March Club Meeting

The next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will be held this coming Thursday, 12th March, in our usual venue of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim (beside the football pitch) from 8pm to 10pm. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. New members are always welcome. 

There are a number of things happening on the night. These will include:-

MARCH CLUB PHOTOSHOOT
It was decided at the January meeting that we shall hold photoshoots monthly on the Sunday after the monthly meeting. That means that our photoshoot this month shall be on Sunday, 15th March. We will need to decide on a location and time for this at the meeting.

CLUB WEEKEND AWAY

It was decided at the February meeting to maybe try to visit Glenveigh National Park in Donegal for a weekend later in the year, with May being a suggested time as the rhododendrons would be in flower. Club member Marty Cooke offered to try and find details of accommodation, either in the Bunbeg or the Letterkenny area. Hopefully he will have some news for us at the meeting.

PRINTING TIPS
Club member Regina Magee has offered to give us a talk this month on the topic of Printing Photographs. This was deferred from the February meeting due to unforeseen circumstances. I am sure this will be of use to all of us, and look forward to hearing her advice.

INTER-CLUB PRINT CHALLENGE

At our February meeting it was decided that we would go ahead with the Print Battle between our club and the North West Camera Club. The nine chosen themes were:

• Wildlife
• Macro Photography
• Sport
• Reflections
• Decay
• Street Photography
• Contradiction
• Circles (the shape)
• Open

We have between now and May 25th to get our nine images taken and printed. As they have to be printed at A3 size, they need to be high quality images. At this month's meeting some time will be put aside to discuss this. Maybe we will need to look for volunteers for different categories. And we will have to have a discussion on how we select the images for the different categories. It would be great if we could have lots of club members' prints, rather than just prints from a few members.

Two of the themes happen to be our motivational themes for April (Wildlife) and May (Reflections) - which may be of help to us.

The club will, of course, arrange for the images to be printed once they have been selected.

MONTHLY MOTIVATIONAL SLIDESHOW

The motivational theme for this month's meeting is "Shapes". A slideshow of the images that members have sent in will be shown after the break at this month's meeting. Full details of the monthly motivational themes for 2015 can be found here and the slideshow from the February 2015 "Emotion and/or Freedom" theme can be seen on the club's YouTube page here.

CLUB ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES

Finally a reminder that membership fees for 2015 are now due. Fees are unchanged from last year, and are €25 for the year (€10 for junior members). If you have not already paid, please try to remember to bring your fees to this month's meeting.

February Club Meeting

The next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will be held this coming Thursday, 12th February, in our usual venue of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim (beside the football pitch) from 8pm to 10pm. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. New members are always welcome.

There are a number of things happening on the night. These will include:-

FEBRUARY CLUB PHOTOSHOOT
It was decided at the January meeting that we shall hold photoshoots monthly on the Sunday after the monthly meeting. That means that our photoshoot this month shall be on Sunday, 15th February. We will need to decide on a location and time for this at the meeting.

CLUB WEEKEND AWAY

Regina and Mary have offered to look into suitable places where club members might want to consider as a possible club weekend away later in the year. Hopefully they will have one or more suggestions for us to ponder at the meeting. Of course, if any other member has any ideas or suggestions please feel free to suggest them as well at the meeting, or email them to me and I can bring them up on your behalf. 

PRINTING TIPS
Club member Regina Magee has offered to give us a talk this month on the topic of Printing Photographs. I am sure this will be of use to all of us, and look forward to hearing her advice.

 INTER-CLUB PRINT CHALLENGE

I have been contacted by a committee member of the North West Camera Club, based in Ballyshannon, asking whether we would be interested in joining with them in a Print Challenge. Basically it would involve each club producing a pane of eight A3 prints, one from each of eight different themes, and then getting in an independent judge to choose the winner in each of the individual categories. The winning club would be the one with the highest number of winning images.  He suggests this could become an annual event.

If we accept the challenge, they have already chosen their four themes (Decay, Street Photography, Contradiction, and Circles [Shape]). It would be up to us to choose our four topics. Perhaps there could also be an Open theme as well, so that there would be an odd number of themes?

A member of the North West Camera Club hopes to come down to our meeting  this month to talk about the idea and answer any questions or concerns.

MONTHLY MOTIVATIONAL SLIDESHOW

The motivational theme for this month's meeting is "Emotion and/or Freedom". A slideshow of the images that members have sent in will be shown after the break at this month's meeting.Full details of the monthly motivational themes for 2015 can be found  here and the slideshow from the January 2015 Open theme can be seen on the club's YouTube page here.

CLUB ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES

Finally a reminder that membership fees for 2015 are now due. Fees are unchanged from last year, and are €25 for the year (€10 for junior members). If you have not already paid, please try to remember to bring your fees to this month's meeting.

Monthly Motivational Themes 2015

At the January meeting a discussion took place of the suggestions members had made at last November's club meeting for motivational themes for 2015. The following list was decided upon for the rest of the year:-

• February    Emotion and/or Freedom
• March         Shapes
• April            Wildlife
• May             Reflections
• June            High Speed Photography (faster than 1/1000 sec)
• July             Seascapes / Lakeviews (Water)
• (August       No meeting)
• September  Macro Photography
• October       Sport
• November   Night Photography
• December   Food Photography

Images for each month may be taken at any time during the year (from 1st January 2015 onwards).

Please do not send images for any motivation until the month in which they are due.

