| Well,
not so much a win as an award!
Yes! - The Ivybridge
& District Camera Club is celebrating today after
receiving a grant of £4,250 from the National
Lottery’s Award for All programme.
The grant is
to provide a digital projector, computer, software and
various display aids, which will enable the group to
provide training courses in digital imaging techniques.
Ivybridge &
District Camera Club Secretary David Rayner said: “We
are thrilled to get this award today. For a group like
ours this is a large sum of money - and it will enable
us to help many photographers who are changing over
from traditional film photography to digital working,
as well as the many new members we have recruited who
are undertaking creative photography for the first time.”
“We’ve
worked hard to develop the project and bring the Lottery
application to fruition. Now it’s time for the
real work to start.”
The group intends
to use the equipment in a number of ways. The main thrust
of the project is to hold a series of practical evenings
at Bittaford Community Hall. These evenings will be
used to train members of the Club a whole range of issues
from taking photographs through enhancement of images
to digital printing and presentation of their work.
The club hopes
members of the community at large will also be able
to benefit. These practical sessions will be open to
visitors and potential members in the same way as normal
club evenings are.
David Rayner
said: “We may make people work hard though. Everyone
will be expected to have access to a computer at home
and to undertake projects to bring back for evaluation
at the next session.”
“The sessions
will vary in complexity though. Some photographers owning
digital cameras for the first time may at first only
be interested in printing out family snapshots. We don’t
want people to think you have to be an expert photographer
to take part in our practical sessions - or to join
our Camera Club.”
“Our community
is so lucky to live in such a picturesque part of England.
We live with one foot in the surf of Devon’s beautiful
coastline and the other on the rugged slopes of Dartmoor.
What better inspiration do we need to get out and enjoy
to fresh air? The hobby of photography is just the thing
to get us out there enjoying life to the full.”
The group will
also use the digital projector at various events such
as their ‘open day’ on the 9th May to project
rolling ‘slide shows’ of images that have
been entered into digital competitions. It is hoped
that when the new Ivybridge Library complex is completed
the Club will be able to make a number of exhibitions
and presentations to the public at this venue too.
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Members
of the Ivybridge & District Camera Club celebrate
their award of £4,250 from the National
Lottery’s Award for All programme.
Front row from left to right: David Rayner, secretary;
Brian Scown, town councillor; Dorothy Watson,
honorary president and widow of founder member,
Bill; Keith Miller, chairman; Pat Hexter, long-standing
member; Keith Mullin, founder member and competition
secretary. Photograph taken by Keith Mason, treasurer. |
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