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Last week’s meeting Tues 3 December: Intimate (Land)scape explained with Adrian Cubitt and members’ Show and Tell    Adrian took us on a search for the mythical and illusive beast that is the Intimate (Land)scape genre. All this was in preparation for the Intimate Landscape competition run by Tring and District Camera Club. Some 14 camera clubs have enrolled in this competition which “celebrates the creativity and variety of images that the subject ‘Intimate Scapes’ inspires”

Last week’s meeting Tues 26 November: Wildlife for all Seasons with Robert Harvey Roger organised his presentation around the four seasons starting with winter. He shoots most of his wildlife subjects with a 400mm or 600mm lens. For Roger birds look their best in winter and if you feed them in your garden and strategically position perches you can get incredible shots of them with pleasing backgrounds. Thanks to the winter light and staging he had a beautiful shot of an iridescent starling, a bird that is so easily underrated as a subject. Chaffinches tend to hover before they settle on a bird feeder and setting his aperture at f/8 and shutter speed at 1/2000 of a second he got a pin sharp shot of the bird in midair.

Last week’s meeting Tues 19 November: Out of Africa with Helen and Keith Helen and Keith gave us a fascinating and informative presentation about not only photographing the wildlife of Kenya and Zambia, but also the habits and behaviour of the wildlife they photographed.

Last week’s meeting Tues 12 November: Sorrow, Dawn Rogers This was an extremely moving presentation. Not surprising given that the subject matter was Dawn’s grieving process of losing her brother Geoff, who was in his early 20s when he died. The timing made the evening poignant as the anniversary of his death was the day before.

Last week’s meeting Tues 5 November: Light Painting   This was our take on Guy Fawkes Night. It was dark, it was cold, but it was a great night playing around with light. We had birds on sticks, pulsating multi coloured light trails, the resurrection of a long dead mummy, and a badly recreation of Lewis Morley’s famous photo of Christine Keller sat on a chair. Please see a few photos of the evening.

Next Tuesday’s meeting 5 November at 19.30: It’s light painting on bonfire night Our take on Guy Fawkes Night. Bring your camera, tripod, remote/cable shutter release and we will do light painting photography. Wrap up in warm clothes, bring your own parkin but most importantly bring your creativity. Please park at the front or on the left of the band hall so that we can use the back and the right hand side for outside photography

And the results are as follows : Colour Print First Sandra Devaney Chowrie Man Second Keith Worthington Stalking Lioness Third Dave Atkinson Giraffes, Early Morning Light Highly Commended Phil Warrington Roe Dash Highly Commended Dave Belcher Hampshire Cricket Highly Commended Ian Bray Cosmos Commended Pete Warrington Strolling to the Regatta Commended Adrian Cubitt Banded Demoiselle Commended Les Gordon Neck and Neck Commended Mike Ashcroft Santa’s Secret Monochrome Print First Terry Carpenter Foggy Morning Walk Second Dave MacKay Feeding the Birds Third John Boteler Kiftsgate Park Highly Commended Dave Mackay Vikas Highly Commended Mike Ashcroft Pebble Lane Highly Commended Les Gordon Going Flatout Commended Dave Atkinson Buffaloes Drinking Commended Alan Lewis Crocodile Commended Dave Atkinson Cheetah in Tree Commended Phil Warrington  Derelict Pier Congratulations to everyone who took part.

We had a very busy evening shooting various subjects on numerous tables and a light box set-up for photography. There was a non-paying guest which Dave S brought along called Cedric the Stick Insect (see a portrait of Cedric in a menacing mood that Dave took). There were lots of shots taken of her/him as s/he paused for the portraits.

1. Last week’s meeting Tues 1 October: Ivor’s nature and wildlife, with a twist Ivor gave a very engaging presentation his nature and wildlife photographs. The twist was that instead of having the audience sit is reverence silence Ivor got us to participate in the presentation.

Congratulations to all and many thanks to everyone who entered their images and to everyone who participated on the night. Special thanks to Jill who managed to get all the totals together on the night and pulled all the scores together.