This week’s presentation is by Justin Quinnell on the subject of Pin Hole and Camera Obscura Design.

Justin is considered a world expert in pinhole photography and camera obscuras which he has taught for over 28 years throughout the world. He lectures part time at Falmouth University and his work includes: ‘Mouthpiece’ – inter mouth images, ‘Slow Light’, 6 month exposures and ‘Awfullogrammes’. See Justin’s website https://www.pinholephotography.org

We will be meeting at 7:30 on Thursday at St Thomas’s Church Hall again, and as always new members are always welcome (see map).

This week there will be a demonstration of how to mount images for print competitions and a chance for members to show examples of their work. Please bring along up to 5 of your favourite images, either in print format or digital images on a memory stick or SD card. Members can give a narrative to each of their images if they are happy to.

Non-members are welcome as always – see the map for details of where we meet.

The first competition of the 2022/2023 season is going to be judged on 20^th October. The closing date for image submission will be the 6^th October.

The competition is “Open”. This means any genre of image can be entered – definitely not limited to landscape, street, wildlife, architecture but of course these are valid as well. Choose any subject you like, maybe something that doesn’t fit into any traditional genres, maybe something a little off-beat, no enhancement or manipulation of the image off-limits – aim to surprise, inspire or intrigue us and the judge.

As usual you can enter up 2 colour images and 2 mono images. Images to entered as jpg image files as per normal club competition rules. You will need to have paid your membership subscription fee to enter – see how to join.

This week is our final meeting that we added to facilitate the last 2 speakers of the season. I’m sure for those of you who attended those sessions, you will agree it was worth the extension.

The meeting will be an informal get together in the hall (see map), and it will give us a chance to reflect on this season, and gain ideas for the coming year and things we hope to do in the summer break. We will announce the winners of the competitions we have managed to hold online.

This week’s meeting presentation is from Nick Mason, entitled “The Covid Project”.

Dr. Mason, an Intensive Care Consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, has won the prestigious AP 2021 Power of Photography Award. Nick documented the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, where he worked during the pandemic’s first wave. He captured poignant moments of what life was like at the time working in Intensive Care.

We are back on Zoom this week – for details see home page. As always new members are welcome to join the meeting to see what we do as a club.

This week we are moving back into the hall for our meeting and we have great pleasure in welcoming back Fez Parker in person for his latest presentation on drone photography. Fez has had amassed a huge amount of experience and expertise in arial photography as a career photographer with the Royal Navy. He is also an accomplished photographer in many other fields including landscapes and portraiture. In the last 2 years, he has joined the world of drone photography, and he is going to share with us his journey as he has moved into this new field.

For newer members who have not been to a meeting in the hall the address is:

St Thomas’s Church Hall

York Buildings

Trowbridge

BA14 8PT

We will not be running the customary zoom session, due to the nature of the presentation making this impractical. Apologies if this is inconvenient for anyone. You can experience the best of this presentation by being there. We would encourage everyone to make the effort to attend and have the opportunity to meet again in person.

The meeting will start at 7:30pm as usual, and last around 2 hours.

The subject of this week’s meeting by Ian Smith is entitled All Stitched up. In his presentation Ian will introduce us to the amazing world of Stitch Photography.

Usual Zoom session details apply (see home page) and as always new members are welcome to join the meeting to see what we do as a club.

This week’s meeting presentation is by Darren Pullman BPE3* CPAGB EFIAP, entitled “One a Week, Every week”

Darren presents the images he took in 2019 and 2020 as part of the challenge to take a photo every week. It’s noteworthy that the first year was pre-covid and most of 2020 was in lockdown.

Usual Zoom session details apply (see home page) and as always new members are welcome to join the meeting to see what we do as a club.

This week’s presentation is by Cat Humphries and entitled My Journey in Theatre Photography. From documenting young performers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the 1990s to shooting vintage Hollywood portraits for Sunset Boulevard in 2019, Cat will take us on a trip through her adventures in theatre photography, including the equipment used and images from publicity shoots, rehearsals and performances.

This Thursday’s meeting is billed as a members evening. It is open to any members to show off their work, talk about their images, and offer other members the opportunity to comment in an open forum. It is suggested that we present maximum of 6 images each to allow everyone a chance to participate.  It’s not a competition but an it’s a great opportunity to get some constructive feedback from like-minded photographers. 

We have set the theme as the Lacock photoshoot that many of us attended recently, but this is only a suggestion. To make it more interesting please feel free to present any of your work on any subject, especially for those who could not make it to Lacock.

Jeff our projection secretary is co-ordinating the images so please send to projsec@trowbridgecc.co.uk for inclusion.

Usual Zoom session details apply (see home page) and as always new members are welcome to join the meeting to see what we do as a club.