Agenda - Club Meeting Tuesday 13th January

The Agenda for the January meeting is as follows;

• Chairperson's Address;
• From the 'Suggestion Box'.
• January Motivation has a PRINT option! Prints for this month's Motivation to be given to Kit or Mary before the meeting.
• Print Motivations. Next Print Motivation will take place in April. It is proposed to compile a judging panel consisting of one Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced member for this and future Print Motivations.
• Meeting schedule - Question to members; is there justification/desire to have club meetings more than once a month?
• Exhibitions - proposals and venues for 2015.

• Committee Flickr Choice - Brian and Joe will select one image each from the club's Flickr Pool and discuss them with members.
• 5-minute talk - Catherine Mullarkey will discuss one of her recent images.
• Presentation - Following on from last month's meeting, Beginners and Intermediate Groups will continue examining camera skills with Peter and John. Beginner members participating in the camera skills group - Please remember to bring samples of images for review where you have used shutter speed techniques discussed with John and Peter at our December meeting. You should bring an image, printed or on usb memory stick demonstrating the challenges achieving the desired visual effect or where you have intentionally used shutter speed to capture that critical image! 15 mins will be given to looking at members images. Next up; APERTURE! Be prepared!! Advanced Group members are asked to bring at least ONE of their images from the TYPOLOGY challenge set out at the December meeting for review and discussion. Tony will build on last month's session and demonstrate how to assemble the 12-image panel using PhotoShop. Advanced members are expected to produce a 12-image panel for the February meeting. Advanced members can download the panel templates from this LINK.

• Tea/Coffee Break
• Motivation Slideshow and Critique presented by Joe and Peter.
• Print Motivation The club provides window mounts suitable for an A4 print for €2. Print submissions should be mounted. Judging and critique by Kit and Mary.

Members should note that annual membership fees are now due. The fees remain unchanged; Full Membership €45. Unwaged/Pensioner/Student €15. Members are reminded that a monthly meeting fee of €3 exists. For special guest presenters, the meeting fee is €5.

We look forward to seeing you all.

New members always welcome.