Image of the Year 2011

Posted on December 12, 2011 by neville

Image of the Year 2011 was held on 7th December. Jason Eastham had many of his superb prints in the competition and duly won both mono and colour sections, with his colour “Cathedral” winning print of the year. Sandie Cox’s “Street football” was projected image of the year.

 

Mono Prints:

1st Jason Eastham – Purton Wrecks in infra red

2nd Jason Eastham – What kind of cheese was that

3rd Jason Eastham – Bristol Cathedral

 

Colour Prints:

1st and IoY Jason Eastham – Cathedral

2nd Neville Goodman Orange Ladder

3rd Jason Eastham Can I come in

 

Projected Images:

1st and IoY Sandie Cox – Street Football

2nd Pete Cannard – Oh

3rd Ralph Snook – Slow Crossing

 

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Bleadon Battle 6th Dec

Posted on December 12, 2011 by neville

On 6th December, the Club came a creditable second at a very enjoyable four-way battle hosted by Bleadon Photographic Group. We came second in all three rounds (mono prints, colour prints, and projected images), and scored 270 (out of a possible 300) to Thornbury’s 273.

Four of our images (see above) scored the maximum 20: Jason Eastham’s mono “To War”; Pete Farmer’s colour “Lily” and Neville Goodman’s “Smoo Cave”; and Ralph Snook’s projected “Laid back mum”. The judge commented that Laid back mum” might have been better more tightly cropped, which made us think Ralph could have scored 21 out of 20.

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New look for the New Year

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Patrick

At the time of writing there are just two more Wednesday meetings left this year. I hope everyone has filled their wish list with camera related equipment and will use the holidays as an excuse to get out there and take some pictures.

If you are a regular visitor here then you must have noticed the site is looking a little different. Well, I thought the old design had been around long enough, so I sat down and spent a couple of evenings trying to tidy it up a bit. I hope you like it, all the familiar content should still be here but if you do notice anything missing please let me know.

I have also made it easier for club members to contribute so hopefully you should see a bit more activity here in the coming months, so over to you NWBCC members.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Summer is over

Posted on September 9, 2011 by admin

Hope you had a good summer and took loads of photos. Wednesday meetings are starting up again and you can download the new programme from the link on the left. We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks, and don’t forget new members are always welcome.

One more thing, don’t forget to follow us on twitter at @nwbcc.

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Club Competition Round 2

Posted on July 20, 2011 by admin

We recently held round 2 of our club competition, congratulations to the winners. The results were 1st ‘MacFly’, 2nd ‘Martial Flight’, 3rd ‘Slow Crossing’. Highly Commended was ‘Field Pattern’.03 Field pattern17 Martial Flight18 Slow Crossing10 Mac Fly

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Do you use flickr?

Posted on June 21, 2011 by admin

This is just a quick reminder to anyone who is not registered with flickr. In case you don’t know, flickr is a photo sharing website, it is free to register and start uploading images. These images can then be viewed by millions of other users worldwide.

What’s more, the images can be sorted into groups. We at the NWBCC have two groups, the Members Gallery, as the name suggests, is for members of the club only. There are limits on the number of images that can be uploaded and those that are uploaded are not only displayed on flickr but also on the NWBCC website.

The NWBCC Group is open to anybody and currently has over 60 members and more than 400 images. You can add as many images as you like under any theme. We have contributors from all over the world. This is the place to put all the event images that you have from the Festival of Nature etc.

So give it a try.

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Club visit to Purton

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

Just a reminder to everybody that the visit to Purton takes place this Wednesday 15 June. Meet at the earlier time of 6.30pm, at Neville’s house from where we can car share as appropriate.

Background information regarding the Purton wrecks site can be found at www.friendsofpurton.org.uk, together with a map on the ‘Visitors Information’ tab of the website - we should park in the village car park referred to therein.

As well as the wrecks themselves, a walk along the Sharpness Canal should also prove interesting.

See you Wednesday.

 

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Visit to Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve Part II

Posted on June 9, 2011 by admin

Portbury Wharf Barn owl in fading lightOn the evening of Wednesday 8th June a group of 10 Club members enjoyed a walk around Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve. Although a stiff breeze lent a slight chill to the air, this didn’t deter the suitably garbed participants from exploring the well laid out tracks of the Reserve, viewing the birdlife on the ponds and pools from the comfortable wooden hides and venturing onto the foreshore of the Severn Estuary.

Sandwiched between the ongoing residential development around Portishead and the more industrial landscape of Portbury and Avonmouth docks, there was plenty of interest within the mix of rural/semi wetland/estuarine landscape. The initially rather gloomy weather conditions eventually gave way to periods of late sunshine with some great lighting conditions for those patient enough to wait. As the the group made its way back to the cars, with the light beginning to fade , the appearance of a barn owl quartering the field near the reserve entrance in search of voles and mice was a bonus addition to an enjoyable evening.

Pictures and words by Ray

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Visit to Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve

Posted on June 2, 2011 by admin

Wednesday 8th June was supposed to be a club battle, but that fell through, so an evening trip to Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve  is planned.

Because the 8th June is the date for handing in entries for Round 2 of the 2011 Club Competition, we will meet at Neville’s house at 6.30pm, and go from there to Portbury. This will also make it easier for anyone who wants to hand in entries but not go on to Portbury.
Anyone who has only projected images to enter, and is not going on to Portbury, please e-mail their entries to Neville.
See ClubTalk for more information and directions to Neville’s house.
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Practical Table Top Photography

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

If its too cold for you to go out during the winter months you can always bring your photographic subjects indoors. This is what John demonstrated tonight when he put together a very varied range of lighting, backgrounds and subjects for this practical table top session.

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