Making our Film

It was a joint decision by the 50+ group to make the film about food and gardens, with all members taking photos of their gardens and produce at various stages of growth; a selection of which were then used to show these aspects with the members doing the voice over. We hope you enjoy it! It is hoped that this brief film might encourage anyone seeing it to try gardening themselves - if only for health reasons.

You can always contact the Blog site with any queries. Hopefully we would be able to provide answers. We were very glad to have the assistance of Iestyn and Chloe doing the format and editing of photos and script.

Digital Photography Course

Our group was fortunate to obtain funding for a two day course on Digital Photography, taught by Rob Burns, who, with his partner, runs a Photographic Business ( Weddings etc.).
Most of us are very new to using digital cameras, and had very conservatively been using Automatic Modes. It was interesting to be introduced to other modes, and to learn the settings for Exposure Values, including Apertures, Sensitivity and Speed, and to realise how they related to Depth of field.
We spent some time making practical use of our cameras, and Rob was able to show us how to down load our pictures to a suitable Graphics manipulation programme. Picasa is one the ones available for free, and we were shown simpler manipulations such as cropping and colour enhancement. there are other Programmes which allow considerably more advanced enhancement.
We all enjoyed the course and the lively and amusing way in which it was presented.

Tregaron Lunch Club

On the 27^th February, 79 members attended the lunch. This was lower than usual due to illness.Our guest speaker was Gwyn Jones from Llanafan who gave us a talk on his recent safari trip to Africa. The talk and the film he showed us brought everything to life and made us wish that we were there with him. The lunch was excellent as usual and we must thank the staff of the Talbot Hotel for their hard work.
Next month which is the 26^th March 2008 we hope to have Alison Harwood as our guest speaker, and she will give a talk on “Deaf Awareness”. We will also have our usual annual competition, and this year it will be the best “Buttonhole”.

A little bit of general gossip about the lunch club area – The Talbot yard has finally been demolished, and whilst doing this a well was discovered there

Whilst preparing to install pavements for the Pontrhydfendigaid pedestrians a second world war bomb was discovered in a hedge. It was rather exciting to see all the Police, Firebrigade and the Bomb Disposal unit of the army in the small village. On a happy note, the bomb was safely detonated.