2023

Hungary Our trip to Hungary was nearly 4 years in the making. We booked the trip pre covid and finally our flight was booked for the early hours of Sunday 21st July 2023. 7 OPS members were due to leave Oxford at 3am however the BA flight was postponed at the last minute.  After rearranging […]

Last week’s meeting: My Photography with Dave Belcher, followed by members’ Show and Tell   Dave started his talk with superb shots of birds: owls, gannets fighting over food, ospreys lifting off the water with a catch, Olly the cuckoo at a secret location near Guildford (first sighting of a cuckoo this season!), a magnificent

Joe gave us a quick run-down of Lightroom 12.2 and some of the tools he would be using. His first image was John Bull’s photo of a roller-coaster. Joe said this was essentially all silhouette and he would mask the sky to brighten up the sky and fix the vertical and horizontal lines of the

Last week’s meeting: Chromatecture with Linda Wride   Before showing the images Linda gave two reasons why she is drawn to photographing the built environment, and two reasons why she isn’t attracted to other forms of photography. She has lived in cities all her life and all her working career has been spent linked to

Last week’s meeting: Rosebowl Competition Round 2 – Oxford PS, Leighton Buzzard PC, Woodley CC, Marlow CC.   Scores for the evening were:   1st           OXFORD                              255 2nd          LEIGHTON BUZZARD        240 3rd          WOODLEY                          232 4th          MARLOW                           229   Which means that, barring some catastrophe, we will be in the final of the Rosebowl. Congratulations

Last meeting: Dave McKay – The Constant Traveller   Last year Dave finally manage to catch up with the travels he had to postpone due to the Covid pandemic. He went to Angola and Indonesia and we were treated to his images, videos and stories from those trips.   He travelled with Bharat and Bharat’s