January 23rd saw Keyworth Camera Club visited by Alex Hyde who gave us a presentation called ‘Close Encounters’. Alex specializes in macro photography, especially of the natural world. Even today he is still struck by the wonders of discovery when viewing insects or spiders through his macro lens as details are revealed that would otherwise…
This evening saw us hold our club social night, an event we save for January as something to look forward to after all the hectic celebrations of Christmas and New Year are out of the way. It was fantastic to see the room full with around 40 members and guests attending. Many thanks need to…
January 9th was our Chairman’s Evening. Traditionally this event is shrouded in secrecy and the only way to find out what our Chairman had arranged was to turn up on the night and the vast majority of our membership did just that, although the content had been intentionally leaked at the last meeting before Christmas….
Tonight we welcomed Rob Cuss back to the club to give his talk on Secrets of Photography. This was a digital presentation which was split into three sections and was aimed at providing us the hints and tips that we would be unlikely to read in standard photography books and magazines. The first half of…
Erica Oram CPAGB AFIAP BPE3* visited KCC on December 5th to give her presentation ‘Seeing Opportunity’. This was a digital projection show, but Erica also brought along 25 prints as this is the only way to see the true quality of images, and this point was proven by taking a close look at this small…
November 28th was our second internal competition. This round was for prints only, covering four categories: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature and the theme of Action & Sports, the latter having to clearly depict people taking part in sports or another energetic activity. Our judge for the night was Jacqui Jay Grafton ARPS EFIAP/s DPAGB…
Our guest speaker on 21st November was Dave Fieldhouse with his talk “Stuck in a Genre”. This was the first outing for this particular talk which Dave had put together at the request of our program secretary when making the booking. The talk was a mixture of Landscapes, Street and Urbanscapes, with Dave holding a packed…
Tonight was the second round of our biannual battle with Gibraltar. This was the third time we’ve held this competition, and win or lose, it’s always great to see work from another country. The first leg was held on Monday 11th at Gibraltar and their judge was Juan Carlos Teuma, a professional freelance photographer who…
November 7th saw four KCC members give twenty-minute presentations of their choice and we were treated to some excellent imagery and observations about their photography. John opened the night by showing how he had applied techniques learnt over the years of being a club member to his images to improve them. He also showed a…
Over the weekend of 2nd & 3rd November judging took place for the North & East Midlands Photographic Federation Exhibition 2020. This will be held at Patchings Art Centre from 6th January 2020 into February. On Saturday the Digital images were judged and on Sunday it was the turn of the prints. There were over…