Hedon Viewfinders Planning Meeting – Wed 22 January – Agenda

Hedon Viewfinders next club meeting is on Wednesday 22 January 2020, starting promptly at 7pm. This will be a Business Meeting on ‘Taking our Club up to the next level!’ We’ll discuss our planned programme of Meetings, Trips, Exhibitions and Competitions, etc.

If you have an item for the agenda – particularly if it is an idea that involves spending money – please contact us by 5pm Monday 13th January so that we can give adequate notice to members. A full Agenda will be emailed to members next Tuesday.

Agenda as above: 

Meetings (the programme for the year)
Trips
Exhibitions
Competitions
Any Other Business

The meeting will also be a chance to network with other members so do bring your camera and kit if you have questions about settings, features, etc.

As ever, our meetings are free to attend and everyone is welcome. Feel free to invite your friends or anyone you know who is interested in photography. We do intend to produce some club cards for members which you can use to promote the club.

Meet in time for prompt 7pm start on Wed 22 Jan at the Haven Arms, Hedon, HU12 8HH.

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The Wilberforcian Steampunk Corporation (WSC) – Hull Museums Tour.
Sunday 19 January 2020 meeting outside Wilberforce House at 11am.

The WSC will be touring the Museums Quarter and there will be opportunities for photos in each and along High Street too. Photographers are asked to share their favourite photos with the WSC.

Wilberforce House is in the Museums Quarter on High Street in Hull’s Old Town. It is near the Streetlife and Hull and East Riding Museums, next to the River Hull.

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Everyone is welcome at Hedon Viewfinders events. Always free, fun and friendly!

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Hedon Viewfinders Planning Meeting – Wed 22 January 2020

Hedon Viewfinders next club meeting is on Wednesday 22 January 2020, starting promptly at 7pm. This will be a Business Meeting on ‘Taking our Club up to the next level!’ We’ll discuss our planned programme of Meetings, Trips, Exhibitions and Competitions, etc.

If you have an item for the agenda – particularly if it is an idea that involves spending money – please contact us by 5pm Monday 13th January so that we can give adequate notice to members. A full Agenda will be emailed to members next Tuesday.

Agenda as above: 

Meetings (the programme for the year)
Trips
Exhibitions
Competitions
Any Other Business

The meeting will also be a chance to network with other members so do bring your camera and kit if you have questions about settings, features, etc.

As ever, our meetings are free to attend and everyone is welcome. Feel free to invite your friends or anyone you know who is interested in photography. We do intend to produce some club cards for members which you can use to promote the club.

Meet in time for prompt 7pm start on Wed 22 Jan at the Haven Arms, Hedon, HU12 8HH.

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The Wilberforcian Steampunk Corporation (WSC) – Hull Museums Tour.
Sunday 19 January 2020 meeting outside Wilberforce House at 11am.

The WSC will be touring the Museums Quarter and there will be opportunities for photos in each and along High Street too. Photographers are asked to share their favourite photos with the WSC.

Wilberforce House is in the Museums Quarter on High Street in Hull’s Old Town. It is near the Streetlife and Hull and East Riding Museums, next to the River Hull.

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Everyone is welcome at Hedon Viewfinders events. Always free, fun and friendly!

Hedon Viewfinders Key Dates at a glance

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Props and Experimentation Photography Night! Hedon Viewfinders Wed 8 Jan 2020

Our first meeting of 2020 takes place next Wednesday 8 January, 7pm at the Haven Arms, Havenside, Hedon, HU12 8HH and will be another ‘Props Night – a chance to experiment’.

Some of you have got crystal balls (lensballs) for Christmas? Bring them along – what might we do with them?

Bring in your interesting objects (ornaments, toys, instruments, flowers, etc) and interesting kit you might have, and help create and share some photographic opportunities. This might be for still life, macro, bokeh shots, water shots – this is only limited by our imagination and space! As well as a chance for us to have a go at something different, it’s also a chance to practice with ideas that will work at our special joint meeting on Wed 29 January (not our normal Wednesday) with the Young Farmers Club – more about this at the next meeting!

If you need to get in early to set your prop up and claim table space, we’ll be open from 6:30pm. This is very much a chance to experiment – so if there is something you would really like to try, but don’t know where to start – then do get in touch and we’ll see what we can arrange!

