Please note that the Musselburgh Camera Club meeting this Thursday, 3rd December 2020 will start half an hour earlier at 7pm. The connection details are exactly the same.

We are starting earlier this week because we have some international guests who will be an hour ahead of us. Please come and join Hans van der Boom and Denise Gielen, who will be showing us their photographs from The Netherlands and elsewhere. You can find more about Hans and Denise on their web sites (you might have to ask your web browser to translate from Dutch to English on some pages):

• https://www.hansvanderboom.nl/blog/
• https://www.denisegielen.nl/

See you this Thursday.

P.S. Don’t forget to send your “nature and wildlife” images to George.

A reminder that this Thursday, 22nd October 2020, we will be having a joint meeting with members of members of Mölnlycke Fotoclubb, Gothenburg.  We will be meeting half an hour earlier than usual, at 7pm, to compensate for the later time zone in Sweden. The Zoom connection details are otherwise exactly the same.

Mölnlycke Fotoclubb members have prepared some of their images of Sweden to show us. Please bring along any images you would like to show them, either from our recent visit to Gothenburg or of interesting places in Scotland they might like to see when they are eventually able to visit us.

I look forward to our first international shared evening.

Dear member,

A reminder that we will be having our outdoor photoshoot round up tomorrow (24th September) at 7:30pm by Zoom teleconference. Select some photos you took on a recent visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. If you didn’t manage to visit the gardens this week, you can bring along some photographs from your own garden.

I won’t be sending a meeting invitation email this week. You should be able to reuse the same email I sent last week from now on (or use the meeting ID and password I showed on the screen during our first meeting).

See you all tomorrow evening.

Tomorrow we are having our Pecha Kucha evening. Here’s how it works for members who are unfamiliar with the evening:

• Choose 10 digital images you would like to show to other members. These can be images on any subject, and they don’t need to be your images. Examples can include holiday pictures, a new experimental technique you are trying, images from a photographer you admire or from a magazine you like, images seen on an “image of the day” web site, etc… New and interesting images which are completely different from what we normally see during competitions are encouraged!
• Save JPEG copies of your images onto a data stick and bring them along tomorrow evening. Make sure you name your files so they will display in the order you want (for example 1_first.jpg, 2_second.jpg, etc…). To make things easier on the night, it would help if you put all your images into a folder with your name.
• At the beginning of the night we will load all the images onto the club laptop and store them in separate folders. (Creating your own folder on the data stick will help.)
• When all the images are loaded and ready to go, we all take turns presenting our 10 images, spending no more than 20 seconds on each image so we can present as many as possible on the night. Images are shown in the order received.

I look forward to seeing what you bring along. Have fun choosing your images!