Club Programme - 2010-11
SEPTEMBER 2010
7 New Members Night
Dave Batho
Basic PhotoShop Techniques
14 Wayne Brittle
Landscapes: the UK and beyond
21 Noel Bennett
New Horizons
28 Phil Barrett
Journeyman
OCTOBER
5 Dr Anne Sutcliffe, FRPS, EFIAP
Keep on Running
12 Prints & Digital Images
Competition No.1
19 Roy Roberts
Hanoi to Angkor Wat
26 Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/ p
PG Tips – Fiddling and Diddling
NOVEMBER
2 Tony Winfield
Weird, but is it wonderful?
9 The Rowland Motteshead
Memorial Trophy Competition
16 Alan Ranger, LRPS
From snapper to photographer to artist
17 Stafford & District InterClub Challenge
Lea Hall, Rugeley
23 Derek Doar, CPAGB
A Passion for Printing 3
30 Alan Millward, FRPS, MPAGB, Hon PAGB
Cuba and other recent trips
DECEMBER
7 PAGB Digital Projected Images 2010
14 Prints and Digital Images
Competition No.2
21 MCPF Portfolio 2010
27 No Meeting – Happy Christmas
JANUARY 2011
4 No meeting – Happy New Year
11 PAGB Merit Awards -
Credit, Distinction & Master
Recorded Lecture
18 Bill Hall, DPAGB, AFIAP
People and Places
25 Dave Batho
More PhotoShop techniques
FEBRUARY 2011
1 Evening at Acton Trusell & Penkridge PS
8 Prints and Digital Images
Competition No.3
15 Roger Parry, ARPS, Hon PAGB, AFIAP
The owd mon and me
22 Peter Lovelock
Colour Confidence
MARCH 2011
1 N&EMPF Annual Exhibition 2010 show
8 First Open National Digital Exhibition by the Beyond Group
PAGB Recorded Lecture
15 Paul Bingham
South Africa: birds, beasts and walks with dragons
22 Ray Dowding, FRPS
Is photography art?
29 Annual Prints & Digital
Images Competition
APRIL 2011
5 Ralph Duckett, MPAGB, AFIAP
A return evening with Ralph
12 Mike Sharples, MPAGB
From the outside
19 Inter-Club Competition with Acton Trussell
& Penkridge PS at Acton Trussell
26 No meeting – Happy Easter
MAY 2011
3 Tony and Marjorie Furmston, both FRPS
Look at it Our Way
10 AGM and Club Portfolio
20 Annual Awards Ceremony and
Social Evening
_____________________________________
"Even excellent photographers takes average photos, but the difference between him and others, is that he does not show those that are not spectacular."
For LAST SEASON'S Programme see below
_____________________________________
SEPTEMBER 2009
1 September
Peter Rees, , FRPS, EFIAP/s, MPAGB
A printers progress.
8 September
Jon Crutteden
An evening with Jon Cruttenden
15 September
Peter Clarke, FRPS, EFIAP/s
PhotoShop Master class
Layers and layer masks
22 September
Paul Bingham - Svalbad - days and nights at the North Pole rim
A summer journey to Svalbard (Spitzbergen). 600 miles from the north pole, where the sun shines 24 hours a day!
As well as journeying through the spectacular arctic mountains and encountering the native wildlife, the Talk also contains visits to some of Svalbard's heritage sites of coal mining and polar exploration
29 September
Tony Thomas, EFIAP - Getting your fingers wet
Tony remains a devotee of the darkroom and his prints reveal his love of the genre. We will see a range of outstanding monochrome work from this Telford-based photographer whose prints have been exhibited internationally.
Tony is a member of Wrekin Arts Photographic Club
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OCTOBER
6 Terry Bickley, ARPS, DPAGB
Nature - as I see it
8 Ken Scott
Touching the Light
Joint meeting at Cannock Photographic Society
Ken Scott, a Sussex photographer, showed a superb collection of images celebrating the beauty of natural light in the mountains and wild places.
The driving force behind his photography is a passion for the mountains and the ever-changing quality of mountain light, to which he responds with mindfulness and in the moment to produce wonderful, soulful images.
13 Prints and Digital Image Competition No.1
20 Dave Severn, LSWPP, DPAGB, BPE3*
Short 'n Simple
Dave is a member of Beeston Camera Club and it's sure to be an evening of high quality photography.
Out of 700 photographers that entered the Photography Monthly UKs Best Photographer 2009, Dave made it into the top 25.
His work has been featured in the Derbyshire Magazine, Breeze, Derbyshire Life and Photography Monthly.
