Dec
12

Lynda Haney FBPE; EPAGB; EFIAP “My Creative Journey”

Lynda’s photographic interests are wide and varied but her inspiration comes, mostly, from the beauty and diversity of the natural world however she do like the challenge of photographing many diverse subjects. In general her main photographic interest is wildlife but she also enjoys using creative lenses to capture the natural world in a more abstract way.

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Mar
6

Photographing Insects with Marlies Chell CPAGB BPE1*

This is a practical evening. Marlies will set up a number of tables with her collection of exotic insects. Members will need to bring their camera, a macro (close focusing) lens, a tripod and ring flash or twin flashes. If you don’t have all of these do ask other members in the previous weeks.
Between us we can swap lenses and flash gear or put a card in someone else’s camera to take our own macro images.

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Mar
27

Informal Competiton

The theme has been chosen by the winner of the last of these competitions who has also picked two members to join them on the judging panel. A chance to see some different images that we may not enter into externally judged competitions.

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Apr
3

The PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit

Gordon Jenkins APAGB recently judged our annual projected image competition. Tonight he will tell us about the Awards for Photographic Merit of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain illustrated by panels of successful entries for the various levels.

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Apr
24

Battle with Bolton

The home leg of this regular fixture. Both clubs enter the best of the best of their prints and digital images. This is always a high quality evening.

Judged tonight by Nick Hilton EFIAP DPAGB BPE5*

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May
22

Suzanne Powell "Pictorialism"

Suzanne Powell has a Post Graduate Diploma with Merit from British Academy of Photography. She has made a study of the Pictorialist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and has done a great deal of research, particularly into what happened after 1915,

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Jun
5

Jenny Stock, Underwater Photographer

Jenny Stock is an award winning underwater photographer as well as being a professional diver and television director and camera operator above and below the water surface.. Her web site is packed with stunning images and this will be a great evening.

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Jun
26

Informal Competiton

The theme has been chosen by the winner of the last of these competitions who has also picked two members to join them on the judging panel. A chance to see some different images that we may not enter into externally judged competitions.

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Oct
24

Portraiture by Committee

An interactive meeting in which everyone can get involved in directing a portrait shoot.
Members can volunteer to model or sit for a portrait, direct the lighting, camera position and review the shots as they are taken.

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Oct
3

Robert Millin 'Confessions of a Competition Addict (Part 1)'

Robert Millin MFIAP, EFIAP/d3, FBPE, MPSA, GPU Zeus, AWPF

An illustrated journey through his photographic journey to EFIAP/d3, FBPE and various panels. Lots of information, stories and all genres covered. Something for everyone.

Robert is a member of WIGAN 10 Foto Club. Main photographic interests are sport and travel but he will give everything a go. An active competitor in UK and International Competitions as an individual and club competitions as part of WIGAN 10.

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Sept
19

Image appraisal evening

Members will provide images for us to discuss. This is not a competition. We will have images that the author hopes are “good” and also ones that caused problems at either the taking stage or in editing. The idea is to learn from each other.

This evening has been brought forward from October.

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Aug
29

Steve Hoyle

Take Inspiration - Take A View Steve will be showing a selection of images spanning 10 years of intermittent landscape photography in the U.K. and sharing his thoughts on photography in general.

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Aug
22

Masters of Print

We will be showing the 60 prints that didn’t quite make it into the PAGB Masters of Print Exhibition. This is a chance to see high quality photographic printing at first hand.
This is a change to our programme. The Panels of Four evening will now be at a later date.

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Aug
15

Steve Smith

Steve Smith, one of our own members, will show images from 2023 including Austria, creatures, Scotland, sports, France and the Lake District.

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Jul
4

Informal Themed competition

“Farms and Farming” judged by members led by Eb Swarbrick. The winner of the last of these competitions has chosen a theme for this evening and picked another two of our members to join them on the judging panel.

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Jun
27

Maurice Wilson and a video

Maurice will show images he has collected under the title, “I wish I’d taken that.” A variety of images that caught his eye from various sources.
And then; a video, "Ramsbottom's Heritage" featuring historic photographs.
Steve Hoyle’s talk has been re-scheduled to 29th August

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Jun
6

AI for fun

Members will submit images that may or may not have been wholly or partially generated by “Artificial Intelligence”. They will be judged by a panel of our members. Later the audience will say, by a show of hands, whether they think the image was produced by AI. The authors will reveal the truth, and can share how they did actually produce their images.

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May
30

Battle of the Teams

This evening we will be divided randomly into two teams for an informal competition judged by members of Bury Art Society. The team captains have chosen the best of the submitted images not previously seen in competitions.

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May
16

Workshop evening

This is firstly for anyone who has received advice or comments from a competition judge and would like some help with implementing these ideas. Other members, please suggest anything else you would like to see or hear on these evenings.

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May
2

Monochrome Processing

George Steele, one of our own members, will show a variety of methods for converting digital colour images to monochrome. George is a very experienced photographer and well known around the region as a judge of camera club competitions.

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