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5 MOT Failure by Chris Morris This is a beautiful shot and works well tonally. Who would have thought a steering wheel could be so interesting!
1 Safe Passage by Lynn Sharples An abstract and ethereal image. The distant boat completes the feeling of heading into the unknown.
2 Sunrise by Chris Jones The sharp foreground leads the eye to the atmospheric tonal changes in this excellent landscape capture.
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6 Melancholy by John Crowland This could be a still from a classic film. Well executed and very well thought out. When was the club founded? We’re not sure, but our longest-serving member Tony Falla, thinks it’s somewhere in the late 1970s or very early ’80s. What does your club offer to new members? New members are always made to feel welcome and are given a number of free evenings before being asked to join. As well as the indoor-programmed meetings we do try to get out and about frequently. We also have a mid-club which is far more informal. We have previously run a series of development evenings separate to the main club meetings to help develop an individual’s equipment and software skills; we are looking to do something similar again in the future. Membership also provides affiliated
membership to the Welsh Photographic Federation (WPF), which offers a number of benefits. Describe a typical club meeting. Our season runs from September to May with meetings taking place on the first and third Fridays of the month. The programme has a mix of speakers, competitions and workshops. We have around five competitions a year, mostly with a theme, which are a mix of print and digital. These lead into our Photographer of the Year award to the highest-scoring photographer throughout all the competitions. The workshops are based on the skills of club members; both what people can talk about and what others want to hear. And of course all our evenings have a tea and coffee break! www.amateurphotographer.co.uk
