, the challenge is to use 'natural frames' for any subject, and Joe showed some examples taken from the internet. The deadline for entries is November 2nd.
LGC