This week we enjoyed a talk by Clive Duncan about his photography trip to the Pantanal area in South America. The Pantanal is a large wetland (larger than England), mostly located in Brazil, but also overlapping the borders of Bolivia and Paraguay. It is a UNESCO...
A YOUTUBE NIGHT IN – WEDNESDAY 29th JANUARY 2025
Once upon a time, we budding photographers had to make our way to the back of a decent bookshop to find something that could help us learn and develop our techniques. Some many photo books were just the photos themselves and it wasn't easy to find the right book with...
Arctic Adventures Number 3– Svalbard A talk by Mark B
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...
Anyone for a mince pie?
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...
A FAR FROM MONOTONOUS MONOCHROME EVENING
And so to the last of our Monochrome themed evenings for this season. Having enjoyed a guest speaker, put up with a rather disjointed editing session and shown off our PDI work, tonight it was all about the prints. David A was our entertaining host, channelling his...
FIVE TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE CITY OF LONDON – WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH 2024
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, judged by David Lloyd LRPS
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...
On the move!
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...
Better late than never?!
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...
SIZE IS NOT IMPORTANT…IT’S HOW YOU USE IT (AND WHAT YOU’RE PHOTOGRAPHING.)
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...