Ashley Franklin visited Keyworth Camera Club on February 13th to give his presentation The Wider World of Photography part 2. Having seen part 1 a few seasons ago, this new talk drew the membership in to see just what images and stories Ashley would show us during this look back into the history of photography….
The first week of 2019 saw eighteen KCC members set out on a new year long challenge. 52 themes had been set, one for each week of the year. Even though the subjects were known in advance the photographs had to be taken in the correct week and posted into a private Facebook group. The…
January 30th was the night of our 3rd internal competition. This time it was for dpi’s (Digital projected images) only. There were three categories: Monochrome, Nature and the theme of Long Exposures that had to have a shutter speed of two seconds or more. Our judge for the evening was Ken Wade who tackled the…
Before the main event on the evening of January 23rd we held the latest New Clicker event. These are aimed at teaching the basics of photography to those newer to our hobby or any member that feels a refresher course would be advantageous. This time the New Clickers group met to review images that they…
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…