Next to a short evaluation of the interclub event with the Frammingham Camera Club, we will be going through all the images that were submitted for the event that didn't make the cut and explaining why and giving advice as to how particular problems can be avoided/overcome. Trevor will be showing how to make these changes using Lightroom and Photoshop.

International Photo Event with the Gateway Camera Club of Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.  Each camera club will present a folio of images and discuss them.  It is an opportunity for VIPC members to experience photographs from a US perspective and for Gateway CC to experience images with a European perspective.   Please note that this is an afternoon meeting to enable a live link with the United States and is on-line only via Zoom. 

Please note 4pm Madrid time

Donald Mackinnon will show photos of the “moros y cristianos” event in Mojacar. Donald has been making photos during this yearly event for the past 20 years.

On A Sunday April 21st we hold a "secret phota" based on the principle of secret santa . Everyone is invited to send in a maximum of 4 images (open challenge) by April 7th. They will then receive the images of another contender to do a short "critique" on April 14th. The images will be sent "anonymous", so you won't know whose photos you are critiquing. We will announce the author after your contribution and, of course, you can try to guess whose photos they are.

The meeting will be on Zoom. Frank will show the photos as in a regular challenge and tell you when the photos you are going to talk about, are coming up

This means you have 1 week to study the photos you've received and can prepare your comments on what you like about the images, what you don't like and what you would suggest improving them. It will give you an idea of what it is like to do a "critique" and we hope it will be a fun and entertaining meeting.

Alfred Taylor will present a body of his work.

1)Venue - Carboneras lighthouse for a talk and viewing of the photos of Carlos de Paz on  his latest venture, ‘ Plastics in the Ocean’.
2) Tour of the lighthouse by Lighthouse keeper and visit of the small museum.
3) Guided photo walk/ workshop to nearby photogenic sites.(Bring your cameras).
4) Lunch ( venue to be announced).

Frank Notteboom will introduce us to the work of Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer. In his work the human body is a central theme, from sexuality to decay and transcience. He did commercial work for Microsoft, Levi’s, several fashion brands and has a interesting body of personal work.

The committee is keen for the club to broaden its offering to its members and is in the process of arranging the first of hopefully several photographic challenges against other camera clubs for later this year.  These events will take place via zoom and the images appraised by an independent judge.

Trevor Perry has volunteered to coordinate our entry to these inter-club challenges and will initially draw upon the images submitted for our internal challenges and the 2021 club photobook.  As the selected images, derived from our website, are of insufficient resolution he will be requesting full resolution versions of all shortlisted images to critically appraise image quality and offer the authors the chance for selective enhancements to be made in the light of comments made during our internal monthly critiques.

Request:- You may have other images that you feel are better than those that you have submitted for our monthly challenges (especially for the newer members who have only recently started putting images into our challenges and so there are less to choose from).  If this is the case, please can I ask you to send Trevor a maximum of 5 such images for consideration.  Remember, if you want to be represented in these future inter-club challenges then you need to give yourself the strongest chance by putting your very best images forward.  Please email your images via Wetransfer to trevor.e.perry@btinternet.com .

Although the planned challenge is several months away, it would help Trevor if you could get images to him over the coming weeks.  There is quite a lot of work for him to do and there may be iterations between him and authors, all of which will take time.

David Boam will talk about his own work

A chance to show your personal favourite photos, project, etc.

Richard Bird will be showing some of his professional work from back in the time.

Trevor will present some of his photographs from his recent visit to the scenic Westfjords region of Iceland. He will outline his planning of the photographic expedition and explain his approach to capturing the images