It's always nice when you get something free, and especially when it's an interesting book. So when I got the chance to review this 160-page book, I say 'Yes please!'. More...

 

We get up to all kinds of activities at Abergavenny Camera Club, including being able to use a full studio setup. In October 2015, Keith Sharples came along with a car full of kit to help us all get better at using it all, including the use of remote-controlled flashlights.

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It' s been quite sometime since a Blog has been posted, lots going on on everyone's lives I suppose. But I thought I'd catch up a bit with my to do list. First of all our last competition: Weather. For the DPIs in first place was Ken with Wind and Waves, in second place was Arthur with Winter Fog and in third place was Humphrey with Time to come in. For the prints, in first place was More...

 

I'm sorry I wasn't there to collect the competition entries at the last meeting. Well, actually, I'm not really sorry, because I was on a two-week bird photography tour in The Gambia. It was my first time in Africa and quite an eye-opening experience. Creature comforts were not up to European standards (to put it mildly), but this was more than compensated for by other things. The people are incredibly friendly. More...

 

Well everyone, here we are again at the end of a very busy year photo wise. In all honesty I can say that we've all seen some pretty good images this year and like me I'm sure you all have your favourites. We finished the year off this evening by judging our Print of the Year and Digital of the Year, then between these two we chose our Photo of the Year. More...

Last night's visit by Mark Mumford FRPS gave us a wonderful opportunity to see the work of a genuine artist of significant ability warp and weave the ordinary into outstanding dreamscapes. More...

 

Hi everyone. Well here we are more than half way through 2014 already and we've one last evening, which is Monday 14th, before we break for the Summer. I have arranged an evening at St Mary's in Usk. More...

 

What a splendid evening it turned out to be on the 27th March. A busy start for me which started at about 5.30 when I left home with the ACC projector and computer and headed off to the Theatre with hubby in tow. More...

 

On the weekend of 9th to 11th November (2013) Martin, Sue, Brian and Jo visited The Hafod Estate – a Forestry Commission property – and stayed in Pwll Pendre, aka Hawthorne Cottage. More...

 

I have been taking macro for a very long time - I started in film in fact, with manual focus lenses, which becomes more relevant later in this blog. It has been an interesting journey, with pretty varied results. More...