27 Kaleidoscope 1 - Digital AV
A Recorded Lecture featuring the AV work of Leicester Forest AV Group
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NOVEMBER
3 Tony Winfield
Turning your pictures into digital slides shoes using Pictures to Exe
10 Andy Barrett
Rucksack and Camera
Andy's interst in travel photography began in 1967 when he made an overland trip to Kathmandu in Nepal. On his return he started work as a photographer on a Midlands evening newspaper; a career that was to span 30 years. When he retired in 1999 he was able to travelling again and a trip to India re-ignited his interest in travel photography
17 Rowland Motteshead Competition
( Digital Projected Images)
24 Steve Cutler
Club Work
Steve first became interested in photography about 30 years ago using anything which was cheap and available it wasn't until some 5 years later when someone gave him a virtually new Nikon EM that he got more serious about it, since then he has owned most Nikon 35mm and a host of medium format cameras, then got into digital and wow !!, what a difference digital as made to photography.
Steve shoots all types of photography and therefore has a wide repertoire but his main enjoyment comes from sports orientated work where he feels much more involved in all of the aspects and loves the atmosphere. He also does quite a lot of work involving the use of models and the environment which is very often of a derelict nature.
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DECEMBER
1 Dave Batho
Basic Photo shop techniques
8 Howard Bagshaw, LRPS
Exploring AV
Howard will talk about the development and potential of digital audio/visual, illustrated with some of his sequences.
15 Print and Digital Image Competition No. 2
Theme : Architecture
22 NO MEETING - Happy Christmas
29 NO MEETING - Happy New Year
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JANUARY 2010
5 Midland Counties Photographic Federation 2009 Portfolio
12 Roy Roberts
Somewhere over the Rainbow
19 Graham Hodgkiss, ARPS,DPAGB, APAGB
Out of the Dark
Joint meeting with Acton Trussell & Penkridge PS
26 Ralph Duckett, MPAGB AFIAP APAGB
A mono evening with Ralph
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FEBRUARY
2 North and East Midlands Photographic Federation 2009 Exhibition
9 David Grounds, LRPS
NSW by Transit and Javelin
David is President of Sutton Coldfield Photographic Club and will show us images from his travels in Australia
16 Wigan 10 exposed
Recorded Lecture
23 Print and Digital Images Competition No.3
Theme : Humour
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MARCH
2 Radu Handoca
Try something different tonight!
9 Alex Taylor
Deadlines and Doorways
Alex is a photographer currently employed by Shropshire newspapers
Whilst the bulk of his work is portraiture and documentary style photographs, the work he love involves delving into old forgotten buildings, peering into the gloom and creating images from the rooms and chambers within. He finds these sort of images hugely satisfying to create, and will often try to present them as seen using long exposures and natural light.
Doorways are also a fascination of his. He finds them interesting and symbolic and therefore great photographic material.
16 Peter Clarke, FRPS, EFIAP/p, APSA, PPSA
Photoshop Master Class
High Dynamic Range
For the past 25 years or so Peter has specialised exclusively in landscape photography in both monochrome print and colour slide, in both the British Isles and the South-western United States and have exhibited widely in International Salons since 1987. He has exhibited by invitation in Denmark, France, Germany and Romania with monochrome prints and have an image ('Time and Tide') in the permanent collection of the Museum in Rheus, Spain.
His philosophy of Pictorial Photography may be summarized as follows : 'A successful pictorial image will stand on it's own without the need for title or explanation and should include one or more of the following elements - impact, drama, mood and atmosphere. In his chosen field of Landscape Photography, which in his mind naturally includes Seascapes, he endeavours to meet these criteria by the careful choice of location, subject matter and composition, by the use of dramatic lighting conditions coupled where possible with heavy skies and, in Seascape, by the use of an appropriate shutter speed. In the digital darkroom these elements are enhanced through creative printing techniques.'
He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1992, the ?Excellence? de la F?deration Internationale d?Art Photographique - Platinum (EFIAP/p) in 2003 and, as a 5* Mono Print Exhibitor of the Photographic Society of America, the PPSA in 2004. In 2006 he was honoured by the PSA with the award of the Associatship ? APSA for services to photography.
23 Dave Butcher, ARPS
Mad about monochrome
Dave Butcher has over thirty years experience in photography. As an Ilford Master Printer, he combines his creative talent with an in-depth technical knowledge of the processes involved in black and white developing and printing to produce distinctively unique prints using traditional darkroom methods and materials.
Working exclusively in black and white to produce stunning landscape photographs and striking city shots his work is widely published in books and magazines.
He is the author of the books 'High Light - The Landscape Photography of Dave Butcher' and 'Peak Light - The Peak District Photography of Dave Butcher'.
