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Celebrating 125years Exhibition and lecture for 125-year old Croydon
NEWS INBRIEF
DAVYHULME CC
Having first met on 10 March 1890, Croydon Camera Club is celebrating its 125th birthday this year. The celebrations coincide with the club’s annual exhibition, which is at the Click- Clock Gallery in Katharine Street, 2-28 March (shut Sundays). More than 130 prints and projected images will be on display. The club is also holding the 2015 Wratten Lecture on 11 March. Author of more than 60 titles, Michael Freeman is giving the talk, The Photographer’s Eye: On Travel. He’ll draw on his 40-year career shooting principally for magazines and books, advising on how to meet the increasing challenge for photographers, particularly travel shooters: how to get photos we can think of as our own, that no one else has shot. The Wratten Lecture is open to non-members. Tickets cost £5 and can be ordered by post; send a cheque payable to Croydon Camera Club to Wratten, 12 Wickham Road, Croydon CR0 8BA, with a standard size SAE.
ON THE MOVE Davyhulme CC has moved venue after more than 30 years in Flixton, Manchester – but only by a few hundred metres. They now meet at Brook Road Methodist Church, Urmston M41 5RQ and still on Wednesdays at 7.45pm. As always, visitors are sure of a warm welcome. www.davyhulme.org.uk or follow @davyhulmecc
LEFT Mohamed the fisherman by Dave Newman. RIGHT End of the day by Michael Hope.
π To find out more, go to www.croydoncameraclub.org.uk or phone 020 8654 3041.
Upminster’sOpenPanel Commemorating much-loved member and judge, Dennis Mickleburgh
a workshop. Then the afternoon is dedicated to a critique of the selected panels and the final selection of winners, including PAGB gold, silver and bronze medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, plus PAGB ribbons for the highly commended panels. This year the contest takes place on Saturday 11 April. Richard Walton FRPS is judging and again the competition has been awarded PAGB Patronage. The morning workshop is being run by PW Academy.
When respected Upminster CC member, Dennis Mickleburgh died in 2000, the club wanted to do something in his memory. A leading judge and enthusiastic promoter of amateur photography and club membership, Dennis was also twice president of the East Anglian Federation so it seemed fitting that the club established the Dennis Mickleburgh Open Panel. The competition, which first took place in 2011, is held on one day, with pre-selection in themorningwhile the audience enjoys
ABOVE Ken Scott ARPS was the presiding judge in 2013 when some 77 panels of six prints were entered from individuals from across the south east of England.
π To find out more and to enter, go to www.upminstercameraclub.org.uk or email Dave Wilcox chairman@upminstercameraclub.co.uk.
Club outing
The City of London and Cripplegate Photographic Society recently enjoyed a trip of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands. This is Jean Jameson’s story of the trip
threat from too many visitors and too much modernisation, so the whole area is a protected national park and there are restrictions as to where you can go. “Despite this, we had a most fantastic time, climbing volcanoes in the mists of the tropical rains, snorkelling from boats to see basking sharks and green turtles and trekking across the sand to see the blue- footed boobies, huge land iguanas and the great frigate birds with their red balloon mating sacs. Without many predators, the creatures are fairly tame and wait patiently for their portraits to be taken. The nature of the guided tours meant that we were often shooting in full sun, with a tight timetable and warnings not to stray from the paths. “Olympus had lent us a couple of underwater cameras and that was, for me, the best experience ever; at one point, when I had mastered my fear but not the camera technique, a small penguin shot past my screen to the right, just as the sleek torpedo of a brown seal glided deep in the other direction, all against the background of vivid blue and yellow fish swishing backwards and forwards like a kaleidoscope. I remember thinking it can’t get better than this. “Once home, club competitions were flooded, to the bemusement of some judges, by blue-footed boobies, troupes of prehistoric, black marine iguanas, huge, brightly coloured land ones and unique landscapes. Even macro images of the volcanic black sand have figured – and succeeded. No pictures, of course, of lonesome George, the famous last giant tortoise who died a few years ago – a symbol of what is feared about the future of the Galapagos.”
“City of London and Cripplegate PS is not in the habit of group outings on this scale. It all came about because one of our members, Julie Calvert of Shutterspeedtravel, is also a trustee of the Book Bus project and they were planning a visit to the archipelago. They needed volunteers to work with schoolchildren in the mornings for a minimum of two weeks. This would leave the afternoons, evenings and weekends, plus an optional, additional week, free for exciting photography, so five of us signed up. “We had chosen to spend a day and night in Guayaquil on the mainland. For most of us, it was our first time in South America and certainly our first time in Ecuador and the street photography in Guayaquil was fascinatingly different and yet similar in some ways, to other big cities. “Between us, we had several Olympus CSCs, Leicas, Nikon and Canon DSLRs and disparate styles, experience and interests. By the time we’d boarded the plane to Barras and taken the ferry to the island of Santa Cruz, we had a considerable body of images from the centre of Guayaquil. “The reality of the volunteer teaching with the Book Bus and also of the photographic opportunities of the islands were slightly different from our expectations. We were able to photograph the children and their school in the highlands of Santa Cruz, but we needed much more time than we expected just for basic living and preparing our lessons. When we did have free time, we explored the nearby town and signed up for various excursions, including trips to other islands. There is a real concern that the amazingly unique nature of the islands and their natural flora and fauna are under
Has your club been on a photo trip or club shoot recently and now wants to share its adventures with fellow photographers? The images can be as exotic or as local as you like, but this is your chance to show off the results. Email brief details (when, where, how many members attended etc) in the first instance to clubnews@photography- news.co.uk and we can go from there. Wherehaveyoubeen?
π To find out more, go to www.cityandcripplegate-ps.org.
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