Taking inspiration from the lyrics of The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, if you went down to Wallington High Street on Wednesday night, you were certainly sure of a big surprise! You would also have been forgiven for thinking that there might be a celebrity in town on account...
A very quick blog entry to end this season and there are sadly no photos. We had a rather welcome positive feel to this season’s AGM with sufficient members joining to ensure it complied with all our requirements for voting, etc. So we give a very warm welcome to our...
On Wednesday 24th May, the club welcomed along, via Zoom, Jan and Lyn Roberts who gave us a talk and a look at much of Argentina’s more familiar sights plus an insight into a far lesser-known area of wetlands. The trip by Jan and Lyn was back in 2010 and it was...
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 club welcomed Royston Williamson via Zoom to judge our fourth and final Open PDI competition of this season with David A as our fine host for the evening. Following a shout-out for entries, we were delighted to see a total of 42 in all! Three in our Advisory, nine...
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...
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...
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...