‘Photographers Through the Decades’ is the title of an AV show from our federation (N.&.E.M.P.F.) and on the evening of Thursday 25/06/20 we showed this via Zoom. The disc is divided into two halves and it’s fascinating to follow the changes in both photographic style and subject matter since the 1950’s up to and into…
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…
On the evening of Thursday 18th June, we held our second summer lockdown competition via Zoom. We have two classes, open colour and open monochrome. We are able to submit five images in each section and are limited to just two nature entries per person. As is usually the case with KCC competitions, we had…
The next in our ongoing weekly just for fun competitions has come to an end. This time around the theme was silhouettes. As usual the entries covered a wide range of subject matter, from kitchen utensils to aircraft, from plants to people. Most of the photographs were presented as monochrome images. As the voting began…
Thursday June 11th saw Robert Millin MFIAP, EFIAP/d2, FBPE, MPSA, SPSA, DPAGB, GPU Hermes give his talk ‘Confessions of a Competition Addict’ to Keyworth Camera Club via Zoom. One of the advantages of Lockdown is that we are able to invite speakers to KCC from much further afield than we would normally be able to…
Our 10th fun weekly competition had the theme of Leading Lines. We can enter images taken specifically for the competitions or submit photographs from our libraries which haven’t been shown at KCC before. A wide variety of subject matter was entered, a good mix of man-made leading lines and those created by nature. Colour images…
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…