Oops!
My sincere apologies to the Audio Visual Section for misreporting the Godalming presentation. It was stretching journalistic licence too far to get both the title and the contents wrong!

The evening was a great success with all tickets sold, and there is a waiting list for a viewing next year.

Congratulations to everyone involved for making the evening such a success.
                                        Philippa Davies

Bohemian Rhapsody

The barn owl blinked. He was clamping himself to the arm of a black bearded Bohemian, dressed, appropriately enough, in traditional hunting leathers.

'Would I like the bird on my arm' he asked.

A photographic opportunity.

No thank you.

A few yards down the road we read his poster. Any contributions would help towards the welfare of such birds,

presumably fallen from a nest. We went back.
This wonderful bird, fully two feet tall, glared from his perch. Blackbeard released his feet, each one as large as my hand and placed them on his own arm.

As I raised the camera the bird turned his head away. Those startling amber eyes were gone. Some coaxing and he turned one eye to me. I found myself making those sounds that seem to attract the domestic cat. And it worked; the head came around another 90 degrees. Two deep golden amber eyes stared straight at me.

Blackbeard's as well.

There should be a print to come from this!
                                          Peter Lordan

Programme Highlights
Not many for this edition!
2nd June
Print/slide of the year - open to all entries scoring 10 during the current season.
9th June
AGM and awards.
16th June
Summer party - 48 Minster Road, Godalming
6th - 24th July.
Exhibition at Godalming Museum , preview and awards Wednesday 7th July at 7.30 p.m.
New Season
The new season commences on 1st September 2004.

SPA News
Every year the club enters a competition organised by the Surrey Photographic Association. This year 32 clubs took part. Its in two parts - an early section, in which 4 clubs compete with each other in a 'league'.

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