Adventure photography is a challenging niche at the best of times, working in often dangerous conditions to capture the perfect shot whilst ensuring you and your companions don’t end up injured or dead in the process is usually par for the course. When these pursuits are taken from the caves and mountains and into the cities, factories and infrastructure that keeps modern life ticking over, the added overhead of keeping yourself unseen and out of trouble makes for an unique and understandably, rarely talked about form of photographic process.

In this talk, Max will take you on a tour of his global adventures and photography. From the catacombs of Odessa to the abandoned stations of the London Underground. From the lost Soviet outposts in the high arctic to the freight train hobos of North America. From secret tunnels behind the Niagara Falls, to the wonders of the ancient world and a lot humourless men with kalashnikovs thrown in for good measure.

Max is coming to the hall to deliver this.

As always new members are welcome.

It is with enormous pleasure that we welcome back to our club The Companions of the Longbow for our first live photo shoot for quite some time. As well as the Companions, members of the College Of Chivalry will also be attending.

As always new members are welcomed at club meetings.

Charge your batteries and bring your cameras – this will be a good one.

This week’s meeting was due to be a presentation by Ken Holland. Unfortunately, due to an urgent medical appointment he is now no longer able to make it.

He offers his sincere apologies and we will hope to see him next year.

Fear not, Jeff our projections secretary is going to give us a talk on postprocessing and workflow using Adobe Lightroom followed by a question and answer session.

We also have Terrick giving a demonstration of how to mount prints and cut the mounts. He will also demonstrate double mounting which can really make a difference to the presentation of your prints and maybe give you an edge over the opposition in competition.

If there is time, we will also look at some examples of street photography and monochrome images to give ideas and guidance of our future competition.

Look forward to seeing you all in the hall on Thursday.

This Thursday is our first Print Competition of the season and for a couple of years on the subject of Flora & Fauna. Here are the Group A and B winners from the Projection Competition last year.

Can these images be bettered in print? Join us at St Thomas’s Church Hall at 7:30pm to find out, and as always new members are welcome. Our judge for this competition is Eddy Lane ARPS DPAGB EFIAP APAGB.

This week’s meeting is a talk by Chris Bigg talk entitled “Bristol for the Taking” Chris has been a photographer and local historian for many years and has documented many places and buildings in Bristol.  His talk charts his experiences and shows us some of those places that now no longer exist.

We had planned and hoped that Chris would make it to us in hall Thursday, but due to health reasons which are preventing him from driving, it will be another hybrid meeting in the hall and on Zoom.

Here is the Zoom link for those who cannot make it to the hall:

Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club 10/11/2022 from around 7:10pm

Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime

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New members are welcome to come along to the hall or join the meeting via Zoom

Our speaker this week in the hall is Tony Cooper, his presentation charts the life and work of Don McCullin, who is arguably the finest British Photographer alive today. Don is most noted for his war photography and images of urban strife.

Thursday evening is also the deadline for our first print competition of the season (Flora and Fauna). Please bring along your mounted prints (see Competition Rules) or contact the Print Secretary Rob Dyer (printsec@trowbridgecc.uk) if you are unable to attend – other arrangements can be made.

New members are always welcome.

Our Speaker this week in the hall is Dave Bathard FRPS AWPF and his presentation is entitled “Mono Print Showcase”.

David became fascinated with photography almost thirty years ago, so he joined Frome Selwood Photographic Society. As a club photographer, David has embraced all that the photographic clubs have to offer and for most of that time has either been Program Secretary of the club or Chairman.

David has sort further inspiration by becoming a member of the Royal Photographic Society and by progressing through the Distinctions program, until he gained his Fellowship in Applied Photography. In 2015. Dave has also gained his Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation.

New members are welcome to attend this talk. We meet at St Thomas’s Church Hall at 7:30.

The closing date for the first print competition (Flora and Fauna) is 3rd November. Please bring your mounted prints along on the 3rd Nov, or contact Rob Dyer (printsec@trowbridgecc.uk) to make alternative arrangements if you will not be attending the hall on the 3rd November.

This week is our first Projection Competition of the season with an Open subject. The images below were the Group A and Group B winners from last year.

Who will be the winners this time around? Join us in the hall (see map) to find out, and as always new members are welcome to come along. Our judge for this competition is Peter Crane ARPS.

Mac Chivers – Modern & Post-Modern Photography

There was a profound change in the photography in the early part of the 20th century which began in Paris then spread around the world. This has now been called the ‘Modern’ period. During this time many new genres had their beginnings and subsequently many others followed. Before this the only recognised artistic genre was ‘Pictorilism’. Looking at over a hundred images, Mac’s presentation examines the change point in some detail then moves on chronologically through more recent genres into the present.

Once again, the presentation will be in the hall with Mac ‘Zooming in’ from Bideford. Members who are unable to get to the hall can still join the Zoom meeting (details below). We managed to resolve some technical difficulties with the Zoom session last week, so using a much newer laptop the AV quality of the presentation should be much better and we may even be able to record the session if the presenter allows it.

As always, new members are welcome.

Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club

Time: Oct 13, 2022 19:30 London

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This Thursday’s presentation is from Thomas Peck entitled The Photographic Sublime.

Photojournalist Thomas Peck (https://www.thomaspeckphotography.com) shows how the traditions of the Sublime influenced early landscape photographers through to the modern day. With examples from painters like Turner & Caspar David Friedrich & photos from Carleton E Watkins to M Kenna to S Salgado to A Adams to H Sugimoto, plus the author’s own pictures. A fascinating insight into a cultural trend which is sure to provoke some debate, especially when we look into the future at how photography and the Sublime might interact in the 21st century.

The presentation will be in the hall (see map), but the presenter will attend via Zoom projected using the club laptop and projector, members who are unable to get to the hall this week can still  join the zoom meeting (details below). This is the first time we have attempted this, but it has great potential for getting speakers like Thomas who would not normally be able to present to Trowbridge due to his remote location. As always, new members are welcome to come along.

Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club. Meeting 6 October 2022

Time: Oct 6, 2022 19:00 Greenwich Mean Time

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A reminder for members that Thursday is also the closing date for the first competition of the season. It’s an Open Competition for projection images. Please send to Jeff the projections secretary – projectionsecretary@trowbridgecc.co.uk. If you are a new paid up member and have not received a membership number yet, please contact me(reply to this mail). We will allocate a number to use for this competition.