Opening Night 2018/19
This evening our Chairman, Rod Smith, welcomed members back from the summer break. It has been an eventful summer with several trips which were well attended but unfortunately the rain forced the cancellation of the Cragside Hall visit for the second time in a row! Veronica ran through the programme for the new season which […]
Party in the Park
This year our main focus was capturing images from around the park to use with the Merton 750th presentation at the end of the year. The day saw a good turnout of visitors and the weather looked promising with lots of sunshine as we setup our stand. Unfortunately as the afternoon progressed a couple of […]
Wallington trip
Update from Bill Norfolk On 24th April 2018 six of us, Veronica, Val and Trevor, Phil, Hank and myself visited the National Trust Rothley Lake Wildlife Hide. We all met at Wallington before 08:00 and two vehicles drove up to the lake, where we walked to the hide which overlooks some bird and squirrel feeders, […]
Knockout #2
Set Subject – Knockout #2 20 March 2018 2018 saw the first time we have ever run two Knockout Competitions in a single season! But this time there was a slight restriction – only pictures which had been taken during the season could be entered into the competition. The idea was to showcase images members […]
Set Subject – Happiness
Set Subject – Happiness 12 March 2018 This PDI set subject certainly tested members imagination! There was plenty of happiness during the evening and some laugh out loud moments from the audience. Our judge for this competition was Mavis McCormick LRPS who is President of Hexham Photographic Society. Mavis chose John Atkinson’s black & white […]
Happiness competition!
This week we welcomed Mavis McCormick LRPS, President of Hexham Photographic Society, to judge our Set Subject competition. The competition was entitled Happiness and certainly gave members a lot to smile about during the evening! The winning picture from John Atkinson, “You’re ‘aving a Larf!” was warmly received my members present especially when Mavis and […]
Open Print Competition – 12th February 2018
Open Print Competition 12 February 2018 Our judge for the competition this year was David Illingworth of Morpeth Camera Club. David has been a good friend of PPS over the years and his specialism in the print sector is always worth welcoming to the club. David started the night with some useful pointers on mounting […]
Everything’s Black & White!
Or it is if you’re fortunate enough to have Ed Forster and Mick Howe with their talk entitled “As Long as it’s Black & White”. They are both firmly committed to producing high quality, colourless, images in print and digital versions. We were treated to an evening of both which demonstrated that virtually any subject […]
Set Subject – Urban Landscape 8 January 2018
Set Subject – Urban Landscape 8 January 2018 There were almost 50 entries for the first competition of 2018 and Jim Walsh LRPS, CPAGB, APAGB of Blyth Photographic Society was kind enough to be our judge for the evening. The subject had been highly favoured by members at last year’s AGM but on the night […]
Urban Landscape winner!
Our first competition of 2018 was won by Phil Robson with his dusk picture of “Tyne Bridges” The competition was judged by Jim Welsh of Blyth Photographic Society. Here’s Jim, on the left, congratulating Phil next to the winning image. Full results from the competition are available on our Competitions page – click here