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WCC Photonews

    Worcestershire Camera Club Editor: w-news@worcscc.uk

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Time on my hands Ruth Bourne LRPS

Contemporary Group

We meet on Thursday 5th Octoberat 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion,Cornmeadow Lane, WR3 7RL.

All members welcome. £2 includingrefreshments. Bar available.

Contemporary Group meets again thisThursday (see details left) for an interestingevening of viewing and   discussion ofmembers’ images and more.

As you know we ask for notification fromthose contributing images and it wouldfurther assist us if the images werepresented as JPEGs with a maximum size of1600 x 1200 pixels.   This format makes itspeedier to load on the night and muchmore efficient for me when putting thegallery of images together for the CPGNewsletter. Thank you.

Clive and Tessa.

Contemporary Group

Print competition 1 hand-in - deadline 10 Oct

We welcomeback TonyWorobiec FRPSwith hispresentation‘Abandoned onthe Plains:Fragments of theAmerican Dream’.

UK and International award winningphotographer, author of 16 books andprolific exhibitor, Tony is a passionatetraveller and this talk will cover a range ofexperiences in America.

A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society,Tony is a fine art photographer with work inthe permanent collection of the RPS, theFox Talbot Museum and in numerouscorporate and private collections here inthe UK, in Europe, Japan and America.

Club ProgrammeClub websiteCongratulationsOther newsMeet the membersDiaryCompetitions & exhibitionsPhoneographyNorwayNorth Wales

See more of Tony’s work on his website.

Pam Turner CPAGB LRPS

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RPS News

Did you know as a non-member you canstill receive regular news from the RPS?Subscribe here.

PAGB News

PAGB News edition 192 is online now.

Photography News

Have you seen Issue 48 (Sept/Oct) yet?

Club website

Do check out both the public website and the Members’ Area on a regular basis.Please note the new size for website header  images. You can also use this crop for Photonews headers.  Why not set up a WCC preset inLightroom or Photoshop to make it easy?

Congratulations

Martin Parr entertained a packed auditorium at Ludlow Assembly Rooms on Saturday. 23 September. He talked about his work andcareer, and his Foundation that opens in Bristol on 25 October. A brilliant evening ended with Martin awarding prizes to ten winners of aphotography competition organised by the Photo Space. Many congratulations to WCC member Charles Ashton who won second prize.

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Meet the members

 Hi all my name is Mike Troth, I live near the metropolis of Redditch, have been a member of a few cameraclubs over the years and have picked up a lot of ideas on photography from each club on film and now digital. Iam a member of Smethwick as well as Worcester camera clubs.

Back in 1994 did an on line course from Adobe on Photoshop and this has encouraged me into the creativeside of photography.

My main interests are people , but i have been known to take nature and sports images. I like to entercompetitions both club and internationals and have had some success in both.

Read, Text, EatThe Night Stalker

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Mike Troth

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Diary

The   temporary twinning withGouzeaucourt was marked with anexhibition in the Guildhall. If you didn’tsee the exhibition then,  it is in the TudorHouse Museum from 27 September (openon Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,10.00 am – 4.00 pm). You can now alsosee it online.www.worcesterandgouzeaucourt.org

PhotoLondon Talks - 17 OctoberSiân Davey in conversation

Phoneography

Competitions &exhibitions

Smethwick International

Iphone photography awards

Distressed,Snapseed,                                                                                                                       Prisma

Maddy Pennock LRPS has sent a selection of images from her presentation onphoneography at Thursday’s Digital Group, with an indication of the app(s) she used forprocessing.

Distressed;                                              Snapseed

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Distressed: Prisma: Hipstamatic: (above)fisheye & Snapseed;Hipstamatic (left); Snapseed;Distressed, Fotor, Fotor.;

See This Prisma

Image Blender(above L)Fotor, Fotor,Pixtomatic, PrismaVintique, Distressed

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Les Bailey writes of recent travels:-

Started in Oslo, where 30% of the city isbeing redeveloped at any one time. and asausage is the cheapest thing you'llsee. Some fantastic new buildings, the'Bar Code' developmentparticularly. Hugely expensive, occupiedby Deloittes, PWC and thelike. Includes residential andcommercial though, to keep the areaalive, rather than becoming a ghost townat night.

