For this Thursday’s club meeting (3rd Feb) we are pleased to announce – An Evening With Terrick Meakin. A journey through a lifetime of printed images from Terrick’s vast archive. We would welcome as many of our members into the hall for this event as it involves viewing many beautifully prepared prints – the meeting will start at 7:30pm.

We will not be serving tea and coffee at half time, but will hope to reintroduce this at later meetings. I will set up a camera and Zoom meeting (hosted from the hall), however online you will not get the benefit of seeing the prints and participation will necessarily be limited.

Past members and non-members will be welcome to attend, but we would appreciate a small voluntary donation to club funds by any past and non-members on the night.

For those of you who have forgotten or do not know where the church hall is , click here for the map.

For this week’s meeting we have George Reekie DPAGB, ABPE with a presentation entitled  “Competition Photography and how I go about it”.

A look at how to get the best out of your competition entries. George has promised a fun evening of experiences and anecdotes.

Important reminder: Submissions are due by Thursday 27 for DPI Competition 3 – Flora & Fauna.

This week’s meeting is a presentation by Simon Capland LRPS and entitled “Out Of The Dark – Still Life Photography”. The title is self-explanatory and there will be much interest from our members on this subject.

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

Members,

This week is the AGM. Agenda and proposals documents attached. Financial statement to follow.

Please try to attend as we have a couple of important proposals to discuss and after the meeting we will show our entries for the WCPF Competition.

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

Happy New Year everyone.

This week’s meeting, Thurs 6^th January, is a presentation by Andy Marland entitled “The Industrial Tourist”.

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

This week is a members’ critique evening – 2 images from each member 1 mono, 1 colour on the theme ‘BENT’. No external judge this time, just a your fellow club members looking at them, offering their critique and being entertained with your images on the chosen theme. 

A reminder of out forthcoming light-hearted critique evening around the theme “Bent!”

Submissions to Jeff Barber by 2nd December please. 1 Mono 1 colour from each member.

No external judge , the members will view and offer a critique of each image during the Members Evening on 9th December.

Bent:
Changed by bending out of an originally straight or even condition
Strongly Inclined
Slang: different from the normal or usual.

Once again the gods have conspired against us and our old friend Fez has had to pull out of next Thursday. Apologies for this but we will reschedule him later in the season. We are delighted to say that at very short notice we have been able to secure the services of Tony Gervis FRPS who is going to present ” One man and his van”. A wild tale of a solo trip of 19000 miles in his camper van across Europe, Turkey ,Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and several more stans, Russia, Belarus and more. Guaranteed to be an entertaining evening!

P.S. Following on from the inspirational presentation last week from Jeanette Lendon, the Smart Phone Photo Shoot originally scheduled for the 25th November will also be move to later in the season giving members more time to practice some of the techniques discussed last week. The programme was changed to accommodate the rescheduled Fez … and then … well you know !!!!

We used to have phones that took photos. we now have cameras that make phone calls. If you own a smartphone, then you own a camera, and if you own a camera, you have the tools to create stunning images and video content. Smartphone photography has gained greater kudos over the last few years, mainly due to the fact that the camera capabilities on phones can now rival DSLRs.