Look forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday! New to photography? Come along, you are very welcome – talk to us about your new camera, kit and accessories, and how to use them.

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Merry Christmas! Looking forward to 2020.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS to all website readers from Hedon Viewfinders. This photo was taken by Jim Uney and was chosen as the Club’s Christmas Card via a friendly competition on our Facebook group page.

The Eddie

We’ve had an eventful year that finished with the club’s final meet-up for the Christmas Party on Wednesday 11 December. We awarded three “The Eddies” (like the Oscars but awarded in Hedon, hence The Eddie!) for services to the club. Firstly to Janet Bucknall for her role via the Facebook page in entering and having a go at almost every weekly header competition and Weekly Photography Ideas challenge. Janet has also established a lending system for those wishing to borrow books from our quite extensive Lending & Learning Library. Thank you Janet! Also many thanks to Glenn and Jo Stallard, Eddie Winners. Glenn arranged the club’s programme of events and meetings for the year which kept us all fascinated throughout 2019 with great speakers, field trips and practical sessions. Also thank you to Jo who was our photographic holiday trip organiser which saw us visit the Isle of Wight and Torquay this year – there were 10 of us on the Torquay trip. We also awarded The Eddie for ‘continued hospitality’ to the Haven Arms.

There were many highlights in 2019 (see the notices for these via website posts), but especially gratifying was getting over 100 people to attend the Paul Berriff, OBE public meeting. Even with a busy full house, we managed to maintain the club’s reputation for being the fun and friendly place to discover and practice all things about photography. And it’s fair to say that we have a smashing group of members of all abilities who always make new people welcome. So many, many thanks to you all for making the club such a pleasure to participate in.

So we now look forward to 2020. We want to go beyond “20/20 vision” in the New Year and not just continue to offer a great experience to photographers, but improve what we offer. Whether you are just starting out on your image-making journey, or have travelled that road for many years, we want to ensure the club is relevant to you. As ever, we rely on your support and ideas to help guide the club. If you have ideas on what we might do next year, and if you have time to give to help us organise the meetings, field trips and practical photography sessions, then please do CONTACT US.

FINALLY, we wish you all the Happiest of New Years for 2020 and look forward to seeing many of you at our first meet-up of the New Year on Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 7pm at the Haven Arms.

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Santa’s Grotto Photos – Hedon Christmas Lights 2019

Hedon Viewfinders is proud to support the Hedon Mayor’s Charity by working with him and Father Christmas to take photos at Santa’s Grotto on Friday 29 November.

Father Christmas saw over 100 children and we are currently working on bringing the photos to parents, grandparents and carers.

Please keep watching this page for more information…

1. If you’ve tried emailing viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk for your photo, but don’t receive a reply after 24 hours, then try emailing rlduffill@gmail.com instead.

And MERRY CHRISTMAS from all at Hedon Viewfinders. 

Glass Slide Phtography – a trip to photography’s past!

Don’t miss Hedon Viewfinders next meeting on 27 November 2019. The talk is by Dave Prideaux on Glass Side Photography. Dave restores and digitises old large format negatives, glass negatives and glass lantern slides. He’s been selling his images too since the 1980s.

Glenn Stallard from the club, says: “Dave has been restoring old images for quite some time now. These include glass negatives, glass lantern/magic lantern slides and conventional negatives of all formats. He will be displaying images on the night, some are of local interest. Dave is also bringing a Magic Lantern Projector for people to look at, along with some of the slides.

“I have seen Dave’s presentation before and am looking forward to it again, listening to what he has to say and to see his selection of glass slides from the thousands of images he has.”

Meeting 7:00pm on Wed 27 November at the Haven Arms, Havenside, Hedon, HU12 8HH.

All Welcome. Free, fun and friendly photography club.

Keep an eye out for details of our New Year 2020 programme: https://hedonviewfinders.wordpress.com/key-dates/

Seal Pubs Update – Photo Opportunities

We agreed to let members know when there were opportunities available to photograph seals and their pups at Donna Nook in Lincolnshire.

The latest pup update from Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust indicates that there are indeed opportunities for those who would care to visit over the weekend. Whilst this is not an organised club trip, just an alert, we would still encourage members to share cars and petrol costs where and when possible (particularly helpful to those without private transport).

For those who plan to travel and can offer lifts please let us know at email viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk and we can match them with those who might want a lift who should email too.

