Monthly Archives: April 2011

Beautiful Birds: RSPB at Bempton Cliffs

(This post submitted by Clive Leach) A day out by 2 of our club members to Bempton Cliffs near Bridlington, has whetted my appetite for a day trip to this RSPB reserve on the East Yorkshire coast.  Clive and Ciaran set out at the … Continue reading

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Spring Open Day 2011

Calumet in Manchester are having an in-store open day Wednesday, 4 May 10am – 6pm Live demonstrations of a wide variety of products and special show offers. Free sensor cleaning available on the day (NB. only one camera per person … Continue reading

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Adobe: Free On-line Seminars & Live Events

  Follow the link below for a list of Adobe’s forthcoming on-line seminars.  There are various seminars covering programmes including CS5, Lightroom, Dreamweaver (for creating websites), and others.  Plus … there are details of a live event in Manchester on 17 May at Manchester United … Continue reading

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Monochrome Photography Lecture

PRESENTED BY PRESTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Friday 13th May 2011 at 7.30pm.   Preston PS is building on the success of its lecture evening held last year,  by booking one of the country’s renowned and finest professional monochrome photographers for this year’s lecture, Paul Gallagher (http://www.paulgallagher.co.uk/).  … Continue reading

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Bluebells

The Bluebells are now open in Spring Wood in Whalley, Lancashire.  Described in 1553 as,  ’one bow shot East of the Abbey’ (Whalley Abbey), this is one of the oldest wooded sites in the country.  It is a lovely place to go … Continue reading

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Macro unsprung

On behalf of our members I would like to thank Mark Watson for bringing along his enormous range of lenses, converters and extension tubes to explain the technical side of capturing a macro image and demonstrating the many ways in which this … Continue reading

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An Evening with Ron Needham

At our last meeting on 1 April, we were fortunate to have as our speaker, Mr Ron Needham.  Now retired, he has been a professional photographer all his working life.   Ron can still vividly recall his first photographic attempts at the … Continue reading

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Photography: Learning for less than the cost of a magazine!

I thought you might like to find out more about this web site called Craft & Vision that publishes on-line books covering various aspects of photography. Light and Land: Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom                 The Power of Black & White: For a small … Continue reading

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Southport Flower Show 2011: Photography Competition

The Stefan Buczacki photography competition is being held this year for the first time and the winners will be displayed at the Southport Flower Show between 18 and 21 August.  If you wish to enter, here is a link with an entry form … Continue reading

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Video Filming Course: And it’s free!

The club has received the following notice about a new video course that is due to begin on Sunday, 10 April.  I attended this course some 3 years ago and can recommend it for anyone wishing to learn film-making.  The equipment … Continue reading

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