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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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 moreCongratulations 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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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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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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There are just a few days left until the opening of our 2018 Exhibition. For the society’s 10th Anniversary our exhibition has returned to Bishop’s Waltham being held in the United Free Church, Basingwell Street. Not only will you able to see a great selection of prints and digital images[…]
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Luckily the closure of the M27 did not affect our travel plans to the Hawk Conservancy and 4 members and a guest spent several pleasant hours there. It is always challenging to photograph animals in captivity due to the wire mesh etc of the enclosures, and the Hawk Conservancy is[…]
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Oh, the woes of the landscape photographer! Thirteen of us journeyed to the New Forest, all with the idea of capturing glorious purple heather basking in the golden light of a magnificent sunset. It was not to be. The day had looked promising but as evening approached, so did a[…]
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After all the beautiful summer evenings of the past weeks, we were threatened with rain for our latest Out and About to Hengistbury Head and with grey skies all day, it did not look at all promising. Eight foolhardy members decided to risk it and were rewarded with a dry[…]
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The annual Southampton Mela saw 4 members attending. Primarily the Mela is a celebration of music and dance from different cultures, so there were plenty of very colourful artists to photograph. With strong sunshine causing a lot of bright reflections and highlights, yet dark backgrounds to the stages, photography was[…]
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