We welcomed in 2023 with a fantastic talk from professional photographer Andy Phillips. Andy’s work covers a wide range of genres including landscape, commercial work, infra red and table top/close up work. His talk to us was around the table top and close up work and is going to form the basis of events we…
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December Club Meeting
Well our (by now) traditional December Christmas Fuddle meeting was as social and enjoyable as usual. We had a look at some of the images taken by our members on the recent Whitby photo break, enjoyed the super selection of Seasonal images which was our theme for the evening. As always, we had a fascinating…
November Club Meeting
For our November meeting we welcomed Justin Minns as a Zoom guest speaker. Justin is a well-known professional photographer based in East Anglia. He has been published in a number of photographic magazines and is the author of the excellent Fotovue book ‘Photographing East Anglia’. Justin’s talk gave a fantastic insight into how a professional…
October Club Meeting
For our October meeting we had a follow up on our September meeting by looking at a range of images, submitted by our members, a selection of which demonstrated low light photography techniques. As always, we had a wonderful variety of images and some great imagination being shown. A small selection of the images are…
September Club Meeting
Well, we started off our 2022-23 season with an excellent practical evening organised by Chris and Mark. The theme for the evening was low light photography and we split into two groups, one lead by Mark and one by Chris. After our half time tea break, we swapped over. Mark’s group were looking at how…
July Club Meeting – Steven & Angie Lomas
At our July club meeting we were treated to a talk by Steven and Angie Lomas on their once in a lifetime trip to the Falkland Islands. Although Steven and Angie aren’t seasoned travellers, indeed most of their holidays have been taken in the UK, but at a key point in their lives, they decided…
OPC June Club Meeting
For our June club meeting we had originally planned to have a go at creating some Cyanotype images. Unfortunately this requires some decent UV levels and the forecast was for a very cloudy evening, so we switched to plan B, which was using an assortment of items for table top photography. We had a variety…
Spring 2022
Here are a selection of images of spring as interpreted by members of the club.
Travels with my X – Chris Upton
For our second meeting in March, members enjoyed a terrific and broad ranging talk on travel photography by Chris Upton entitled “Travels with my X”. Although this title first alarmed us regarding his past relationships, it soon turned out that the “X” involved was his X series Fuji cameras! Through Chris’s excellent photographs we visited…
OPC Trip to Derwent Water – Nov 2021
The nine members were really grateful to arrive in HF’s Derwent Bank Hotel for this three night break. This photo trip had been postponed twice, precipitously cancelled and then, at our insistence reinstated on the other side of the country. As it turned out the venue was in a terrific position close to the head…