Tue 30 Aug 2022 - Evening Shoot
Informal get together to meet up, go out, and take some pictures. Meet at the East Ord village hall at 6.30pm
Sun 14 Aug 2022 - Sunday Shoot - Wooler Common
Meet at Wooler Common car park at 2pm (you will find this on an OS map at NU 977273, or head up past the Terrace Cafe from the main street - single track road towards the end).
Tue 26 Jul 2022 - Evening Shoot
Informal get together to meet up, go out, and take some pictures. Meet at the East Ord village hall at 6.30pm
Sun 10 Jul 2022 - Sunday Shoot - Craster
Meet at Craster car park at 10am (there is a charge for parking)
Tue 28 Jun 2022 - Evening Shoot
Informal get together to meet up, go out and take some pictures. Meet at the East Ord village hall at 6.30pm
Sun 8 May 2022 - Monthly Sunday Shoot for May
There is a charge for parking and looking round the grounds - no idea how much, but you pay at the shop. Meet in the car park.
Tue 29 Mar 2022 - Annual Dinner
For some, the highlight of the year! Venue to be confirmed
Tue 22 Mar 2022 - Annual Review
OUr annual review of the past season and your chance to make suggestions for next year's programme
Tue 15 Mar 2022 - Speaker: Phil McLean
Acclaimed nature photographer Phil McLean will present "Natural Visions of the Scottish Borders"
Tue 8 Mar 2022 - Members' evening: phone camera images
To prove you don't need a fancy camera to take great pictures, tonight we will be sharing photographs taken using our phones.
Tue 1 Mar 2022 - Speaker - Geoffrey Bradford
Geoffrey, who recently judged our print competition, will be returning to talk on the topic of 'Developing a body of work'
Tue 22 Feb 2022 - Projected Image evening
Another of our competitions with no competition! Send your projected images in advance to Maggie so we can organise them for comment and critique but no judgement. If you don't have Maggie's email you can send them to bcc@pactonline.co.uk and they will get forwarded on.
Tue 8 Feb 2022 - Panel Competition
This year's Panel of 3 Competition has the theme 'Water'. Bring 3 pictures that link to the theme and display them together.
Tue 1 Feb 2022 - Member's evening: Portraits
We will be playing with lights and flash and taking portraits of each other!
Tue 25 Jan 2022 - Print Competition
Our print competition will be judged this year by Geoffrey Bradford
Tue 18 Jan 2022 - Speaker: David Southern "Close to Home"
David works full-time as a photographer, leading 1-to-1 and small group workshops and is currently working on a project to capture the landscapes of the Northumberland coast throughout the seasons.
Tue 11 Jan 2022 - Members' evening: current projects
Members sharing pictures from projects they have been working on
Also the deadline for submissions for this year's Print competition
Tue 14 Dec 2021 - Speaker: Bill Ward "Shooting Water"
Bill Ward is a multi-award winning British actor and photographer. Please click on the title to see a selection of his images of water. More information and images are at his photography website
Tue 7 Dec 2021 - Monochrome Competition
Derek Snee will judge our Monochrome competition for both prints and projected images
Tue 30 Nov 2021 - Members' evening: creative fruit and veg images
Bring along your creative fruit and veg images to share! If you are looking for inspiration, check out the Trussel Trust's Potato Phtographer of the Year
Tue 23 Nov 2021 - Members' evening " What is the point of a photography course?"
Maggie and Chris will report back about the photography course they attended on Easdale Island.
Also the deadline for submissions for the Monochrome competition
Tue 16 Nov 2021 - Projected Image Competion
To be judged by Patrick Sheard
Sun 14 Nov 2021 - Informal camera outing
We will be gathering for an informal 'Sunday Shoot' (not a competition, just a chance to get together and take some pictures). We will be meeting at 2pm at the main carpark (National Trust) on Lindisfarne. Hopefully the weather will hold and we can have a couple of hours of good light.
Tue 9 Nov 2021 - Members' evening: still life photography
Bring your camera along - we will be practising taking still-life photos
Tue 2 Nov 2021 - Sunday Shoot competition
Sunday Shoot competition, to be judged by members on the night. If you are joining us by Zoom you can download a scoring sheet here. Otherwise make sure you have pencil and paper to hand. You will be able to submit your votes through Chat.
Also the deadline to submit pictures for the Projected Image competition
Tue 26 Oct 2021 - Speaker: Mik Critchlow "The Documentary Approach"
Mik is a Social Documentary photographer based in the North East of England and for 40 years he has photographed his home town of Ashington, Northumberland and its people. He will talk about his photographic influences, his working style and methods, commissioned projects, and show images ranging across his career.
Check his work at https://www.mikcritchlow.com/
Tue 19 Oct 2021 - Print Evening
We will be holding fewer formal competitions this year but tonight's Print evening will allow us to share printed images (without the usual competition categories) for comment and critique but without judging.
Tue 12 Oct 2021 - Theme Night - Climate Change
Members are invited to share photographs on the theme of Climate Change
Sun 10 Oct 2021 - Sunday Shoot
The venue is Coldingham/St Abbs. Meet at 10am in Coldingham Sands car park; more information on the Sunday Shoot can be found in competition rules on the Club page. There are plenty of venues for coffee etc after the shoot.
Tue 5 Oct 2021 - Members' night: Neil Forster on old lenses
Neil will be talking about lenses and showing us some examples from his collection
Tue 28 Sep 2021 - Speaker: Linda Bembridge "Abstract with a bit of landscape" (via Zoom)
Linda Bembridge FRPS is based in Buckinghamshire. She is passionate about photographing the landscape in all its forms. She strives to capture the emotion of the wide vistas whilst at the same time discovering and exploring the beauty in the detail of the ‘intimate landscape’ all around us. She uses various creative techniques, in camera and in Photoshop, to convey her feelings about the subject.
Linda will be presenting via Zoom. Check her work at lindabembridge.me
Tue 21 Sep 2021 - Film night
We will be showing the film "Chasing Ice", about the work of nature photographer James Balog
Sun 15 Aug 2021 - Summer Shoot
Join us for a summer shoot in Berwick, meeting at the bandstand in Coronation Park
Mon 1 Feb 2021 - Members' evening: portraits
Tinight we will be exploring the art of protraiture