Hello everyone, I hope you are all managing to keep well.

Thursday Zoom Meetings

The virtual meetings are going well; last Thursday we had the Easter competition. Congratulations to Paul Lehane whose PDI  “Cruxifiction” was voted the favourite image. A close runner up was Peter Salmon’s image with just one vote less than Paul’s.

It is not too late to sign up to join the meetings each week; you just need to download an app called Zoom Meetings.  You also need to let Greg (webmaster@bromleycameraclub.org.uk) have a note of your email address. What will then happen is that on Thursday Greg will email you with a meeting invite. If you accept this you will be patched in to all those others who have joined the meeting. We have changed the time to 8:05pm so members can clap the NHS at 8 o’clock, but as it takes a while for members to log in 8.05pm is not a rigid start time and you can log in at any time during the meeting, which lasted for a couple of hours last week.

To give you are idea of what is planned and to give you time to get those snaps taken please see list below, although there may be changes of which I will notify you.

Thursday 30 April

For the first part of the evening Steve Jones will give a presentation on solarisation.  Chris Murray will then be presenting a way to add more contrast to a photo in Photoshop to create a very low-key image.  Vera has said that if we do need anything more to fill time, she may explain the editing process in Lightroom.

Thursday 7 May

Competition. The theme is Lockdown: Everyday Abstract/Creative. Maybe using utensils and other everyday items? (3 x PDIs submitted to Brian the PDI Secretary – pdisecretary@bromleycameraclub.org.uk by Tuesday 5th May).

Please keep to the Government’s instructions to only leave your home for the very limited reasons we are now all familiar with. 

Thursday 14 May

Nothing planned as yet but if any member would like to contribute to the evening please let the programme secretary know.

Thursday 21 May

Competition. Lockdown: Portraits (3 x PDIs submitted to the PDI Secretary by Tuesday 19th May). Please keep to the Government’s instructions to only leave your home for the very limited reasons we are now all familiar with. 

Thursday 28 May

Nothing planned as yet but if any member would like to contribute to the evening please let the programme secretary know.

Thursday 4 June

Competition. Lockdown: Light and shade (3 x PDIs submitted to the PDI Secretary by Tuesday 2nd June). Please keep to the Government’s instructions to only leave your home for the very limited reasons we are now all familiar with. 

Thursday 11 June

Nothing planned as yet but if any member would like to contribute to the evening please let the programme secretary know.

Thursday 18 June

Competition. Lockdown: The Great Outdoors – think gardens and window views (3 x PDIs submitted to the PDI Secretary by Tuesday 16th June). Please keep to the Government’s instructions to only leave your home for the very limited reasons we are now all familiar with. 

Thursday 25 June

Competition. End of lockdown judged competition? We can hope!

Beat the Boredom

Win £100 in Vanguard’s #BeatTheBoredom Weekly Photo Competition until things start returning to normal. Full details on how to enter can be found by opening PAGB e-News No. 254. 

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