A good turn out for Tuesday evening’s meeting despite the heavy rain. We could hear it thundering down while we sat in the warm hall. No doubt many drove home through flooded roads. We are lucky to have three qualified and experienced Judges in our membership. Tonight Kathy critiqued the 29 images on her own …
30th January 2024 – Post processing evening, or the “what can you do with this picture?” night. The post processing event was well attended. 39 number of images were entered. The evening started with a short presentation of the original images that had been shared wit the members to try their processing skills on. The …
Tuesday evening was our third round of the ‘Winner on the Night’ competition. Forty PDIs were entered and fourteen prints. The Theme for the PDI round was ‘Degradation’ and this subject was interpreted in many diverse ways in our entries. Broken Piers, dying flowers, shipwrecks, decaying buildings, urban mess, human degradation and even mouldy sprouts …
A wealth of activity was on the program, with the second round of the CACC Rosebowl hosted by Harpenden on Zoom and the Archive Night in the hall. Members could choose which event they wanted to join. Archive Night Members could choose to enter up to three images from their archive and to tell a …
Happy new year to all. We started the new year with a fabulous practical evening photographing Christmas light in creative ways.As usual Chris, Brian and Kathy were on hand to guide us, give suggestions and problem solve. As you will see from the photographs all our members threw themselves into the task and produced impressive …
A very different from normal gathering at the Hall for our Christmas celebrations, with Christmas jumpers and Santa hats compulsory attire. We were sorry to have some members absent through illness while others had relatives arriving or were heading elsewhere to visit relatives. Tables with cloths and decorations greeted members, plus a fantastic spread of …
Tuesday night saw another of the popular ‘It’s a Knockout’ competitions. Members could enter up to four entries each. Pairs of images would be displayed side-by-side on-screen, and the members in the hall voting for their favourite of the two. The past two years this It’s a Knockout competition was held on zoom, this year …
Club Challenge Competition #2 The second of our club challenge rounds had the theme of Vintage plus the usual Open section. Our judge for the evening was Alan Copthorne who had travelled a long distance to be with us. Alan began with the Vintage images; this had proved a difficult theme for members, although there …