January Club Meeting

Rainbow Camera Club would like to wish each and every one of you a happy and (photographically) fruitful New Year!

Just to let you know that the next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will take place this coming Thursday (8th January) in our usual venue of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim (beside the football pitch) from 8pm to 10pm. New members are always welcome!

At this meeting there will be a discussion amongst the members present on how to move the club forward in 2014. Items up for discussion include the structure of the monthly meetings, choosing the monthly motivational themes for the year ahead, trying to come up with a calendar for photoshoots during the year, and the possibility of arranging a weekend away for club members sometime this year. So this is your chance to have a say in what will happen this year; and if you don't (or can't) attend these decisions will be made in your absence.

Also be aware that annual subscriptions are now due (€25 adult, €10 junior), and subscriptions can be paid at this Thursday's meeting.

A reminder that there is a Open Motivational Theme for the slideshow to be shown after the break at the meeting. Ten members have each sent in four images for this month's motivation.

NOVEMBER CLUB MEETING

NEXT MEETING

Just to remind you that the next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will take place next Thursday evening, 13 November, in our usual venue of The Cabin (beside the football field), Rossinver, Co Leitrim from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. New members are always welcome.

The first part of this meeting will be the AGM. Hopefully we can get through this business fairly promptly.

OTHER BUSINESS
At next week's meeting we will also discuss the fireworks photoshoot that a good number of members recently took part of in Enniskillen. Some of the photos from that shoot can be seen on the club's Flickr Group Pool here (along with some other photos members have added).

Also we need to discuss possible motivation themes for 2015, and the Christmas dinner planned for December, along with suggestions for future monthly meetings and photoshoots.

MOTIVATIONAL THEME
The motivational theme for next week's meeting is HEDGEROWS. Members may interpret this theme in any way they see fit, and all members are encouraged to submit up to four images on this theme, taken since the January 2014 meeting (9th January 2014), for inclusion in the slideshow after the break at this month's meeting.

Please email your photographs to the club's gmail address. If at all possible resize your images so that they are 1024 pixels on their longest edge, and make sure that they are sent by midnight on Tuesday 11th October.

The theme for December is Portraits. Some members were present for a refresher on taking portraits at the end of the 'training' day in the Ballagh Centre on Sunday 26 October. Perhaps we may put some time aside for this again at the next session in the Ballagh Centre (Sunday 30 November).

September Meeting

Hope you've had a great summer, and have got loads of new and interesting photographs!

Just a reminder that the September meeting of the club will be held on Thursday, 11th September, at our usual venue of The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim (beside the football field), starting at 8:00pm

The motivational theme for this month's meeting is "Architecture". Members are free to interpret this as they see fit, and are encouraged to send in up to four images on this theme, taken since the January 2014 meeting (9th January 2014), for inclusion in the slideshow after the break at this month's meeting. Please email your photographs to the usual club email address. If at all possible resize your images so that they are 1024 pixels on their longest edge, and make sure that they are sent by midnight on Tuesday, 9th September. 

The video from the July meeting (motivational theme "Pets") has now been uploaded to the club's Youtube page and you should be able to view it here.

One of the things we shall be discussing at this month's meeting will be the 2015 North-West Regional rounds of the IPF Print & Projected Image and National Nature competitions. It may seem early to be discussing this, but the NW rounds will probably be held very early in 2015 (if not before the end of 2014) as the National Finals will be held in February 2015, and one of the points of the Regional rounds is to select images to go forward to the Finals. From what I have seen of the images submitted to the motivational themes we have more than just a few members whose images would be hard beaten in the regional rounds. We missed our chance this year by not being prepared in advance, so let's take this opportunity to showcase our club!

Finally a reminder of the motivational themes for the rest of the year:-

• October - Trees
• November - Hedgerows
• December - Portraits 

With the onset of autumn, now may be a good time to be thinking about trees and hedgerows if you haven't already taken pictures. The autumn fruits are now in the hedgerows, and I've even seen some trees starting to take on their autumn colours.

July Club Meeting & Motivational Slideshows

The next meeting of Rainbow Camera Club will be held on Thursday, 10th July, in our usual venue of The Cabin (beside the football field), Rossinver, Co Leitrim from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

At this meeting Boyle-based photographer Tony Murphy will be giving us a talk and presentation about the early life of Fr Frank Browne, one of Ireland's most famous photographers. In particular he will talk about the photographs Fr Browne took of the Titanic on its maiden voyage between Southampton and Queenstown (now called Cobh) in 1912. 

Please try to get along to this meeting if you possibly can, as this is our first outside speaker, and it would be a shame if he turned up to talk to a small number of people.

Stern View of Titanic (Fr Frank Browne)

MOTIVATIONAL THEMES

The motivational theme for next week's meeting is PETS. Members may interpret this theme in any way they see fit, and all members are encouraged to submit up to four images on this theme, taken since the January 2014 meeting (9th January 2014), for inclusion in the slideshow after the break at this month's meeting.

Please email your photographs to this address (rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com). If at all possible resize your images so that they are 1024 pixels on their longest edge, and make sure that they are sent by midnight on Tuesday 8th July.

The slideshow from last month's meeting (Theme: Colours) has now been uploaded to the club's YouTube page and can be viewed here.

Finally, a reminder that there will be no club meeting in August, and that the remaining motivational themes up to the end of the year are as follows:-

• September - Architecture
• October - Trees
• November - Hedgerows
• December - Portraits