This, That and the Other

Hi All, Firstly a Happy Easter Break and what fabulous weather we have. I see from our facebook page some of our lady members have taken advantage of the weather to get out with their long lenses for some nature snapping, I dare say we will see some results as winners in future competitions. Well […]

Hi All, Last week’s newsletter was a bit long so this week I will try and keep it short and provide only correct information (well done to all who spotted last week’s mistake). A big thank you to Darren Shipman of Dpix Studio for entertaining and educating us in the art of studio/portrait photography last

Hi All, Something a bit different for last week so thanks to: Jan Harris and John Davidson for their ‘creative lights in the dark’ I got the feeling those who took part had a good time. Tony Hawksbee assisted by Sue Young for the flower display and to demonstrate you can get great results from

Hi All, Last Tuesday saw the last of the season’s monthly competitions so the competitive ones amongst us will be calculating their final scores to see if they are in for an award. Of course the main reason for competitions is the challenge to improve one’s work and get better as a photographer, but an

Hi All, Just got back in from the Midphot Exhibition over at Smethwick and really pleased to see Bromsgrove well represented on the walls and on the projector screen. A particular congratulations to our three ladies (Jenny Webster, Julie Hall and Sue Vernon) who picked up MCPF ribbons. I thought sports images, portraits, travel, landscapes

Hi All, Lots seem to be going on at the moment, the Photography Show at the NEC started yesterday (Saturday) and goes on till Tuesday giving us a chance to see (and in some cases try) the latest kit and additions to fuel our interest in driving our own personal photographic journey. I am going

Hi All, Fixed subjects have always been a challenge to get a good number of entries however we had 70 odd entries so in the end not a bad entry at all, so thanks to all who entered and of course congratulations to those who got a placing. It is interesting in that one of

Hi All, Don’t know about you but I managed to get some great images at Tuesday’s model evening, in fact my biggest problem is culling them to select the best. I hope you’re having the same problem. A big thank you to Sophie and Nick and if we can get them plenty of images I’m

Hi All, Interesting presentation last Tuesday, I thought it was going to be purely black and white prints however, not only did we get B&W we also got some colour and most prints done in panels of three super large A2’s. We as a club don’t do panels anymore but there is still a reasonable

Hi All, What a good turnout we had on Tuesday and proves the popularity of our competitions. Obviously members are interested in different aspects, some are very competitive and are there to win, whilst, I suspect that most of us want to learn and improve (and then win). Last week’s judge was a little controversial