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...
A WET NIGHT IN – A TALK BY PENNY & SPIKE PIDDOCK
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...
178 YEARS OF PHOTOSHOPPING BY SUE GRAY LRPS CPAGB AWPF
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...
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...
IT’S A LENS JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT – A TALK BY DAVE JORDAN FRPS – WEDNESDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2024
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...
Open PDI Competition No 3
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...
THE MONOPOLY PROJECT – A TALK BY PETER MERRY – 3RD MAY 2023
We were delighted to welcome Peter Merry back to Photocraft for this talk. Peter had previously judged at one of our photo competitions but this time, he wore his street photography hat and gave us an insightful presentation on his Monopoly Project. As the name might...
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...
Photographing Sussex – Philip Bedford LRPS
For our first guest speaker in our new home, we welcomed Philip Bedford LRPS. His website is: www.philipbedford.co.uk Philip is based in South London but came to present us with some tips, locations and inspiration for photographing our neighbouring county of Sussex....
Making the Most of Smartphone Photography – 28th Sept 2022
WE USED TO HAVE PHONES THAT TOOK PHOTOS. WE NOW HAVE CAMERAS THAT MAKE PHONE CALLS. We welcomed Jeanette Lendon (Jet) along to Photocraft on 28th September 2022. Jet runs Jet Black Squares https://www.jetblacksquares. After a career in teaching, when she had her own...