Chairman's
Where has the time gone?
As chairman it's my duty to write a piece for the club newsletter
and I promised Philippa I would do a piece at the last committee
meeting, now at the 11th hour here am I staring at a blank screen
wondering where the time has gone? When I look at the programme
I see we are already a third of the way through the season, it
being nearly Christmas and yet it doesn't seem very long ago
that I was having a washed out summer! I don't know if you feel
the same but when I was school, half a term (that bit where you
had to work between holidays) seemed to last forever and now
I seem to turn around and another year has gone. Does time speed
up as we get older or do we just have more to concentrate on
that we don't notice it passing? I once heard a wonderful tale
of a college lecturer who had a large glass jug and he filled
it to the brim with rocks and asked his class if it was full?
Almost the whole class put up their hands to agree it was full,
at which point he poured in some gravel to fill in the gaps between
the rocks. He again asked if it was full and this time only about
half the class put up their hands. The lecturer them poured in
some sand around the gravel and once again asked the question,
this time very few people put up their hands and as a final act
he poured in some water (now it was full). The moral the lecturer
said was that if you place the important things in your life
first, you will be surprised what you can fit in around them
and that I think is where the time goes, we have more to fit
in when we are older.
Congratulations to the membership, without you we would have
no club and the quality of work that we have seen this year is
superb; special mention must be made to the various members who
have entered external competitions and who have either won or
been selected for exhibition and gone on to have their work published,
as they say you have it be 'in it to win it'. It is quite common
to hear at exhibitions and competitions "I've got a better
shot than that", but did they enter it ? No. It only takes
a little self-belief. Now where did those images go, I must enter
another comp.......
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I would like to
take this opportunity to wish all the members and their families
a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward
to seeing you all at the meal on the 10th (most probably with
your home made cards, thank you William and co for the workshop)
but before that we have our final print competition for 2008,
Town & Around, with the major emphasis of the picture being
of an urban nature. Which leads me onto a reminder about a future
competition, last year we designed a CD cover and this year it's
a book cover so get reading and designing for the 18th March.
Once again, Merry Christmas and thank you all for making Godalming
Photographic Club such a wonderful club.
Now where is that paper and what do you mean I'm out of ink...........
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Programme Highlights
3rd
December 2008
PRINT COMPETITION - TOWN AND AROUND
Guidance on subject : any image with an urban setting. Can be
urban landscape, urban architecture, people in urban setting
or detail of urban environment.
10th December 2008
Christmas Dinner at The Grantley Arms. |
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