Lock down. Self Isolation. Social distancing. Words we’ve all become used to. To keep busy, I’ve photographed almost every flower in the garden – roses, lilies, freesias, bluebells and tulips. Beautiful though they are, that’s not really my scene, but keeps the hand in. However, a little bit of nature and landscape – it would …
About a year ago I started photographing Red Kites with Spam as bait. I waited hours for a kite to dive in but if I turned around for just one second, the Spam disappeared; they were too fast. My next bait was chicken wings. I set up a small shelter in the garden with a …
It’s been ‘interesting and challenging’ couple of months to end the season! Thank you to all members for your loyalty and determination enabling the club to continue through the on-line system of Zoom. No decision has yet been made for a return in September to our usual venue but we will consult with you before …
At this week’s meeting Glyn Dewis presented his views on the importance of personal photographic projects. Glyn has substantial experience of this, running his personal project: The World War 2 Portraits Project (www.3945portraits.com). He had arrived here following his first venture into photographic projects – animals, where he had developed and tested his understanding of …
This week’s online Club gathering was a first. The program for the evening was to select the Best of the Best images from the season’s Open entries, scoring 18 or more points. There was a total of 56 selected images for the Judge to assess. This was, for sure, going to be a tough evening …
The season moves on and, on the Tuesday 5 May we gathered once more around our computer screens for another ‘covid session’. This evening the final Challenge Round of the 2019/20 season was convened, with a themed entry of Stripes and an Open stream. There were strong entries for both streams, 28-images submitted in …
On 28 April Club members assembled for the latest online ‘covid meeting’ using Zoom, a very user-friendly app enabling live virtual meetings without needing to download – perfect! On the night twenty-six members gathered to collectively respond to the Macro Challenge. Members had earlier uploaded macro images, from which they had cut a small detail. …
We are all gradually getting used to the new way of working through Zoom. The practicalities of our planned ‘You be the Judge’ evening had to be adjusted by our tech admin – Chris Andrews with some special computer coding to help the process from his talented wife, Annie. We gathered around our individual screens …