Members should have received by email a link to a questionnaire regarding the coming season’s activities – the use of Zoom and the potential for restarting physical meetings. It would be great if you could complete this to help the committee plan for the autumn session.
Whitley Bay PS have informed us of the death of Robin Sinton – who has judged at Stokesley in the past. Robin had been a member of Whitley Bay P. S. only for a short time & formerly of Tynemouth P.S. He was well known in the NCPF region, judging & lecturing at a number of clubs. Our thoughts are with his family.
Me and My Engine by Judy Beveridge LRPS
Sunderland Photographic Association Annual Exhibition was due to be held this month at the Art Centre, Washington. Due to Coronavirus it is not possible to hold an actual exhibition. However the Arts Centre has put an online version of the Exhibition on their website. This can be viewed by following the link https://sunderlandculture.org.uk/sunderland-photographic-association/ or by going to the home page of Art Centre Washington’s website. The Exhibition will be viewable until 8th August.
Matthew Jones, a our Junior Doctors at James Cook Hospital is a very keen photographer and prior to the pandemic, had been working at the St Theresa Hospital at Nzara in South Sudan. A charity photographic commission there has been put on hold as a result of the pandemic and so Matt has decided to use his skills to photograph the Critical Care team at James Cook whilst they worked within their ‘hidden world’.
He’s done a great job – the pictures, taken last month within the COVID Intensive Care Units give a glimpse of what it has been like to work in the ICU during the pandemic.
As an introduction, there is a rather nice slideshow featuring the best pictures here – https://www.careinacrisis.org/About-the-Project
The rest of Matt’s photos can be viewed at https://www.careinacrisis.org/
Entries to the July summer competition can now be made on the ‘Competition Entry page
I have booked Gary Jones (http://www.gjwp.co.uk), a professional wildlife photographer based in Snowdonia, to give us a Zoom lecture on Wednesday 8th July (7.30 pm). See the Programme page for the full list of summer events.
WCC ANNual EXhibition Promotional A4
Wensleydale CC’s normal summer exhibition at the Leyburn Bolton Arms can’t happen this year, so they have produced a free virtual exhibition – the idea is we will give people something to look at during lockdown, whilst also helping the Wensleydale Railway.
This link will take you straight to the exhibition AnnEx of our website: ANN-EX – Wensleydale camera club
Following the success of Chris Upton’s Zoom lecture I have organised two further talks, both at the same time of 7.30 pm om a Wednesday evening.
(1) Wednesday 27th May: Julian Elliott – “Mongolia, from the landscape to Eagle Hunters”
Julian is a landscape and travel photographer currently based in France. His website has lots of fine images.
(2) Wednesday 17th June: Dianne Seddon – “Odd things” – creative photography
We will be holding our first virtual lecture, to be given by Chris Upton, on Weds 6th May. Chris, who is a Fuji Ambassador, gave us a well-received talk last year, and will show and discuss is travel images. The talk will be given via Zoom ad will last about 90 minutes. Let Simon know if you would like to join.
We will be holding another virtual meeting by Zoom this week where we will share images for discussion. Let Paula or Simon know if you would lime to join in.