This week we had the pleasure of a visit (via Zoom) from Barbie Lindsay, describing and illustrating her trip to India around a decade ago. This talk was originally scheduled for the end of January this year, but had to be abandoned due to IT issues on the evening. ...
THE MONOPOLY PROJECT – A TALK BY PETER MERRY – 3RD MAY 2023
A variety of different and fresh images of London life as Peter Merry takes us around the famous London Monopoly Board.
FOURTH OPEN PDI COMPETITION – 19th APRIL 2023 – WHITE LINES!
Our fourth and final Open PDI competition of the season and we saw once again a great selection of work from members
Blossom Walk, The Grove
Our first club meeting following the Easter break was an informal walk with our cameras around The Grove in Carshalton, meeting at the bridge crossing the outflow from the ponds. Around a dozen members attended as sunset approached. Blossom, by David M Spring blossom,...
“THE ONLY RULE IS THAT THERE ARE NO RULES” – OUR THIRD OPEN PRINT COMPETITION – 29th MARCH 2023
Apologies for the late posting of this blog. We had some website hosting issues. It was once again my pleasure to be the blogger for a visit to the club by Jay Charnock FRPS. She was with us to judge our third open print competition of the season. Those of us who have...
TABLE TOP PHOTOGRAPHY a guided practical session provided by Stephen Crawley
Our club talk this week was a hands-on experience, set up and run by Stephen Crawley. We have had a number of talks and other guidance from Stephen in recent years; and indeed he has been instrumental in showing us the benefits of moving our evenings into the St...
THE GREAT SILK ROAD TODAY – A TALK BY DAVID SMITH LRPS CPAGB
Photographers will often have many other interests and thus they can combine these into something that then becomes a passion; something to follow and investigate. David’s presentation of The Great Silk Road today was a fine example of that combination. From an...
2nd Open Print Competition – 1st March 2023
Some great prints were enjoyed by all at our 2nd Open Print competition of the season. See the top scorers here.
Creative and Experimental Photography
Internal club evening The week we held an evening dedicated to creative and experimental photography, and talked about the images submitted for this session. With an evening operating under this remit, as expected we had a very broad spread of styles and...
Photographing Sussex – Philip Bedford LRPS
Philip Bedford LRPS shares with us his knowledge and locations for making the best photography in the Sussex landscape
Help Night
My interest in photography started in my teens using film cameras, developing and printing - ‘Old School’, I suppose. However, I took to digital because you could see your pictures straightaway and taking them didn’t cost anything. Cameras, image processing and...
Open PDI Competition No 3, judged by Don Morley
Our Open PDI Competition this week was judged by Don Morley, visiting our new venue at the recently completed St. Patrick’s Centre for the first time. Don has been a long time visitor to the club as a speaker and a judge during many previous visits to our former...