The new season for Leigh Camera Club is well under way and the Thursday meetings are buzzing with ideas with quite a few new faces among the old stagers among the members.

On the opening night after a welcoming speech by chairman Tony Estcourt and an introduction to this year's committee and the jobs they do ranging from James Lambourn, who looks after the money through those hard working members, who prepare the hall for the meetings including setting up the correct projector or screens, to librarian Jean Sclater it was the slide presentation of the latest EAF Portfolio.

This is always controversial for the slides rarely do full justice to the prints particularly those in black and white and this year it was decided to dispense with the supplied commentary and let members have their say with comments on these so-called top pictures.

Week 2 seemed to go down really well with the new members for in a club evening those attending were given the opportunity of talking about their and other people's work and to pick up tips on subjects as varied as mounting prints for competitions to simple digital processing and printing.

What was soon apparent was his attention to detail and his keenness to return to his favourite locations most of them in the local area at different times of the year to get the pictures he really wanted.

It was also an example of how a good average club photographer could get a wider audience for his work by incorporating it into a lecture.

On the publicity front the club received a nice boost from an article written by the publicity officer about the new season and featuring Martin Connor's colour print Calm Dawn, which was voted the public's favourite picture in this year's annual exhibition.