We visited The Viking Ship Museum,which holds three longships; theOseberg ship dating from circa 820, heGokstad from 890, and the Tune ship(mostly a wreck) from circa 910. Allthree are made of oak, with 30 - 32oarsmen. Containing many artefacts aswell as the ships, it's a great place tovisit.

Next came the Fram museum, whereAmundsen's ship (The Fram…) isheld. Another great place, you can walkon and in the ship. There are eerily life-like models of Amundsen and the cook,

Adolf Lindstrom. Lindstrom had been onthree expeditions, two with the Fram, andwas famous for his good humour andfood. The pancakes he's holding out lookedible…

There is obviously still anti-Naziresentment, evidenced by the 'Nazi FreeZone' stickers posted around thecity. The image attached is on thewalkway across to the Bar Codearea. Norway, though neutral, wasoccupied by the Germans in WW2. Ofparticular interest was the heavy waterfacility at Vemork, made famous by thefilm 'Heroes of Telemark'. The Germanswanted the heavy water to develop anuclear bomb, and increased productionsignificantly. 'London' decided that theplant should be destroyed, but beingsituated on the side of a steep gorge,access was difficult. The only bridge was

heavily guarded, so it was decided that saboteurs wouldscale the cliffs. Twelve saboteurs climbed down one side,crossed the river, and then scaled the other face, reachingthe railway track that led to the plant. Access was easy,since this area was unguarded. Once in the plant,explosives were laid in the basement, where the electrolysiscanisters were producing heavy water. The plant wasdestroyed, and none of the saboteurs were captured.

The Germans decided to transport the remaining heavy waterto research facilities. This was to be by ferry, which wasunguarded, a weak link. Overnight, explosives were plantedin the bow of the ship by saboteurs. It was sunk with theloss of 14 Norwegian and 4 German lives. (Sunk on LakeTinnsjo, image attached shows point of sinking).

Norway

Images from Telemark andregion.

Although 'Heroes of Telemark',the plant is near a village calledRjukan, and was itself calledVemork. Neither sounds asgood as 'Heroes of Telemark'though. The bridge is now usedas a bungee jump location, aswell as single file access forvehicles up to the plant. Abungee jump, lasting threeseconds jump to rebound, costsjust short of £100.00. The guysare busy all day every day,apparently enthusiasts have a

list of 'must jump' places, Telemark being one. The gorge is much deeper than they jump; 3 seconds down, then the operatorslower a winch cable and that takes about 7 minutes to hook up and get winched back. I tried to shoot a series of the girl in blue,unfortunately a tree gets in the way of the last second's drop. The operators are very well organised; the jumper gets strapped inwith a body harness as well as ankle harness, stands up onto the platform, one guy holds their ankles whilst another shovesthem off, then the second guy lets go of the ankles - gives a reasonably straight fall rather than a chaotic plunge.

The waterfall is one of hundreds we saw, not particularly large, very pretty though, with a walkway behind. Hence the double-exposure image showing the houses across from the fall. There are a collection of phones below the walkway, dropped byenthusiastic snappers who tried to get too close and slipped. Strangely this fall was Chinese-tourist-free, almost unique in myexperience. I have a series of 'inevitable' images of Chinese tourists with selfie sticks. Maybe another week.

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North WalesGill Haynes LRPS

Clive Haynes FRPS

The six pictures are from our recent holidayin North Wales.

Our location was between Harlech andPorthmadog from where we could explorereaches of the coast, languid estuaries,sandy beaches, long valleys, ruggedmountains and tranquil lakes.

Reflections - GillBeachWalk - CliveGorilwyn - Gill

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Cwmystradllyn ,Gill Haynes LRPS

Dwyryd EstuarySunset ImpressionClive Haynes FRPS

MountainFarmsteadClive Haynes FRPS