A. G. M. 9 1. R E P O R T
A . G. M. 9 1.
By 12.30 there were enough members milling around and setting things up to encourage a reasonable attendance. Ron Croad, Kevin Craske and Albert Raymond set up stalls selling film, chemicals, slide frames etc.The A.G.M. started at 1pm with Brian Savage acting Chairman and, Ron Croad Secretary and covering on Treasurers reports, and Bill Reid making up the quota on the panal. Business was covered quickly with no propositions from the floor that took up any uneccessary time.
PRINT EXHIBITION
An excellent display of B&W and Colour Prints (Cibachrome) were exhibit by Peter Guy (Area 20), Bill Taylor and Kevin & Margary Maskell. Photographs ranged from Portraits, flowers etc and some interesting abstracts, showing a mastery of their arts and a credit to the Club.
REFRESHMENTS
This year Horace and Maisie Telling (Area 20) took on these duties, doing a splendid job serving teas, coffee & biscuts with tasty salad dishes with Quich and a fruit cocktail. Very well done.
SLIDE PRESENTATIONS
Tony Chuter started the day off with what should have been a full A/V, but when the sound failed, Tony did a nice job of talking through his programme consisted of Konica, Velvia & Ektachrome taken at the Annual Dorset Steam Rallay. These fine old machines, loveingly restored to full glory make a very colourful presentation.
Ron Croad followed with a fine example of Konica, both the old and new emulsions, processed in the C.R.C. formulae. We were taken around the beautiful Lake District with added colour scenes of the Morecombe Lights which equal that of Blackpool.
Jeff Mundell (Area 22) gave a talk and demonstration of his set-up for using Electronic Camera Triggers (Article CRCN 61, page 10/11). Along with the talk it was interesting actually seeing the camera/flash being triggered by Radio, Infra-red and even 'sound'. This was followed by some slides showing how accurate the systems worked while taking candid shots of people, animals and insects. Using a cross-beam set-up catches an animal/insect exactly where you want it, completely automatically.
An Hours Interval followed where sales of food and drink and more sales in the Stalls. Not to forget the Print Exhibition and the chance to meet and chat to each other.
Once everyone had been refreshed and settled, Bill Taylor (Area 17/22) gave a talk on his style of producing Prints! On first encounter many of these appeared as straight forward 'Abstract' work, but Bill explained how some were composed from such items as 'washing-up' liquid squashed between two pieces of glass/plastic and made into a negative, then the prints coloured by all sorts of dyes to produce most fascinating effects. The interest was hightened by Bill's entertaining manner of presentation.
Margary & Kevin Maskell presented slides of a holiday to the U.S.A. Taking in Los Angeles and San Francisco. All were in the large 220 format. The fine detail and total lack of grain was supurb. Margary of course, is OUR Miss Meadows (Area 13 Co-ordinator) and We send them our Best Wishes on their recent marriage on the 24th of April. They are lucky in that both share the same interest in photography and we hope that they have many many years of happiness together. (Their article 'Weve Only Just Begun' starts on page 3.).
George Sparke's presented slides taken around his home area of Swanage in Dorset and a fine example too. George uses Fuji Prof. 100 film, processed in his favourite brew based on the B.J. of Photography formulae. Members showed some concern that Georges slides looked dull and lacked contrast. It was found later that Tony's projectors (We used these throughout the day) had a 'dimmer' left one. Tony sent his apologies later on and I am sure George appreciates members knowing his work was 1st Class as usual.
The final presentation was by Bill Reid, of a holiday to Switzerland taken on Konica (old emulsion) and processed in the CRC formula. There were some superb mountain and lake scenes taking in two Narrow Guage mountain railways... The Breinz & Rothorn (7,000ft) and the 4 hour trip to the Summit of Jungfrau Joch (13,300ft) and the Eiger,mixed with a look around Interlaken, Bern, Luzern and Montroux. Processing was very good, proving that there isn't much wrong, but by careful selection the few having that 'tobacco' effect was only seen once pointed out.
This brought another enjoyable Meeting to a close, and which should have been the last one at Didcot for a while, however, as our Secretary has reported, the meeting at Wetherby has been caped and we shall hope to see you all again at Didcot next year. Mustn't forget to thank Bill Crumplin, who couldn't attend, but delivered his 8ft screen so that members slides got the best possible presentation.
And finally, Our thanks to Alan Panes of Didcot, though not a CRC member, has supplied the Three Print Stands every year.