Sunday 19 February 2017

Friday 17th February - Husky Racing

Another good turnout for this event with club members spread throughout Kings Forest West looking for husky action. The early start was well worth it to see the larger teams racing by. The organisers of the event BSHRA were extremely friendly and helpful and kept us informed of what was going on. 

After the morning's excitement a good number of us managed to find our way to the very excellent Elveden Inn for lunch!

Here are a few of our husky images:


Husky Portrait by Kim Scrivener



Resting by Francesca Shearcroft


Getting Untangled by Liz Blake


Having a Chat by Sue Baldwin


Full On by Robin Orrow

A Team of Eight by Geoff Lingwood

Going For It by Daphne Lingwood

One Man and His Dog by Caroline Tillett


Watching You by Graham Jackson


Team of Four by Andy Caws


Go!Go! by Tim Leonard


Samoyed Team by Di Jackson


Flat Out by Andrew Barnes




Friday 17 February 2017

Tuesday 14th February – "My Photographic Journey" by Roy Essery

It was a great pleasure to welcome Roy Essery to our club meeting this week.
Roy prints many of his images and he walked us through his photographic journey from a real newbie to achieving his MPAGB last year; the panel of which was on display. Roy had us all enthralled giving hints and tips along the way on a wide range of photographic subjects, be it papers to use, printing knowhow, actual camera techniques and composition points to note. The stories relating to some of the prints were also very interesting and amusing.
It was a change to see prints as opposed to PDIs and in some instances to compare the same image printed  in colour or black and white or perhaps toned or the same image printed on different papers.
All members were very appreciative and have asked for Roy to come back again.
Some of his images can be seen on his website Click here.

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Tuesday 7 Feb - celebrating more success

They say success breeds success and it's certainly true for our club right now!  

At last Sunday's EAF Interclub PDI Championship we not only progressed into the second round, we finished joint second.  It was very tense and stressful sitting there as the images flashed up for just a few seconds and the three judges' scores were called out!  Our entry of 25 images came from 12 club members and two of them Robin Orrow and Di Jackson, scooped Selector's awards - well done everyone.  This result means that WDPC go forward to the National Championship in July.   

And that's not all...  Robin announced the PAGB GB Open and Nature Cup results and again we did really well and finished up with the big boys in this national competition!  In the GB Cup (Nature) we finished 18th and in the GB Cup (Open) we finished in 14th place.  Caroline Tillett had a surprise when Robin announced she had been awarded a bronze medal for her image 'Spectator' - congratulations Caroline. 

It doesn't end there!  Paula Cooper has had two images accepted in the International Garden Photographer of the Year both of which have been included in the printed book - well done Paula.

After the amazing announcements of the recent club successes we settled down to hear what Robin had to teach us about NIK software.

Starting with the basics Robin clearly explained the principles of how the software worked and then continued to demonstrate the various different software in this suite of programmes, culminating in a very powerful demonstration of how to convert  a coloured image into a black and white. He made the use of the control point technology look easy whilst at the same time showing how powerful and effective it could be.
There was something for everyone, from beginner to advanced. 

Robin had encouraged all members to download NIK which is now freely available, so everyone  should now be able to get to grips with this powerful software to improve their images so we can achieve even more success.


Thanks to Robin for an excellent evening.