Croxley Camera Club: This Week... The Arid Parks of South Africa with Stan Hill

November 2018

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This Week... The Arid Parks of South Africa
with Stan Hill

This Thursday Stan Hill from Pinner Camera Club will be leading us on a photographic journey through the arid parks of South Africa.

Exhibition at Croxley Library... We Need Your Prints!

Vanessa Lacey has organised for the club to have a print exhibition on display at Croxley Green Library later this month as part of our annual Croxley Festival of Photography.

Please can members bring a mounted photo to the club this week or next week. The display will be on table top boards so we will be putting velcro stickers on back to attach them and they will accessible to the public.

It would be really good if we had at least one from everyone and it just has to be one you like (not necessarily one that got high marks) as we are trying to encourage people to join.

Vanessa will be setting up on Sat 17th November but would welcome prints this week and next. We will be able to exhibit more if they are mounted on A4 card but a few on A3 would also be good.

Croxley Camera Club photographers will be documenting the Royal British Legion Remembrance Day march through the village this Sunday.

We will muster at 1.30pm in the car park behind the library before the parade starts at 1.50pm. The route will head from the library, up New Road and along The Green to All Saints Church. After a church service, the parade will restart at approx 3pm and go to the War Memorial for the wreath laying and the sounding of the last post.

If you would like to help photograph the event on the behalf of the club, please speak to Steve this Thursday.

Print Competition
Open & Red

Entry Deadline: 23:59 on Saturday 10th November

Members can submit up to 3 images in each competition.

Please ensure that you put the images into the order in which you want them to appear - if the competition is over-subscribed we may have to drop your 3rd and 2nd choices.

Entries should be made through our new Photo Entry web portal - full details are in the updated competition handbook

Printed images should be at least 7"x 5" and be mounted securely onto card. Make sure your uploaded images match the prints you bring along on the night of the competition and that you have your name and the title of the image clearly written on the back of your cardboard mount.

Coming Up...

15th November 2018
Print Competition: Open & "Red"

Croxley Festival of Photography
22nd November 2018

Help us to make the evening special by bringing along some images, telling us what you enjoy about photography or demonstrating a technique.

Please let Steve know if you would like to take part.

29th November 2018
PDI Competition: Open & "Square Format"

6th December 2018
Workshop Evening

Including creative lighting experiments and our beginners group.

13th December 2018
Using the Rules and How to Break Them Successfully

Some ‘rules’ help photographers make images look good to the eye. And, there are things that go against those rules… but can still be successful. Make a journey into photographic composition as Damon Guy shows us how to use the rules and how to break them.

20th December 2018

Join us for food, refreshments and festive fun and games.

3rd January 2019
A talk with Paul Halliday, sociology and photography lecturer at Goldsmiths College.

10th January 2019
Workshop Evening

Our themes for this month's workshop will be Speed. From exposure times and ISO to capturing movement and freezing the action.

17th January 2019
PDI Trophy Competitions: Newcomers Cup & Triptych

24th January 2019
Viewing images from camera clubs throughout the country in the PAGB GB Cup

31st January 2019
Sean Meehan from South West Herts Astronomical Society will be introducing us to the world of Astrophotography.

Updated Competition Handbook - Now Available to Download Here

Top Scoring
Rosebowl Images
Round 1: November 2018

The first round of the CACC Rosebowl Inter-Club competition took place last week at Croxley.

It was a VERY close match with just two points separating the top 3 clubs.

1st: Oxford (255 points)
2nd: Buckingham (254 points)
3rd: Croxley (253 points)
4th: Ealing & HH (245 points)

"Swirl" by Jim Forder
Rosebowl Round 1: 19 Points

"Fragile" by Cat Humphries
Rosebowl Round 1: 19 Points

"Pulling Off the Bend"
by Mike Brankin
Rosebowl Round 1: 18 Points

"Learning at the Slum School"
by Stuart Craig
Rosebowl Round 1: 18 Points

"Tigh Mor Loch Achray"
by Gordon Calder
Rosebowl Round 1: 18 Points

"Trapped in a Lift" by Jim Forder
Rosebowl Round 1: 18 Points

XRR Visions Final

Judging all entries this year will be Paul Radden LRPS DPAGB EFIAP PSA2* of the East Anglian Federation.

Wednesday 21st November
7.45pm
Stanborough Centre
St Albans Road, Garston
Watford

Croxley Camera Club Committee

Chairman: Steve Bailey
Vice-Chairman: John Flynn
Treasurer: Rod Lacey
Secretary: Cat Humphries

Committee Members
Anthony Highet
Vanessa Lacey
Stuart Craig
George Purchase

You can e mail the committee directly about any aspect of the club

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Club meetings are held at 7:45pm each Thursday (except August)
at Croxley Green Community Centre, which is at the end of Community Way
(entrance behind the New Road library). For satnavs, use postcode WD3 3SU.