Being something of a couch potato, listening to Quintin’s account of his walk around the entire coastline of Britain came as something of a culture shock. The lockdown, and the World Snooker Championships, have kept me in for a while. OK, lame excuses I know....
Saturday's weather forecast predicts heavy rain, so we have re-scheduled the Photo Walk to Sunday 9th to when the weather forecast looks better. Please let us know in advance if you are joining us, the link to membermojo or club email address are below. Once a month,...
I don’t quite know how to say this tactfully, but tonight’s judge was quite simply wrong when it came to one of the winning entries. I hope he’ll forgive me for the sheer pedantry on my part, but the word triptych should have been pronounced with a hard ‘k’ sound at...
Photocraft was delighted to welcome, via Zoom, Stewart Robinson, Founder of "Lenses For Hire". Stewart presented an interesting talk that gave us a full understanding of why and how photographic lenses have developed over the (many) years, taking us far back in time...
Our talk on Zoom this week was from Steve Radley, who opened the evening by outlining the various roles he has undertaken during his adult life. Very few of us can boast of a working life that has moved from farming to business, then ordination and enlistment as a...
If you love taking pictures of birds then we invite you to enter the SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 Competition and help raise vital funds for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Calling all photographers! Enter your best bird images into...
I remember having to sit through a whole evening of nothing but pictures of autumn leaves and wishing, by the end of it, the damn things would just get on with it, drop off and disintegrate for the winter. So some thought is needed for a set subject competition and we...
In the spirit of Blue Peter ('Here's one I made earlier'), tonight's judge flourished two strips of cardboard - a great tool for deciding whether images would be better cropped. As she said, cropping can be very helpful - except when you cut off a vital piece of the...
When we had our first Image Swap evening, it went very well and from memory, we had many rather different takes on what the members involved had provided. Our second evening was held on 3rd March and from where I was sitting, our eight members who stepped forward to...
An in-house introduction to audio-visual (AV) presentations and their production methods and styles, prepared by club members, showing interesting and dynamic examples of their work. together with descriptions of the processes involved. The evening was initiated by...
We've heard a lot recently about photographic competitions and judging. Rosemary Wilman gave us a wonderful insight into the many aspects recently and for all our members as individuals, there was much to encourage us to get involved. Meanwhile, as a club, Photocraft...
“What's that, Daddy?” My first of two experiences of the Aurora Borealis was the shimmering backdrop to a childrens' puppet show on black and white TV in the 1950s called ‘Meet the Penguins’. I never got a satisfactory answer from my Dad, and anyway, at that tender...