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.

Members – Please remember that submissions for our next club Competition “Break The Rules ” are due by 12th November. Please email your digital images to projectionsecretary@trowbridgecc.uk by the 12th. Out of focus, wonky angles, Intentional Camera Movement, strange compositions. anything goes.

This is a new category and we are asking members to submit maybe something that would you would not normally use in a Club competition. Those images that are “difficult to judge”! The Competition will be judged by Mike Martin on 26th November. Mike has recently entertained us with his wild and wacky take on photography, so let’s get creative.

After several false starts and a last minute exploding hard drive, it is with enormous pleasure that we welcome back to the club this Thursday (5th November) ex Naval Photographer Fez Parker.

Fez runs Back2blackandwhite Photography School in Bath (pictured with Kev and George) and he is all set to thrill us once again with more ripping yarns and incredible stories from his Naval days and beyond.

Many thanks to Kevin Crosbie for working so hard on IT Support for Fez in order to make this evening happen

For the club meeting this Thursday (29th October) we are in the capable hands of two of our own very experienced club members, Andrew Leach & Jane Wiltshire who will be sharing their tips and technical expertise.

Andrew will present a Technical Workshop on the subject of Lightroom and Jane will provide us with an insight into her wonderful world of Still Life Photography.

Nick Krainc our Programme Secretary is keen to get other members involved in this way during the rest of the season by having regular “Members Nights” maybe every couple of months. So please have a think about anything you would like to share with the Club. It doesn’t need to last for 1 or 2 hours but just a “slot” for you to show your work, talk about a photographic topic or a photographer you enjoy. The stage is yours…..

This Thursday (22nd October) we welcome David Lewis-Baker to speak at our club meeting via Zoom. Delayed from last season, David is going to share with us his quite extraordinary ” Radical Street Photography” presentation.

David has a wry, witty and knowledgeable take on things , photography being no exception. Here is an excerpt from his bio:

“I am a retired professor living and working as a writer, street photographer and digital artist in the beautiful Roman and Georgian city of Bath. I have been painting and drawing most of my life and after a period of ill health I retired from Warwick University in 2006 to become a professional new media digital fine artist and fine art photographer in Bath. I am a painterly digital artist and my work ranges widely from portraits and landscape pieces, to abstract, surrealist and also conceptual works. My art and photographic works are in private collections around the world and have been used in various publications. I am also an experienced street photographer centring my practice on the streets of Bath, but also working in Bristol, London, the USA and Europe.”

So members, sign on and strap in … this might get a little weird!!!

Our speaker on Thursday 15th October will be Benedict Brain who will present his talk “The Art Of Seeing” based on a regular column he writes for Digital Camera magazine. Ben is a UK based photographer and journalist. He graduated with a degree in photography from the Derby School of Art in 1991 (now University of Derby), where he was tutored and inspired by photographers John Blakemore and Olivier Richon, amongst others. He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and also sits on the society’s Distinctions Advisory Panel. Yet another fantastic evening is guaranteed, so not to be missed!

This  week (8th October) is our first competition of the season –  Projection Competition 1, which is an Open category on this occasion. We have a good selection of entries and Peter Weaver is Zooming in to do the judging.

Our Speaker this week will be the extremely talented Mike Martin, AFIAP, AWPF. Originally intended for last season, we are very fortunate to have been able to book Mike again to deliver his presentation “Shooting People and Other Stuff”

From Mike’s website;-
Photography is a love, passion, joy… obsession – long may it continue. I am a hobbyist photographer and keen club member; competitive and sometimes creative, but always hungry to learn or to help others.

I’ve been interested in photography for too long to say…I don’t really have the patience for landscape (doesn’t stop me trying though) but love urban photos, architecture, plants, beasts and bugs, trees, infrared, night, creative, manipulated images – basically anything.

Another Zoom session not to be missed.

Usual Zoom recurring meeting.
Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club
Time: Every week on Thu, until Dec 17, 2020, 19:30
Link: https://zoom.us/j/98403616170…
Meeting ID: 984 0361 6170
Passcode: 976471

If you are not yet a member and would like to join the session as a free taster, send our Chairman Kevin Crosbie an email in advance (chairman@trowbridgecc.uk), so that he can admit you to the meeting.

This weeks’ presentation for members is from Clive Greenland who is another good friend of the club. Clive presents an evening taken from over the last 30 years of photography. The talk covers the UK, Europe and as far afield as Florida, The Bahamas, and The Turks and Caicos Islands.

Usual Zoom recurring meeting.
Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club
Time: Sep 24, 2020 19:30 Greenwich Mean Time
Every week on Thu, until Dec 17, 2020
Link: https://zoom.us/j/98403616170…
Meeting ID: 984 0361 6170
Passcode: 976471

If you are not a member and wish to join us to see if you like what we do, it is best to drop our Chairman Kevin Crosbie an email in advance (chairman@trowbridgecc.uk), so that he can admit you to the meeting. We usually allow a couple of free meetings before you commit to joining.

We are very pleased to confirm that our judge for the first projection competition on 8th October (subject – Open) will be Peter Weaver LRPS,CPAGB, APAGB.

Peter has been to our club before and he is very happy to be paying us a return visit. With 20 years experience and broad approach to photography , Peter is ideal to judge this open competition.

From the PAGB handbook Peter says ;-
” I photograph anything I see, mainly in the UK, especially Landscapes, People and Events. I employ a positive approach to photography & encourage and coach rather than just criticise.”

Competition entries are due by next Thursday 24th September. Please send entries to the projectionsecretary@trowbridgecc.uk

The entry rules are here: https://croscom.co.uk/wp/members-area/competition-rules/