Club visit to Purton

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

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

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

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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Panoramas and flying cameras

 


We went all techie tonight as Tony gave us a practical demonstration of panoramic photography and explained how to take pictures from a radio controlled aircraft. See more of Tony’s images at www.acropper.com.

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Isle of Man Battle (Part II)

Patrick Emery from Frome judging the second round of our ‘international’ battle with the Isle of Man.


Final score was Isle of Man 173, NWBCC 158. Congratulations to the Isle of Man.

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Club Competition Results

The quarterly competition was very close this evening. But out of the 50 odd entries we whittled them down to 10, and from there chose the final 3. Congratulations go to Peter, David and Pete who came 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
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Image Editing Discussion Area for NWBCC members

I have set up a discussion area on my website particularly for club members to exchange information on Image Editing issues.
This can be found at: www.acropper.com/blog/ .

Ask Questions, leave Hints and Tips, make Comments…

The more members who use this the more useful it will be, so give it a go..
Registration is under the link on the lower right of page.
Tony C

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A Moment in Time

A quick reminder that this Sunday (1st August) is the day to take a photo for our ‘Moment in Time’ project. Remember it can be of anything but preferably of something that you are doing or of a place where you are, anything that depicts that moment in time! The only criteria is that it should be taken at 12:00 BST. If you are abroad you’ll have to make the necessary calculation! Please try to partake in this as it should prove interesting (hopefully) when we show the results in December.

Words by Pete C.

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Free Photographers’ rights campaign lens cloth

This is a great idea. In the next issue of Amateur Photographer you can get a free Photogtraphers’ rights lens cloth. Follow the link for more information.

Photographers’ rights campaign spawns lens cloth launch news – Amateur Photographer – news, camera reviews, lens reviews, camera equipment guides, photography courses, competitions, photography forums

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