MCC members might be interested in the Guardian Camera Club. One of the good aspect are the assignments which serve to add focus and discipline to learning how to improve our photography.
"The Guardian Camera Club
Camera Club is a new page on the Guardian.co.uk website dedicated to still photography. This is the Flickr group for Camera Club.
The Guardian Camera Club page is the main place to find information concerning the Guardian Camera Club. Please check the page regularly if you are interested in participating. On this page you will be able to see:
a. Blogs (including tips and thoughts on monthly assignments).
b. Reviews of portfolios and assignments which have been submitted through flickr.
c. Audio slideshows and videos relating to monthly assignments.
d. Photography tips and camera reviews.
Upload your portfolios and one of the Guardian's picture editors will select the best to review. There are two categories you can get involved in:
Portfolios. These should be a maximum of 6 pictures and should be a representation of your work. A portfolio could showcase one subject or cover a variety of different pictures. However, as a set, they should hang together stylistically. Please mark your images with the same tag, for instance yournameportfolio (eg. johnsmithportfolio). This allows us to easily view your submission as a set.
Monthly assignments. The monthly assignment is an opportunity to create a fresh set of images which fulfil a specific brief therefore we won't consider any pictures which have been taken before the assignment was announced. A maximum of 6 pictures should be tagged, for instance, yournamenovemberassignment (eg. johnsmithnovemberassignment). Each month you have an opportunity to enter a photograph in a competition (the prize is a Nikon D5000). This competition ties in with the monthly assignment and your entry should be a single image from that set of pictures (and is therefore bound by the rules of the assignment). Due to the Nikon sponsorship each new assignment is announced on the 16th (or as near as possible to that date if it falls on a weekend).
This month's assignment is macro photography.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/series/camera-club "
Friday, 5 February 2010
Subscriptions are now due
I reminder that subscriptions are now due. Cheques for £52.50 payable to Malden Camera Club should be given or sent to Nadia Zahran. Address details on request from nadia_zahran "[at]" hotmail.com
Outings Competiton
All in all a good evening which I hope everyone enjoyed. The disappointment was the lack of slides in the competition. There was a good selection of prints the winner was "Mosaic Repair" by Brian Bailey and for projected images Simon Lane won with "Over the Last". We will dicuss this years Outings at the enxt Committee meeting.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Surrey Life magazine have offered to run a feature in conjunction with the SPA exhibition and invite club members to send in their pictures
Surrey Life magazine have offered to run a feature in conjunction with the SPA exhibition and invite club members to send in their pictures for consideration.
I quote from an email received from Matthew Williams at Surrey Life :-
"We talked awhile back about putting together a feature on the members’ photos, to coincide with this exhibition and your anniversary. It would be a fantastic opportunity to plug the exhibition itself and the group as a whole.
I suggest the best way forward would be to keep things simple and what I would be hoping for from you is for members to send in their favourite pictures along with where they were taken, the name of the photographer and the town where the photographer lives (perhaps the name of the club they are attached to too if that differs).
SUBMISSIONS:- The best way for this to work would be for members to send their pictures to feedback@surreylife.co.uk along with the above information and for us then to choose the final selection to be printed from those received."
Surrey Life would particularly like images which illustrate Surrey in some way which might increase your chances of being included but I have explained that we are a pictorial and nature lot so anything will be considered.
I would suggest that, initially, you send Matthew suitable screen res images from which we will then select and request repro quality files.
Please see above re how to submit - DO NOT send them to the SPA !
Tony Riley
I quote from an email received from Matthew Williams at Surrey Life :-
"We talked awhile back about putting together a feature on the members’ photos, to coincide with this exhibition and your anniversary. It would be a fantastic opportunity to plug the exhibition itself and the group as a whole.
I suggest the best way forward would be to keep things simple and what I would be hoping for from you is for members to send in their favourite pictures along with where they were taken, the name of the photographer and the town where the photographer lives (perhaps the name of the club they are attached to too if that differs).
SUBMISSIONS:- The best way for this to work would be for members to send their pictures to feedback@surreylife.co.uk along with the above information and for us then to choose the final selection to be printed from those received."
Surrey Life would particularly like images which illustrate Surrey in some way which might increase your chances of being included but I have explained that we are a pictorial and nature lot so anything will be considered.
I would suggest that, initially, you send Matthew suitable screen res images from which we will then select and request repro quality files.
Please see above re how to submit - DO NOT send them to the SPA !
Tony Riley
Friday, 29 January 2010
Malden Camera Club AGM
Malden Camera Club AGM
Last night we held the Annual General Meeting of Malden Camera Club. The meeting was well supported. In my report to the AGM I said that I have enjoyed my year as Chairman and thanked everyone for their support and understanding. I was re-elected as Chairman of the Club so this blog will continue for its 2nd year. I would like to welcome Hugh Griffiths as Vice Chairman who replaces Simon Lane who stepped down as he is moving out of the area. Roland Adams jointly with Nadia Zahran will manage the Club programme.
