Tue 7 Jan 2025 - Homages and Influencers
More information will be given at the start of the year to allow you to consider who influences your photography. In Summer School last year some members were given the names of photographers to research. Did they emulate them or put their own spin on the style.
Tue 14 Jan 2025 - Stephanie Johnson: The Art and Beauty of Intentional Camera Movement
Stephanie joins us from the US Midwest
She has been solely devoted to Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) work since 2017. She has a strong desire to build a larger community around ICM photography...one that will also help give exposure to other photographers who have been dedicated to perfecting their own ICM techniques, whether that be strictly in-camera work, in-camera work coupled with traditional post-processing techniques, or ICMs in combination with creative post processing, such as textures, creative filters, and impressionistic renderings.
She is self-taught with...
Tue 21 Jan 2025 - Competition Results: Mono Print 1
Judge: Gerald Chamberlain DPAGB, EFIAP
Please attend the pub to see the real beauty of the prints. Gerald's comments will be fully understood when viewing the actual prints and not the PDI images.
Tue 28 Jan 2025 - Nick Lambert: Fifty years of travel in France
A welcome return from our very own member Nick Lambert. This time he provides us with an evening of entertainment showing images taken over fifty years in France. A fabulous presentation last season can he maintain that standard?
Tue 4 Feb 2025 - Competition Results: PDI 3
Judging: Martin Patten DPAGB,EFIAP, BPE5* QPSA
NB: Submit entries for colour print round two.
Tue 11 Feb 2025 - Review our best images
Something new for the club. Working in small groups we will review our best images. Getting a feel what the judges see when reviewing images. How can we improve on those images that have already been chosen as a high standard.
More information will follow.
Tue 18 Feb 2025 - Pecha Kucha
Which Members will volunteer (Be Press Ganged) into this evenings entertainment.....
Pecha Kucha
A story telling format originating in Japan. The presenter shares 20 images each displayed for 20 seconds while providing a commentary. The slides advance automatically giving the presenter a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds to convey their message.
This evening provides a wide range of topics and gives a lot of insight to members and their hobbies.
Tue 25 Feb 2025 - Competition Results: Colour Print Round 2
Judge: Stephen Fowler
Another evening best suited in the pub to examine the prints at close quarters. Please come if you can.
NB: Submit entries for Mono Print Round 2
Tue 4 Mar 2025 - Ian Hill: Narrative, place and photography
Ian Hill is based in Cumbria and works in Black and White 35mm film
He takes photographs in the landscape, not of the landscape. Creating narratives about place, about human interactions with the land, about our emotional responses to landscape.
Where he lives the hills of the Lake District decline westwards towards the sea. It is a place of weather and wide skies, of stones and bog and low hills of heather and bilberry.
His photography is very firmly rooted in this landscape.
Tue 11 Mar 2025 - Larry Bedigan: Astrophotography
Larry is local photographer and friend to many members of Gosforth Camera Club. He will join us in the pub to show his fabulous images of Astrophotography just one of the many genres that Larry excels in. Additional information on the content will be added later.
NB: Submit entries for Portrait and Outings Competititons (both PDI competitions this year, 2 entries per member in each competition)
Tue 18 Mar 2025 - Competition Results Mono prints Round two
Judge: Alan Wilson ARPS, AFIAP
Please come to the club to get a close up view of the prints. Who is topping the table in the competitions now? What change in the ratings will this round make?
Tue 25 Mar 2025 - Mark Bradshaw
We rarely ask guest speakers to come back the following season but we all enjoyed Mark's minimalist imagery last year that I have booked him in again. The title of the talk and content will be added later.
NB: Submit entries for Triptych Panel
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Competition Results: "Portraits" and "Outings" PDI Rounds
Judge has yet to be confirmed.
The. Portrait competition has been changed to a PDI round for 2025. The Outings competititon remains a PDI round.
NB: Submit entries for Set Subject Seascapes.
Tue 8 Apr 2025 - Members Night
Expect another evening of great entertainment when our Members present on a series of topics
Tue 15 Apr 2025 - Competition Results: Triptych Panel
Judge: Olivia Costello LDPS
What are the ratings at this stage; how will tonight's results affect the scores......
Tue 22 Apr 2025 - Competition Results: Set Subject
Judge: Glen Lawson
Final chance to score!!! Who will be on the edge of their seats?
Tue 29 Apr 2025 - Annual General Meeting
Annual General Meeting an opportunity for members to raise any issues and vote for your committee.
Tue 6 May 2025 - Presentation Night
The trophies have been handed back in, new names engraved and certificates printed. Help celebrate the success of a wonderful club. And there will be a buffet...