21st May 2024 For the final evening of our season, we arranged a Fish and Chip supper. Forty-two members enjoyed relaxing and chatting whilst eating. The celebration of the year was given by Chairman Caroline Petch and the golden camera was presented to Kes Ward for winning the Cup Challenge. This competition takes place over …
Tuesday 14th May 2024 Last night was our penultimate meeting of the season. The theme of this evening was Best of the Best, and members were asked to vote for the image they felt had been the best of the year after our judge Peter Cox had critiqued the images and selected twelve from the …
An earlier talk at ImageZ, ‘Can’t see the Wood for the Trees’, by Simon Turnbull lead to a small group meeting up with Simon in Ashridge Forest. Advice and teaching on spotting compositions and features, together with Simon’s expert guidance, gave everyone confidence to see the potential in both large and small features of the …
Simon Turnbull’s presentation gave us an excellent insight into photographing the treasures of the woodlands. Simon took us through the planning, visualization, photographing and post processing procedures, showing his amazing images to support his talk. During the first half of Simon’s presentation, he shared his images explaining where they were taken, what he liked about …
In a departure from usual proceedings the members sat down to exchange information on events going on over the summer that could be of interest to photographers. Ideas for each of the summer months were collected on post-its , collated and displayed on flip charts. A wide variety of suggestions emerged ranging from vintage car …
23/4/24 Last night was the final evening in our five round club challenge. Our Theme for the first part of the evening was Skills and the second part of the evening was an Open Round as usual. There were fifty- five images entered. Our judge for the evening was Damon Guy. Damon mentioned that he …
Tuesday 9th April 24 Some weeks ago, we were given a location; Thame, to go and explore and to take photographs under four themes. There were Closed, Open, Old, and New. Easy you may think, but was it? Our avid members trooped in their hoards to Thame in between large bouts of rain and storms. …
Musical The theme for this fourth club challenge was Musical and this bought forward many interesting interpretations. The selection was varied and included, single performers, close studies of hands-on guitar strings and hands reflected in the piano. There were many keyboards and some sheet music. “Memories of music gone by” displayed good older LP’s (Beatles, …