Lenses truly aren’t that difficult to understand once you wrangle a little basic camera-speak. Most of the time you will be able to discern exactly what type of lens you are looking at within a matter of seconds just from its markings. Here are the common terms that will help you navigate the world of lensery. • Focal length: How big is it? • Aperture: The physical opening in the lens which controls the amount of light entering the lens. This opening is controlled by a

Hi ya peeps, Last night we had our second PDI competition. The theme of tonight's competition was, you guessed it, People. Quite a fruitful turnout for the crew, with eleven members putting in photos. I don't suppose we will ever achieve 100% entry, but a 75% turn out is pretty good. So well done fellow togs. Plus there is the added bonus that, with around fifty shots, it gives the judge an easy time, allowing them to wax lyrical for a couple of minutes about each image befor

Hi Peeps, last nites show ... well, lets just say it left a lot to be desired. We started with a slower look at last weeks competition entries, laughing at the efforts of those no present and all agreed that Tony's Qinghai was way the best (see last weeks blog) We also managed to lasso Richard's efforts down from the ether, good though not Tony beaters. We then had a thingy about Infra Red photography, through the eyes of yours truly. I went to great lengths and preparation,

Hello you loverly folks. It's a new day' a new dawn an I'm feeling good. So, the new season has started and the first competition has happened. This one was Texture. This season I'm looking to have all the scores for all the competitions all rolled into one prize at the end. Please beware that if you miss an event, you might face an uphill struggle to get back on terms. When I say all competitions, I mean the Jan Reilly Trophy, Sam Tuck Trophy and Peter Turner's Print Trophy

Do you have a dime, to listen to me whine About nothing & everything all at once? Hello and welcome to the asylum medicines will be handed out later, but for now … Last Wednesday, we had our second print competition. Normally it’s very hard to get members to supply images, what with the cost of printing, and on top of that, I’m paying something like two quid for a piece of A3 card just to display them on … it’s scary. However, ten of our members took on that challenge. And wh

Hi, and welcome to the circus ... Ok, not really. Tonight we had our first trophy competition of the season. The Jan Reilly Trophy. Now Jan was a bit of a party animal who also loved to travel, before some trick of fate decreed that her sun should no longer brighten our skies. Many moons ago, she started up this blog page, you can still catch her witterings by checking out the PubOffy posts. Now our competition is dedicated to her love of travel. After much nagging we managed

Hi, Tonight we was entertained by David Lambert. We started off slowly, our machine didn’t want to play any sort of PowerPoint Show. A lot of sweating, swearing and making a promise to the machine that we wouldn’t beat its sorry ass, we finally downloaded a program that would play David’s file. David’s tale was of his beginnings in the heart of Essex, an article in the local rag (the Chelmsford & Essex Weekly News … remember that?) with an article about twins. Due to circumst

Wowser Long time no see. Hokay, it’s good to be back. Tonight’s word is brought to you to tell you what we’ve been up to. We had our second competition of the season. T’was a print competition, yeah we still do prints here. Our judge for the evening was David Portwain. Our subject was People at Work. We had 42 prints up there for David to peruse. Quite a good turn out really It was a lively evening with plenty of banter back & forth between us & the adjudicator. I like to thi

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Abstract representing ideas in geometric and other designs, not in the form of nature ... so it says in my dictionary!...

Well hello Long time no write I lost the log in to the site … That’s my excuse an I’m sticking to it. Ok, last night we was entertained...

Hello peeps, long time no see. Happy New Year & I hope Santa bought you some of what you desired. Well, we've got the new year up and...

Hey, is it really a year since this trophy was up for grabs. Wowser! Ok, tonight it was the Jan Reilly Trophy. The competition was set up...

Hey ya folks Tonight it was our first print competition of the season. Wheels. Our adjudicator was an old friend to the club. It was a...

Some more of my witterings Last night we were entertained by El Presidente A photo quiz Steve had wandered around our fair town, looking...

Evening Peeps, tonight we were entertained by our second PDI competition Heybridge & Maldon. We had Nick Bowman from Loughton to be the...

Hey ya, Long time no post. How are you? All well I hope? Ok, what’s been happening at the club of late? Well, the week after the Animals,...

Well, the new season has officially begun. Welcome to (mostly) old faces and some new ones too Hi Scott, Adrian, Don, David and Neil....