You will be made welcome whatever your level of ability or experience

 

Our new 25-26 season is now well underway (see under programme tab for full details).  Some information on the next few talks is below and if you want to learn more about what we do just look around this site, visit our social media pages or contact us directly.  We meet on Wednesday evenings with a varied programme of events which includes talks, activity evenings, and competitions.  We also run occasional technical workshops.  Guests are always welcome to any of our events so if you are interested in photography come along and try us out.

 

18th February – Members project evening

An informal evening to see and discuss the outcome of the members themed project challenge. Entrants can submit either a small number of images or a 2 minute AV on a range of different topics.  We have had 20 separate projects submitted covering a wide range of themes.  This is a first of this type of evening so we look forward to seeing some fascinating images.

25th February – Annual nature competition judged by Louise Hill

A chance to see some wonderful nature images by members.  Louise is an excellent judge who has visited us many times before

4 March – “The little print show” by Jonathan Vaines

 Jonathan says – “After purchasing my first camera in 2011 photography soon became my newfound hobby and quickly turned into a significant part of my life.  It’s a part I believe helps maintain a healthy wellbeing and provides a creative release.  I am proud of the numerous successful image acknowledgements including being invited to become a member of The London Salon”  His talk covers an artistic approach to photography, stepping out of the club mainstream.  Along with individual images we see motivational benefits of working with Projects, Sets and Groups of image .  Most of his images are created using “in camera” techniques and the focus of the evening is about “Thinking Inside The Box”.  

 

11th March – “In search of je ne said quoi” by Aleks Gjika   

Aleks says:  “It takes a lot of learning, devotion, work, imagination and passion to produce a photo or an image that one likes to see again and again. “Seeing it”, however, is not the only thing that a photo or an image is about. To many of us who love photography, there is a story behind every image, an exciting story about experiences and emotions that the artist experienced whilst he took and/or edited the image.”

It is listening to these stories as well as enjoying looking at the images that photography lectures or talks are often about. My talk entitled “In the search of the “Je ne sais quoi?!”” is no different in this respect but, what makes my talk perhaps a bit unique, is my belief that behind every successful image there is something special, something interesting, something that is sometimes obvious but often we cannot quite put our finger on it! This is what they call in France “Je ne sais quoi!” and this is what I am in search of!! Through the digital presentation of 100 images, all of which have been well received by the international photographic community I will be trying to detect what I think is the “Je ne sais quoi” of in my images as well as tell my story behind every one of them.