Committee Meeting 3 March 2010
The results of the L&CPU AGM and Print and PDI competitions were reported (see elsewhere) . Christine Widdall, the new L&CPU President, had agreed to open the 2011 Annual Exhibition on Wednesday 9 February. The 2010 Annual Exhibition was reviewed. It was noted that the Exhibition had again been successful. We needed more door tickets for the Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and more Catalogues (say 300) next time. We had not been able to set up on the Wednesday morning this year but agreed that it was important that we should endeavour to do so in future. This might mean negotiating with the Keep Fit class, next time, but hopefully we could book the morning for future Exhibitions if we did so early enough. It was agreed that we should invest in a good Radio Microphone for the future. Bill Chadband would look into this. For the Friday evening of the next Exhibition Graham Johnston would investigate booking a top class Photographic speaker.
A general discussion on the need to keep up to date with software on our computer (re Windows 7; Lightroom 3; and Photoshop CS5 and elements came to no definite conclusion and was left for discussion at the next committee meeting.
Jon Allanson was standing down as Selection Committee chairman. Suggested that three people was an adequate size for the Selection Committee. Jon would run the club meeting on 4 May 2010, when many members would be in Venice. The Digital workshop would be moved to 11th May 2010 at Poynton. Jill reported that we now had 67 members; and Geoff Robinson noted that the increased membership had brought in increased subscriptions. After a refreshment break proposed resolutions for the AGM were discussed. Barry had proposed two parallel resolutions noting that we had had no Slide entries this year in competitions and formalizing Projected Digital Images to replace Slides in our various documents. The committee agreed to propose this to the AGM.
Graham reported that next session’s syllabus was mostly complete, with three Digital evenings yet to be decided.
The next committee meeting was set for Wednesday 21st April 2010.