Apologies for the late posting of this blog. We had some website hosting issues. It was once again my pleasure to be the blogger for a visit to the club by Jay Charnock FRPS. She was with us to judge our third open print competition of the season. Those of us who have...
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...
Our new home has had its first club evening, its first PDI competition and its first guest speaker. To complete the set, we welcomed Peter Merry LRPS as our judge for our first Print competition – our Open Print 2 evening. Peter also teaches photography at a...
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....
Our second, and final, monochrome PDI competition of the season was held over Zoom on Wednesday 11 January 2023. The competition was judged by David Eastley LRPS, on his first ‘visit’ to our club. We had five Advisory Class (unscored) images for review...
And so this is Christmas And what have we done? Taken lots of photos And hopefully had fun. We had 10 members along to our Christmas social last Wednesday and all enjoyed some good food, drink and conversation at the Wallington Pizzeria on Stafford Road. We did manage...
On Wednesday night, 30th November, we welcomed Faith Lee as our judge for the above. Faith is a member of the Camping and Caravan Club – Photography Division, I presume, as I missed the opening exchanges between her and our fine host for the evening, Alfred C. From...
It was our first Monochrome Print competition this week and the evening saw the welcome return to Photocraft of Pat Couder CPAGB BPE1* as our judge. i think it is fair to say that many photographers think monochrome is "tricky" or "difficult" to work with. Pat did...
On Wednesday 19th October, we had a fascinating talk from Caroline Preece. In her own words… “The objective of the talk is to introduce to people a different way of thinking about photography and composition. The first part of the talk covers photography as a visual...
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...