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Talk: From silver print to digital photography

As part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, there is a talk about photography in Cambridge on Saturday 2nd November, from 2pm to 3pm.

Photography was an amazing concept when it was invented in the 1830s, enabling clear moments to be captured forever and teaching us so much about history. But now digital technology blurs the boundaries between past and future, and once again creates a new concept for photography. Explore this fascinating concept and question its limits at this talk as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

Festiva Of Ideas

See the Alliance Française website for details.

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Super-Secret Spy Lens

After tonight’s viewing of the Street Photography assignment, I showed you my right-angle mirror lens. This can be very useful for candid street shots. I got it from an entertaining US website called PhotoJojo which sells lots of oddball camera related stuff.

Anyway, here it is:

The Spy Lens is available at the Photojojo Store.

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Exhibition Comments

Comments from this year’s exhibition.

Very informative thank you.

Beautiful display.

Some lovely photos.

Absolutely stunning works.

Really interesting – particularly liked the sunsets and the steam engine.

Inspiring thank you.

A very high standard of photography.

What a wonderful exhibition for a village club to have, well done.

Really interesting exhibition, we enjoyed it very much.

Beautifully displayed, with a wide variety.

Excellent, wide range.

Great mix of work and very interesting to hear about the club.

Great photos! I will definitely rejoin the club, you should organise exhibitions more often.

Very inspirational, has encouraged me to take more photos, thank you.

A lovely show of photos.

Fascinating and diverse range of photos, was a pleasure and an honour to see them.

An excellent display of photographs, very enjoyable viewing.

Such awesome talent in Willingham, amazing.

Beautiful work.

Didn’t think it could get any better than last year but shows how wrong I can be.

Very impressive.

Wow! What talent!

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Exhibition News

Hopefully you have now all submitted your photographs for the exhibition.

Anita has contacted all of the camera clubs in Cambridge and invited them to our exhibition. In return, Bottisham & Burwell Photographic Club have invited us to their 40th Anniversay Exhibition in November:

Our club is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in November this year and to commemorate this “Ruby” occasion we are staging an Exhibition of our members’ work on Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 October 2013 at Mandeville Hall, Burwell, Cambridge from 10 am to 4 pm, with the official opening on Saturday 19 October at 10.30 am by Keith Heppell of Cambridge Newspapers Ltd.

I do hope that some of your members will be able to visit the Exhibition and we are able to share ideas, visits, workshops etc. in the future.

You can see their Poster here.

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Currys’ Photo Challenge

Currys contacted me to advertise their Photo Challenge, “in the hopes that you will inform and encourage your members to take part for the chance to show off their photography and win a Nikon Coolpix S6500 Red Compact Camera, worth £149.99 and a One Day Photography Course with an expert, worth £99.99.”

Seems fair: so here we are.

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Currys have teamed up with six of our favourite online photo takers, writers and experts and each week one of them will reveal a photography challenge for you to take part in. They will be setting the tasks in line with their area of expertise including motion capture, geometry and smoke.

The winner of each challenge will be judged by the photographer that has set that challenge: we’re up to challenge 3 which is “Movement & Motion” by Chris Gurton.

For more information on the photography challenge click here.

 

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Milton Photographic Club Talk

Peter Higdon from Milton Photographic Club is giving a talk on photographing parks and garden on Sunday 11th August at Milton Country Park.

The talk is titled “I’m a photographer, get the gardener out of here” … he introduces the talk by saying “Ever wondered why your photographs of a garden are something of a disappointment? Perhaps, its the gardener to blame! A well designed garden with well stocked borders, winding paths, and secret gardens isn’t good news for the photographer.”
Continue reading “Milton Photographic Club Talk”

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August Meeting

The subject for the August meeting is Sports and Recreation. Francis gave a short talk and if you missed it you can download his notes here. Thanks, Francis.

I also noticed this morning that Canon have just published the latest in their website tutorials – How To Guide: Action photography. A useful coincidence which you can read here.

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June Meeting Stuff

Francis gave us a brief talk about next month’s subject: Reflections and Shadows. You can download the notes if you need a copy.

Also, if you were intrigued or inspired by the iPhoneography on display this month, Colin has pointed out this link to an article in a birders webzine about attaching lenses to your iPhone.