Middlewich Shop-Wanting Group Photo Exhibition-YAH!!!

Birmingham Town Hall-November 2014- Venue for the Birmingham Community Gospel Choir-Charity Concert.

This is just an attention grabber for our members to know in good time. 

I have been approached by a new shop owner in Wheelock Street, Middlewich-Cheshire, for the 21st Group to provide sufficient photo materials to put on a good general exhibition. When TBA, but watch this space.

This combined venture will give some much needed publicity for the new shop owner and the group for more members to join.

Details will be announced when we get together, but there is quite a lot of wall space for photos /  canvases etc, and we may also be able to get an old PC ( I have one) that will run MS PowerPoint with member photos running a continuous photo presentation, with a small bit of advertising for the group in the shop window.

Group ideas back to myself as to how we can make this go well :)

Cliff

MARCH Monthly Member Meeting Photo Presentation

Photo by Cliff Astles-Warmingham Lane-Middlewich-Cheshire

Still WANTED ---Large numbers of your Photos!!

Group Member Update for Photographs :) :) :)

There are a number of good reasons to be out and about, as we get much better weather than is normal for this time of your, so here area few reminders, when taking some more photos.

INDEPENDENT FREE Newspaper.

As a GROUP, there has been a request from the Editor of this newspaper DIRECT to the group, to let them have ANY photos taken in and around Mid-Cheshire of buildings, parks flowers, churches, people so they can use the photos to show off where we live. In return, YOU could have your very own photos printed in the paper, with information about the group, and what we are doing together to help the group and local community. Therefore, please let me have your photos, with your name, where the photo was taken, what it is, and a Caption for each photograph.

I NEED YOUR PHOTOS!!

Warrington Guardian Series of Newspapers.

The local Guardian Series of Cheshire Newspapers have a similar request. However, they want you to send YOUR photos direct to the newspaper for publication of the better local shots. See the Guardian Newspaper series for information where to send you photos.

I NEED YOUR PHOTOS

21st Century Technology & Camera Group

Finally, I have already had photos provided by members of the TOPICS for this next months member photo presentation, but NEED MORE. 

Sunrise-Sunsets, plus Spring Flowers are the ones we require, plus of course photos from our afternoon out together at MARBURY PARK on Saturday afternoon 7th March, 2.00 till 4.00 pm.

It takes quite a while for myself to collate all of the photos and place these into a MS PowerPoint presentation for the monthly meeting, so don't delay, get those photos off  TODAY. Also, please remember to re-size them to be less that 500K per photo, as PowerPoint ONLY allow 25 megabyte for the whole presentation, so please keep them small, but high quality. :)

Please let me have your re-sized photos via Group e-mail at 21stctncg@gmail.com as soon as possible as I normally get a large number from our photo days out, and would like the others asap.

Thanks

Cliff

21st Group make the local Press, yet AGAIN!

Press Article from the local Guardian Newspaper this week, 27th Feb 2015

We are being treated very well by the local Middlewich & Winsford Guardian Newspaper, with thanks to Josh, the Middlewich and Winsford Guardian Reporter.

I do provide the information when we have something worthy to report, and Josh certainly makes sure we get our nose in somewhere, even though he was not able to use any of our photos, this time around. However, with such good press I feel sure this will allow for the group to gain more members, as this never fails when we have good press relations.

NOW-How about making more of the many photos the group take when we are on outings, or even your own photos when out and about. You will see from the nice photo above by Nick Jones, and their comments, they NEED MORE FROM YOU!!!

More for the GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER.

Get your own OUT and ABOUT photos sent in to the Guardian, and they will do their level best to try and get them printed. 

Try to make sure you also tell them you are a member of the 21st Group, as this will also give us some more, much needed press, and the more press we get, means more new members.

More photos of Mid-Cheshire for use by the INDEPENDENT Free Newspaper.

You can also help the group by getting your MID-CHESHIRE photos, of anything, anywhere, on any topic, sent to myself using the group e-mail of 21stctncg@gmail.com.

They have committed to myself to run a GROUP ARTICLE each month, letting the local community know who we are, what we do in Mid-Cheshire, and why!!

ALL we have to do is to get your Mid-Cheshire photos to myself, and until the Web Page takes over this task, I will then send your photos to the Newspaper EDITOR, direct. She will then use the photos in their monthly Newspaper, which will again help the group mature and gain new members.

I have had some, BUT NEARLY ENOUGH, so get out and about with your digital camera, and get these good photos to myself !!!!

This is just a fantastic opportunity for the 21st group, so please try not to waste it :)

GOOD PHOTOS get the GROUP GOOD PRESS and NEW MEMBERS.

