Purple – Online Competition

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….

Our Thursday night Zoom meeting this week took the form of a members evening and we invited a number of colleagues to share some images with the club members. The images were not necessarily to be of competition quality. There would be no judging or critique. We simply asked them to tell us why the…

On the 11th of July 2015 club member Steve Myall began a project called 100 Strangers. The idea behind it is to approach people he had never met and ask if he could photograph them right there and then. Today marks the 10th anniversary of starting that project and, to date, Steve has taken portraits…

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 Thursday February 4th we showed part of N&EMPF’s 66th exhibition. Why part? 2021 attracted record breaking entries and acceptances which saw 344 entrants submitting 2627 images of which 593 were accepted. This meant the exhibition was too long to show over a single evening, so we decided to choose two sections for this night…

We have now entered the ‘Zoom’ phase of our year, as all meetings in January and February (apart from the last Thursday) are on-line. This enables us to see presentations by top photographers from all over the UK and further afield covering a wide range of subjects.  January started with Kevin Pigney on his passion…