Meetings, competitions and exhibition

Happy New Year! 2019 gets off to its formal start on Wednesday 9 January with our first meeting 7pm at the Haven Arms, Havenside, Hedon, HU12 8HH. It will be a ‘Props Night – a chance to experiment‘. This will be a great night for all those ‘wannabe photographers’ that got new cameras at Christmas to come along as well! All Welcome.

Bring in your interesting objects (ornaments, toys, instruments, flowers, etc) and interesting kit and help create some photographic opportunities to share! If you need to get in early to set your prop up and claim table space, we’ll be open from 6:30pm.

We are currently arranging further events nights, field trips and speakers – so please do pass on any ideas or suggestions you have got.

Competition: Our Facebook group has a weekly competition based on a letter of the alphabet and the winner of each gets to have their photograph as the header of the page in the following week. Whilst this has been successful on Facebook with 1,563 images being posted over the letters A to R by 55 participants, we would also like to invite our members not on Facebook to get involved. This week’s letter is S  and the weekly competition runs from Wednesday to the following Wednesday (entries by 10pm each Tuesday). If you want to take part and are not on Facebook, then we can e-mail out the competition details to you and alert you to each competition, and you can send your entries by e-mail – just get in touch.

52 Weekly Photography Ideas for 2019: Whilst not a competition, our new ideas page will be updated every Monday with a new prompt to creative photography. You can join in on social media using the hashtag #viewfinders52week(WeekNumber) or send in your photographs in response to each idea to us via e-mail.

EXHIBITION 2019 takes place at the Hedon Museum from Wed April 24th to Sat June 15th. Look out for more details – but the theme is “Hedon” and you should be planning now to take your new photographs according to that theme. You should also note our meeting date on Wed 17 April 2019 – at 7pm we have a very special event taking place linked to the exhibition (you don’t want to miss it!).

Look forward to seeing many of you next Wednesday.

Ray Duffill

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The letter ‘A’ kickstarts our new fun weekly competition!

HEDON VIEWFINDERS new weekly competition started last night and will run Wednesday to Wednesday. We are starting with the theme – the letter ‘A’.

The outcome for the winner will be their photo on the Facebook group page header for the week and also published on this website. You can post up to 7 photos a day in the Facebook group and members who are not on Facebook can email their entries each week to viewfinders-ttl@gmx.co.uk or if you are on Flickr join our group page at www.flickr.com/groups/viewfinders-ttl/ and post there with the relevant #hashtag.

You need to submit your entry before the Tuesday of each competition week.

Glenn Stallard from Viewfinders, said “Photos for the competition can be new or existing stock. We are starting with the letter A. So subject matter is your choice. So get out with your cameras and start to think outside the box and get posting your pics. Please label your picture with #A.“

Also for your personal challenge and photographic development, you might want to take part in our 52-week Photography Challenge.