Photography News | Issue 62 | photographynews.co.uk
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TheUK’s newest camera club Fstop Foto Group was recently created by Dave and Steve Mundy as a new format of camera club to address some of the failings of the traditional club format. environment where the author can challenge the critique too.
Farnborough CC will now be meeting at Cody Sports and Social Club, Old Ively Road, The Fairway, Farnborough GU14 0LP. This is close to Farnborough airfield which is where the club started over 75 years ago. The Club will continue to meet on most Thursdays between September and May. Farnborough CCon themove
“We’ve even challenged the structure of membership too. We do not have a subscription, but rather charge £5 per meeting, which helps to keep us focused on delivering content that members really want. “It is still early days but the initial response has been incredibly positive with a membership of 35 after only a few weeks. Now that we are up and running we will be opening membership up to all.” The club meets at 7.30pm on Wednesdays at Woodlands Park Village Centre, Manifold Way, Waltham Road, Maidenhead SL6 3GW.
“In our view the camera club scene had not developed and moved on with the times,” says Steve Mundy. “There is the same old programme year after year with the same competitions, judges and speakers. Too many judges have lost touch with contemporary trends and mark solely on the ‘camera club competition image’ expectations. Many clubs are forced to book speakers to fill the programme but many are very poor speakers with poor images and, surprisingly, many of the worst are judges showing their own work. I also
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feel most clubs struggle to achieve active member involvement and thus the members sit, watch and grumble. “We started the group to address these perceived failings. One of the key ambitions is better engagement with themembers and to spend time
reviewing and enjoying members’ images. We have a monthly themed challenge which is presented for critique, but each image is introduced by the photographer first rather than being anonymous. It is specifically not a competition so there are no scores but a learning
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Great Notley PCwin Great Notley PC, runners up in the PN Camera Club of the Year, won the North Essex DPI trophy. The competition this year was hosted by Colchester PS and Great Notley PC battled it out against 11 other Essex clubs with a winning score of 88/100. The highest scoring
Enjoy an evening with Dr Michael Leach
Todmorden PS’s club meetings will be held at Todmorden Town Hall in the centre of town. Meetings are every Wednesday,withdoorsopening at 7.15pm and meetings starting at 7.30pm. The venue has disabled access and there is ample parking nearby. TodmordenPS has anewvenue
Clacton Camera Club is hosting an evening with Dr Michael Leach, wildlife author and photographer, on 1 March 2019. Michael has travelled to all seven continents and worked with many of the world’s most charismatic animals – polar bears in the Arctic, gorillas in central Africa, lemurs in Madagascar, sperm whales in the mid-Atlantic, monkeys in the Amazon, penguins in the Antarctic and elephants in Kenya – and has been described as ‘a unique wildlife humourist.’ The venue is McGrigor Hall, Fourth Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea,
In 2019 Strathaven CC will be celebrating its 70th anniversary and it rounded off 2018 with its finest success in recent years, when the club was awarded the Kirkintilloch Plate at the Scottish Photographic Federation’s Digital Championships. Three judges had to select the winning shots fromover 700 images. Strathaven did well in the first round Strathaven CC image was No Entry by Lisa Greenwood, shown here, which scored 20/20. GNPC is also pleased to announce that there’s an exhibition of members’ images until 31 January at the Braintree Library, Essex. The club meets on Thursday nights at The Church in Great
Essex CO13 9EB and tickets cost £10 each which includes refreshments. Tickets available via phone or email, details below. Wendy Leech: 07778 743263 w.gillphotoarts@btopenworld. com clactoncameraclub.co.uk
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Notley, Bridge End Lane, Great Notley CM77 7GN from 7.45pm, September through to June.
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and were only nine points short of going through to the final eight clubs – the final was won by Dumfries CC. The remaining clubs then competed for the Plate having to submit ten images each to gain a maximumof fivepointsper imageper judge. Strathaven’s Robert Young’s shot Auldhouse Snow gained the maximum 15 points, and Strathaven won the plate by three points.
Clay Cross exhibition closing soon
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Chichester CC’s showcase
and awards. Some of our long- established members are no longer active photographers, and this exhibition provides a very welcome chance to showcase some of their highly regarded prints from the pre-digital age, alongside our current work.” The exhibition runs until 10 March 2019 at the Novium Museum, Tower Street, Chichester, West Sussex,PO19 1QH.
There’s still time to enter the Clay Cross National Projected Image exhibition with 26 January 2019 the closing date for entries. There are five entry classes: colour, monochrome, nature, creative and scapes. Entries accepted into the 2019 exhibition will count towards the BPE Crown Awards. Entry is via the website photoexhib. co.uk/cxe/login.php
Chichester area and a showcase of current work. The exhibition includes a striking timeline of the Club’s history, featuring a photograph from the archives of a club trip from 1896. Member Dave Abbott has backed this up with a veritable treasure trove of detail from his research that has discovered much about those original members and their activities.
A Celebration of People and Places is a special collaboration between Chichester CC and the Novium, Chichester’s district museum. The museum invited the Club to put together an exhibition that marks 125 years since the inception of the Club as Chichester Photographic Society. The exhibition provides an opportunity to show prints from the club’s archive as well as photographs of the
Lorna Brown, former club chair, says, “The club’s membership these days is very wide, from absolute beginners to those with photographic distinctions
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