Exciting is seldom a word to be applied to a meeting featuring an AGM, but so it was at the first Snappers Camera Club meeting of 2025 on 3rd January.
The leaders were re-elected; members agreed to retain the £3.00 attendance fee and the accounts were accepted. Details were given of a photographic day at the Walks of Life Museum and the Museum of the Horse, both at Tuxford. Everyone wanted to attend and share a lunch on 11th April. Ideas for further photographic trips were ideas put forward and noted for a fuller discussion later.
Paul Lancaster, one of the group’s members who is emerging as quite a master of Lightroom, followed with a short demonstration of how images can be improved using some of the simple tools in the product. He demonstrated exposure correction, white balance adjustment and making verticals vertical as well as a couple of the more creative uses of this software.
Peter Yeo then showed a nice selection of images including landscapes showing field patterns and architectural curves in buildings.
The stage was set to look at members’ response to the challenge to ‘Photograph an Egg’. It sounds such a simple task, but to a photographer, such a challenging one. How do you make an egg look interesting?
How can you create light and shade? Can the brief be interpreted in a different way? What followed was a session of eggciting interpretations of the brief where members’ imagination shone through. Examples ranged from baby dragons hatching, a fried egg in outer space, balancing eggs, men climbing into eggs, and various permutations of fried, poached and scrambled eggs! Thanks to Kevin Ward, Russ Smith and Kerry Muscott for sharing their experiences and images. All in all, an eggstraordinary afternoon!
Now, members look forward to their annual competition for the Alan Townsend Memorial Trophy. Members are invited to contribute three individual prints, ideally from the previous year and all of different genres. Their guest judge will critique them individually before deciding which member’s set has demonstrated the most skill.
Snappers are always pleased to welcome guests and visitors between 1.30pm and 3.30pm on the first Friday of each month. If you can get to Beckingham Village Hall, you will find a warm welcome. Please see www.snappers.org.uk for more information.