Having firmly pinned the blame on Alan Saunders for getting him involved in bird photography in the first place, past-president Graham Johnston gave an interesting, informative and amusing presentation of his five year quest to photograph the elusive Blue-spotted Chaffinch to a full house at Hazel Grove yesterday evening. Much of this quest seems to have been in
Hi All Alex Hyde's Website I have booked Alex Hyde to talk to the club on the 29 September 2015 "Close encounters" . Alex is able to offer a workshop for 6 people during the day ( venue to be confirmed). "We could certainly look at doing a workshop on the same day as my
Not to be left out of salon successes Jon has had several new ones including these two at Smethwick On the Train Parson's Chameleon and 7 at the Wrekin which included Parson's Cahmeleon as well as these six images:
You may have seen in the latest Photography News that they have launched a new "Camera Club of the Year" competition which involves five images being submitted on each of five subjects, by five different authors over the next five months (why didn't they call it Fives?). The prizes incld a top of the range Canon projector, and
Hot on the heals of Aamir and Graham, Rob had six images accepted into the Frome West Sussex Salon. Pride of place went to "Wild Boar sow in Forest of Dean" which beat both the Cheetah shots to a Ribbon in the Nature class. This takes Rob's BPE tally over the 50 mark to qualify for BPE2*
who had four images accepted; "Iceform", which scored 14 in our recent print worker competition "Lost Control" Fulmar Razorbill in flight Congratulations to Graham.
Congrats to Aamir who had Thaddeus accepted in the Smethwick International Exhibition.
Hi everyone here's a link to the scores for the 2nd Print Competition from last Tuesday, judged by Christine Widdall Intermediates Advanced
Having been forced to return to our old venue of the Council Chamber for our second Print worker competition the place was packed to the rafters to hear judge Christine Widdall's assessment of our images. The evening kicked off as usual with the Intermediate group when Christine's critical eye missed little, but her tongue was kind
Hi everyone, I have just been contacted with regards to a course being held in the Conwy area in December. Seems to be great value for money to me, you decide.... Hi, we are holding a nature/landscape course at www.caerrhunhall.co.uk Dec 5/6/7th. The photographer is Lawrence Clark at www.castlevision.co.uk. £325 inc all meals and B&B. here's their