February Meeting - Members Photos

A slideshow of the photographs that members submitted prior to the meeting of 14th February 2013 has been uploaded to the Rainbow Camera Club's facebook page and can be viewed here

There were some excellent photographs!

February Meeting

The next meeting of the Rainbow Camera Club will be on Thursday 14 February 2013, in The Cabin, Rossinver, Co Leitrim - from 8pm to 10pm. 

New members are always welcome. Ring Martin at the Ballagh Centre (00353 71 98 54030) or Pat Mullan (00353 (0)71 98 54405) for more details.

As suggested at the last meeting, if members would bring along their cameras on the night, we shall look at how to change settings on individual cameras during the first half of the meeting.

Members are invited to email up to three images - ideally photographs that you have taken recently - for inclusion in the slide-show of members' work that will be run in the second part of the session (after the break for refreshments).  I have already received submissions from a few members.

It would be helpful if you were to resize large images to no more than 1024 pixels wide if they are in landscape format - or no more than 800 pixels high if in portrait format. Don't worry too much at this stage if you are unsure how to do this.

Please email the images to  rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by midnight Monday 11th February at the latest. This is to give time for the setting up of the slideshow.

Hope to see you at the meeting!

Martin Cooke

(Club Secretary)

Rainbow Camera Club Meeting
Thursday 10 January 2013

Venue: "The Cabin" - Rossinver, Co Leitrim 

Time: 8:00pm to 10:pm 

Seventeen members turned up for the first meeting of 2013 of the Rainbow Camera Club. This included several new members.

The meeting opened with Pat Mullan, one of the club's founder members, giving a brief history of the activities of the club since its inception in June 2012, including details of photographic shoots and a visit in November to the Boyle Camera Club.

It was decided that we should organise a committee to co-ordinate the activities of the club going forward. After a lot of discussion the following people were co-opted as an initial committee:-

• Eileen McGuinness (Co Leitrim) - Chairperson 
• Martin Cooke (Co Leitrim) - Secretary 
• Tony Griffin (Co Cavan) - Treasurer 
• Tina Rock (Co Cavan) 
• Greta bb McMorrow (Co Cavan) 
• Hilary Carson (Co Fermanagh) 
• Seán Fox (Co Leitrim)

Some of the members present

(Seated L to R Treasurer, Chair, Secretary)

Tony Griffin and Eileen McGuinness agreed that they would meet on Friday 11 January in Manorhamilton and open an account with Manorhamilton Credit Union and deposit the club funds. Before the next monthly meeting the committee members would make enquiries regarding insurance costs and affiliation with the Irish and British Photography Federations, and report back to the general membership.

This business took quite a while and was followed by a ten minute break for refreshments.

After the break there was a brief discussion on the structure of our future meetings. It was agreed that they should generally be in two parts, with a ten-minute break in between. The first part would consist of an introductory greeting by the club chairperson, who would inform the members present on what would be happening that night. This would be followed by the main event of the evening, which might be a demonstration by one of the members, or a talk by a visiting photographer, or something similar. This would take us up to the break. After the break there would be a chat of maybe five or ten minutes on what's happening or planned to happen that might be of relevance to the members, followed by a slide show of members' photographs - with constructive comments.

The remainder of January's meeting was taken up with a slide show of photographs that members had emailed to Pat Mullan in the days before the meeting. Special thanks should be given to Jonas Dellow for his technical help during this slide show. There were some stunning photographs on view, and some of them can be seen on the RCC facebook page which can be viewed here.

Just one of many photos submitted

February Club Meeting

This will be held on Thursday, 14 February 2013, in "The Cabin", Rossinver, Co Leitrim from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.

Members are encouraged to provide up to three new photographs each, to be shown as part of the slide show on the evening.

Please email the photographs to rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com by Monday, 11 February. Ideally resize your photographs to a maximum of 1024 pixels on their longest edge before emailing them.

Welcome to the Rainbow Camera Club - a cross-border camera club set up in June 2012 to just "go out there" and have some fun, sharing ideas, experience and knowledge.

Most people's introduction to photography may have come as a Christmas or birthday present and - apart from the occasional use - the remainder of the camera's life is spent in the darkness of a drawer or cupboard. As a group the Rainbow Camera Club can shine some light on how to actually use the camera and open a whole new world to the members, with demonstrations, motivational competitions, exhibitions, and various outings and photographic shoots throughout the year.

Members of the club like to share their knowledge and make things fun for all involved. The cross-border  nature of the club is reflected in the fact that members currently come from Counties Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan, Leitrim, and Sligo.

New members are always welcome. To join you don't have to have an all-singing and all-dancing expensive camera, nor do you need to be an expert. For information on joining email rainbowcameraclub@gmail.com.

Our next meeting is in The Cabin, beside the GAA football field, Rossinver, Co Leitrim on the 10th January 2013 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. All welcome!

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