10 March
Wines of the Rhineland - will Mr Whelan be providing samples?
24 March
Pointless Print/Slide competition - a second chance for entries previously receiving disappointing marks - will David Hampson enter "Follow My Leader"? Judge Gordon Roots LRPS
7 April
Print competition - Dusk to Dawn - Judge Ann Smith ARPS
28 April
Club Night - a second chance to see David Moxon's Images of New Zealand, Andrew Deaville's Images of North America and David Hampson's multiple penguins
5 May
Slide competition - open - Judge Bob Turner FRPS
19 May
Evening stroll - venue to be announced but usually finishing at a local hostelry
26 May
Print competition - open - Judge Monica Weller ARPS
2 June
Print and Slide of the Year - dust down those "10's" - Judge David Mendus

Godalming Audio Visual
"A Town for Our Times" is being presented by the Audio Visual section at 8.00 p.m. in the Borough Hall on Friday 26th March. The show has been updated to include events from the Millennium. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Len Deeley.

Southern Comfort
David Southern certainly made a splash with a 5-page article in "Amateur Photographer" on 24th January, plus a picture on the cover. He also gave Godalming Photographic Club a plug!

Wroughton
On Saturday, 1st May 2004, the Science Museum at Wroughton will be fully open. Based in 7 hangars on a disused airfield, this is where the National Collections stores large objects including the Air Transport Collection and Land Transport Collection. Exhibits include a Lockheed Constellation airliner, 140 tonne wood press and early MRI scanners. It takes approximately 4 - 6 hours to view the entire collection and there is no admission charge on this particular day.

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There are no visitor facilities except toilets, so packed lunch and drinks are recommended. Disabled parking is situated close to the hangars.

Photography for non-commercial purposes is permitted and camera supports including tripods are welcomed if used with consideration for other visitors.

Further details from Philippa Davies or ww.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wroughton

The One That Got Away
I saw coming towards me a woman wearing a black evening gown.. Closely followed by a companion, wielding a large camcorder, she was an imposing sight. Large, confident, magnificent frontage, beautiful too. She turned left before me, gathering a shawl around her shoulders and headed across the tiny square towards an alleyway. Her cameraman walked behind tracking her every step. I too went along thinking wildly how I could ever get ahead of them. The companion seemed content to follow her retreating figure. Me, I wanted the front view. It was not to be. Apart from unseemly running there was no way to get in front of them. Perhaps with a little more local knowledge I could have succeeded.
As it was, despite my camera being ready, fully loaded, this was one time when I would miss the pic.

The picture in my mind had already been taken. Wonderful light, wonderful setting, mysterious, almost theatrical, happening, - why was she so dressed, so early, so stunning and so there?                                  
                                        Peter Lordan

This one got away twice - once from my computer! Thanks to Peter for sending it again. Don't forget, there will be a prize at the AGM for the best "One That Got Away"