Last Monday 9 June the club Summer event was at Salthill Quarry Nature Reserve and Geology Trail. The event was well attended and several members had a go at macro and nature photography. The task was made both easy and hard by the fact that the people responsible for the reserve have marked all the […]
Category: Activities
Helmshore Textile Museum
Last Sunday, 23 March the club held its most recent outside activity. Many thanks to our Activities Coordinator Barry Noon who organised yet another excellent outing this time to Helmshore Textile Museum. A large number of members made the trip an everyone found it interesting and enjoyable. I hope the photos looked as good on […]
Projects
Last night I talked about shooting photo-essays.Taking images for an essay is very different than making photographs for competition. Although the technical aspects are important they shouldn’t be the overall concern. The most important aspect of photo-essay ‘writing’ is the story which is being told. That being said the set of photographs should be of […]
Projects and Books
Last night Lee Johnson gave a presentation on projects and photo essays. If you want to change your approach to photography from making isolated images to a series in essay form then perhaps the best way is to look at Photobooks. One of the finest to start with is “The Americans” which was revolutionary when […]
Results Activities Competition
Beginners Prints 1st Peter Elliot – Tree Silhouette 2nd Michael Green – Last Rays of Sun 3rd Michael Green – Low Awning River DPI’s 1st – Peter Elliot – Orchid 2nd – Nan Goodall – Tidal Wave of Ducks 3rd – Nan Goodall – Bolton Abbey Com Nan Goodall – Cloud Silhouettes Advanced DPI’s 1st […]
MI3 Results pt2
This is the second set of prints from the disposable camera exercise