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Welcome
to Fordingbridge Camera Club. We
were formed 50 years ago by a group of enthusiasts, in
those early days there was a strong bias towards cine
and audio visual but that has now shifted to projected
image and print with a growing emphasis on digital work.
We are affiliated to the Stour and Avon Photographic Association
and to the Southern Photographic Federation where we compete
in the South Western League.
Our
meetings are held at 7.30 on alternate Wednesdays evenings
from September through to June at the Avonway Community
Centre Shaftesbury Street, Fordingbridge, SP6 1JF. We
have a good selection of presentations from visiting speakers
so please look at our programme for the
coming year and feel welcome to join us at any meeting
or contact the Membership Secretary. Our
recent acquisition of a digital projector and the associated
computer - thanks to a grant from "Awards for All"
- has enabled us to take a further step into the exciting
field of digital photography and this alternative form
of displaying images will now feature in our competitions
and presentations. Our "projected
image", which includes both slides and digital projection,
and our print competitions -both open and set-subject
-are open to all our members. We make no distinction between
darkroom or digital work; trade or home processed. In
recognition of the needs of our newer members we have
now expanded the competitions to two levels of competition,
"General" and "Advanced". Members
will generally join at the General level and we have introduced
a system for promotion to the Advanced Level based upon
competition results. The work of some of our recent Merit
Winners can be seen in our galleries
pages.
An
innovation started in 2005 has been to include an extra
meeting most months, usually on the second
in-between Wednesday, known as the "Photo-Forum"
for an informal evening where we can include tutorials
and discussions on all aspects of imaging. It has seen
the growth of a lively interest in Creative Photography.
Addition tutorial meetings are also arranged from time
to time.
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