After spending some time carefully checking the spreadsheet – the league tables and galleries have been updated. Thank you for entering your images and letting us all share in the portraits; Primay Intermediate Advanced 1st Celia THOMPSON Liz YOUNG Wendy SPENCER 2nd Talia C. Anne RICHES[…]
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Competition Update
Out & About to Whitchurch Silk Mill
On a dull grey day, 13 members visited Whitchurch Silk Mill. The Mill offered plenty of photographic opportunities – the water wheel, the weaving machinery, cogs and bobbins, and lots of coloured threads. As always, it was a sociable occasion with discussion of cameras and lenses, and there was always[…]
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Our next competition is a set subject of ‘Human Portraits’. What does portraiture photography mean? The key message that portraiture needs to convey is a sense of personality and attitude of the subject. We need to be able to learn something about the person (or people, it doesn’t need to[…]
Read moreUpdated Competition Marking
Starting at our next competition, the first in 2019, we’re adjusting how marks are awarded. Why are we making this change? Firstly, it’s important to understand what marks mean. It is very common in any club competition to ask judges to award marks out of 10, (including half marks). Some[…]
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Visit to the Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery
Eight members and two wives visited the Bombay Sapphire gin distillery at Laverstoke Mill, on the banks of the River Test near Whitchurch, for the final Out and About of the year. Most of the present mill was built in the 19th century to supply banknote paper to the Bank[…]
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Architecture Competition Winners
Our final competition of our season was held last week – on the set theme of Architecture. The prints on display across all classes was excellent. Caroline Colegate had a tough job selecting the placed images. The results are below – and the images can be seen in the gallery. Primary[…]
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Autumn News
The Autumn Newsletter was sent out recently; here’s a quick recap of the upcoming events. Thursday 1st November Competition Round 4 Theme – Architecture We welcome back Caroline Colegate to cast her expert eye over our efforts and Matthew will be kept busy tallying the League Tables! Here is a[…]
Read moreExhibition Public Vote
Congratulations to Mary Gardiner for winning the Public Vote at the exhibition! Her image ‘The Red Door’ is below, Mary said, “The image was taken in Bruges and was a very quick hand held snap shot trying to avoid all the visitors pouring through the doorway! ” The vote was very[…]
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Early Morning Visit to Petworth Park
We could not have wished for better autumnal weather for our latest O&A to Petworth Park. Eight members made an early start for the opening at 8am (some earlier than others, but best not to ask why!) It really proved to be the “season of mists….”, in fact so misty[…]
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Exhibition Thank-you
We just want to say thank-you to everybody for visiting the exhibition. We’re collating the visitor numbers and images taken from the presentation of the prizes – will post them shortly.
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