A warm thanks to Neil for his outstanding talk last Wednesday, 26th March 2025. Neil provided an excellent overview of different aspects of his photography, including People and Street, 'Candids' and Still Life, concentrating on his Surreal Abstracts and Minimalism...
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...
Pre-Christmas busyness is obviously kicking in, as we had an unusually low number of members entering this week’s Smartphone evening, and a lower than usual turnout on Wednesday evening. I am also suffering from that same pre-Christmas busyness so my Christmas gift...
So I need to kick this week’s blog off with an apology: ironically for someone whose profession is within IT, I seem to have lost all of the (copious) notes that I took on Wednesday .. oops .. I’ll blame my iPad I think! The downside of this situation for...
This week’s evening was one full of firsts: our first print competition of the season, our first monochrome evening of the season, and (most interestingly) our first ever hybrid evening, during which we got to enjoy both print and projected images on the same night!...
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...
Last week we enjoyed our third critique evening of the season, this time with the optional theme of “movement”. As with similar evenings, members were encouraged to introduce their images (for example, describing where the image was taken, what attracted them to...
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...
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...