30 Roger Hague, DPAGB
Photography my way
Roger have been taking photographs for over twenty years. His favourite subject areas are Landscapes, Close up work and Motorcycle Sport.
He regularly lectures at Photographic Clubs and Societies across the UK. This has become a large part in his life and he always enjoys sharing my work with others and hopefully inspiring others to greater achievements.
One aspect of club photography he does really enjoy, is judging. He regularly judges at club level,and up to national exhibitions. He always tries to observe the three "E,s" namely,
Encourage,Educate, and Entertain. He genuinely feels these three criteria,are vital when judging a fellow photographers work.
He now lives in Claverley, Shropshire.
APRIL
6 No meeting - Happy Easter
13 Annual Print & Digital Images competition
20 Tony Broom, CPAGB
More monorauus
Tony,Chairman of Tettenhall Wood Photographic Club and a photographic Judge, will show more of his monochrome work
27 Inter-Club Competition with Acton Trussell & Penkridge PS at St Leonards CC
MAY
4 Irene Froy, FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB, Hon PAGB, BPE4*
A passion for pixels
Irene describes herself as a pictorial photographer, with a leaning towards landscape, but has an interest in all types of photography. She lectures throughout the country and enjoys exhibiting in, and judging, National and International Exhibitions.
In recent years she has concentrated on interpreting the landscape and villages of France, using delicate colour and soft images to convey the mood. Her latest lectures feature trips to Ireland and Italy in 2008 as well as her recent trips to France and Spain.
Irene cannot imagine a life without photography - it is a passion which is as strong today as when she first started. There is a compulsion to take and show pictures and although she appreciates all types of photography, her main interest is in landscape. She is at her happiest in the countryside with her camera on her tripod.
She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in April 1994 in the Visual Arts - Pictorial category, with darkroom Colour Prints.
In March 1997 she was invited to membership of the London Salon of Photography. She gained EFIAP (Excellence de la Federation International d'Art Photographique) in 2000. She attained MPAGB in April 2007.
Irene was awarded the APAGB (Award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain for Services to Photography) in 1985 and this was superceded in 2004 by the award of the J S Lancaster Medal (HonPAGB) for Exceptional Service to Photography.
11 AGM & Club portfolio
21 Annual Awards Ceremony & Social Evening
_____________________________________
End of the 2009/10 season
7 New Members Night
Dave Batho
Basic PhotoShop Techniques
14 Wayne Brittle
Landscapes: the UK and beyond
21 Noel Bennett
New Horizons
28 Phil Barrett
Journeyman
OCTOBER
5 Dr Anne Sutcliffe, FRPS, EFIAP
Keep on Running
12 Prints & Digital Images
Competition No.1
19 Roy Roberts
Hanoi to Angkor Wat
26 Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/ p
PG Tips – Fiddling and Diddling
NOVEMBER
2 Tony Winfield
Weird, but is it wonderful?
9 The Rowland Motteshead
Memorial Trophy Competition
16 Alan Ranger, LRPS
From snapper to photographer to artist
17 Stafford & District InterClub Challenge
Lea Hall, Rugeley
23 Derek Doar, CPAGB
A Passion for Printing 3
30 Alan Millward, FRPS, MPAGB, Hon PAGB
Cuba and other recent trips
DECEMBER
7 PAGB Digital Projected Images 2010
14 Prints and Digital Images
Competition No.2
21 MCPF Portfolio 2010
27 No Meeting – Happy Christmas
JANUARY 2011
4 No meeting – Happy New Year
11 PAGB Merit Awards -
Credit, Distinction & Master
Recorded Lecture
18 Bill Hall, DPAGB, AFIAP
People and Places
25 Dave Batho
More PhotoShop techniques
FEBRUARY 2011
1 Evening at Acton Trusell & Penkridge PS
8 Prints and Digital Images
Competition No.3
15 Roger Parry, ARPS, Hon PAGB, AFIAP
The owd mon and me
22 Peter Lovelock
Colour Confidence
MARCH 2011
1 N&EMPF Annual Exhibition 2010 show
8 First Open National Digital Exhibition by the Beyond Group
PAGB Recorded Lecture
15 Paul Bingham
South Africa: birds, beasts and walks with dragons
22 Ray Dowding, FRPS
Is photography art?
29 Annual Prints & Digital
Images Competition
APRIL 2011
5 Ralph Duckett, MPAGB, AFIAP
A return evening with Ralph
12 Mike Sharples, MPAGB
From the outside
19 Inter-Club Competition with Acton Trussell
& Penkridge PS at Acton Trussell
26 No meeting – Happy Easter
MAY 2011
3 Tony and Marjorie Furmston, both FRPS
Look at it Our Way
10 AGM and Club Portfolio
20 Annual Awards Ceremony and
Social Evening
_____________________________________
"Even excellent photographers takes average photos, but the difference between him and others, is that he does not show those that are not spectacular."
