Winston visits the CCC Camera Club

Clive organised one the countries foremost Winston Churchill Actors to come and sit for our portrait group (Cambridge Camera Club).

An interesting character who defiantly acted the part but also knew quite a bit about the subject. He told us he leads parties of visitors around the Houses of Parliament too.

The second picture is a composite. Clive brought along a poster of 'the time' that a few of us photographed.

Summer 48 Camera Club Competition.

I quite like working on pictures for a project and the Camera Club has a few opportunities in the year to do this.

Every Summer for the last few years Chris has set a Summer 48 Competition. The idea is that you will be given a list of 5 topics on the Friday Evening and you have to take, process and enter the competition by Sunday night (midnight).

This is the sort of 'pressure' a sports photographer or news photographer has to face on a regular basis.

The topics for this year where :-

1. Full of Colour
2. Abstract
3. Looking up
4. Past its best
5. Hot or Cold

I cannot remember why but we could not get out and about so these pictures where all taken at home and fabricated from what I had.

One of our more experienced members judged the competition. 

Great Fun.

Here are my pictures.

Full of Colour

Abstract

Looking Up

Past its Best

Hot or Cold

Macro Workshop at Scotsdales Nursery

Scotsdales Nursery have sponsored our Annual Exhibition for the last couple of years. The relationship between the Camera Club and this local business has been very good. This year they suggested we could run a practical workshop using their 'Training Room' at the Shelford Site. We could venture out into the displays to take photos and they let us bring plants into the training room where we could photograph under more controlled conditions.

Ann organised this event and it proved very successful. we had 25 members of the club come along.

I was particularly interested at creating in camera multiple exposures and managed a few that I liked.

Seahouses Rock Patterns

Day 7 and our Last evening before our return home. It was here back in June 2015 that I have become fascinated with Rock Patterns and the abstract vision they can create. While Dinner was being prepared a few of us ventured to the beach and I decided to revisit these wonderful patterns.

Here are a small collection of the images I took.

It you would like to see the photos I took in 2015 then here is the link to that blog northumberland-post-06-seahouses-rock.html