SUMMER PROGRAMME  

  Meet at 7pm unless specified otherwise. We normally head for the nominated pub when the light gets poor.

June 19^th Barbecue at 9 Burney Bit, Pamber Heath RG26 3TJ

 Cath and Mike Farrow 0118 9700558

– map from Cath or Mike – bring your own food to cook, alcohol and folding chairs. Soft drinks, salad, and homemade bread provided. BBQs will be burning from about 7pm onwards, or earlier by request. Partners and children welcome

June 26th The Vyne, The Swan, Sherborne St. John RG24 9HS

 A walk through Morgaston Woods. Park in The Vyne car park. Afterwards at The Swan, Sherborne St. John

July 3rd Ovington, The Bush Inn SO24 0RE

 Park at the Bush Inn. There is a walk alongside the River Itchen, to the right of the pub as you face it. Afterwards at The Bush Inn. The food is a bit pricey, but good.

July 10th Hannington, The Vine RG26 5TX

 Park near the village green. Wander round the village and meet at The Vine pub.

 July 17th Longparish, The Plough SP11 6PB

 Park at the car park by the village hall. Walk past the Plough and follow the footpaths towards the River Test. There are water meadows, a mill, lots to look at. There is also a church. Afterwards at The Plough.

July 24th Kennet and Avon Canal, The Rowbarge RG7 5SH

 Park at The Rowbarge, Woolhampton. Walk alongside the canal, meet later at the pub.

July 31^st Old Basing House, The Crown RG24 7BW

 To be confirmed

This programme will be updated by email from time to time.
 

Summer Programme Reports

Greywell - May 29th

A good turnout although the weather was a little overcast, with around 15 or so gathered in the Fox and Goose. A certain amount of photography took place and a few enjoyed the food from the pub. A fairly jolly evening was had by those in attendance.

Decoy Heath - June 5th

Possibly one of the best attended Summer Evenings in recent memory, with around 20 souls roaming around the nature reserve and another dozen who just headed for the Silchester Arms, where the combined numbers seemed to take over one side of the pub for a while when the photography ended.

It was a lovely evening and many photographs were taken. There was quite a range of subject matter available ranging from teasels to orchids. Cath’s recommendation to wear wellies was proven to be good advice, although one or two seemed to suffer from the dreaded “leaky wellie syndrome”, which I believe is not a pleasant experience!

When the light failed around half eight we made our way to the pub where the welcome was warm and the beer cold, and the food was excellent. A pleasant hour or two was spent comparing notes, and with cameras on show, we could also compare photographs, another benefit of the digital age!

Alresford - June 12th

Unfortunately the weather during the day was wet and windy, which may have put off a few, but the evening turned out to be really quite nice. Only 7 stalwart souls turned out but nontheless an reasonably enjoyable evening was forced out of the situation, with The Globe pub making us welcome, although they were so quiet we must have doubled their takings that night. Some photography took place, but the good light there was short lived.

Nice weather for ducks, or Coots anyway, on the Basingstoke Canal

Although subjects were plentiful at Decoy Heath there always seems to be a queue, doesn’t there?

With poor light close ups were the order of the day - here’s some flowers from the Alresford Station flower beds

 Basingstoke Camera Club Outline Programme 2008/9

SEPTEMBER

4th Welcome Evening    You are invited to bring along your holiday prints and DIs together with a few nibbles to get the year off to a good start.

11th Photoclinic        Bring a couple of prints no bigger than A4 and see what your fellow members say about them. A chance for non-competitive, friendly feedback.

18th Print and Projected Image of the Year

25th Elizabeth Vickers   Fine Art Photography      A presentation by a successful local professional photographer

OCTOBER

2nd 1st Round Digital Image League

9th Digital Evening      Len Quinn – From Digital Camera to Photoshop               Steve Bright – Photoshop Techniques

16th Andy Small        Fine Art Nature Photography              Another successful local professional photographer will show us his work.

23rd Fred Adnams Competition – British Landscape        Digital Projection only

30th 1st Round Print League

NOVEMBER

6th Members’ Digital AV Evening           Bring along your digital AVs – no more than 5 minutes in length please

13th Cliff Dyble Competition      3 Prints

20th 2nd Round Digital Image League

27th Pete Bamforth ARPS         What I Found Under the Bed             A print presentation by a member of Chichester Camera Club

DECEMBER

4th 2nd Round Print League

11th President’s Evening

18th Christmas Dinner

25th Christmas Day – no meeting!

JANUARY

1st New Year’s Day – no meeting

8th SPF Home Round, Prints and Slides          Basingstoke v Bracknell v Wokingham and E Berkshire

15th Tony Worobiec FRPS            Faded Icons        This well know photographer and author will show us his prints of deserted communities and homesteads in the USA.

22nd 3rd Round Digital Image league

29th Practical Evening              Portrait corner and tabletop photography

FEBRUARY

5th Common Image and Set of Four Prints        Judged by members

12th Projected Image Exhibition Opening

19th Photoshop Evening             Bob Stephen will give us further demonstrations of his wizardry

26th 3rd Round Print League

MARCH

5th Story Mug Competition            A series of up to 8 digital images to tell a story

12th Keith Polwin ARPS             Keith will show us some of his Landscape and Wildlife images.

19th 4th Round Digital Image League

26th Members’ Digital AV Evening 2             Bring along your digital AVs – no more than 5 minutes in length please

APRIL

2nd 4th Round Print League

9th Set Subject Competition          Prints – ‘Wood’                      Digital Images – ‘Close-Up’

16th Peter Malcolm LRPS           My Way with Still Life                   Peter will show us the results of his recent experiments with still life photography

23rd Graham Sergeant FRPS        The painting and the Photograph in Portraiture     Graham is also a member of Chichester Camera club. His talk comes highly recommended as being entertaining and informative.

30th Ian Bateman FRPS MPAGB   Digital Sequence Presentations      Ian is literally a master of digital AV Photography. An inspiring evening is guaranteed.

MAY

7th Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards

14^th DL Diamond Trophy        Basingstoke v North Hants PS              Prints and digital Images – ‘Scenic’   Images selected by our Competition Secretary

21^st AGM

28^th Cheese and Wine

 End of season

JUNE AND JULY

 Summer Programme