An all day event wandering around the Cotswold Wildlife park and gardens capturing great images of the animals and plants. Hopefully there should be something for everyone.

Get out your long lenses (if you haven’t got one, I am sure someone may have one that you can borrow) to isolate the subject against the background, use a large aperture to throw those backgrounds out of focus!

Gloucester hosts the “Art in the City” event for 2017.

Capture candid street photography as Gloucester hosts different events across the city centre with Artistic demonstrations, live painting and street art!

Meet at the Second Severn crossing late Sunday afternoon for a Walk along the Severn Estuary. Get some shots (hopefully the tides will be right) on the North side of the bridge as the sun sets at 21:01

Meet in Clevedon from mid- afternoon onwards for some great shots along the sea front, in and around the cafes and amusement arcades. Grab and early evening snack / meal  and a drink and then walk along to the pier as the sun lines up exactly with it for sunset at 20:37 hrs.

Lift share to save on fuel costs if you can.

Welcome back to all old and new members as the season kicks off for another year….Venue TBC

Meet the committee as they introduce themselves.

The Competition Secretary will go through the rules and regulations with you all,

The Programme secretary will take you through the coming programme,

A committee member will take you through – “How to resize images for competition” using Photoshop Elements and CS6 / CC

To give us a good start for the new season, Fotospeed will give us a talk on Screen and Printer calibration. Ideal for those that don’t understand the concept and a refresher to those that do. He will talk us through Fotospeed products and paper and the effects different papers have on a finished print.

Bring some money as paper / ink will be on sale during the evening.

For those that Print at home, this should give you all a good start for getting Prints into the monthly competitions!

Shaun Little will start at the very beginning for those that are new to photography and to photography club.

This first evening of five throughout the season will be entitled,

“Understanding your Camera”

To all those that think you already know it all? Perhaps you may still learn something new!

Subject = Pattern and Shapes + Open (print and digital projection)

Our own club members, Kevin and Richard will take us on a four part journey throughout the season on how to take “portraits”

Part 1 tonight will cover the Basics.

Our own, Mike Cheeseman will show us how to use a drip kit to take splash photography to the next level.

Mike will demonstrate how to use the equipment and then we can all have a go with image reviews at the end of the evening if we have time!

Should be a fun (and hopefully not to wet) evening!

We kick the year of with the first of five set subject and open competition’s.

Tonight we have the set subject of “Patterns and Shapes” – One x Print and one x Digital projection allowed per member

plus

“Open” – Any subject matter you like – One x Print and one x Digital projection allowed per member

Make sure your entries are in to Carlo by the 18th September in readiness for tonight’s judge to evaluate and give scores.

Who will be victorious, will it be you?