Flickr-Now being used for Group Photos

Photo by Cliff Astles-Business end of a Pirhanna Fish



Member Use of the new Group Flickr Photo Galleries

Great to see that many of our group members are signing on to Flickr, and creating a personal account for use of their own photos, and are then adding photos themselves onto the group Flickr account for the three topics for APRIL's member photo presentation.

You will no doubt see for yourselves that the presentation, clarity and facilities for the use of photos using Flickr, are so much better for the group than when we were using Facebook.

Hopefully, more members will do the same, so that we have plenty of photos for APRIL, and loads of time to get the photo presentations compiled using the new group Flickr accounts.

Topics for this month’s member presentation are:-

Still Life

Family Pets

Queens Park, Crewe.

We will progressively be making more use of the Group Web Site, with less activity on Facebook, so members need to start to use the Web Site as the main group activity and information centre.

Cliff 

Thursday 2 April 2015.

North Wales Photography Coach Tour

Photo by Cliff Astles-Swallow Falls-Betw's-y-Coed-North Wales

21st Century Technology & Camera Group

North Wales Photography Coach Tour-

Sunday May 17th 2015

A full day photography tour of North Wales has been planned by the group. We have a number of seats left on the coach, and we are now making these available for interested people to join us. 

Cost is only £15.00 per person, from 9.00 am until 8.00 / 9.00 pm.

Interested ? Then please use the group e-mail of  21stctncg@gmail.com to find out more information and book your places.

You can also view more details using the group web site at www.watch-it-c.co.uk and the group BLOG information.

Final payment for the places booked will be Wednesday April 15th 2015.

You can also call Cliff Astles on 07971 136360 for information and to book places.

Photography Coach Tour-North Wales

Photo by Cliff Astles-Swallow Falls-Betws-y-Coed-North Wales

North Wales Photography Coach Tour-Sunday May 17th-2015

This is the last request for group members (particularly for our newer members) who would wish to attend this day out for the group, to confirm to myself they would like to go. The coach will take 38 passengers, and currently we only have 24 confirmed bookings with a number of members paying in full, for the trip.

More fuller details of the day can be found on the Web Site BLOG pages.

Who...........................21st Century Technology & Camera Group Outing.
What..........................Photography Group Coach Tour.
When.........................Sunday 17th May from Middlewich Town Hall Car Park
Times.........................Leaving at 9.00 am & arriving back between 8 and 9.00 pm.
Costs.........................Cost per person is only £15.00.

There is a toilet on board the bus and we have had prepared (by a North Wales Photographer) an itinerary for the day, with places to stop to get the best photos from the journey.

Please CONFIRM your intention to go on the trip........ASAP if you wish to join us on the trip, and also let me know of the number of seats required. Members can bring with them guests and children, costs as above.

Monies will be finally collected on the night of the group meeting on Wednesday 15th April at the Willowmere-Middlewich.

Cliff

28th March 2015.

Queens Park Crewe-Free Instructional Photo Outing.

Photo by Cliff Astles

April-Members Monthly Instructional Photo Outing

Queens Park-Crewe

Saturday 11th April-2.00 till 4.00 (ish)

Have checked out Queens Park Crewe, by visiting and believe this could be a nice local afternoon, with plenty to view and take a good selection of photos.

Flowers (hopefully) but certainly some nice trees, and at this time a number of wild birds both flying and water based will be very good for many of our newer members.

There is a Cafe' if wet, and plenty of places to rest, with the best access to date for wheelchairs and scooters, with ample free parking.

Plan to meet at the cafe' at 2.00 pm. Please, don't forget when you first get out of your car, set your camera to AUTO, get that shot, and practise, practise, practise. We will stop at differing spots during     the afternoon, where we can all try getting photos, when all using the same camera settings.

