One of our members, Paul Burrows, has been spending some time during lockdown entering competitions on the website www.photocrowd.com. Photocrowd has a number of different membership levels including one that is free to join. By signing up to the free to join option you are entitled to enter one image into any single competitions and up…
On the evening of Thursday June 4th, we held a members evening via Zoom. This proved to be a fun and educational meeting that drew in a good audience and it will certainly have inspired many of us to try some of the techniques shown. The first half of the evening was all about restoring…
The theme of our latest weekly fun competition was purple and images came in representing various shades of this colour. Hues from the natural world dominating the entry. As the first votes came in it could have been anyone’s victory as a few photographs were tied in first place, until the very last day when…
Thursday 28th May, we were able to return to our pre-pandemic programme, although the planned night had to be held via Zoom. It was the last meeting of our 2019/2020 season which of course was our A.G.M. All reports and information relating to this meeting had been sent to our membership beforehand. Acceptance of reports…
Thursday 21st of May saw Keyworth Camera Club hold an internal competition over Zoom. The benefits of meetings of any kind being held over the internet means we can invite speakers and judges from much further afield than if we were meeting in person, as travel distances don’t pose a problem anymore. Taking advantage of…
Our latest fun Lockdown competition has ended. These are voted on by the membership. This time around the theme was food. Many of the entries come from photographers’ files but some people do take images specifically for the competitions. Watching the votes come in proved to be exciting as two images vied for top position…
Thursday 14th May saw Keyworth Camera Club members and guests wowed by a superb Zoom presentation by Ross McKelvey MPAGB MFIAP FIPF EFIAP/p FBPE from Belfast. Portraiture and Art Nude both in the studio and on location are Ross’ preferred genres, although he does also enjoy landscape and nature photography and all these areas were…
The results are in for our latest weekly fun competition which is voted on by our membership. The theme was Lockdown and we had to submit an image that showed what lockdown meant to the us. There were some interesting interpretations of the brief and right from the moment voting opened one photograph surged ahead…
The Bank Holiday was moved to Friday 8th May in order for the country to commemorate the end of World War II with Victory in Europe 75 years ago. Despite the lockdown conditions we find ourselves it at present the people of Keyworth came out in big numbers to join ion with the Front Garden…
This evening saw Keyworth Camera Club take on Arnold & District Camera Club in an inter club battle. Each club submitted 30 images and these were assessed by David Gibbins ARPS APAGB EFIAP/b BPE5* CPAGB/AV. David would be marking the images out of 20. This competition was held via Zoom and had a good attendance…