Two reminders:

Call for submissions to the Hedon Viewfinders Yearbook 2019:
We are producing a YEARBOOK of FAVOURITE IMAGES taken by our members in 2019. If you receive this notification as an email then you are invited to submit ONE IMAGE for publication in the book.

The DEADLINE to EMAIL your favourite image for the book is SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30 2019. Email your favourite image which should be of the highest resolution possible to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk.

Christmas Party:
The last meeting of the year is our Christmas Party on Wednesday 11 December 2019. It’ll be a hot buffet format (rather than a sit-down meal) with our own Christmas party entertainment and fun.  Costs will be £10 per head. Invite your partners/friends. Monies will be collected at our meetings or contact us to make other arrangements.

Deadline for your booking and payment of monies is our meeting on 27 November (with Dave Prideaux on Glass Slide Photography).

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Do visit the web page to see What’s On:

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“My Journey to the Stars!” – Photography Presentation by Simon Dallimore

SPEAKING at the next meeting of Hedon Viewfinders Photographic Club on Wednesday, November 13 is Simon Dallimore, an accomplished photographer.

Simon, who is a member of the ‘Picture It’ photography group in Withernsea, will be giving a personal presentation that should provide help and inspiration to those looking to improve their photography.

Simon’s talk ‘My Journey to the Stars’ will be about how his photography has developed showing photographs from when he first started through to the present day.

The meeting takes place at the Haven Arms, Hedon, HU12 8HH on Wednesday, November 13 starting at 7pm.

Everyone is welcome at Hedon Viewfinders. It’s free, fun and friendly!

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Hedon Viewfinders Key Dates at a glance

Sign up to get news from the club. CONTACT US for more information. Free, fun and friendly photographic club. Open to all. No waiting list. No membership required.

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Hull City Centre Night Time Shoot – Mon 28 October 2019

Following a night time shoot in Hull City Centre last week organised at short notice we had a few people who would have liked to attend but couldn’t. So we have arranged another.

Hull City Centre – Night Photography – Monday 28 October 2019. Meet at the Hull Interchange (where the city volunteers hub is) at 6.30pm. All Welcome.

Suggested activities for the night include getting some light trails at the bus station, then making our way across to old town, Trinity Square, perhaps the Pier and The Deep and then Queen’s Gardens and back to Station. Aiming at being back at the Interchange for 9pm’ish. The weather forecast for the evening is 10° with good visibility and little chance of rain, but the event is dependent on weather permitting.

Arriving late and want to find out where we are? Ring Ray on 07815 292 120.

Remember our events are free for anyone interested in photography to come along. They provide great opportunities to learn about photography techniques, methods and camera settings. If you’re more experienced, your knowledge, advice and tips are always welcome and sought by others!

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Light painting and other photographic wizardry!

ALWAYS one of our most enjoyable meet-ups of the year at Hedon Viewfinders as we all create brilliant images with burning wire wool, lights, lasers and other associated wizardry at this practical photography session led by Glenn Stallard.

Using slower shutter speeds, different light sources and some simple technical gizmos and a with a heavy dose of individual imagination as you shoot, it’s possible to create really dramatic images.

Turn up to join in the fun indoors and outdoors (weather permitting) from 7pm at the Haven Arms on Wednesday 30 October 2019. If you have never done this before you will be amazed how easy it is to capture great images!

Also if people are interested, we can look at arranging a follow-up meeting to show how you can further edit your images afterwards to create even more pleasing photographs. We’ll arrange on the night for those interested.

Call for submissions to the Hedon Viewfinders Yearbook 2019.

We are producing a YEARBOOK of FAVOURITE IMAGES taken by our members in 2019. If you receive this notification as an email then you are invited to submit ONE IMAGE for publication in the book.

The DEADLINE to EMAIL your favourite image for the book is SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30 2019. Email your favourite image which should be of the highest resolution possible to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk.

Participation is key here, so even if you haven’t attended the Club for a while, then please consider being part of the Yearbook. It’s free to be included.

The book will be designed and set up on Tuesday 3rd December and those interested can come along and help in its design, look and appearance.

Hedon Viewfinders Key Dates at a glance

Sign up to get news from the club. CONTACT US for more information. Free, fun and friendly photographic club. Open to all. No waiting list. No membership required.

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