Kevin Marriott writes: On Sunday, 19th May, 2019, OPC members are invited to join me on a day trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park, https://www.yorkshirewildlifepark.com We will aim to meet at the main entrance of the park at 10am, spending the day photographing the animals. If members would like to google the map, it’s post code…
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Ian Mountford in March
In March 2019, we will be welcoming Ian Mountford to the club for his talk, ‘The Long Way to Success’. The monotone images that Ian Mountford publishes represent a distinct and powerful style. Often taken at the water’s edge, these dramatic images require sound technique and mastery of long exposure photography. During the evening Ian…
Couples
Our Facebook theme for December was ‘Couples’ – so here’s a selection of the images our members posted in our Facebook group.
Spinning, Sparkles and Long Exposure
Our November meeting was on fireworks night – so we just had to get something sparkly into the practical session. A good portion of coloured lights helped things along the way, as did some sparklers. And fortunately, Mick is a dab hand at spinning hot wire wool over his head without causing anyone to be…
Higger Tor and Wyming Brook
The photo walk for October was a somewhat different challenge. The plan was to start the walk with some sunrise photographs at Higger Tor and the first challenge was to get up at stupid o’clock in order to get to Higger Tor for 7.00am. Well a few hardy souls made it and with the sky…
Autumn and Low Light
We asked members to share their latest and best autumn and low light pictures for us to take a look at in our November meeting. As always, the quality was superb and the range of subjects was far reaching – from shorelines to sunsets, fireworks to pumpkins and to water to walkers. And after the…
Let’s go logo!
At our November meeting, we revealed the winning design for a club logo. When the club was launched, we asked members to come up with a logo – something distinctive and simple that would identify the Ockbrook Photographic Club. And the winning design came from…. ta-daaaa…. David Gilbert! The logo has been uploaded to the…
Protected: Higger Tor and Magpie Mine Photographic Trip – members only
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Chris Dale: Local Projects and Creative Techniques
A huge thank you to our guest speaker for October, local photographer Chris Dale, who gave a talk: Local Projects & Creative Techniques. Chris’s talk and superb photos gave us an insight into his approach to outdoor photography, which has been driven by our local area and makes the most of what is on our doorstep,…
Reflections of Summer
Thanks to everyone who came along to Ockbrook Photographic Club’s inaugural meeting – what a fantastic turnout! Thank you for the overwhelmingly positive feedback. We very much hope you will enjoy all the activities we are planning and that your photography will grow and develop as we all share out photos, techniques, experiences and ideas….
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