Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Newsletter 18 2024/25 28 May 2025

This Friday the 3rd Merit PDI competition will be judged by Peter Gennard MFIAP, EFIPA/d3

On Friday 6 June there will be a practical printing workshop. Please bring your RAW images on a USB stick and get advice from other members on the best way to print and mount your images. Permajet https://www.permajet.com have kindly supplied a mixture of A3 and A4 paper for this workshop. Don’t forget the mount board!

Friday 6 June is also the hand in night for the 3rd Merit Print competition. You can enter up to 3 prints in Mono and Colour in your particular class. Please submit a digital image of the print. See the link https://wrekinartspc.com/competition-links-organisations-and-club-guides for rules and access to the online entry system.

Judy Mainwaring will judge the print competition on Friday 13 June.

This Saturday, 31 May, The Big Lift off is coming to RAF Cosford 10am to 4 pm https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/whats-going-on/the-big-lift-off/ It’s free to enter but you need to pre-book on the link.

Finally there are 1940 events at Seven Valley Railway https://svr.co.uk/event/step-back-to-the-1940s-svr/2025-06-07/ on the weekends of 7- 8 and 14 - 15 June and at The Black Country Living Museum https://bclm.com/1940s-weekend/ 12 -13 July.

Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Newsletter 23 2023/24 17 July 2024

This Friday, 19 July, Calvin will lead a workshop about using layers in Photoshop. The workshop will be informal and interactive with demonstrations, explanations and discussions. You might find it useful to take a pen and notebook to jot down information to use later. 

Then on 26 July there will a second Photoshop on masks.

Both these workshops will be free to members and Tea and biscuits will be available to buy. This is your chance to get to grips with basic concepts of Photoshop and become a more proficient user. There are a number of tutorials on the club website https://wrekinartspc.com/useful-tutorials covering a wide range of photography topics that you may find useful.

The season will finish after the Photoshop Workshop on 26 July. The club room will be closed over the summer but there might be practical workshops arranged. I will send out information when available or you can keep an eye on the website.

The 2024/25 Season will open on Friday 20 September with an Open Evening and Exhibition of members prints.

Membership fees were increased at the AGM on 5 July for the 2024/25 season. The new fees are: Single Membership £40; Joint Membership £60; OAP £35; Joint OAP £55. The weekly fee will be £4 or £5 for a non member but this will include a hot drink. 

Finally, if you have any ideas about a subject or a speaker for the club programme then let me know.