Friday 31 July 2009

EXHIBITION PRIVATE VIEW

COASTAL FRAGMENTS
Three individual viewpoints of the Kent coast

Photographers:
Dave Mason
Trevor Crone
Roy King

Thursday, August 6th
6pm to 7.45pm

Sevenoaks Library and Museum
Buckhurst Lane
Sevenoaks
TN13 LQ
Kent

Until 29th August

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After the private view there will an opportunity for some photography in the nearby Knole deer park
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Sunday 26 July 2009

Evening Shoot - Tuesday 28 July

This is a last minute addition to our summer programme.

An opportunity for some outdoors portraiture and landscape/woodland photography.

Meet at 8pm at the café in Oxleas Wood. If you're driving, you can park near the café, but to avoid being locked in the carpark it may be wise to park in Shrewsbury Lane near the Bull pub and walk across the road to Oxleas. We will finish the evening with a drink at the pub.

Non-members are welcome.

Wednesday 22 July 2009

SUMMER MINI-COMP

Congratulations to Elaine, who's photo 'Time for a drag' won 1st place in our mini-comp last night.



The full results were:
1st 'Time for a drag' (Elaine Crammer)
2nd – 'How Green Is My Alley?' (Andy Linden)
3rd – 'Margate colour' (Elaine Crammer)
4th – 'Jump 1' (Nikk Burridge)

All the winning images will be posted on the website gallery later this week.


Friday 17 July 2009

Exhibition

The Mirage Group - of which Dave Mason is a member, have an exhibition of prints entitled "Your London Bridge" it's at the Cotton Centre, Tooley Street, London until 12th September.

Tuesday 21 July - mini-comp

Next Tuesday in Room 2 we have a digitally projected mini-comp of images taken on recent evening/day shoots. Please email your 4 (max) entries to aperturewoolwich@googlemail.com by Monday 8pm at the latest.

Please note: for this mini-comp non-members who attended the shoots are welcome to enter their photos!
(Please see the info on file formats, sizes and naming HERE).

Any photos submitted Monday 8pm will not be entered in the competition, this includes images brought on the night. Sorry!

We now have a MESSAGE BOARD on the website. Please use this to talk about photography, flag up any upcoming events or links to websites you think may be of interest to our members. Also to place wanted requests or for sale ads for your old cameras, lenses, accessories etc.

Finally - quick reminder: Margate day-shoot, tomorrow (18 July), meeting at the clock tower, 11am.

See you there!

Marshall .

Saturday 11 July 2009

Police issue London photography guidelines

The Metropolitan police have issued guidelines to officers on photography in public places.

It says:

"Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel."

It also says:

section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 does not prohibit people from taking photographs or digital images in an area where an authority under section 44 is in place.”

They do however have the right to view images on a camera or phone being carried by someone being searched under Sections 43 and 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

With regards to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 which concerns the offence of eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of the armed forces, intelligence services or police. It says:

"It should ordinarily be considered inappropriate to use Section 58a to arrest people photographing police officers in the course of normal policing activities, including protests, as without more, there is no link to terrorism."

and

"There is however nothing preventing officers asking questions of an individual who appears to be taking photographs of someone who is or has been a member of Her Majesty’s Forces (HMF), Intelligence Services or a constable."


For more details see the Metropolitan Police Website


Piers

Thursday 9 July 2009

STUDIO EVENING






















Next Tuesday (14th July 8pm - 10pm) we have a studio evening
at Shrewsbury House. We have booked a model for a portraiture session in the studio and, depending on the number of people attending, there will be still-life and possibly more portraiture photography in Room 2.

If you plan to attend on Tuesday please let Stu Mayhew know as soon as possible, email: stumayhew@aol.com

(Photograph by Stu Mayhew)