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...
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...
Wow! That one word pretty much sums up my reaction to last Wednesday’s presentation. I could tell we were in for a good evening when our guest speaker - Ruth Grindrod - began her presentation with a quick overview of all the awards and accolades that she has won, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...