Tuesday 11th December – Christmas Social

Traditionally WDPC finishes the year with a Christmas Social. This year was no exception and 34 of us gathered together at The Crown, Gt Ellingham. William and Sarah and their staff looked after us extremely well although sadly Di, who had organised the evening, was unwell and unable to attend. However we were all delighted to see that Jack was back to form.
We all took a night off from photography but one person could not resist a few pics for the record!!

Tuesday 4th December – Table Top / Macro Practical

The two programme secretaries had worked very hard to arrange a number of table top set ups in the hall, including screws on reflective surface, flowers, forks, light tables with slice of various fruit to name but a few. All but one were taken with no flash and only desk lamp lighting.
Members really seemed to enjoy the evening taking images, learning about their cameras, having the opportunity to chat to one another and several were heard to say that they could try some of these things at home in the cold/wet winter days!!
A huge thank you to Christine and Jan for organising it.
Some of the images are shown below.

Blue Bottle by Graham Jackson

Smoke by Diana Graham

Bubbles by Caroline Tillett

Bottles of Light by Roy Scrivener

Bolt City by Di Daniels

Neon Nonsense by Andy Caws

Spoon Reflections by Caroline Tillett

Elf by John Kerr

Blue Bottles by Graham Jackson

A Glass of Feathers by Roy Scrivener

Fruit by John Kerr

Tuesday 27th November – Open Print Competition

We welcomed Howard King to judge the first print competition of the year. The theme was OPEN.
62  images were shown and ranged from wildlife to still life, from portraits to landscape.
Often difficult to judge an OPEN themed competition but not so for Howard. His comments were relevant, helpful, constructive, timely and not repetitive for each image.
The high scoring images are shown below.

River Coupall Waterfall by Nick Akers 20/20

Resting Fever Fly by Liz Akers 20/20

Golden Eagle Flying Low by Dawn Osborn 20/20

A Touch of Class by Graham Frost 20/20

Hard Times by Graham Frost 20/20

Cacti by Daphne Lingwood 20/20

Shag at Nest by Nick Akers 20/20

Snowy Egret Displaying by Dawn Osborn 20/20

Bag Man by Di Jackson 20/20

Young Grey Seals on the Beach by Mick Ladner 20/20

Chiaroscuro by Chris Kot 20/20

Sinopia Rin by Chris Kot 20/20

A Study of Concentration by Chas Youens 19/20

Otter by Geoff Lingwood 19/20

Brown Bear by Paula Cooper 19/20

Bittern with Rudd by Caroline Tillett 19/20

Wherever I Lay My Hat by Andy Caws 19/20

Scottish Sea Scape by Liz Akers 19/20

Cobbalds Point by Roy Scrivener 19/20

Flood Tide by Daphne Lingwood 19/20

Feeding Hoverfly by Martyn Anderson 19/20

Minsmere RSPB Nature Reserve - Thursday 22nd November

Many thanks to everyone that turned up for this club event despite the cold, miserable grey day.  Many of us found the very low light quite tricky to deal with and had to really push the ISO up - we’ll see which software deals best with all the noise.

Some of us were lucky enough to get good sightings of the Bittern and Grey Heron from Island hide - some of us were not so lucky!  There were also numerous Marsh Harriers over the reed beds at Island and Bittern hides which were fantastic to watch. 

Here’s a few of our images below:

Bittern by Robin Orrow

Marsh Harrier - Island Hide by Christine Frost

Grey Heron by Robin Orrow

Bracing Breeze by Andy Caws

Cold Enough for Penguins by Graham Frost

The Elusive Bittern by Francesca Shearcroft

Heron by Diana Daniels

Marsh Harrier by Martin Hill

View from Island Hide by Andy Low

High Key Shoveller by Robin Orrow

Bittern by Diana Daniels

Marsh Harrier by Di Jackson

Fly Agaric by Andy Lowe

Mr and Mrs Teal by Francesca Shearcroft

Marsh Harrier by Martin Hill

Grey Heron by Andy Lowe