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Last week’s meeting: I Love/Hate My Relationship With My Phone – Pete Warrington Before Pete started his presentation, he had a few words from his tormentor and alter ego Sam Sung, who said that despite Pete’s best efforts it is he who is in control of the camera on Pete’s phone. Any half-decent shots that […]

 ‘The Power of Raw – Bringing Your Image to Life’ – Michael Pilkington of Aspect 2i   Michael lifted the lid on Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and explained what all those ‘sliders’ did in a way that made sense of the labels Adobe, for some bewildering reason, gave them. Seeing the ‘sliders’ in the way

Mik Critchlow ‘The Documentary Approach’ Mik’s talk was a photographic love letter to his hometown Ashington and its people. The first half was a monochrome celebration of ‘what was’, starting in 1977 and finishing with the closure of Ashington and Woodhorn collieries in 1988. The second half, both in colour and black and white, was

Up High, Down Low – Landscape Photography with and without a drone – Steven Fairbrother Steven’s day job is a freelance graphic designer, so he is well steeped in the workings of visual art and a lot of his photographs, if not all, reveal an eye for visual design. He started his talk with the

Last week’s meeting – ‘Second Nature – Developing Expression in our Wildlife Photography’ – Steve and Ann Toon   For the last 20 years Ann and Steve Toon have been taking photos of wildlife in Africa, mainly in southern Africa. They started their presentation with photos taken very recently from a trip to Kgalagadi Transfrontier

Last week’s meeting – Keith, Les and Helen’s Out Of Africa Photographic Trip 2021 Due to Covid travel restrictions the group’s (Ivor, Les Keith and Helen) tour of Namibia faced several postponements and changes but eventually last year the four of them set off. Keith started the talk with a summary of the itinerary, a

Last week’s meeting – Panel Competition judged by Phil Joyce   Phil began the evening by reminding everyone of the rules for the panel competition and emphasised the following: 3.2b Each panel of pictures should explore and represent a theme, as explained/referred to in the title. 3.2c Digital panels will be a single image made

Last week’s meeting – Architecture Through the Viewfinder – three decades of commercial architectural shooting – Martine Hamilton-Knight Martine has been a professional architectural photographer since 1990 and for the first 15 years shot on a 5×4 film camera. She had some interesting stories about her career. In her first year of a photography degree

Last week’s meeting – John Bull’s favourite 100  Back in 2014 John was given a blank photo album which he duly filled with his favourite photos, which were mainly of family and friends. He came across it recently and thought he ‘could do better than that’ and instead of re-filling it he decided to do

Last week’s meeting – STREET with David Gibson   David started his talk off with a quote: “It’s a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it’ll do till a mess gets here.” Cormac McCarthy, ‘No country for old man’. David said that this sums up his photography – a mess. He added that his