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Last week’s meeting: Sensor cleaning with Peter Brogden of Just cameraclean.co.uk and Robert from Imagex Bicester   Peter gave a very entertaining and instructive talk about why and how to clean that all important camera sensor. He started by showing us a house of horrors of poor or no existent care of camera and lens, […]

Last week’s meeting: An insight into Zimanga with Les Gordon and How difficult I find shooting wildlife with Helen Webb   Les gave a presentation of a trip he took with five other club members to the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal province, north-eastern South Africa.   The reserve is custom made for wildlife

Last week’s meeting: Digital Projected Image competition No. 1   Results of the competition were:   1st Place: Greet Bloom – Sanderling 2nd Place: Dave Belcher – Fun at the Sea Side 3rd Place: Dave Stroud – Little Owl   Highly Commended: Peter Warrington – Down in the Thistles Helen Webb – His Majesty Helen

Last week’s meeting: John Boteler – landscape, seascape and people   Before John’s presentation started Ivor had some good news regarding Tim Simmons: he is back home after his operation and though obviously weak he is on the mend. He thanks us for all the messages he has received.   It is customary for John

Brian began his presentation explaining how different light – harsh, soft, near, further away – affects the final photograph and how it can be easy and less easy to be controlled. He explained the ‘inverse square law’ which basically says that the further away the light is from the subject, or background, the light drops

Last week’s meeting: Eddy Lane: “Svalbard, Kingdom of the Ice Bear”   Eddy started his presentation saying that the images were both his and his wife Pam’s. They had taken a lengthy trip involving three flights to get to Svalbard well inside the Artic Circle. The islands are just 700 miles from the North Pole.

Southampton International Exhibition with Sue Sibley   Sue, who is chair of the Southampton International Exhibition, showed all the accepted and winning images for the exhibition, starting first with Landscape, then Nature, followed by Wildlife and finally the Open section. Instead of the usual images with music Sue did a running comment on the images

Last week’s meeting: The Lifeboat Station Project with Jack Lowe   “Once you’ve seen one lifeboat station you’ve seen them all,” is not a phrase that Jack Lowe is ever likely to use, given that he has been visiting and photographing them for 10 years and will be continuing to do so for the next

Wildlife and Macro with Andrew McCarthy   For his day job Andrew is an ecologist and he manages to mix his business with his photographic pleasure: British wildlife photography. He started his talk with a photo of Britain’s largest native mammal – a red deer stag – and ended his talk with some of the

Last week’s meeting: Animal Magic – Phil Joyce To the strains of BBC’s Animal Magic theme tune Phil began his talk with a photo of him as a very young boy with a toy zoo. He was very much attracted to Animal Magic and the way Johnny Morris brought the animals alive to a young