The North West Bristol Camera Club

This Weeks Meeting at the Bristol Salon

Patrick — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:12:35 +0000

This is a reminder that this weeks meeting is NOT at Westbury Fields as we will be attending the Bristol Salon.

The presentation will be held at the QEH Theatre in Jacobs Well Rd, Clifton starting at 7.30pm. Entry is £4 at the door. The theatre has a bar which will be open before the show and during the interval.

Hopefully we’ll see you there.

Regards

PeteC

Mar 21st: Quarterly Competition: Street Photography

neville — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:12:50 +0000

The topic was chosen by Peter Ruck, who had won the previous competition. It was a shame that the entry was well down from normal, although there were plenty of people there on the night to vote. There was a clear winner: Pete Farmer’s “Coming and going”, but the other places were much closer. Sandie Cox was placed second with “Dancing in the street”, and Marian Hilton just made it onto the podium in third place with “Whiteladies Road ‘improvements’!” before Jason Eastham’s fourth placed “So that’s a deal then”.

This weeks meeting – 21 March 2012

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:20:35 +0000

This week’s meeting will be going ahead as usual at Westbury Fields. It will be the delayed Quarterly Competition – Street Photography, not the evening out that was scheduled. My thanks to Gordon who checked with Westbury Fields about whether … Continue reading →

IMPORTANT: This weeks meeting cancelled

Patrick — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:25:21 +0000

Due to a sickness outbreak at our meeting place, Westbury Fields, this weeks meeting (14/3/12) has been cancelled. We’ll rearrange the “Street Photography” competition for another day, possibly the following Wednesday, 21st March. We will email via clubtalk to confirm in the … Continue reading →

22nd Feb: Round One of the 2012 Competition

neville — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:25:06 +0000

This year, we have increased the number of Rounds to four – which is a good job if anyone wants to catch up with Ralph Snook. Images in the categories mono print, colour print and projected are shown 1st, 2nd and 3rd from left to right. (NB The prints are shown here as digital snapshots of the mounted prints.)

Baby elephant – Ralph Snook; Wide angle pride – Ralph Snook; Winter steam – Jason Eastham

Pelicans at dawn – Ralph Snook; Hornbill taking flight – Ralph Snook; Redwing – Sandie Cox

Kittiwake frenzy – Ralph Snook; Flamingos at dawn – Ralph Snook; The kite – Marian Hilton

19th Feb: WCPF DPIC at Exeter

neville — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:16:21 +0000

Last year we came 28th out of about 60 entered clubs; this year we improved on that and came 10th out of 50. Although we had no really high scoring images, neither did we have any low scoring ones, and that kept our average up well. Here are four of our higher scoring images:

Arctic summer – Ralph Snook Halfway there – Jason Eastham

Playing with heroes – Sandie Cox Ten – Pete Cannard

Table Top Evening

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:13:23 +0000

Tonight’s meeting was a practical table top evening. There was a wide variety of items to photograph and just as many lighting setups being used. It was a lot less formal than normal but a good chance to learn some new skills and discuss the latest Nikon and Canon camera bodies.

Change to this weeks meeting

Patrick — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:27:33 +0000

According to the programme this weeks meeting was to be an evening out. The evening out has been postponed and instead tonights meeting will be the table top evening brought forward from March.

Here are some notes recently circulated by John about this evening:

It would be helpful if members taking part in the Table Top Photography evening next Wednesday 25th Jan could bring along the following:

Small desk lamps, preferably with flexible or articulated stem to direct the light.
Background paper or cloth and a means of holding it in place.
Small items to photograph such as ornaments, glassware, toys etc., fruit, veg, flowers etc. etc.
And of course cameras and tripods. Cameras with waist level finders are particularly convenient.

18th Jan: Battle of the Sexes

neville — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:45:28 +0000

There are more men than women in NWBCC, but the Battle of the Sexes competition was a close-run thing. The men won, helped by some excellent wildlife images from Ralph Snook. Our judge, Steph, is an artist not a photographer, which gave fresh insight into what makes a good image. As our chairman, Ray, said, we didn’t hear “the rule of thirds” or “not quite sharp” once all evening.

A number of images scored 20/20, some shown here. Ladies first, so the three upper images (In the waterfall, Petrel with wave, Waiting for lunch) are theirs. The lower images are the men’s (Reflections, Second Severn Crossing, Up with mum).

14th Dec: Quarterly Competition: Industry

neville — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:13 +0000

Peter Spearing suggested the topic (although unfortunately was not able to be there on the evening). “Industry” was obviously to the advantage of our President, Peter Ruck, as he bagged both 1st with Noughts and Crosses, and 3rd= with Fishing Industry. Sandie Cox was 2nd with Glass Making, and Neville Goodman’s Silos was 3rd=.