It was another landmark evening for Photocraft. We were back in the hall after a long absence. We provided live streaming for those uncomfortable about meeting face-to-face (after a few initial technical wobbles). We held the first print competition for over a year....
This week we met via Zoom in order to review and comment upon members entries for a discussion evening based on the title Creative Photography. Our only brief for the evening was that we should use "any amount of post processing...
PIMS for short, this promised to be an evening with a difference put together by 3 members of Old Coulsdon Camera Club. It was presented by Pat Couder CPAGB, BPE1, QPSA and Ian Brash CPAGB BPE2 an old friend at Photocraft. The third contributor was Mike Bromley DPAGB...
For the first time ever at Photocraft we had a new category of competition entry - advisory class. This was so that members who are not competitive or new members who are fresh to camera clubs can enter images (anonymously, if they wish) to receive positive, impartial...
And we're off! A warm welcome back to everyone and thanks to all who joined on Wednesday for our opening night. I hope all members managed to get out a bit more over summer and take a few images. We begin with our meetings still online but with the prospect of being...
To take us through to the new season in September we have organised a summer programme of informal get-togethers, where members can continue to meet up and enjoy some photography together. Anyone is welcome to join us on these informal get-togethers. Please note that...
What a year. A time of global threat and upheaval that has seen businesses go to the wall, live entertainment savagely curtailed, and socialising kept at a distance. So what has happened to the camera club scene? Well, I think it’s fair to say that we have adapted to...
Our AGM summed up another very successful, albeit pandemically-challenged, year for Photocraft. In his Chair’s report (circulated to members beforehand), Brian C said: ‘I am so delighted to say that our membership levels have grown over this season. That is quite an...
And so to our last speaker of the season and it is fair to say we had someone who seems to be creative on a 24/7 basis! We were delighted to welcome Barbie Lindsay MPAGB FBPE EFIAPs AWPF and it was clear from the outset that this lady was extremely adept at making her...
A group of members gathered on the evening of 2 June, to take advantage of the anticipated sunset visible across the ponds in Carshalton, and to celebrate the easing of lockdown restrictions that have limited our ability to meet this year. Whilst our group arrived for...
Love it or loathe it the PDI of the Year Competition is the culmination of the year’s round of club competitions. The level playing field where those in the Standard section can pit their best efforts against the Advanced and show them what they’re made of. And so it...
It was an ambitious title – ‘On Photography’! Whole books, whole courses and whole careers have been devoted to uncovering the different facets of photography. Tonight’s speaker, Mike Farley LRPS, drew on a lifetime of engagement with photography as a hobby and his...