lacash
04-14-2009, 09:06 PM
Hello everyone!!
We would like to thank all those who attended the meeting last night. We had thirteen people in attendance.
An overview and slideshow of our last outing to Carova was given by those who attended the outing. Our May outing will be on May 9, 2009 at Merchant's Millpond State Park. We will meet at 8am in the parking lot for the canoe rentals. Lori Cash will send out an email with directions and map for the outing to the OBX mail list. Due to concerns and confusion regarding bad weather forecasts on scheduled outing days, it was decided that if bad weather is in the forecast for the day of an outing, Lori will send out an email by 8pm the night before the outing that will state whether or not the outing will take place or be rescheduled for another time.
Our two overnight outings to Portsmouth Island and Chincoteague were discussed. The Portsmouth Island/Ocracoke trip is scheduled for October 23-24 with 15 rooms blocked out for a rate of $79.00/night at the Anchorage Inn in Ocracoke. A boat service is being explored to transport members from Ocracoke to Portsmouth Island on Saturday, October 24, 2009 as well as use of ATV tours or drop off. A headcount of members interested in attending will need to be collected to determine the rate that the boat service will charge. Reservations at the Anchorage Inn have to be made by telephone. The number to the Anchorage Inn is 252-928-1101, and their website is www.theanchorageinn.com. Also, 10 rooms have been blocked out at the Refuge Inn in Chincoteague, Virginia for the rate of $92/night. The Chincoteague trip is scheduled for Nov 20 and 21, 2009 and will coincide with the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge's Waterfowl Week in which the wildlife loop road will be open to vehicular traffic from 9am to dusk. Also, on this weekend there is usually a large amount of snow geese arriving at Chincoteague NWR. The website for the Refuge Inn is www.refugeinn.com, and their telephone number is 888-257-0088 or 757-336-5511. When making reservations to either hotels, please mention CNPA for the special rate.
The OBX Region's first quarterly photo contest was held. We had a total of 18 images, and it was hard to choose winners as all the images were great. However, winners were voted by the members in attendance. Grayson Via won 1st place with his scenic picture of Lake Mattamuskeet in Rain, Eve Turek won 2nd place with her image of a purple gallinule, and Dan Waters won 3rd place with his image of a wren. Congratulations to all the winners. For now, the winning images will be displayed as rotating images on the OBX website cover page for the month of May. We will resume the random cover page photo drawing for the month of June's cover page. Lori Cash is working on adding a contest page for winning images and an archive of past winners to the OBX website. Our next quarterly contest will be in July 2009. Details, deadline and topic of contest will be announced soon.
Our next meeting will be held on May 11, 2009 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Dare County Library in Kill Devil Hills. Lori Cash will send out emails announcing the next meeting to the OBX mail list and will update the OBX calendar on the CNPA website with info about May's outing and meeting. The program for our next meeting will be a "show and tell" with each member bringing in five images on a flash drive, DVD or CD that represents their style and interests and having 5-10 minutes to talk about their images and their photography interests.
Hope to see you at the next outing.
We would like to thank all those who attended the meeting last night. We had thirteen people in attendance.
An overview and slideshow of our last outing to Carova was given by those who attended the outing. Our May outing will be on May 9, 2009 at Merchant's Millpond State Park. We will meet at 8am in the parking lot for the canoe rentals. Lori Cash will send out an email with directions and map for the outing to the OBX mail list. Due to concerns and confusion regarding bad weather forecasts on scheduled outing days, it was decided that if bad weather is in the forecast for the day of an outing, Lori will send out an email by 8pm the night before the outing that will state whether or not the outing will take place or be rescheduled for another time.
Our two overnight outings to Portsmouth Island and Chincoteague were discussed. The Portsmouth Island/Ocracoke trip is scheduled for October 23-24 with 15 rooms blocked out for a rate of $79.00/night at the Anchorage Inn in Ocracoke. A boat service is being explored to transport members from Ocracoke to Portsmouth Island on Saturday, October 24, 2009 as well as use of ATV tours or drop off. A headcount of members interested in attending will need to be collected to determine the rate that the boat service will charge. Reservations at the Anchorage Inn have to be made by telephone. The number to the Anchorage Inn is 252-928-1101, and their website is www.theanchorageinn.com. Also, 10 rooms have been blocked out at the Refuge Inn in Chincoteague, Virginia for the rate of $92/night. The Chincoteague trip is scheduled for Nov 20 and 21, 2009 and will coincide with the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge's Waterfowl Week in which the wildlife loop road will be open to vehicular traffic from 9am to dusk. Also, on this weekend there is usually a large amount of snow geese arriving at Chincoteague NWR. The website for the Refuge Inn is www.refugeinn.com, and their telephone number is 888-257-0088 or 757-336-5511. When making reservations to either hotels, please mention CNPA for the special rate.
The OBX Region's first quarterly photo contest was held. We had a total of 18 images, and it was hard to choose winners as all the images were great. However, winners were voted by the members in attendance. Grayson Via won 1st place with his scenic picture of Lake Mattamuskeet in Rain, Eve Turek won 2nd place with her image of a purple gallinule, and Dan Waters won 3rd place with his image of a wren. Congratulations to all the winners. For now, the winning images will be displayed as rotating images on the OBX website cover page for the month of May. We will resume the random cover page photo drawing for the month of June's cover page. Lori Cash is working on adding a contest page for winning images and an archive of past winners to the OBX website. Our next quarterly contest will be in July 2009. Details, deadline and topic of contest will be announced soon.
Our next meeting will be held on May 11, 2009 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Dare County Library in Kill Devil Hills. Lori Cash will send out emails announcing the next meeting to the OBX mail list and will update the OBX calendar on the CNPA website with info about May's outing and meeting. The program for our next meeting will be a "show and tell" with each member bringing in five images on a flash drive, DVD or CD that represents their style and interests and having 5-10 minutes to talk about their images and their photography interests.
Hope to see you at the next outing.