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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week the club welcomed judge Simon Bedwell LRPS to the St Patrick’s Centre to judge our Open Print Competition No.2. Simon is a member of the Tandridge Photographic Society, and visits us for the first time this week. The entry of 26 images were all to be...
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...