For LAST SEASON'S Programme see below
_____________________________________
SEPTEMBER 2009
1 September
Peter Rees, , FRPS, EFIAP/s, MPAGB
A printers progress.
8 September
Jon Crutteden
An evening with Jon Cruttenden
15 September
Peter Clarke, FRPS, EFIAP/s
PhotoShop Master class
Layers and layer masks
22 September
Paul Bingham - Svalbad - days and nights at the North Pole rim
A summer journey to Svalbard (Spitzbergen). 600 miles from the north pole, where the sun shines 24 hours a day!
As well as journeying through the spectacular arctic mountains and encountering the native wildlife, the Talk also contains visits to some of Svalbard's heritage sites of coal mining and polar exploration
29 September
Tony Thomas, EFIAP - Getting your fingers wet
Tony remains a devotee of the darkroom and his prints reveal his love of the genre. We will see a range of outstanding monochrome work from this Telford-based photographer whose prints have been exhibited internationally.
Tony is a member of Wrekin Arts Photographic Club
___________________________
OCTOBER
6 Terry Bickley, ARPS, DPAGB
Nature - as I see it
8 Ken Scott
Touching the Light
Joint meeting at Cannock Photographic Society
Ken Scott, a Sussex photographer, showed a superb collection of images celebrating the beauty of natural light in the mountains and wild places.
The driving force behind his photography is a passion for the mountains and the ever-changing quality of mountain light, to which he responds with mindfulness and in the moment to produce wonderful, soulful images.
13 Prints and Digital Image Competition No.1
20 Dave Severn, LSWPP, DPAGB, BPE3*
Short 'n Simple
Dave is a member of Beeston Camera Club and it's sure to be an evening of high quality photography.
Out of 700 photographers that entered the Photography Monthly UKs Best Photographer 2009, Dave made it into the top 25.
His work has been featured in the Derbyshire Magazine, Breeze, Derbyshire Life and Photography Monthly.
27 Kaleidoscope 1 - Digital AV
A Recorded Lecture featuring the AV work of Leicester Forest AV Group
___________________________________
NOVEMBER
3 Tony Winfield
Turning your pictures into digital slides shoes using Pictures to Exe
10 Andy Barrett
Rucksack and Camera
Andy's interst in travel photography began in 1967 when he made an overland trip to Kathmandu in Nepal. On his return he started work as a photographer on a Midlands evening newspaper; a career that was to span 30 years. When he retired in 1999 he was able to travelling again and a trip to India re-ignited his interest in travel photography
17 Rowland Motteshead Competition
( Digital Projected Images)
24 Steve Cutler
Club Work
Steve first became interested in photography about 30 years ago using anything which was cheap and available it wasn't until some 5 years later when someone gave him a virtually new Nikon EM that he got more serious about it, since then he has owned most Nikon 35mm and a host of medium format cameras, then got into digital and wow !!, what a difference digital as made to photography.
Steve shoots all types of photography and therefore has a wide repertoire but his main enjoyment comes from sports orientated work where he feels much more involved in all of the aspects and loves the atmosphere. He also does quite a lot of work involving the use of models and the environment which is very often of a derelict nature.
_________________________________
DECEMBER
1 Dave Batho
Basic Photo shop techniques
8 Howard Bagshaw, LRPS
Exploring AV
Howard will talk about the development and potential of digital audio/visual, illustrated with some of his sequences.
15 Print and Digital Image Competition No. 2
Theme : Architecture
22 NO MEETING - Happy Christmas
29 NO MEETING - Happy New Year
____________________________________
JANUARY 2010
5 Midland Counties Photographic Federation 2009 Portfolio
12 Roy Roberts
Somewhere over the Rainbow
19 Graham Hodgkiss, ARPS,DPAGB, APAGB
Out of the Dark
Joint meeting with Acton Trussell & Penkridge PS
26 Ralph Duckett, MPAGB AFIAP APAGB
A mono evening with Ralph
_____________________________________
FEBRUARY
2 North and East Midlands Photographic Federation 2009 Exhibition
9 David Grounds, LRPS
NSW by Transit and Javelin
David is President of Sutton Coldfield Photographic Club and will show us images from his travels in Australia
16 Wigan 10 exposed
Recorded Lecture
23 Print and Digital Images Competition No.3
Theme : Humour
_____________________________________
MARCH
2 Radu Handoca
Try something different tonight!
