Last night four members dusted off their slide images to take us on a journey back in time. I'm sure that there are some of us that were subjected to a bad slide show by friends of a latest holiday adventure, that click clack of the slide projector, as slides became stuck, placed in upside down, or simply out of focus, and those embarrassing poses. Thankfully, last night was not at all like that, the slide images shown to members were professionally taken, with a variety of film stocks, some giving bright vibrant colours, or more pastel shades. Richard Hildred began the evening with a medley of images of fungi, members had fun trying to identify some of the various fungi displayed. Chris Birchmore was on next with an amazing set of images taken around the Louth, and Lincolnshire Wolds. After the break, Graham Harrison showed many of his slide images from the Lake District, the images were of a high standard giving various views of the lakes, and surrounding scenery. Graham also showed some slide photos from various air shows he had visited, and he delighted me by showing an image of a Royal Air Force AEW Mk2 Avro Shackleton, in flight; WL765, this was an aircraft that I had worked on whilst serving in the RAF at Kinloss, and Lossiemouth. Last but certainly not least, Terry May gave an illustrated talk on the 22 mile Paston Way that passes through the Poppyland of north east Norfolk, taking in medieval churches, and pretty villages, many of the churches shown had a fascinating history which Terry outlined. Many thanks to the members taking the time to display their slides, it made for a very interesting evening.

Good Morning All Last week Janice Lusby gave us a presentation called "Around These Islands", Janice showed us photos she had taken on Skye, Jersey, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man and the Scillies. Janice had visited many locations on these islands and showed us places we had missed on our own travels, and her photographs showed great use of light and weather conditions. There is a report on our blog page. This week, Wednesday 11th November, we turn the clocks back to the age of the Transparency; Four members will be showing slides that they took in some cases many years ago. The following week is our PDIOTY competition (PDI of the year), entries to Harry as soon by a week this Sunday. The rules are on the website but if any new members are struggling to know what to put in just email Harry who will help you. Regards Graham

Last night members were treated to an excellent presentation by Janice Lusby, she took us on a photographic journey around the islands surrounding the British Isles.  Her photos took us around the isles of Skye, Anglesey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Jersey, and the Isles of Scilly. Janice's presentation evoked many memories of visiting some of these amazing islands, I've visited Skye twice and never seen anything of it because of heavy rain, and it was a sunny August on the Moray coast when we left!! The Isle of Man was another place of memories for me, taking the ferry from Liverpool, spending a week on the island, enjoying the steam railways, trams, and the beautiful waterfalls. I first visited the Isle of Wight when I was 18 years of age, in a Ford Consul, staying in a B&B in Ryde, watching the QE2 sailing out of Southampton Water from the car park at Ryde. I've visited the island a further 3 times since then and enjoyed riding the refurbished London Underground trains, and the steam railway at Smallbrook Junction. A visit to Anglesey on a short break went by in a blur, as my partner decided to buy me a surprise zip wire experience, over a quarry at 100mph!! It was a fascinating evening, many thanks to Janice on her well prepared presentation.

Yesterday afternoon's Inter Club PDI competition, was judged by Carol McNiven Young, of Rolls Royce, Derby. It was a closely run competition, with many excellent images, and a well done to all clubs who entered, there were only a few points between the top few clubs, with the difference expanding at the bottom of the leaderboard. The highest placed images from Louth were "Willow Emerald Damselfly" by Graham Harrison, and "Hidden Secrets" by Dave Turner both attaining 19 points. Lincoln took first place in the competition with 162 points, Louth tied joint 6th with Axholme on 150 points. The very well deserved judges choice of best image was "Ethereal" by Lee Dixon, of Cleethorpes.

