Lacock Positive

Lacock Positive Meeting 18 September 2025

We welcomed members, new and old, to our second meeting of the Club's year with a preparation talk for an upcoming shoot at Castle Combe racing circuit on 21st September and a catch up on all the Club's shoots that had taken place during the Summer break.

Danny started by showing images he had taken at Le Mans alongside guidance notes on the typical speed and depth of field that might be used for different sorts of images to suggest car movement. Panning is a skill that needs to be practised and settings will depend on the distance to the car and the speed of travel. A head on shot and alternate ways of showing speed were also discussed and illustrated.

This and the following five images © Danny Wootton 2025

Danny also suggested looking for interesting car details, paddock portraits and perhaps even abstract interpretations.

He finished by sharing his 'how to' notes and suggestions on camera settings. Let's hope it doesn't rain too much... but take an umbrella just in case!

The first Summer shoot shown was from Lydiard Park (lydiardpark@swindon.gov.uk) at the beginning of July, which proved to be a lovely evening of golden sun providing plenty of light and shade opportunities. A selection of images are shown below:

Reflection © Caroline Howe 2025

Cool Spot © Sue Power 2025

Next up was a July shoot at a Dauntsey Park Horse Trials event where a mix of members with and without experience of this type of photography attended and enjoyed. (https://www.horse-events.co.uk/venues/dauntsey-park/).

Next, a good turnout went to Hungerford, some for the first time, and had fun exploring the canal area in lovely early evening light.

The final Summer shoot, at the end of August, was at Brown's Folly (https://www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/brownes-folly) but the weather was changeable and challenging and the hoped for sunset did not arrive.

A review of images taken on World Photography Day 19 August was also made and a selection of these can be seen on an earlier posting (4th September) on this blog.

Finally, Congratulations to Philip Male for his Highly Commended image of A Pair of Little Owls! See: https://www.wiltshirewildlife.org/photo-prize-winners

Need for Speed, Lacock Positive, next meeting, 18th September 2025

Our next meeting will be held on 18th September, and at that meeting one of our members, Danny Wootton, will be talking about the preparation for a visit to Castle Combe Autumn Classic Racing Festival (21st Sept).

The club offers potential new members up to three trial meetings before committing to join, so if you are interested, do come along on 18th September to meet us, and then maybe join us at Castle Combe.

For more information, please contact our Chairman, Lesley Cadger : lcadger66@googlemail.com

The picture below was taken at the Castle Combe Classic in 2022.

Lacock Positive Meeting, 4th September 2025, Part 3

Our final review of photos at this meeting was a group of Black and White photos of wildlife.

This is a selection:

Giraffes in the Masai Mara © Julia Lloyd-Parks

Accusing eyes © Craig Purvis

Ruddy Turnstone © Derek Liversidge

Lacock Positive Meeting, 4th September 2025, Part 2

Our summer challenge was to take photographs of entrances and exits, and there was a huge variety of approaches. Here are some examples.

Enter dirty, exit clean © Derek Liversidge

To the secret garden © Jeremy Fox

Ford Motor Company, Entrance and Exit © Pam Bamford

Entrance © Philip Male

Snowshill © David Sage

Enter stage left, exit stage right © Tony Bamford

Blue Front Door, Corsham © Adam Jacques

Lacock Positive meeting 4th September 2025

Over the summer our members have been out and about, taking photos for our One Month/One Photo challenge, and also our summer challenge of Entrances and Exits.

The One Month/One Photo challenges gives us an opportunity to see what we have all been up to, and where we have visited. Hopefully it will trigger some inspiration to visit new places, or try new techniques.

Here are some of the pictures taken for June and July.

JUNE PICTURES

©Helen Day

©Philip Male

JULY PICTURES

©Lesley Cadger