This week’s presentation has an interesting ring to it. Gary’s Statement says “I  explore the darker side of life to evoke the feelings and emotions in my work and creates themed images each to usher the view into the sacred arena of my imagination, challenging them to fantasize about a magical space that is the theatre of art.”

The Zoom link for the meeting is the same as before, and as as always new members are welcome to join us to see what we get up to – see home page for details.

Tony is the author of 17 books, studied fine art at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne and spent 18 years as head of a large design faculty in Dorset. He has won awards for photography in the UK and internationally, and has had work exhibited in London’s Barbican Gallery, Bradford’s National Museum of Photography, The Menier Gallery London and The Fox Talbot Museum Lacock.

His presentation for this weeks meeting (23rd September) is self-explanatory and will no doubt interest many members of the club.

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.

Our friends ” Companions of the Longbow ” have extended the following invitation to any of our members who would like to attend.”Black Cat Archery”, is holding a small-scale Medieval Festival over the weekend of Sat/Sun 4th/5th Sept, running from 10am to 5pm both days.They have been holding it annually for around 5 years now, and it is slowly growing in size. (If you search for “Battle For Black Cat Bridge” on Facebook you can find a page with a bit more info).It is located at, and can be found by following signs for, Roves Farm in Sevenhampton just outside Swindon.If any of your members are interested then it is free to attend, and would offer some photo opportunities for TCC as far as medieval archery demos and knight fighting is concerned, with an organised battle reenactment each day, should you wish to come along.There will also be traders, a food outlet, bar etc and the Companions of the Longbow will be attending and running an archery Have-a-Go for a small fee to raise some club funds, should you or your members feel like trying it out.”

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.

I have received some sad news about a former member of the club: Michael Hayward passed away on Tuesday June 1st, he was until quite recently a prominent member of the club having joined it not long after its formation.

During his time with the club he held various offices including that of competition secretary, which he did for, I believe, about 20 years. He will be sadly missed, his funeral will be at Trowbridge Cemetery at 13/30 on July 1st.

               This week is the final meeting for this season(but not quite), the format of the meeting will be follows:

A retrospective of the year presented by Nick.

Announcement of the overall competitions winners for the four projection competitions we have held this year.

The Duck Tape challenge – just a fun look at the images you have submitted on a silly subject.

A  discussion on the activities we have planned for the summer break, including the some addition informal meetings we are calling “Camera Café”, the  Landscape images Competition and a potential outdoor photo shoot.

A final discussion opportunity for members to give their views and suggestions on the coming season.

        It is with great pleasure that we welcome back Graham Harries as our final speaker for this season. Members will no doubt recall that Graham opened our season back in September with his breath-taking images of Chernobyl. This week Graham takes us on a journey into the world of Drone Photography.

Let’s see if we can have a bit of fun at our last meeting of the season on 29th April by looking at some images members have taken with the theme ” “Unusual Uses of Duct Tape” aka Gaffer tape.

I’m sure that we get images with all the imagination and creativity we witnessed at the SPAM CHALLENGE a few months back

Please submit you images to chairman@trowbridgecc.uk

No deadline as long as we have a bit of time to collate the images before the 29th.