Now that Summer is officially here (even if not always obvious!), we have plans to continue meeting over the next few months at various town locations for evening shoots. The first trip will be to Bradford-on-Avon, meeting at 7pm at the Station Car Park and the contact there will be Derek Hawkins.
Our last meeting was one of several parts. We held our AGM and the committee for 2016-17 was agreed: Chair - Derek Hawkins, Deputy Chair - t/f, Treasurer - Ruth Baldwin, Programme Lead - Sue Power. Plus: Paul Phelps will plan the 2017 exhibition, Bob Bray will look after the photography book library and Jean Drewett will continue to be i/c refreshments and represent the club on the Village Hall Committee. Among other items discussed: the membership and meeting fee will remain the same and reviews of the way we conduct critiques of members' images and how we pass on information from more experienced members to those with less need to be held. Thanks were given to all contributors to the club.
Next, we enjoyed Howard Morland's presentation of the work of Thomas Heaton, a landscape photographer based in Tynemouth. This featured both slide images and a video showing Heaton's work in Iceland and Scandinavia, and both prompted a good discussion.
The plan had been to show members' images for the first of the Tribattle challenges but technical difficulties meant we had to postpone this until the Autumn. So we wrapped up the evening with an 'end of year' social by enjoying Jean's overflowing table of strawberries, meringues, cream and other delectables!
The next meeting in the Manor Room will be September 8 2016.
Meeting: Thursday 23 June 2016
At our next meeting we will be taking a first look at images for the challenge 'A Pair of...'. Howard Morland will be talking about a photographer he admires - Thomas Heaton (www.thomasheaton.co.uk) from Tynemouth. And to round it off we will conduct our AGM and enjoy a social drink!
It was a shame that fine weather or holidays maybe prevented more people coming to our last meeting as we had an excellent evening. To start, members' low level images from 9 June were shown - Derek showed one with a GoPro camera half in and half out of the River Avon while Amanda stood in the river to take one of hers! Jane looked up at birds and signs while Philip showed an AV of 'grave' images taken on a 16-35mm lens at f/2.8.
Philip Male talked on 'Wildlife and I' and took us through his photographic career from his start as a young teenager discovering that shooting wildlife with a camera is better than doing it with an air rifle. He talked about the cameras, lens and hides he has used over time and showed excellent images of birds and animals taken in his garden, the UK and the USA.
Bob Bray then showed results of taking motion-triggered infra-red video in his garden. We were amazed at shots of an athletic fox and hedgehog.
Derek Hawkins shared results of some of his long-term projects. The first was a sequence of time-lapse images from 2015 set to well-chosen music and secondly, a different look at well-known monuments and White Horses in and around Wiltshire. Derek uses GoPro & Mobius cameras & his I-Phone to get his great output.
It was a shame that fine weather or holidays maybe prevented more people coming to our last meeting as we had an excellent evening. To start, members' low level images from 9 June were shown - Derek showed one with a GoPro camera half in and half out of the River Avon while Amanda stood in the river to take one of hers! Jane looked up at birds and signs while Philip showed an AV of 'grave' images taken on a 16-35mm lens at f/2.8.
Philip Male talked on 'Wildlife and I' and took us through his photographic career from his start as a young teenager discovering that shooting wildlife with a camera is better than doing it with an air rifle. He talked about the cameras, lens and hides he has used over time and showed excellent images of birds and animals taken in his garden, the UK and the USA.
Bob Bray then showed results of taking motion-triggered infra-red video in his garden. We were amazed at shots of an athletic fox and hedgehog.
Derek Hawkins shared results of some of his long-term projects. The first was a sequence of time-lapse images from 2015 set to well-chosen music and secondly, a different look at well-known monuments and White Horses in and around Wiltshire. Derek uses GoPro & Mobius cameras & his I-Phone to get his great output.
Meeting: Thursday 9 June 2016
As members made the most of a light, warm summer evening at our last meeting to take low-level images around Lacock, we will take the opportunity to review these before we listen to Philip Male and his 'Wildlife and I' talk and watch the timelapse prepared by Derek Hawkins.
Meeting: Thursday May 26 2016
We are going to be weather dependent for our next meeting! If it is NOT raining, it will be a bring-your-camera evening and a shoot in Lacock. If it IS raining, member & wildlife enthusiast Philip Male will be showing some of his many images under the title 'Wildlife & I'.
Our last meeting included Ruth Baldwin giving a presentation about Tim Flach (website: timflach.com), showing some of his animal images, in particular horses and dogs. Members discussed his use of unusual cropping and Flach's challenging questions about how we treat animals, what animals might make of us and extreme breeding programmes.
Pete Shaw talked about flash photography, taking us through the equipment we need and giving us a basic technical understanding of such aspects as flash sync speed, TTL, master/slave setups and second curtain sync. As very few members currently use flash, there were a lot of questions and we hope to experiment a little more in the future.
David Sage advised that members might like to enter the Visit Wiltshire competition by submitting images capturing the essence of life in Wiltshire. Check out:
http://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/competitions
Our last meeting included Ruth Baldwin giving a presentation about Tim Flach (website: timflach.com), showing some of his animal images, in particular horses and dogs. Members discussed his use of unusual cropping and Flach's challenging questions about how we treat animals, what animals might make of us and extreme breeding programmes.
Pete Shaw talked about flash photography, taking us through the equipment we need and giving us a basic technical understanding of such aspects as flash sync speed, TTL, master/slave setups and second curtain sync. As very few members currently use flash, there were a lot of questions and we hope to experiment a little more in the future.
David Sage advised that members might like to enter the Visit Wiltshire competition by submitting images capturing the essence of life in Wiltshire. Check out:
http://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/competitions
Exhibition - a great success!
Lacock was very busy over the Bank Holiday weekend and many visitors dropped into see our Annual Exhibition in the Village Hall. Most took part in the voting for their three favourite images and there were lots of positive comments about the event!
The top ten images voted for by the public were:
The top ten images voted for by the public were:
1st: Autumn Gold
© David Sage
2nd: Call of Nature
© Philip Male
3rd: Jump for Joy
© Ruth Baldwin
Joint 4th: Island in the Sun
© Sue Power
Joint 4th: Mists of Time
© Phil Selby
Joint 4th: A Threat of Rain
© Sue Kneebone
7th: Morning Breath
© Phil Selby
Joint 8th: Scruffy
© Philip Male
Joint 8th: Bumbling Along
© David Sage
10th: A New Dawn
© Ruth Baldwin
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