9 Alex Taylor
Deadlines and Doorways
Alex is a photographer currently employed by Shropshire newspapers
Whilst the bulk of his work is portraiture and documentary style photographs, the work he love involves delving into old forgotten buildings, peering into the gloom and creating images from the rooms and chambers within. He finds these sort of images hugely satisfying to create, and will often try to present them as seen using long exposures and natural light.
Doorways are also a fascination of his. He finds them interesting and symbolic and therefore great photographic material.
16 Peter Clarke, FRPS, EFIAP/p, APSA, PPSA
Photoshop Master Class
High Dynamic Range
For the past 25 years or so Peter has specialised exclusively in landscape photography in both monochrome print and colour slide, in both the British Isles and the South-western United States and have exhibited widely in International Salons since 1987. He has exhibited by invitation in Denmark, France, Germany and Romania with monochrome prints and have an image ('Time and Tide') in the permanent collection of the Museum in Rheus, Spain.
His philosophy of Pictorial Photography may be summarized as follows : 'A successful pictorial image will stand on it's own without the need for title or explanation and should include one or more of the following elements - impact, drama, mood and atmosphere. In his chosen field of Landscape Photography, which in his mind naturally includes Seascapes, he endeavours to meet these criteria by the careful choice of location, subject matter and composition, by the use of dramatic lighting conditions coupled where possible with heavy skies and, in Seascape, by the use of an appropriate shutter speed. In the digital darkroom these elements are enhanced through creative printing techniques.'
He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1992, the ?Excellence? de la F?deration Internationale d?Art Photographique - Platinum (EFIAP/p) in 2003 and, as a 5* Mono Print Exhibitor of the Photographic Society of America, the PPSA in 2004. In 2006 he was honoured by the PSA with the award of the Associatship ? APSA for services to photography.
23 Dave Butcher, ARPS
Mad about monochrome
Dave Butcher has over thirty years experience in photography. As an Ilford Master Printer, he combines his creative talent with an in-depth technical knowledge of the processes involved in black and white developing and printing to produce distinctively unique prints using traditional darkroom methods and materials.
Working exclusively in black and white to produce stunning landscape photographs and striking city shots his work is widely published in books and magazines.
He is the author of the books 'High Light - The Landscape Photography of Dave Butcher' and 'Peak Light - The Peak District Photography of Dave Butcher'.
30 Roger Hague, DPAGB
Photography my way
Roger have been taking photographs for over twenty years. His favourite subject areas are Landscapes, Close up work and Motorcycle Sport.
He regularly lectures at Photographic Clubs and Societies across the UK. This has become a large part in his life and he always enjoys sharing my work with others and hopefully inspiring others to greater achievements.
One aspect of club photography he does really enjoy, is judging. He regularly judges at club level,and up to national exhibitions. He always tries to observe the three "E,s" namely,
Encourage,Educate, and Entertain. He genuinely feels these three criteria,are vital when judging a fellow photographers work.
He now lives in Claverley, Shropshire.
APRIL
6 No meeting - Happy Easter
13 Annual Print & Digital Images competition
20 Tony Broom, CPAGB
More monorauus
Tony,Chairman of Tettenhall Wood Photographic Club and a photographic Judge, will show more of his monochrome work
27 Inter-Club Competition with Acton Trussell & Penkridge PS at St Leonards CC
MAY
4 Irene Froy, FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB, Hon PAGB, BPE4*
A passion for pixels
Irene describes herself as a pictorial photographer, with a leaning towards landscape, but has an interest in all types of photography. She lectures throughout the country and enjoys exhibiting in, and judging, National and International Exhibitions.
In recent years she has concentrated on interpreting the landscape and villages of France, using delicate colour and soft images to convey the mood. Her latest lectures feature trips to Ireland and Italy in 2008 as well as her recent trips to France and Spain.
Irene cannot imagine a life without photography - it is a passion which is as strong today as when she first started. There is a compulsion to take and show pictures and although she appreciates all types of photography, her main interest is in landscape. She is at her happiest in the countryside with her camera on her tripod.
She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in April 1994 in the Visual Arts - Pictorial category, with darkroom Colour Prints.
In March 1997 she was invited to membership of the London Salon of Photography. She gained EFIAP (Excellence de la Federation International d'Art Photographique) in 2000. She attained MPAGB in April 2007.
Irene was awarded the APAGB (Award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain for Services to Photography) in 1985 and this was superceded in 2004 by the award of the J S Lancaster Medal (HonPAGB) for Exceptional Service to Photography.
11 AGM & Club portfolio
21 Annual Awards Ceremony & Social Evening
_____________________________________
End of the 2009/10 season