Jim Hartje ARPS EFIAP APAGB DPAGB BPE5 has visited Keyworth Camera Club quite a few times over the years as both a judge or speaker, and on March 31st we welcomed him back, via Zoom, to give us a presentation called How to Improve Your Photography. Jim began by saying you really need to understand…
The fifth round of Keyworth Camera Club’s internal competition took place on Thursday 24th March. There were three sections: Monochrome, Nature, and the theme of Product Photography. 51 images were submitted across the categories. Carol McNiven Young FRPS EFIAP/b DPAGB BPE5 made a welcome return to judge our images. Carol’s assessments were very positive, always…
Matthew Cattell visited Keyworth Camera Club via Zoom on Thursday 17th of March to give us a talk on outdoor photography that covered the natural world in all its beauty, from landscapes to wildlife. Most of Matthew’s photographs are taken in locations local to him and usually involved getting up during the very early hours…
Keyworth Camera Club entered this competition for the second successive year having come a very creditable 9th equal out of the 25 clubs that entered in 2021. This year there were 23 clubs entered. The judging was conducted earlier in the month by Barbara Jenkin, Roy Lambeth and Clive Tanner and then a slide show…
Thursday 10th of March saw Keyworth Camera Club visited via Zoom by Dave Mason who gave us a very entertaining talk on street photography. Dave said he looks for the extraordinary in the ordinary and added that street images should be as honest a representation of the real scene as they could be, so Dave…
On Thursday March 3rd, Keyworth Camera Club held a members evening in the form of a critique night. This was done via Zoom. The membership was split into three groups, two of which were sent into break-out rooms. Each group had its own set of images to evaluate and then had to choose their top…
Professional architecture photographer Martine Hamilton Knight PGCAP, FHEA visited Keyworth Camera Club on Thursday February 24th to give us her presentation Pevsner in Camera. Martine showed us some of Nottinghamshire’s extraordinary architecture, both exteriors and interiors of well-known and often unsung heroes of the built environment that feature in the new Pevsner Architectural book and…
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…
The fourth round of our internal competitions had three categories, Open Colour, Open Mono and Nature. Each section drew in a healthy number of entries which gave the judge, George Reilly, a total of 88 images to assess. George gave considered comments and explained his thoughts clearly. He said the nature section contained some of…
An annual club highlight is the viewing by members of the N&EMPF Exhibition video and this year did not disappoint. Although the number of entries this year was lower than last year, the standard was still high and from 312 entrants 190 achieved at least one acceptance. The images in the mono and colour sections…