For club members that weren’t present for the first Zoom meeting of the season last night, this is a reminder that subscription fees are now due, for those that have not already paid, and that the first digital competition takes place on 30th September – the category is Open.

Images will need to be submitted no later than Thursday 16th September and you also need to have paid your subscription fee to enter. Entries to be emailed to projsec@trowbridgecc.uk as normal.

A great introduction to the season by our old friend Clive Greenland. The title of the talk says it all really.

We are having a photographic display of members images in the Shires this Saturday (21st August). Come along and say hello, and see what our members get up to know in their free time. We would be happy to discuss anything about photography and the club, and if you like what you see, you may wish to join us when we start a new season on the 9th September. We look forward to seeing you.

Our session on the 17th was planned to be out Christmas Party. Sadly we can’t go and play skittles and eat fish and chips together this year. We will be having the usual Zoom meeting, but with Christmas flavour.

Fez Parker will be with us to review pictures submitted for the happiness competition, and Andrew Leach will be presenting a Video on his trip to Iceland.

Finally we are all photographers. So here’s a challenge: Photographing Festive Food – We can’t all go out together and eat, so let’s take pictures instead.

Probably none of us have tried food photography as a subject. The original idea for this, was to photograph mince pies in an entertaining or amusing way. This might prove to be a bit limiting, let’s face it you can have too many mince pies at Christmas, so send in your amusing or entertaining images of festive food. There are no prizes we will just look, discuss and enjoy the results. Pictures in the usual projections format to: projectionsecretary@trowbridgecc.co.uk.

This week (Thursday 10th Dec) we have two of our members, Phil Jones and Lora Bennett present an evening of their photography, interests and influences.

Phil’s talk will include images like this fabulous example by live concert photographer by Ross Halfin.

Lora will take us on journey through her amazing images of Urban exploration.

The speaker this week (3rd December) will I’m sure appeal to many of our members who have a passion for wildlife photography. Davis Boag will present “The World of a Wildlife Photographer”. This entertaining lecture spans 35 years of photography and takes us to 5 continents.

This week (26th November) is our second projection competition. Mike Martin, is our judge for a somewhat different slant on camera club competitions where members have been tasked to submit images which depart from what are normally considered the rules of photography. It should be interesting to see what he makes of our efforts! I’m sure we will have shaken up convention and in the process maybe learned a bit more about this art of picture taking, even if it’s just what not to do.

We are very excited to announce that our speaker this week 19th November will be photographer and author Robert Harvey ARPS EFIAP CEnv CSci MCIWEM
Robert will be presenting “Photographing Wiltshire” the subject of his latest book.
Wiltshire’s landscape encompasses quintessential scenes; whale-backed chalk hills, exquisite Cotswold villages, England’s finest landscape garden and quirky white horses, together with the world’s largest and most famous stone circles. There is much to delight the photographer here In this talk, accompanying his book of the same title, Robert will share its secrets

We continue our season this Thursday (12th November) with a very special guest speaker, Fran May. Fran’s first appointment came from The Brooklyn Museum, documenting the Valley of the Kings in Egypt Fran worked for the British Museum and The Sunday Times Magazine as well as on documentary projects in Africa. While at the Royal College of Art she documented the East End of London under the watchful eye of her personal tutor, the famous photographer Bill Brandt. Later work included the creation of corporate images for investment banks, law firms, publishers and scientific research companies. This is an engaging look back at Fran’s rich and varied career.

As those of you who heard the presentation last Thursday will know, our good friend Fez Parker signed off by issuing the club with a challenge to work on during lockdown.

From Fez:
“I would like one image only from each member to reflect happiness. It may seem like an easy subject but to really portray it in a still picture will challenge people.

If we set a deadline date of the 3rd of Dec, the day lockdown ends with a judging results to be announced at your December meeting or a special meeting.

I intend to include one other person to judge this, Chris North my ex-navy mate who is a top photographer based in Yorkshire.

The prize is a 4 hour course on hand printing black and white, the winner can bring their own negatives or I will provide them with top “virgin” negatives that have never been printed before”

We will aim to include the results at out Christmas meeting on 17th December by inviting Fez as our special guest.

Kevin has kindly agreed to coordinate this special competition so entries to him please chairman@trowbridgecc.uk

Please make sure you include your membership number in the file name of your image.

As members have been asked to only submit one entry which can be mono or colour, normal file naming conventions don’t apply. I suggest something like, happiness_xxx where xxx is your membership number.