Chairman's Newsletter No. 38

Dear Members,
Finally, yes folks that's finally we managed to get the chairman's evening completed last night. One of the postponed events from January, one that I and a few of you thought might not be that well received within a camera club. Steve Rogers was waiting in the carpark when we sailed passed him to disappear, now he was now wondering "am I in the wrong place,..... bloody satnav" we had of course had gone around to pick up the hall keys, the look on Steve's face when we returned was that of a much relieved man. Well aware that several members are away on holidays it was nice to see that we had almost a full hall.
The lecture was apparently well received by those who attended and I thank Lynn for her sum up. As much as I tried to get Steve to accept a fee/donation he bluntly refused, and told me in 'matelot' terminology it will cost me a few beers the next time we are on one of our little trips.
Ray Kemmish brought in an album of photos taken way back in 19....... showing some of the grave sites in North Africa and has kindly offered to let the project have copies.  
Pam Bradley is also in contact with family and friends in South Africa and has promised to try and get some images for the project, sadly it seem the new government in that country are trying to obliterate all/any references to the past history and this include the destruction of cemeteries, very sad!  
David Horscroft has also expressed an interest in joining us the next time the project has an away weekend, I not sure what attracted him to the idea, possibly the backache, sore knees and ankles after taken several hundreds of photos in a day but more likely the thought of those nice French and Belgium beers, good food and possibly a great sense of achievement at the end of a long day.

On the TWGPP website there is a wonderful gallery and in there is a photo of Terry not quite at his best.  The link is HERE

Just one more reminder that I need your suggestions for subjects to be used in next seasons Les Fredericks trophies, I have had a few but some of them have been used before, so thinking caps on please.

New member. It was my pleasure to welcome another new member last night, fully paid up so now we can look forward to seeing Lisa Richardson's images. Keeping it in the family so to speak Gary brought in a few prints for assessment last night, I asked two of our more experienced members to look at them and they both agreed with me, so it is straight into the advanced class for Prints.

Next Week. Is assessment No. 7, with Chris Whiting judging. Entries in by the normal method and by midnight Friday.

Photo Competition. One for all of you who visit the New Forest. The annual competition is underway for the National Park, it's free to enter so look at the website for details. http://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/index/dreamviewcomp.htm

My regards, now get out & about and keep snapping!
Terry