This week we held the final formal meeting of the season - the AGM, review of the Season, and Prizegiving
Annual Review:
In the past season, we held a Summer Exhibition at St Mary's Church, and enjoyed Summer Outings to Longniddry Bents (including drone flying), Yellowcraigs, Newbattle Abbey, Gifford, Portobello, Archerfield, Binning Woods, and then back to Longniddry (chips!).
The formal season included
- Members Nights, including 5 Photos, Locations, Favourites, Presentations with subjects including ICM, LRPS qualification, Birds, Smart Telescopes, Techniques, Editing and Software, and Monochrome/Portraits
- Practical nights included Light Painting, Mounting of Prints, and Editing Images
- Competitions and Judges included the Season Starter (Darren Pullman), Theme (David Kissman), Monochrome (David Sadler), the Annual (Caroline Preece), Match an Image with North Berwick, the 3-way competition with Musselburgh and Beeslack, the Jubilee, Nature, and the Audio Visual competition. WInners can be seen on the Awards page.
- We had Guest Speakers, including Fran Goodman on Astrophotography, Landscape Abstracts from Linda Bembridge, Scotland: The Big Picture with Mark Hamblin, Nightscapes from Peter Benson, and Architecture from Richard O'Brien.
So - a very busy Season, with lots for everyone. Thanks to Grace, the organisers, the committee, all the participants, and the club as a whole for such a successful year.
Looking ahead, next Season there will be Guest Speakers on subjects such as Macro, 'Sands of Time', Creative Flower and Plants, Animals, Light Painting, and Travel photography.
Over Summer there will be outings, and a Scavenger Hunt with Earlston Camera Club on 13th April, and don't forget the Summer Exhibition which will be held at St Mary's Church, Haddington during June and July.
The AGM was formally held on 26th March and Minutes will be available shortly. To summarise, previous minutes were adopted, there was a Constitution amendment, the Secretary, Treasurer, Competition Secretary, Programme Secretary, and the Web Admin all gave brief reports. Alastair stood down from the Committee after years of valuable service, exising members were re-elected, and Rudolf was elected to join the Committee.
As mentioned above, there were prize-givings - congratulations to all - see Overall Winners for details.
Some photos attached :
Finally, Grace thanked the members for their participation throughout the season and concluded that we have a friendly club that it is fun to participate in and thanked Paul for his work as secretary. Rita thanked the committee for their hard work in running the club and making it a good club in which to take part. And Rudolf thanked Grace for all her hard work, that tied the club together and made things happen.