CAMERA NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1055, 25 January 1913, Page 4

CAMERA NOTES.

[By “Focus.”]

It is with some little regret that I have to mention the postponement of the Camera Club’s meeting that was to have been held on Thursday evening last, owing to the attendance being insufficient to warrant the speaker for the evening wading through a somewhat lengthy address. The postponed meeting will be held in a fortnight’s time.

It is to be hoped that this Club will not meet the same fate as has occurred to other local societies, but that with the advent of late autumn and winter, and consequently longer evenings, the attendances will increase, and that the Club will be put ou a sound financial basis and possess a vigorous membership. Winter evenings are essentially lecture evenings, and are devoted to such by the senior photographic societies in this country and the Old Laud. The long evening period of the year is generally devoted to the review of prints and negatives made during the summer, lantern lectures, demonstrations, etc., but are cancelled at the approach of summer again. Should a repetition of Thursday night’s postponement occur, it might be deemed wise to postpone all meetings until after Easter, at which time the busy period at present experieuced will give way to more leisure, wheu members will find it more convenient to attend these demonstration and lecture evenings. THE AUTUMN SHOW. Amateurs should not lose sight of the fact that the Foxton Horticultural Society are offering a generous list of prizes in the photographic class ot the Autumn Show, to be held early in March next- In the Spring Show of 1913 there were no entries made in this class, but the attraction of substantial prizes should be responsible for a fair number of exhibits in future, while a good public display of artistic photographs should have a stimulating effect on camera work locally. The Camera Club wisely made a recommendation to the Horticultural Society, at the suggestion of Dr Adams, that the prize money be allotted to three distinct sections—landscape or riverscape, portrait or figure study, and animal study. The prizes have been alloted as follow: Landscape or riverscape, Dr Adams’ special prize of 10s 6d j portrait or figure study, Dr Adams’ special prize of 10s 6d ; animal study, the Sociely’s special prize 10s 6d, The judging will be placed in the competent hands of Mr Elliott, of Palmerston North, aud it has been deemed necessary on this account to have all competition prints placed in the hands of the Society’s secretary by February 26th, in order that they may be forwarded to Palmerston forjudging aud returned before the date of the Show—March sth.