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...
MONOCHROME COMPETITIONS – EVENING 2 – PDI AND PRINT
WEDNESDAY 4th DECEMBER 2024 If someone had been only listening to much of the comments made on the evening of our second Monochrome competitions – PDI and Print – they could be forgiven for thinking we were discussing musical scores rather than photography. We had...
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...
Now where did my notes go .. ?!?!?
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...
Mono Madness!
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!...
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...
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...
Open Print Competition No 4 Judged by Graham Mansfield
This is the fourth open print competition of the year, and the final round of our season. With the results to date finely balanced the marks awarded tonight will decide the overall winners and runners up in this class for the club year. Images can be...
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...
SEVEN SNAP BRIGHTON – CLUB DAY OUT SATURDAY 2nd MARCH 2024
A fine day of photography was enjoyed by club members who ventured to Brighton by train and car for a wander around the many varied areas of this fine city. In no particular order, we had Chris R, Mark B, Roshan, Paul, David A, David M and your blogger all present and...