An outline of what the Chair expects as "mundane" for the Chair's Challenge competition at the AGM.

The beginning of this month saw Food Photographer Lara Jane Thorpe join us for a summer get together ... the weather was kind, the food...

Nick Hedges "The families depicted were caught in a never ending cycle of poverty, insecurity, and frequently ill health. Their evident...

The Second of June saw the club visiting the world famous Swannery at Abbotsbury under the watchful eye of Charlie Wheeler. Charlie...

Obvious really, because right from the start it was clear where Carlos Guaritos sympathies lay ... He wasn't with the ex public...

Cape Disappointment, Exsaperation Inlet and Desolation Island ... seems like some of those early explorers needed a bit of a mood lift...

The Barnikel evening covered all of that and more but first ... we need to talk about David, David Barnikel. Founding member of the club...

We met at the Town Hall to discuss a sense of place ... we started of with a complicated graphic but, over the course of the evening, boiled it down to quite a simple statement. For a photograph to have A Sense of Place it has to convey what it 'feels' like to be there ... but you don't necessarily need to know where 'there' is ... Essentially, we decided that, in photography terms, this diagram provides examples of 'hooks' that help to convey a sense of place. If your photog

Peggy's Cove Lighthouse was where it started A chance encounter with a strange man on a deserted beach in Nova Scotia whilst on honeymoon...

To be honest, I just like alliteration! A few weeks back we had a discussion evening about light in photography. It ranged wildly through...

How? Photorealistic montage, joiners, multi layered three dimensional photographic art, and old school ... The last two meetings, one on zoom and one at the hall, have been dedicated to the art of montage. And it is in the spirit of that visual reordering of things that we are going to start a sentence with 'and', then start our analysis in the middle ... with Stephen Wilkes. Thirty hours up a cherry picker, thousands of images, and half a lifetime on a computer stiching them

Strolling is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live. Honoré de Balzac Last week we had quick romp...

The Great Fire of London put an end to the Bubonic Plague that had blighted London for two years. It was still remembered in the...

Learn the rules like a professional ... break them like an artist ...

I once heard Stephen Fry recount a tale about shaking hands with Alistair Cooke (of Letter From America fame), Alistair announced that he...

This season for the Club’s Chair’s challenge, which I judge at the AGM in May 2025, I want you to make a record cover . Your photograph...

Or, how to capture the 'essence' of a place within a single image. It's the big competition coming up at the club this season. And just...

This coming season we have a competition based around the theme of light ... Photography literally means 'the study of light', it...

This coming season we have a competition based around our use of colour. We are surrounded by colour, most of our photography is in...

Trying to plan a trip in advance to coincide with bluebells is a tricky business with our unpredictable weather. We arranged a visit to...