Well, whilst nobody brought along lashing of ginger beer, five club members did enjoy an excellent time in the London Bridge/Tower Bridge area on Wednesday 27th March. Chris R, Roshan, David M, Geoff and I met up and made the most of a cold but pleasant evening...
Open PDI Competition No. 4 was judged by David Lloyd LRPS. David travelled to us from the Dorking area and is a member of the United Postfolios of Great Britain organisation. He explained that this is a postal / online photographic organisation that...
We had 27 prints submitted for the open print competition this week. Entries were received from nine members each submitting multiple prints. The competition was judged by Ann Healey, the current events and exhibitions chair from the Surrey Photographic Association....
Brian took the reins for this one and a fast and furious evening it was too. If you were familiar with the latest versions of Lightroom (LR) and Photoshop (PS) you most probably went away having learnt a lot, but newcomers would have found it a struggle, as indeed I...
Well it seemed like an OK idea at the time when I agreed to take a turn on the blog rota two days before going away on holiday, but with hindsight that probably wasn’t so wise as I completely forgot I needed to write something until this morning! Oops! Sorry for...
A LOOK AT VARIOUS PHOTO EQUIPMENT – WEDNESDAY 31st JANUARY 2024. Us photographers are great ones for comparing our equipment with others, be it the cameras, lenses, bags, tripods, filters…the list is endless. Tonight, our club members brought along various...
This week the club welcomed judge Simon Bedwell LRPS to the St Patrick’s Centre to judge our Open Print Competition No.2. Simon is a member of the Tandridge Photographic Society, and visits us for the first time this week. The entry of 26 images were all to be...
Club members enjoy an evening of work from fellow members and offer their comments and insights.
The meeting this evening, held online, was our third open projected digital image competition of the 2023/24 season, critiqued and judged by Royston Williamson. Royston last judged at the club in April of this year, and is on the SPA judges panel. We had...
We take a look at our local area with members bringing along some prints for an evening of conversation
It’s a nice sunny day and maybe, like me, you decide to sling your camera over your shoulder and take an amble through somewhere like Banstead Woods to grab a few woodland shots. The sunlight twinkling through the leaves makes getting the exposure right difficult...
So this week we tried something a bit different, with Chris R “volunteering” Brian C and Mark B (your blog author this week) to facilitate an evening of feedback on images submitted by members. Both Brian and I were somewhat nervous about this as we are not...