Flower photography
This is a practical evening so bring your camera, or smart phone. Other equipment such as flash, tripod and remote release are not essential but do bring them if you wish.
We will have half a dozen tables set up with subjects, backdrops and continuous lighting. Do bring subject matter if you can. Maybe from your garden or from a florist.
Flowers, branches and anything else that would make a composition. And some means to support them.
Infra Red Photography by Duncan Phillips
Duncan Phillips and Irene Amiet are based at Knowle Top Studios, a fine art gallery in Clitheroe.
Editing flower photographs
Our members, Bev Hayes and Maurice Wilson, will show us some possible ways of producing photographic art from the types of images we took two weeks ago.
In February we will show each other our results based on these ideas and any other technique you wish to use, starting with the images from the club night or any similar ones you have been inspired to create.
Hand In Night for the Annual Competitions
Members will hand in their entries for this year’s annual competitions. There is no other business this evening other than the chance to hang around for a relaxed chat.
The Pennine Way
A film by Roy Turner and others from Bury Cine Society. This film sold out the Bury Met Arts Centre several times when it was first released.
Fine Art Flower photographs
This evening we will present and discuss our results from the flower photography and editing evenings in January.
Judging of the Annual Print Competition
Prints will be judged by Steve Proctor DPAGB, BPE5* PPSA
This is a Sunday daytime meeting.
Annual Projected Image Competition
Gordon Jenkins APAGB has judged our digital images. Tonight he will present the award winners to us.
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 remote release cable (or use the camera’s delay timer). Marlies will provide continuous lighting but you could use ring flash or twin flashes if you wish.
Between us we can swap lenses and flash gear or put a card in someone else’s camera to take our own macro images.
Projected Image Competition
Ove Alexander CPAGB will judge Round 1 of our year long competition for digital images.
Review of the Annual Competitions
Another chance to see our annual competition images including the ones that didn’t quite get awards.
Informal Competition
The theme of Images For Song Titles 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 images that may be different to the styles that we enter into externally judged competitions.
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.
Print Competition
Keith Barber CPAGB LRPS FIScT will judge Round 1 of our year long competition for printed images.
Steve Proctor DPAGB, BPE5* PPSA
Steve Proctor recently judged our annual print competition and has also impressed us in the past with his own photography. Tonight, he will return to show us some more of his own images.
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*
Bury Art Society
The Art Society will present their work based on photographs we supplied to them last year.
Projected Image Competition
Will Stead EFIAP CPAGB PSA 3 will judge Round 2 of our year long competition for digital images.
Team Competition
Our annual informal competition between two teams of our members. This will be judged by members of Bury Art Society to give us a different perspective on our photography.
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,
Both Sides of the Lens
Martin Henfield, one of our members, will reflect on his time as a television journalist and presenter and his evolution to being an accomplished photographer, specialising in sport images.
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.
Print Competition
John Riley will judge Round 2 of our year long competition for prints.
Summer Walk
An outdoor evening. More details nearer the time. There is no indoor meeting this week.
Informal Competition
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.
Projected Image competition
Martin Pickles will judge Round 3 of our year long competition for digital images.
Print Competition
Lynda Haney FBPE EPAGB EFIAP will judge Round 3 of our year long competition for prints.
Projected Image Competition
Ian Whiston DPAGB EFIAP/p FBPE EPSA Hon LCPU will judge Round 4 of our year long competition for digital images.
Print Competitions
Nick Berentzen CPAGB BPE3 will judge Round 4 of our year long competition for prints.
Battle with Bolton AT BOLTON CAMERA CLUB
The away leg of this regular fixture. There is no meeting in Bury this week.
Ken Morrison, Lighthouses
Ken Morrison has travelled the world visiting and photographing lighthouses. His illustrated talk has been highly recommended.
Projected Image Competition
Adrian Hendley CPAGB will judge Round 5 of our year long competition for digital images.
Print Competition
Graham Currey will judge Round 5 of our year long competition for prints.
Christmas meal
No meeting at Fishpool this week. Information about the meal will be circulated to members by email nearer the time.
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 does 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.
Print Competition
Round five of our bi-monthly print competition. Judged by Martin Pickles.
Informal Themed competition
The winner of the last of these competitions chose the theme of Market Shopping for this evening and picked another two of our members to join them on the judging panel.
Hoylake International prints and projected images
Prints and projected images from this prestigious exhibition presented in person by Diana Magor APSA EFIAPb MPSA CPAGB LRPS BPE3* and Brian Magor APSA MPSA EFIAP/b CPAGB of Hoylake Photographic Society.
Projected Image Competition
Round five of our bi-monthly projected image competition. Judged by Graham Currey
George Steele “From Novice to National Distinctions – A photographic autobiography”
“50 years of travel and photography in various modes and various countries”
Battle with Bolton
The away leg of our bi-annual competition with Bolton Camera Club. No meeting in Bury this week.
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.
Dave Brogan, Fine Art Photographer
Dave Brogan is based in Manchester and produces fine art photographs locally. He has been a professional photographer since 2016.
Projected Image Competition
Round four of our bi-monthly projected image competition. Judged by Ove Alexander CPAGB
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.
John Porter , South Africa
John Porter LRPS CPAGB John is currently vice Present of Ashton-under-Lyne Photographic Society. He will show us images from his recent trip to South Africa including two safaris.
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.
Print Competition
Round four of our bi-monthly print competition. Judged by Colin Douglas ARPS AFIAP DPAGB BPE4
Annual General Meeting
An opportunity for our members to shape the future of the society.
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.
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.
Steve Smith
Steve Smith, one of our own members, will show images from 2023 including Austria, creatures, Scotland, sports, France and the Lake District.
Projected Image Competition
Round three of our bi-monthly projected image competition. Judged by Adrian Hendly CPAGB
Garry Hayes
As the club presidency is shared this year this is the second President’s Evening of the year.
Print Competition
Round three of our bi-monthly print competition. Judged by Nick Hilton EFIAP DPAGB BPE5*
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.
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
Projected Images Competition
Round two of our bi-monthly projected images competition. Judged by Steve Proctor