65th Annual General Meeting Lymington Camera Club Phoenix Room on - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AGENDA 1. Apologies for Absence 2. Chairman’s opening remarks 3. Approval of the Minutes of the 64th A.G.M. 4. Matters Arising 5. Officers Reports

• Hon. Treasurer
• Hon. Programme and Competition Secretary

6. Election of Officers for 2016 / 2017 6A.

• Hon. Auditor

7. Any Other Business 8. Chairman’s Closing Remarks

65th Annual General Meeting – Lymington Camera Club Phoenix Room on Thursday 26th May 2016 at 19.30 hours

Comments on Accounts

Financial Year Ending (FYE) 29th February 2016

• Receipts

– Subscriptions ↓ reduction in membership from 44 to 39 – Visitor Fees ↓ lack of advertising to special interest groups – Teas / Coffees ↑ two additional meetings last season + increase to 50p

• Payments

– Hire of Hall ↑ includes 3 additional months – Feb15, May15 & Mar16 – Insurance ↓ excludes Equipment, included in current Financial Year(FY) – Affiliation Fees ↑ refund of £81 re: SCPF due current FY – Speakers & Judges ↑ two extra indoor meetings last season – Exhibition Fees ↑ entering PDIs in to Annual Salisbury Exhibition

• Balance Sheet

– Covered running costs

• Conclusion

– Require healthy membership c.40 & ↑ Visitor Fees to cover increasing costs – No change to Subscriptions, Visitor Fees, Teas/coffees – Subscription payment via electronic transfer successful and offered again

External Competitions

Southern Counties Photographic Federation (SCPF)

SCPF LEAGUE

(8 clubs – 8 images)

2nd in Div5 – PDIs

• Promotion to Div4

next season 4th in Div3 – Prints

• ‘Leopard at Spotted

Deer Kill’ selected for inter-fed Exhibition

SCPF Salisbury Exhibition

(35 clubs) Open to the Public Entries representative of the work of the club =13th – PDIs (8 images)

• Louis Rumis, ‘Great White

Egret Feeding’ scored 10/10

• Phil Beard, ‘Snowdonia’

scored 9.5/10

? – Prints (6 images)

• Not placed or any images

winning awards

SCPF CHAMPIONSHIPS (29 clubs – 15 images) =11th – PDIs

• Chris Irvine & Maria

Leekblade scored 14/15

• Maria’s image ‘No

Sleep Tonight; awarded Judges Choice Medal

23rd – Prints

• Consistent scoring but

no ‘big hitter’s NB: In Future, members belonging to more than one club are responsible for ensuring an image is not entered into the SAME COMPETITION more than once (previous and/or current year)

‘Aim: To Improve Our Members’ Photography by Competing Against Other Clubs’

Internal Competitions

• 6 Monthly Competitions – 360 different images assessed

– 183 Prints – 207 PDIs (including 1 ‘guillotine’ competition) – 32 of 39 Club Members Entered Images (82%)

• Average Score = 8.3 with 52 Seals Awarded, Ave 65 images/comp
• Breakdown:

Intermediate Advanced

– Members Entering / Ave 14 / 11 images 18 / 13 images – No PDIs/Ave Score/Seals 91 / 8.03 / 11 116 / 8.35 / 18 – No Prints/Ave Score/Seals 61 / 8.46 / 11 122 / 8.36 /12

• SCPF Judging feedback being introduced – looking at best way to

implement this next season – will update in September

• Future? Member Survey Results – Rick
• Thanks to support team – Mark, Russ, Paul Berkeley, Jim & Club

members for entering their images

1st Phil Beard – Poppy Woods 3rd Maggie Magee – A Warm Welcome 2nd Paul Berkeley - Dinnertime 4th Sue Berkeley – Girl with Ponies PLACED BoY PDIs

PLACED BoY PRINTs 1st Phil Beard – Lull Before the Storm 1st (M) Maggie Magee – A Walk in the Mist 2nd Louis Rumis– Holiday Flower Sellers 2nd (M) Pauline Thornton – Roof Lines 3rd Maria Leekblade – Jar of Weeds 4th Karen Coller – Bird Strike

Intermediate Winner Maggie Magee 84.5

2nd Karen Coller 84 3rd Michael Lee 82

Monthly Competitions (top 9 Images)

Advanced Winner Phil Beard 89.5

2nd Catherine Dashwood 86.5 3rd Mark Lanigan 85.5