This, That and the Other

       Hi All, 1st December and its now safe to mention that word “CHRISTMAS” or Winter Festival if you prefer. Our Christmas Party, which we call our New Year Party because it’s after the 12th day, is on Tuesday 8th January. It will be in the main hall as last year and Janet Cox and […]

Hi All, I hope you all enjoyed those stunning images from Greg Whitton last Tuesday. He mentioned he has done some blogs and has some Youtube videos and having watched a couple they are well worth looking up, his web site is https://www.gregwhitton.com/. I particularly liked the idea of composing landscapes in the portrait or

Hi All, Congratulations to all who entered in last week’s projected image competition, there was lots of really good work on the screen and you gave our judge Martin Fry a difficult job of making decisions which is why he awarded so many Commended and Highly Commended. Personally mine got nowhere but when you are

Hi All, What a relief, Tuesday’s Bill Chambers Memorial Lecture went far better than thought possible. We had a great turn-out by members, thank you for the support, we had  good visitor numbers, thank you David Jellie who did the promotion and we had a tremendous guest speaker in Adrian Almond, thank you Jan Harris,

Hi All,Well last week was a bit different, some mixed feedback from good fun to frivolous. It was the first time we have done a “so different” competition, lessons were learned so first my apologies to those who thought their images were unfairly judged  but most importantly congratulations to all those who took part and

Hi All, Has everyone changed their clocks back and enjoyed the extra hour in bed. Cold though, methinks Winter might be on its way. Interesting session last Tuesday with Christopher Bradbury. He broke the evening up into two parts firstly he showed us his creative imagery which have won him so many prestigious awards and

Hi All, If you read nothing else, we are back at our normal venue in the main hall at Avoncroft Arts Centre this coming Tuesday. See you there. Few bits and pieces going on, let’s start with last week which was our first monthly print competition. I thought the quality of work was excellent and

Hi, Some members have asked for a bit more detail on the early session (7.00 to 7.45 pm) tonight. In this seasons early sessions, Tony Gervis, who as well as an FRPS is  an intrepid traveller and cruise lecturer on photography. He will,over the coming weeks, be covering many different aspects of photography from portrait

Hi All, A massive thank you to Tony Gervis, last week’s guest speaker. Not only did we see some amazing landscapes with almost unbelievable light quality and colour (now we know what we are missing as we hug the blankets and sleep through this most majestic early morning time). However the American theme also covered

Hi All, Well it’s difficult to establish if our new temporary venue at Avoncroft Museum worked or not as last week being a Studio evening is always chaotic even at the best of times.  However before moving on to this coming week I would like to thank Colin Close, Don Campbell, Tony Frier, Linda Allen