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Society Exhibition Review It was with some pride that the exhibition was staged in my home village of Welwyn. Visitors came from all over the country, including London, Essex, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Wales. We even had visitors from the Czech Republic. The exhibition comprised of 450 pictures from 46 photographers representing 53 of the 84 countries in which the Society has members. It also had many hundreds more pictures and video presentations running through the weekend as a On Screen presentation. The quality of the images submitted by members was high and achieved the aim of showing the variety of subjects and scope of the society. So when we begin the event, the hall is almost empty and at 9am is a very daunting place to be standing. The chairs, tables and piano are first removed, then the display panels are unceremoniously dumped on the floor. To start the show the event for me began on Friday but I actually cheated by bringing the display boards the previous evening and off loaded them into the hall. I suppose the event really started in January, but now was the main event. Monday to Thursday was taken up in arranging the logistics of getting everything to the venue and packing the car in a proper sequence. No point putting the display boards in first then everything else on top. Website = photosociety.net Page 4 email = magazine@photosociety.net
From past experience I am aware that time is not on my side, confronted with the prospect of setting up alone, time is important. It takes three hours to set up the displays, modify the panels where necessary and making the presentation right for the event. By the close of day one, four of the five speakers had withdrawn, the supplier of the motorbike for the reception studio had forgotten all about it in spite of reminders. This was the basic layout which was later modified. We try and keep good space between the displays to stop the bottle necks as people gather in their droves to view a particular image. At noon Geoff Bowers arrived to help. Normally it would take seven and a half hours to put up the 450 pictures, based on one picture and label every 60 seconds, with Geoff’s help we reduced that to three hours. Day two, or the first day of the event. Arrived at 8am with Gary to discover that Peter from Magneflash had been there since 7am. But we applied the finishing touches to the hall and got the tea urn going. 9am, in eager anticipation we open the doors to allow the multitude to enter and absorb the culture of the event. At 10am Wendy and her helpers arrived with the two models and tea was served. Although we did have to rescue one of the helpers from the officious librarian. By this time the visitors started pouring in, of course that could have been the rain, but we did have some people in the hall as well. Once the display was set up, we could unload the car, as though on cue, Gary Bridger arrived to lend a hand. Once off loaded, Geoff went home and Gary and I finished setting up the rest of the event with the studio, sales tables and refreshments. End of the longest day. Wendy was so rushed off her feet she reverted to her buggy. The strain of the weekend proved to much for the buggy which broke down as we got home on the last day. Website = photosociety.net Page 5 email = magazine@photosociety.net
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