Posted in News on Feb 1st, 2012
David Boag was our speaker at the club on Tuesday 31st January and he is, of course, internationally famous for his wildlife photography but he is also, though less famously perhaps, a Blandford resident and so, as he observed, he would be home long before most of his audience. His lecture had the […]
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2012
Last night, at our first league event of the season, we were in competition at Wimborne and a good turnout of eleven members from Blandford were present on a cold evening to hear George Walsh from Yateley CC judge our photographs.
George marked from 6 to 10 without resorting to half marks […]
Posted in News on Jan 25th, 2012
Points Cup Competition (Posted for Colin Cross)
Houston ………. we have a problem!
As I have mentioned in a previous note on our website, it is a problem of our own making and success: too many points cup entries for the Judge to adequately cope within the time frame available. We have to give the […]
Posted in News on Jan 25th, 2012
‘Dales and Dolomites with a botanical twist’ - this was the title of a fascinating talk given at the club on Tuesday 24th January by Graham and Jackie Poynter. Quite apart from being good photographers, Graham and Jackie are enthusiastic and knowledgeable botanists and this talk gave us an opportunity to enjoy this […]
Posted in News on Jan 18th, 2012
Brian Winkle entertained members at the club on Tuesday 17th January when he surprised us all with a light-hearted, illustrated talk on his various recent travels. More precisely, our surprise stemmed from the fact that he never discloses the nature of his subject for the evening in advance; it was not […]
Posted in News on Jan 17th, 2012
There was standing room only for members on the occasion of the fourth Points Cups competitions of the season on Tuesday 10th January. The judge for the event was Mike Weeks, a regular at Blandford and always welcome. Despite the fact that he was faced with the apparently impossible task of judging a […]
