Meetings 2021-2022

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Thursday 16th June - 7pm onwards

Thursday 12th May - The Bowls Club - End of Season Social 7:30pm

Please note, the door fee for this event will be £7 - this will include a finger buffet (plus puddings!) - there will also be a bumper raffle - events like this do help with the finances so that we can get the best speakers for the coming season, so do support this evening and enjoy a bit of fun with likeminded, friendly people.

Annie will be running a quiz - sure to tax our brains, but not need us to have MENSA membership - we leave that one to Roger!

The My Stroud & District first...

Bring your camera and tripod together with an interesting object/still life set up (or could just be yourself, if you are happy for other members to try their hand at portraits). We will be setting up various "stations" around the room, and if the weather allows us, also outside. We will be rotating around the room, spending time with each object and using whatever light source you would like to use or bring with you - natural light, torches, lamps, flash - completely up to you to see how creative you can be on the night.

This is the BIG one!  Mike Dales is our judge for the evening.

Back by popular demand, Steve's new talk is sure to be equally creative and inspiring.

Now is your chance to have a go at making one or two 5-minute AVs

Nature photographer Ralph Snook FRPS, EFIAP is making a very welcome return to SCC to judge our nature Competition

This year's Chairnan's Challenge is to capture images at night or in low light.  Images should be captured anytime from 1 Jan 2022 but must be submitted by the end of 28 Feb (tomorrow).  Members can submit up to 6 images (up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) for review on Thu 3 Mar.  I will award a prize to the member who, in my opinion, has submitted the best image.

All images should be sent to chairman@stroudcameraclub.co.uk.

PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THE BOWLS CLUB THIS EVENING!!!

In a change to our programme, this evening's competition will be held via ZOOM ONLY and you will need to log in from home due to unavoidable circumstances.  All members have been sent a Bulletin (sent Monday 14th Feb) describing the evening in detail.

We give a very warm welcome to our judge, Pete McCloskey, who will critique and score all our best mono images this evening.

Members please ensure you are logged in to see the Zoom link below for tonight's...

The annual three-way Battle with Cheltenham and Cirencester takes place tonight! This will be a Zoom-only Battle again this year.  All SCC members are welcome to tune in and watch our progress.  Zoom details are visible to members below  GO STROUD!  If you want to keep score as the evening progresses, download and print off the file below:

Our annual Battle with Forest of Dean and Newent Camera Clubs is hosted by FoD this year.  Anyone wishing to go, please let Roger know ASAP by emailing him at chairman@stroudcameraclub.co.uk Roger will co-ordinate car-sharing where it helps.
See Roger's Bulletin from 27th January for more details.

Martin Cooper makes a very welcome return to SCC as our judge this evening.  Look forward to some insightful critique.

A late change to the programme, Nigel has kindly agreed to talk to us about Techniques and creativity for night photography.  This should be an excellent background talk to take forward to the Chairman's challenge.

Night photography is incredibly popular these days and with short nights it’s perfect time to do it! Nigel will cover photographing the night sky, the moon, mixed lighting and urban lighting in a variety of settings. He will also cover light painting (although it doesn’t cover non-landscape based light painting).

His website is: ...

Hope you had a good Christmas!  Now get yourselves ready for New Year celebrations

Christmas is coming!  Get your shopping done!

A change to the original programme. We will be working in small groups (4 - 6 people per table) looking at how images may be improved. Bring 2 - 3 images on a memory stick and join a small group for the evening to peer review/critique/improve images.

Yet another old friend, Bob Train, makes a welcome return to SCC to judge our 3rd open competition of the current season.

A multi-award-winning photographer, Ross will will present his talk "An Eclectic Mix" which will be a fascinating selection of images across several genres including landscape, portraiture, nature, creative etc  One to look forward to!  Ross will present to the Club via Zoom
For this event you will only be able to enjoy the presentation from home using Zoom - PLEASE DON'T COME TO THE BOWLS CLUB ON THURSDAY 11th NOVEMBER!

The link for the Zoom meeting is below and if you've forgotten how to use Zoom(!) you'll find a helpful document in...

Aleks Gjika is our judge for the evening - treat him as gently as he will treat us!  His insights are always entertaining, at the very least! We're lucky to have him because, as Brian Swinyard told us recently, Aleks has just been appointed to run the Cheltenham International Salon which is a very big commitment on his time and a great tribute to his expertise.

The topic and format of this workshop will be advised nearer the time. 

The wildlife, frozen landscapes and history from two expeditions to Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica.

Our first competition of the new season and our judge for the evening is our old friend Brian Swinyard

In a change to the original programme, we give a warm welcome back to a popular speaker, Stephen Spraggon, with his latest talk "See Shapes: Composition In Landscape Photography"