Good Morning All We have got back from a week away staying in the Yorkshire Dales near Reeth. It certainly was all four seasons in one week arriving in a storm with the rivers in full flow and getting better as the week went on with a frost as we left. It was a very good week for walking and taking photographs. Reading the blog you had a good week last week, not sure why the N&EMPF print exhibition video was not finished ready for us. This week, Wednesday 4th November, Janice Lusby from NELPS is our speaker showing us "Around these Islands". The following week it is Retro night where we turn the clock back to the days of transparencies, it's done in the same form as mini lectures and time will depend on how many take part, if you can let me know if you would like to take part, I have myself and Richard Hildred so far. Today, Sunday the 1 st November it is the Inter club PDI competition at Nettleham village Hall starting at 2pm, Louth have entered so it would be good if some of us attend. Regards Graham

The planned event for the evening was to have been a showing of the N&EMPF Exhibition prints, but unfortunately the link for the prints was not available. Instead Harry, and I had both prepared a talk on our respective camera systems. Many regular readers of my musings will know that I had lost my photographic “mojo” earlier on in the year, I was reassessing my photographic style, and camera equipment to recover my enthusiasm, so it was that I sold all of my OM Systems cameras, and lenses, and unknown to most in the club bought a Canon EOS R7 APS-C camera, and 4 lenses as a complete kit. Learning a new camera system has made me reconnect with photography, and begin enjoying my hobby again. In the first half of the meeting last night I talked about my journey, my camera system, and showed some of the images taken with my new outfit. After the break Harry showed some of his excellent, and inspiring macro fungi images, taken with his Canon EOS R6, and a Sigma macro lens. It was an interesting evening, and hopefully everyone enjoyed the evening, and learned something about Canon mirrorless cameras.

Good Morning All The Autumn colours at Sedbergh was one of my entries which sum up the time of year. Last week at the club we held our monthly print competition, with the categories of "Mono" and "Open". There was a very good entry with 27 prints in each subject, well done to Derek Smith for a first in the Mono and Robin Begley for a first in the Open, all the results are on our website. This week, Wednesday 28th October, all being well, I am informed that the N&EMPF Exhibition print show was a bit behind schedule, it will hopefully be finished by now but if not, Derek will let us know, and we will do mini lectures instead. Derek, and Harry have prepared mini lectures on their favourite camera systems, if a couple of other members could prepare a mini lecture on the same theme that would be most helpful. The LPA POTY deadline date is nearly upon us; they are panels of three prints as we discussed last Wednesday. If you want to enter either attend the club PDI competition on 1 st November at Nettleton village hall or bring your prints in on Wednesday and hand them to a member who is going and will take them for you. Regards Graham

Our Society held a print competition last night, the set subject category was "Mono", whereby the prints were black and white, or single tone images. The "Open" category prints consisted of any subject of the authors choice, and the judge for the evening was Grahame Dunkin. It was an exciting competition, with 27 prints in each category, the standard was incredibly high, giving Grahame a difficult time of determining the points for each print and choosing the top three prints in each category. Grahame judges very well, he giving a relaxed, and helpful critique of each image. The website Competition page has been updated with the results of the competition. Our next meeting will be held on the 28th October, and should be a showing of the N&EMPF Exhibition prints, however if the Exhibition prints are not available, I would ask members to think about giving a talk on their "Favourite Camera Systems" just showing what they shoot with, and providing a few sample images.

Today was the LPA Battle finals day at Nettleham, it was the last one in its present form, and six clubs including Louth made the final. The judge was Alan Young from Rolls Royce camera club, Derby. Alan was quite straight to the point and as he said there were so many good prints in the competition, he wouldn't be marking low and would have quite a task giving scores to the best ones. Alan was quick to see anything he didn't think was right with the prints and was looking for more than just a record photograph. Louth had a very good start with our first three prints being held back, it then didn't go so well but we did have six hold backs altogether which were Sleeping-David Whitehouse 18 points, Morning sun Whitby-Dave Turner 18 points, Hairy shield bug-Graham Harrison 17 points, Evening light Chapel St Leonards -Tony Gaskins 17 points, Cosmos-Harry Kerman 17 points and Evening Light Whitby Harbour -Tony Gaskins 18 points. 1 st place - Axholme - 256 2 nd place - Cleethorpes - 255 3 rd place - Scunthorpe - 248 4 th place - Grantham - 246 5 th place - Louth - 244 6 th place - Lincoln - 242