The Photography Group has just held our monthly meeting, as usual at Southwell Library on the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm.
Our members have been out and about photographing other u3a groups in action, ready for the exhibition on the Library wall in September. So far we’ve visited the Bowls, Table Tennis, Recorder, and Long Walks groups. They wanted action shots, not just views of members posing for the camera, that’s what we’ve done, and we saw lots of these during our meeting.
We’re also in the middle of our ‘on location’ summer programme, our last visit was to Reg Taylor’s swannery – while the variety of birds was rather disappointing, gaggles of inquisitive geese blagging food gave us some great photo opportunities.
Our next project is black and white flower photography, emphasising the form and detail, rather than the colours, of flowers. So, this month we practised – with a cabbage!
While the group is full, we can normally take on a few new members, if you are interested get in touch with our Leader, via our Group Page
We cover a wide range of expertise and equipment; we are a genuine self- help group and support each other whatever level of skill and model of camera or phone that we have. If you’ve got a phone, you can be a photographer – you don’t even need a camera!
Several members of our group visited the Social Bowls Group in action at Farnsfield in early July and took a number of images, shown on the next page, of the group bowling and making the most of the sunshine whilst having fun with this skilful game.