Havant Camera Club is well into a successful 2014-15 season. We meet on Tuesday evenings at the St John Ambulance Headquarters, Fraser Road, Bedhampton – opposite the Rugby Club. Find out more about the Club by looking at our website, havantcameraclub.co.uk.
We have speakers from all over the country, as well as competitions for prints and projected images, with visiting judges. A Set Subject competition, Abstract, gave a very wide choice for Members. Fortunately, prints do have to have a sticker with the title and the Member's name placed in a standard way on the back, which helps those who put Abstract pictures on the stands to see which way up they are.
Also in the autumn Leo Rich, a very skilled and amusing visitor, gave us a wonderful show from several countries, the most spectacular being those in Africa where he tried to get a picture of a tiger charging – from the front. The last one was blurred and very close up, but Leo was grabbed back into the vehicle just in time! Another speaker, Janey Devine, had worked in IT and doing the photography for clients' websites; when she retired she bought a yacht and now spends her summers cruising and taking photographs, not only of sea scenes but also of towns and cities nearby – I found that Glasgow is much more attractive than I expected!
Our Christmas Social also brought one of the year's most interesting challenges, Same File print competition. We get a member's picture file and have to make another from it. It's a real challenge, and some very unexpected prints result ; we may have to show how we got the new picture from it – nothing may be added.
Tony Nutley treated us to an insight into his work as a photographer specialising in film and television publicity. We heard how the famous behave and misbehave when they can only be seen and not heard, fortunately the ones I admire are nice people but not all of the famous are!
If this has whetted your appetite for photography and the Club, come and see us. Potential members are welcome to come for two meetings without obligation!