Agenda - Club Meeting Tuesday 12th May

Meeting will begin PROMPTLY at 8pm!

The Agenda for Tuesday night's, May meeting is as follows;

• Chairperson's Address; Presented by Andy Rimmer.
• Congratulations to those members who were recently up-graded between groups;
  Steve Dobson, Hugh Flanagan, Declan Gaffney, Ciara Maher, Michael McGee, Sally Moffat, Pat Mullan, Yvonne Sarsfield & Padraig Thornton. I hope you continue your journey to further develop your photography skills.
• Achill Island - Annual Weekend Photo Shoot - 19th-21st June. Members asked to pay the required €10 booking deposit at the meeting. Cost of accommodation; €70 for 2-nighs B&B.
• 52 Challenge - The new challenge is now into its fourth week and for those who have not yet handed over the entry fee, payment is also due this evening, €5 to Brian please.
• The Boyle Arts Festival is looming once again and BCC will be holding its usual exhibition in Boyle Library between 23rd July and 1st August. For those interested in exhibiting we will require you to submit up to 4 images on a memory stick or CD at or before the next club meeting to a committee members, together with the same entry fee as last year of €35. The committee will then select the image to be printed, framed and exhibited during the Festival. At the conclusion of the exhibition, you will have your framed image returned to you. As is our custom, we will be donating the takings of picture sales to our chosen charity. This year we are asking the members to nominate our preferred charity, local or national it is entirely up to you.
• The Boyle Summer Show this year is on Sunday 23rd August and the organisers have approached the camera club to become involved with the event. The committee have therefore decided, that we will sponsor a Theme-based Photography Competition, which will be rewarded with a perpetual cup. Club members are encouraged to participate and we will announce more details in the coming months.
• We are planning an inter-club photoshoot with the Swords Camera Club in October, again more details nearer the time.
• Finally, the next 'Open' themed print motivation is due in July. The committee have been discussing the format of this motivation and decided that in order to give every entry due consideration, mounted photos should be submitted a month ahead with the results being announced at the following meeting. Therefore, everyone taking part should bring their prints along to next month's meeting (June) prior to the results and critique being given at the July meeting.

• Committee Flickr Selection - John Walsh will select this month's image from the Boyle Camera Club Flickr Pool.

• Presentation - Darren Purcell of Visionary Photography, Boyle will discuss his work as a documentary photographer in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2013 earth quake disaster.

• Tea/Coffee Break

• Motivation Slideshow presented by Joe Kennedy and judged by Des O'Dwyer.

• Groups - Beginners and Intermediate Groups - John and Peter to review progress on the Alphabet Project set at last month's meeting. Advanced Group; Members to review and discussed proposed Book Project themes and introduction to Blurb, self-publishing on-line application and resource.

We look forward to seeing you all.

New members always welcome.