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What's On 2016 Archive



The meeting schedule for 2016 was:

January

13 Jan: Annual General Meeting

Presented by: The Club Committee

An enjoyable evening with a chance to elect a new Committee, see how your money was spent and how much we can give to our charity, view a slideshow of the past year's activities and show off your Christmas purchases.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


27 Jan: Short stories from Namibia and South Africa

Presented by: Dave Hammant

Dave is a member of our club but is also a professional photographer. He has worked as a ranger and guide in game reserves in Africa, combining this with his photography. Recently he has worked with a team chasing wild boar in Europe and extracting DNA samples from them.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


February

10 Feb: Landscape and Seascape Photography

Presented by: Mark L Simpson (Electric Lemonade Photography)

Mark specialises in landscape and seascape photography, using a variety of mediums and techniques - digital, film and panoramic. He runs one day or longer workshops for photographers of all abilities.

Project vote: Architecture

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


24 Feb: Practical Evening – bring your cameras and tripods

Presented by: The Club Committee

There will be three different set-ups so that you can have a go at: macro photography, portrait photography and using external triggers. We will be circulating 'crib sheets' before this evening so you have some idea of how to go about the different activities and what equipment to bring. Guaranteed to be a fun evening as well as a learning experience.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


March

9 Mar: Practical Evening – Model Shoot

Presented by: The Club Committee

Another opportunity to learn new skills with various lighting set ups and models. Bring your camera and tripod. More information and a basic 'crib sheet' will be available in advance.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


30 Mar: An Introduction to Astrophotography

Presented by: Danny Thomas

Danny is a member of Farnham Astrological Society and is a keen photographer. He will desribe and, if suitable conditions prevail, demonstrate how to take photographs of the night sky.

Project vote: Black & White

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


April

13 Apr: Sports Photography and the 2014 Football World Cup

Presented by: Andrew Tobin

Andrew will be speaking about the preparation, logistics and behind the scenes work that goes into shooting one of the world’s biggest sporting events, with loads of pictures to illustrate what goes on. Even if you don’t like football, there will be plenty of interesting anecdotes and stories to keep you entertained.

Project vote: Emotion

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


27 Apr: Practical Activity - The Golden Hour

Presented by: The Committee

Cameras at the ready for a challenge! A group activity to take photographs of the landscape/flowers/plants/birds at the Thatcham Discovery Centre in the warm hues and low angle of the setting sun, the so-called Golden Hour. As the sunset approaches we'll look for opportunities to capture how the light changes, then we'll finish by setting ourselves up to look west, over the water, to take a few shots of the sunset due at around 8:18pm .

Venue: Meet at 7.00p.m. Thatcham Discovery Centre.


May

11 May: Landscapes for all seasons

Presented by: Robert Harvey www.robertharvey.net

Robert is a professional environmental scientist, photographer, horticulturalist, writer and speaker. He travels extensively around the UK and the world photographing landscapes and wildlife. He lives in Wiltshire and many of his images come from the local area. He seeks to bring a strong seasonal theme to his images, making use of different light and colour throughout the year.

Project vote: Graffiti

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


25 May: Practical Challenge – Canal at Aldermaston

Presented by: The Committee

Meet at Aldermaston Lock between 7.00-7.30p.m. for the chance to take glorious photos along the canal, at the lock and at the boatyard. Bring both your camera and mobile phone for an opportunity to take part in our latest challenge.

Where possible share cars, cycle or take the train.

Venue: Meet at Aldermaston Lock at 7.00-7.30p.m.


June

8 June: The Creative Brain – an Interactive Evening

Presented by: Gordon Joslin

Gordon will illustrate how our brains work and interpret pictures in a fascinating short presentation. This will be followed by a session when we will look at samples of members work and why they can be memorable.

Project vote: Natural light through a window

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


29 Jun: Practical Activity - Canal Cruise

Presented by: The Committee

This departs promptly at 7.00p.m. from Newbury Wharf. Pre-booking is essential and there are a very few places left. Food will be provided and drinks will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring your camera for some wonderful photos and our latest challenge (a bottle of bubbly for the winner!)

Venue: Meet at Newbury Wharf 6.45p.m.


July

13 Jul: Low Light Photography

Presented by: Dave Hammant www.djhimages.co.uk

One of our own members and professional photographer, Dave will explain his techniques for taking photographs in low light or after dark using ambient light or a combination of ambient light and artificial light. He will cover the basic equipment needed, the methods of making an exposure and the post processing of the images.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


27 Jul: The Magic of Myanmar

Presented by: Professor Hermon Dowling ARPS

Hermon is a member of Newbury Camera Club and is an excellent photographer. His photos and talk will take us on a journey of beauty and wonder around Myanmar (formerly Burma), a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand.