Cliff

21st GROUP-Focuses on Supporting the Community with Technology & Digital Camera Help.

Article in the INDEPENDENT Local Newspaper-FEB 2015

Hopefully, first of many press items featuring the 21st Century Technology & Camera Group.

Not 100% correct (would love to have 100 members at the group meetings :) ), but close enough.

This will give the group it's FIRST of many I am told!!

Our member photos will be featured each month with another write up of what we have done, and are doing for the local community with photos taken by our many members. Photos need to be sent to myself at first (requested on the previous BLOG), and then later if members continue to help the paper with more photos of  MID-Cheshire, they will continue to help the group with marketing of what we are doing, each month.

We will be changing the way we help the INDEPENDENT with photos, when Melody has completed her evaluation of software packages, in the near future. But, what we are dong now is AOK until, Mel's evaluation has been concluded.

Group Photos used in the INDEPENDENT Local Mid Cheshire Newspaper.

Photo by Ken Rane-River Dane in November-Croxton Lane Bridge, Middlewich-Cheshire.

Wonderful opportunity for members of the 21st Century Technology & Camera Group.

The Independent News Editor is planning to have a feature article on Mid-Cheshire each month. The article will contain photos taken by group members of beauty spots, interesting buildings and other features that have been taken in and around Mid-Cheshire.

The first pictures for this have already been sent to myself, and I have sent these on-wards for publication in the next issue of the Independent.

This new idea for the paper will publish photos by members, provided each photo is:-

A JPEG file type, of ideally between 4 or 5 megabyte in size

Has a photo identifier, ie where taken of what, by whom, with a suitable photo CAPTION.

Photos should, until we have this fully operational in the Group Web Page, be sent to myself, via the group  e-mail at 21stctncg@gmail.com. 

I will then do a compilation set of these photos and get these to the Editor of the Independent paper, in time for each months article and photographs, with the details as above for photos selected for use that month.

This is a GREAT opportunity for all the groups members to start to look around for good photo spots and buildings, and hopefully, your photos will feature in the papers feature articles on Mid-Cheshire.

The article will mention that photos have been provided by the 21st Century Technology & Camera Group, which as you all know is quite invaluable when it comes to group marketing, in order to get more members interested in being part of what we do together in the group.

DON'T miss this opportunity, they do NOT come along too often :)

Cliff

Member Update-WANTED-Group member photos of Mid-Cheshire / Cheshire.

Photo by Cliff Astles.

Original photo from Holly Holy Day-Nantwich-2015. Post processed using LR4/PICASA3. SEPIA Finish.

Local FREE paper the INDEPENDENT covering Mid-Cheshire, has expressed interest in being provided with Group Member photos from our FREE "Instructional Photo Outings" and any of  YOUR OWN Colour or Black & White shots taken whilst you are out and about in Mid-Cheshire, or even further afield, but ONLY Cheshire please.

They are planning on doing a new feature article about the our Group, what the aims of the group are, and our recent success in gaining so many new members etc.

They also wish to have a follow-up each month on the group progress / outings etc,  and have requested that photos taken by the group, would help them (and us :) ) to gain an excellent marketing opportunity for the group.

Therefore, to get this moving we need to help ourselves, and the INDEPENDENT, by providing them with photos of Mid Cheshire, and Cheshire which would be used to promote the groups activities to a far bigger audience in Cheshire, and for the paper a continuing updated set of quality photos of our Cheshire, towns and villages.

This request for your best shots from our outings and when roaming free yourself, are initially required to be sent via the Group e-mail ( 21stctncg@gmail.com ) to myself. I will then select 10 to 20 to be sent to the INDEPENDENT free paper each month, leaving the final selection down to the paper, to compliment the monthly group feature article.

When we have finalised how we plan to have photos presented and displayed in the Group Web Page, we will then change this method of getting photos to myself, and then onward to the INDEPENDENT paper.

However, until that time please let me have your own "better shots" in FULL RESOLUTION, with who took the photo, where the photos was taken, when, and a two or three word CAPTION.

I will then hold all photos on my own Home PC in a specific Member Gallery for the INDEPENDENT.

This to me looks to be a fantastic opportunity for group members to show off your own newly found photography skills and creativity, and to show others great photos of our beautiful County of Cheshire.

Therefore, please get your cameras clicking away, and your shots to myself, so we can not only show our Cheshire community just what we have show of Cheshire, but will also act as a magnet for the group, to stimulate other residents to join our exciting, enthusiastic, and quickly growing group.

ONWARD and UPWARD

Cliff