Who is happy to stand for re-election on the committee next year
For those happy to stand again, are they also happy to carry on with their existing roles
Do we have the balance right between providing a social experience versus a learning experience
Presence at the Revels this year
Agenda items from Margaret
the programme for next year – balance between formal competitions, speakers, and workshops
maintaining good social atmosphere
informal competitions
ideas for promoting membership
Decisions
Entire committee is prepared to stand again in their current roles
No increase in subs required next year
We need to identify successors for Vanessa, Rod and Ian next year
Next year’s program ideas:
Replace 2 member nights with topic focussed learning sessions:. Suggested topics:
Portraits – Ant/Alan
Dodge and Burn – Ant
Nature – Jeremy
Journey to obtaining a distinction – Steven and Susan
Landscapes – Rod
External speakers
Increase the number of high quality external speaker evenings.
A return to 22/23 level of expenditure approved
Returning to Zoom based speakers approved but via presentation in the hall only
Workshops
Bring your camera based workshops still important
Peer reviewing members photos needs to be included in the format – proposal that time is set aside during each workshop for reviewing images taken at the previous one
Actions
George – promote to members they should make 1600 x 1200 copies of comp entries as a matter of course
George – develop a roll of honour web page to celebrate members achievements in the current season
George – develop a web page to record the club’s progress in external comps
George – tell Ant when the Programme of Events changes
George – call for someone to organise the club’s Revels stand
George – ask members if they can distribute flyers
George – verify smartphone photography is not discouraged in anyway on the website
George – ask Parminder, Beverley and Saud where they discovered the club
Ant – enter Croxley into the camera club of the year competition
Ant – change the newsletter to comprise three consecutive weekly update editions followed by a longer monthly news update
Alan – develop a Portrait interclub competition format
Alan – evaluate if we can rerun David’s external photo competition
Vanessa – investigate options for advertising in libraries