Myanmar has some wondrous sights: a thousand temples scattered across the countryside in Bagan; the leg-rowers and floating gardens of Inle Lake, and majestic rivers - the Ayeyarwady and the Chindwin - navigable into the furthest reaches of the country. But the big draw is the chance to see a country where the 21st-century world has barely intruded. This is changing but there is still a strong sense of the old Orient there and it's a place where Buddhism is still very much a way of life.

Project vote: Smile

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


August

10 Aug: Annual Barbeque

Presented by: The Club Committee

A casual evening of food provided by members, incinerated by the committee, and washed down with a glass or two of your favourite tipple. A chance for members and partners to relax and reflect on our year so far, talk about the photos we took, the ones that got away, and the projects that we'd like to do. Additional costs will apply to this evening. Details to follow.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


31 Aug: Tales of the Unexpected

Presented by: Alan Copeland www.curiosities.co.uk

A collection of the curious and odd items we find around us – with some unexpected twists.

Part One takes us back to the early days of motoring which leads us into the darker days of war. This is followed by a look at heroes, a couple of stories about bread, one or two churches and finishes with a number of fascinating buildings concluding with a real grudge match involving the local vicar’s cat!

Part Two starts with a horror story and moves swiftly on to a study of some amazing epitaphs, real and fictional. Public sundials are next on the menu followed by a quest for the source of the River Thames and we end with a pot pourri of odd and curious items all waiting to tell their story.

Project vote: Silhouettes

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


September

14 Sep: Street Photography

Presented by: Dave Mason www.davemasonimages.com

Dave is a British born photographer who takes great pleasure in finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, often documenting the surreal happenings on the city streets. Most of his photography is shot in London, a city he is proud to call his home. London offers him a constant changing canvas of textures, people and events. His preference, regarding the type of images he produces, is that they have an honesty about them, captured in camera with little, if any, post-processing. Dave enthralled and entertained us with his images in September 2015 and we look forward with great anticipation and expectation to his return visit.

Project vote: Pets

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


28 Sep: Photo Critique & TriggerSmart

Presented by: The Committee

Members were split into table groups and given a selection of photos to discuss, review and critique. Each group was then asked to share their opinions with other tables which generated some lively discussions.

Recently the club purchased a TriggerSmart sensor and camera control unit. During the evening this was demonstrated by capturing some high-speed photos of milk being poured into a glass. The TriggerSMart unit is available for members to hire at a reasonable cost.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


October

12 Oct: Mix n' Match Competition

Presented by: The Club Committee

Part of the Thatcham Festival activities. Members of the public are invited to this fun, FREE, entertaining evening to witness Thatcham Photographic Club compete against Hungerford Camera Club in a lively game of one-upmanship to match each other's projected images! In addition, enjoy an exhibition of members' street photography.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


26 Oct: Understand and control your flash

Presented by: Terry Hewlett www.terryhewlett.com

The evening will start with an introduction to flash, what the buttons and functions do, the quality and subsequent control of the light the flash produces.

The second part will be a practical demonstration with live tethered shooting producing stunning portraits with two, maybe three speedlights. The images will be viewed on screen for analysis and members will have the opportunity to shoot the lighting sets. Shooting will be with a camera (and radio triggers) provided by Terry, so there will be no need to bring your own camera unless you want to capture the set-up.

Project vote: Street

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


November

9 Nov: Fine art photography of the natural environment

Presented by: John Hailstone www.impphoto.com

John is a photographer from Wallingford who specialises in taking images of of nature and the natural environment both up close and from afar. His distinctive images of flowers, feathers, shells, trees,etc. are often monochrome with a splash of colour, purely B & W, or even blue/green/yellow/pink, etc. You have to view the images in order to understand the 'wow' factor. Perhaps we too will learn a great deal about these different techniques.

Project vote: Taste of Autumn

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


30 Nov: 2016 Through My lens

Presented by: Ken Lane

One of our own members, Ken will take us on a varied photographic journey through 2016. We'll be treated to close up's of butterflies, portraits of his granddaughter, the Northern Lights in Norway, TT racing on the Isle of Man, some natural history photos and more.

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


December

14 Dec: Christmas Party and Skittles Evening

Presented by: The Club Committee

A light-hearted end to the year with plenty of fun, good food and friendship.

Project vote: Signs

Venue: Thatcham Town Football Club 7.30p.m.


28 Dec: No Meeting

Time to digest your Christmas turkey, chill with friends & family, and play with the new photography toys Santa left in your stocking.

The project vote for Reflections will be held at the January 2017 AGM, date to be announced.