An interesting departure from the normal this week. Please take part if you can.

Members,Our session this week, 25th February, is hosted by Committee Members Nick Krainc and Kevin Crosbie .Nick will share a selection of images taken by his Father-in-Law, taken during the 60s when he worked at the Woomera Rocket Range in Australia.Kevin will present to us his unique take on Macro Photography.So, a varied programme that we hope will entertain and inform.

Our next meeting on Thursday 18th February will feature a presentation entitled “Technique and Creativity in Night Photography” . Our speaker for the evening will be the extremely talented Professional Photography Tutor Nigel Forster from The Creative Photography Experience. This will be a unique and interesting evening that I am sure will appeal to many of our members who have already tried Night Photography or would like to give it a try. Another evening not to be missed !!

For next Thursday we have something very special for our members:-Together Steve & Jen are Sleepy Robot Photography!Based in Llanelli, South Wales, they have been working together for over 8 years. They pride themselves in not following convention & have been learning their craft to create unique portrait photography that has a twist from the norm!

Steve says;“Combining fashion and beauty photography to form high quality photographic art, we hope we are different! We can be found spending as much time creating props, sets or in post production as actually photographing. The result we hope is creative, unique with a little bit of wow! We hope you like our imaginative stories.Hopefully on Thursday we can share that through our talk about working on weekly themed shoots, playing with different materials to make props, and finish with some images and our journey about working with ballet dancers.”

This week is the architecture competition with our Judge Gary Shinner LRPS

For our next club meeting on 21st January we are trying something a bit different.

The club now has access to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Portal and the PAGB Recorded Lecture Service library.

The Programme Secretary has selected a title from the Canon EOS library of lectures that is certain be of interest to a wider audience not just Canon users.

The lecture is called “The Art of Back and White”

The presentation runs for 110 minutes, so breaks will be inserted by the Zoom Host who will be running the Lecture from a DVD.

Breaks will allow us to ensure the technology is working and gather some thoughts about the whole process. A test was carried out today (Wednesday) and it seems to work very well. This is a bit of an experiment both with the concept and the quality of the content. So please be honest in your feedback both during and after the session.

The last entry date for the Architecture Competition is Thursday 14th January.

entries to the projectionsecretary@trowbridgecc.co.uk

This week is the Annual General Meeting. Find attached the agenda, the minutes of last season’s meeting and this season’s accounts.

Please as many as possible attend, I don’t think it will be a particularly long meeting this year but we need your participation.

Look Forward to seeing you there.

Time: 14 January, 2021 19:30 Greenwich Mean Time
Every week on Thu, until April, 2020

Link: https://zoom.us/j/98403616170?pwd=MWNDU0lBcStjZWZYTFh0VEZYT01idz09

Meeting ID: 984 0361 6170
Passcode: 976471

Usual link 😊

Our first meeting of the new year is presented by Julian Elliot – A look at Japan’s architecture from the old to new.

Explore the old architecture of Japan to the newest. Starting in Himeji with its famous castle, going to Kyoto with its beautiful temples the talk ends in Tokyo with Blade Runner’esque architecture.

This is a very difficult year for camera clubs. The Trowbridge Camera Club Committee has been meeting to discuss, monitor, and formulate a plan for the club for the coming season. We believe that the club will not be able to hold physical meetings in the hall until at least after Christmas.

We do, however, intend to start the season virtually on September 3rd, with a welcome evening and presentation of members lock down images, together with a prize giving for last years’ competition winners. This will be conducted over the internet, using a Zoom connection. All members and new members will be welcome to participate. Zoom invitations will be sent out in advance of the date and will be free to join in on. Subsequent meetings will be on Zoom and for members only.

We already have an exciting programme planned for the coming season up until Christmas and more items will be added as the season progresses. Of course the content of the programme will depend to some extent on the number of members that renew and new members we can attract this season.

The subscriptions have been revised downwards this year to reflect loss of the final sessions last year. This seasons subscription will be £30 which we believe is very good value for money for what we have planned. Payment in the normal way will be more difficult, but we will still be able to accept cheques and cash addressed to the treasurer and you can now make electronic payments using bank transfer.

It is important that we control costs and have sufficient funds available in order to attract the type of speakers we already have lined up.To reduce any risk to the club programme, the Committee needs an indication of the number of existing members who are committed to rejoining.We have received numerous replies following the earlier email communication, but if you have not done so please contact Kevin ASAP (chairman@trowbridgecc.uk) to let him know if your intention is to continue with club membership. This will help enormously with our planning for next season.

Thank You