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December 22nd 2020 – Christmas Party

Well, December 22nd should have been our Christmas party night.  Normally we all take something to eat and drink to share, and have a photo quiz.  Sometimes we’ve taken some of our prints, or albums or photo books to have a look at and chat about.

Obviously, this year it wasn’t possible.  So we met on Zoom as we have been doing since the restrictions began back in March.  We all sat in front of our screens with a glass in hand and a mince pie.  We did still have our quiz and below you will see the images that were presented for us to try to work out.  The images were of things taken from unusual angles, or local places from a different perspective, etc.  Some you may find easy, others a bit more difficult.

Clicking on the image will reveal more which may or may not make it easier.

If you want to drop us an email with what you think they might be, please do and we’ll let you know if you’re right.

As ever, if you would like to get involved with the club just get in touch through the contact page.

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Latest update . . .

The club has continued to meet every 2 weeks – on Zoom – since the start of the lockdown. We have shorter than usual meetings, but they include the images from the challenge set the previous session. We have had a variety of challenges and some really good images to show.

We have had one outing to a wildlife park where we were able to socially distance, but at least get to chat ‘in the flesh’ so to speak. We spent an hour or so looking for more detailed shots in the park, as we have been there in the past.

We are hoping to have a further 2 events where we can meet up safely. One is related to a forest area near one of our members and we are hoping to go there as the leaves begin to change colour. Autumn is always such a beautiful time of year, so it will provide an ideal opportunity for us. We are further hoping to have another go at doing some night sky / night landscape photography also, a little further down the line and before the end of the year.

Some of our challenge images will appear in the gallery over the next week or so. Please keep coming back and check-up on what our members have been up to.

If you would like to know more about the club, please drop us a line by going to the ‘Contact’ section and we’ll get back to you.

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February Meeting

We shared our photos on the Still Life theme and chatted about them.

Nourishment

Most of the meeting was taken up with sharing  our best photos and helping each other decide which two from each of us was best to put into our planned exhibition. We then discussed possible venues. The Community Partnership expressed their willingness to host a display in their windows if we could find suitable free-standing mounts. We all agreed to approach 2 or 3 other possible venues during this month so that we can decide on the most suitable venue and date at the next meeting.

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Here’s one of the photos from our last session:-

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Many thanks for helping us to practice the zoom technique, Stephen. Hopefully we’ll be able to put it to good use in this month’s challenge – capturing movement.

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January

January Meeting

We met at the beginning of January, most of us still feeling the effects of the Christmas and New Year celebrations.  We had our usual chat around images we had taken and seen.  For a bit of fun, and to try out a new technique, we played around with ‘zooming’ – not the easiest of techniques to master, but one that can bring some interesting images.  We had a sample image to look at and then set up the intrepid Lego men for each member to have a Zooming the Christmas treego at.  Obviously, this relies on the fact that you have a camera that will allow good control of the zoom lens.  Even had there been someone who didn’t have such a camera or was still using film, there was sufficient cameras with that capability for anyone to have a go.  Hopefully we’ll get some of the images up soon.

Zooming the Christmas tree