The AGM voted on propositions relating to the contentious issue competition rules, thanks to Richard Weston these have now been consolidated in a single rules document.
Looking back over the last year, we had a well supported programme which I hope catered for everyone. Putting together the programme is not a simple or straight forward task and I would like to thank Nadia and Sandrine for all they have done in putting the programme together.
The Annual exhibition was a success and I would like to thank all those who helped organise it in particular John Rowe.
If the Club is to continue to flourish we need the active involvement of all members, it was touch and go last year whether or not we be able to run the Annual Exhibition because the work fell on just a dedicated few. I would encourage members to come forward to help and offer their skills in helping with meetings and events.
The internal and external competitions have been well supported and I would like thank Brian Bailey John Horne and Simon Lane for all they have done to help with the competitions. We will continue to support slide competitions as long as there is a demand from members.
Club outings included the Downland Museum at Singleton, point to point horse races and a visit to riverside at Kingston, proved very pleasant finishing in a pub.
John Horne continues to maintain and develop the club website which has been successful in attracting interest in Malden Camera Club and provides a resource for members.
Looking to the future my personal observations were :-
We looking to update our digital projection equipment, provide a laptop loaded with software to help run the DPI competitions, edit images. Also we would like to purchase colour calibration equipment for the projection of digital images and the laptop. We are seeking funding from various sources such as the Lottery to fund this.
Online Club resources and activities include; Flickr web page, facebook, website, Chairmen’s Blog. I have now started to email notices and information to members and considering setting up a Yahoo Group to improve this facility.
To conclude,
I wish :-
To increase the public profile of the Club
To make the Club a success we need members’ active participation in the Club
I would like to see Club membership rise
Greater success for the club and its members in external competitions
And finally I took the opportunity to thank members of the Committee for the support they have given me through the year and all the members who have given their help and support throughout the year.
Last night we held the Annual General Meeting of Malden Camera Club. The meeting was well supported. In my report to the AGM I said that I have enjoyed my year as Chairman and thanked everyone for their support and understanding. I was re-elected as Chairman of the Club so this blog will continue for its 2nd year. I would like to welcome Hugh Griffiths as Vice Chairman who replaces Simon Lane who stepped down as he is moving out of the area. Roland Adams jointly with Nadia Zahran will manage the Club programme.
The AGM voted on propositions relating to the contentious issue competition rules, thanks to Richard Weston these have now been consolidated in a single rules document.
Looking back over the last year, we had a well supported programme which I hope catered for everyone. Putting together the programme is not a simple or straight forward task and I would like to thank Nadia and Sandrine for all they have done in putting the programme together.
The Annual exhibition was a success and I would like to thank all those who helped organise it in particular John Rowe.
If the Club is to continue to flourish we need the active involvement of all members, it was touch and go last year whether or not we be able to run the Annual Exhibition because the work fell on just a dedicated few. I would encourage members to come forward to help and offer their skills in helping with meetings and events.
The internal and external competitions have been well supported and I would like thank Brian Bailey John Horne and Simon Lane for all they have done to help with the competitions. We will continue to support slide competitions as long as there is a demand from members.
Club outings included the Downland Museum at Singleton, point to point horse races and a visit to riverside at Kingston, proved very pleasant finishing in a pub.
John Horne continues to maintain and develop the club website which has been successful in attracting interest in Malden Camera Club and provides a resource for members.
Looking to the future my personal observations were :-
We looking to update our digital projection equipment, provide a laptop loaded with software to help run the DPI competitions, edit images. Also we would like to purchase colour calibration equipment for the projection of digital images and the laptop. We are seeking funding from various sources such as the Lottery to fund this.
Online Club resources and activities include; Flickr web page, facebook, website, Chairmen’s Blog. I have now started to email notices and information to members and considering setting up a Yahoo Group to improve this facility.
To conclude,
I wish :-
To increase the public profile of the Club
To make the Club a success we need members’ active participation in the Club
I would like to see Club membership rise
Greater success for the club and its members in external competitions
And finally I took the opportunity to thank members of the Committee for the support they have given me through the year and all the members who have given their help and support throughout the year.
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Butterfly at RHS Wisley
It well worth getting down to RHS Wisley between now and the end of February to see the butterflies in the Glass House. I took my macro lens and flash and got one or two good images
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Hawk in flight
I shot this last year as I was learning to use a telephoto lens. I used spot metering to ensure the bird was correctly exposed. I would have liked the bird to be a little sharper, but was pleased to see the amount of feather detail captured
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