Margaret, who is a tutor for the Open University, gave a brief background to her introduction and interest in photography before showing an impressive selection of her monochrome images, which covered landscapes, animals and people taken in a wide variety of countries, from her native Wales to New Zealand, together with a number of creative […]
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Club Competition – 26 March 2021
The competition was in two parts: images taken before 2016 and images taken after 1 March 2021, with members voting. An added twist was an opportunity for members to guess who was the photographer of each image before the results were declared. There was a variety of subjects in each category and some images in […]
Adrian Lines Talk – “People, Portraits and Pachyderms” – 12 March 2021
The Star Wars style of the opening credits of this recorded presentation, including Adrian’s statement that he doesn’t do “straight photography” should have given a clue that this was not to be about conventional photography! It comprised a series of 40 images, each made up of a number of other images, brought together in a […]
Photo editing demonstrations – 26 February 2021
Two of our members, Steve Eckhardt and Andy McGarty, gave demonstrations of the software they use for photo editing. Andy started first, using Darktable, showing how the different tools available could be used to improve a portrait image. This was followed by Steve demonstrating how the use of templates and other tools in Luminar were […]
Club Competition – 12 February 2021
The set subject for this competition was “Still Life”, with Open entries in addition. We were pleased to have Dennis Russ from Swansea Camera Club as judge and to comment on the images. The Open section was viewed first; a total of 36 entries covering a wide range of subjects. The winning image was a […]
“As I See It” – Rosemary Wilman, HonFRPS,ABPE,AFIAP,APAGB – 29 January 2021
We were pleased to have Rosemary Wilman join us to give her presentation -“As I See It”. She presented her images as a number of sections, inviting questions at the end of each one. The first section was a selection of random images, including some minimalist and abstract themes. We were then transported to the […]