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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Chasing the Light
(Friday, 29 October 2010) Our meeting on Friday evening was well attended by 23 members to view a DVD by photographer, David Noton – aptly named, ‘Chasing the Light’. The DVD was informative, well produced, and pleasing to watch – being, as … Continue reading
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Here are some stunning, and at times disturbing, images that won a place in the Natural History Museum’s ‘Photographer of the Year’ competition. The page on the link below opens the 4 categories in the competition: Overall Winners, Special Awards, Adult … Continue reading
L & CPU: Presentation Of The Competition Mono-Prints
Friday evening (22 October) was an extra night to our calendar, added so we could view the mono prints entered into the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union’s competition. The prints do a circuit of the photography clubs and there is usually a tight … Continue reading
The Owl and the … Pussy Cat?
(Friday, 15 October 2010) Well, actually, there wasn’t any pussy cat on this occasion. But there were some 25 members present to listen to a fascinating talk given by Howard Toll, aka ‘The Owl Man’. Howard had kindly driven from Keighley with … Continue reading
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Night Mail: 1936 Film On The Overnight Steam Train
To anyone visiting this site from outside our home town, perhaps we should explain that we are lucky to have an old railway line close-by. This was closed as a main operating line back in the 1960′s (or thereabouts!) but was fortunately re-opened … Continue reading
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Tagged GPO film, Night Mail, Night Train, W H Auden
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Garden Birds: Tips on Taking Photographs
Here are a few tips from a Lithuanian photographer on photographing the birds in your garden. He suggests some fairly simple, but nice, ideas for setting up backdrops and ‘scenes’ in which to capture images of your garden friends. Now that the weather is turning colder, this … Continue reading
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Don’t Play With Your Food!
Weren’t we all taught as children not to play with our food? Just for fun, here is a collection of food photos on Flickr – all cleverly done! And the next time we’re stuck indoors on a miserable day, we know how to … Continue reading
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Steam Weekend: The first mainline loco to be built in the U.K. since the end of steam
(This post was submitted by Bernard Fisher) “TORNADO HITS THE VALLEY” This coming weekend – 23/24 October – is to be a big weekend for the East Lancashire Railway (UK). The ‘Tornado’ is to visit the north-west of England for the first time … Continue reading
45,000 photographs in three and a half minutes!
With Autumn now upon us, this beautiful, bright, cold spell we’re having in the UK at the moment will produce the most wonderfully rich colours in the leaves. Let us hope it continues throughout October and provide us with some glorious photography opportunities. … Continue reading
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Tagged 45000 images in 3 minutes!, BBC link, time-lapse
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A Compact Wins the BBC Countryfile Competition
Following hot on the trail of my post last week about why users of compact/point & shoot cameras should use them with pride – and make the most of the programmed settings … what should be announced on Countryfile yesterday? The winning … Continue reading
