© 2009 Hayling Island Camera Club

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Welcome to Hayling Island Camera Club.  I take up the post of  President  from the very capable hands of Ted Honeyman.  

 

Our membership is steadily growing and last year we had 65 members of all abilities.  There is a very strong committee, with both experienced and new members who are enthusiastic to tackle what committees have to tackle!

 

I am very aware that we have a wide range of abilities within the Club and I hope we can meet the needs of everyone.  (I fall somewhere in the middle of this!)  We are introducing some workshops in the autumn before the Club meeting on Mondays to cover a variety of techniques which members would like covered.  This will be both practical photography skills and computer techniques.

 

Carol Johnstone has enthusiastically taken up the vacant post of Social Secretary and we already have had several outings with several more planned – these cover night photography, portraiture, table-top work and she likes to finish up with refreshments of some sort or another!

 

I’d also like to thank Gary Kenmir for producing the programme of events.  He has done an excellent job of inviting back those speakers who were entertaining and inspirational and introducing new speakers who promise to be thought-provoking.  This isn’t an easy task and he would be the first to say he has had help, but the year’s programme looks to be an exciting one.

 

We are very lucky, thanks to the Awards for All England Grant, to have excellent digital projection equipment – this is certainly an area which will see all sorts of developments within camera clubs nationally now that slides have been phased out of competition.

 

We are affiliated to the Photographic Association of Great Britain through our membership with the Southern Photographic Federation and so keep in touch with developments within the photographic world.

 

In 2010 we hope to run an Open Exhibition, where anyone in the UK can enter digital images into competition.  This is very hard work for those taking part, not least the panel of judges, but very rewarding and observing other photographers’ work is inspirational.

 

If you would like to find out more about the Club, do come and test us out for a meeting or two, you will be made very welcome.

 

                                                                                                                       Sue Watts