Wow! That one word pretty much sums up my reaction to last Wednesday’s presentation. I could tell we were in for a good evening when our guest speaker - Ruth Grindrod - began her presentation with a quick overview of all the awards and accolades that she has won, and...
Our talk this week was Part 3 the pursuit of sea ice in all its forms by Mark B. He travelled from London to Longyearbyen in Svalbard, via Oslo and Tromsø. This takes you about 2000 miles to the north. The arctic circle is about halfway between London and...
WEDNESDAY 27th November 2024 On this Wednesday, we welcomed Penny and Spike Piddock (both DPAGB & EFIAP). They hail from Wyke Regis, between Weymouth and Portland. Both are members of Dorchester Camera Club and the British Society of Underwater Photographers. It...
Cameron’s interest in photography started when he joined the camera club at school and was introduced to the joys of wet processing in their darkroom. The idea of being able to freeze an instant in time appealed to him, particularly the ability to capture the...
Us humans can’t help ourselves. Show us something new and it is pretty much guaranteed that, not long after, we will be trying our best to find a way to use it for something other than its original intent. Tonight we welcomed Sue Gray LRPS CPAGB AWPF to the club, via...
Tonight we welcomed award-winning garden photographer Dave Jordan FRPS. As well as keeping his own photography running, Dave is an assessor on the RPS Distinctions panel and involved in the Norwich & District Photographic Society. Before and After - Dave Jordan...
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....
Not everyone thinks monochrome deserves a special status in photography. After all, the world is in colour, so isn’t monochrome just another genre like architecture or glamour? Not in my opinion. After all, the various genres of photography can be portrayed in colour...
Our competition this evening was judged by Eddie Lord, visiting us from the Crawley Downs Camera club. We had 32 images entered into this competition, all in one class. It was clear during the evening that our judge was looking for impact from an image, and...
This week we welcomed back Joe Franklin for a further studio based portrait photography session. Joe has been with us three times before to provide similar evenings, on those occasions using everything from large studio strobe lighting with soft boxes to achieve his...
Pedro, who now lives in Devon, spent 10 years in the US, part of that time in the Pacific Northwest, and part in New England in the Northeast. Being a very keen photographer, living there for this length of time gave him the opportunity to discover and photograph the...
Our first open projected digital image (PDI) competition of the club year was held this Wednesday 20th September, judged by John Nathan ARPS. John has been a judge or provided talks at our club on many occasions, but this was his first visit to our new home. A...