A to Z of Imaging

December was a shortened month as the club was closed over the Christmas and New Year weeks, but we still held three well attended meetings. On December 1st we were visited by Chris Dale who gave us an excellent and inspiring talk called The Local Landscape. Will we see any of our members getting out…

On Thursday February 17th we were visited via Zoom by Nancy Barrett who gave us a presentation called From Lancashire with Love. Nancy’s talk was about her successful wedding photography business, but it did include some of her other photography and she explained how her liking for street photography and nature and the disciplines learned…

Our latest weekly fun competition has drawn to a close. This time the theme was three, not the number, the brief being to show three of a kind in one photograph. The voting soon revealed one image rising above the others. Not the runaway success of previous weeks but with other images vying for second…

April started with an enormous explosion of creative ideas and techniques from Heather Burns, an outstanding photographer and image maker. Her work with composite images was truly exceptional and got everyone talking in the break and afterwards in the pub. Not only was she interesting and stimulating to listen to, she also left us some…

On Thursday February 4th we showed part of N&EMPF’s 66th exhibition. Why part? 2021 attracted record breaking entries and acceptances which saw 344 entrants submitting 2627 images of which 593 were accepted. This meant the exhibition was too long to show over a single evening, so we decided to choose two sections for this night…

October began with an extremely well attended practical evening on the 5th. The session was an introduction to portrait lighting using basic equipment similar to what could be found in any home. Two acquaintances of one of our members had agreed to model for us and a thoroughly enjoyable evening was had by all during…