Group photo outings are FREE to group members, and are a good way to quickly improve your      photos, as well as meeting with other group members socially in a relaxed and informal way.               Also, this is a good place to try out landscape shots using a tripod. I will be on hand to give members advice and no doubt other more skilled members will be doing the same.

Cliff

Thursday 26th April 2015.

PS Also remember this next month's photo topics are STILL LIFE-FAMILY PETS  and of course any of your photos from CREWE PARK.

Members MARCH Photo Presentation.

Photo by Nicola Keenan----Spring Flowers---Member Photo Presentation---MARCH 2015.

Member Photo Presentation-MARCH 2015-PowerPoint Presentation

This is to remind members that the MARCH member Photo presentation in FULL, can be seen by looking at the FILES in the 21st Century Technology & Camera Group.

Members can view their own photos and compare with other members to see for themselves just how they are progressing.

Don't forget to make contact with other members to discuss with them their own photos, and to help you progress further with your own shots at future photo outings.

Cliff

Post-March Group Meeting.

Photo by Cliff Astles............Group Meeting Venue-Willowmere-Middlewich.

March Group Meeting-Post meeting revue / update.

I would like to thank all of the members for a very good turnout for our March group meeting.

We were also very happy to see quite a number of new members, and the topics of technology and photography with member questions going down well with the whole group.

Wondering if half the attendees had deserted and gone home after the half time tea break,  I was delighted to see that the new Member Training Facility, was being fully investigated by some half of the members. Many were just checking out what we had and how to get on-board with some more specific technology and photography at a later date. 

Member Ken Rane is our Training co-coordinator for technology, photography, and photo post processing, and much, much more.

Interested ? then let Ken know of your needs and he will discuss this with you, and recommend the way ahead for each person, as each persons needs can be quite different.

Member training is available for members wanting specific 1 to 1 help, and we are also interested in running small group training ( 4 to 6 members per group). Costs are from £ 5.00 per hour for group training to £10.00 per hour if you would prefer 1 to 1.

Currently, all training will take place at the Willowmere-Middlewich on Sunday afternoons for those interested. ALL monies raised by our volunteer trainers will go directly to help the group finance's, after paying for the hire of the Willowmere.

Next group meeting at the Willowmere will be on Wednesday 15th April-7.00 to 9.30 pm. Presentation Topic is TBA at this time.

North Wales, Group Photo Outing-Sunday May 17th 2015

Photo by Cliff Astles-Llanberis Pass Stream

We now have some 27 places filled for the tour, and the bus will take 38. ........PLEASE BOOK UP NOW !!!!

A number of the members have already paid for this day out but I would like to say one FINAL TIME. The trip will go ahead should the bus be full or not :)

However, if members are not wanting to take the trip I will be forced to put the tour out to the general public to fill the places left. I would therefore make this last request for member to book seats, if they wish to go. 

After this next full week (Sunday 29th March) the trip will be then put out to the general public to ensure we have a fully paid up coach full. The group cannot afford to pay out for unused seats :(

FINAL and FULL payment in full for the trip will be required to be paid to Bab's by the end of APRIL, but preferably by the April Group Meeting on Wednesday 15th April.

I am also considering another CANAL BOAT trip along the Shropshire Union Canal, perhaps end of AUGUST / SEPTEMBER, when I hope it will be a tad warmer than the trip in Jan. If this trip is only half as good as the last one it will be one to remember :)

Cliff

March 19th 2015.

Member photos for March 18th Group Meeting.

Photo by Jonathan White. New group member-photo submitted for this months members presentation.

Photos required for inclusion into this month's member photo presentations.

The COUNTDOWN for member photos is neigh :)

10.00 pm this evening will be the cut off for photos to be with myself for inclusion in the March member photo presentation.

The presentation has already been completed, and thus far with some 120 plus photos submitted, this is by far the best members photo contribution since we started this, some 12 months ago this month. It must be working :)

I have included above, a photo submitted by one of our new group members Jonathan White, which fully illustrates the way in which different people see topics we present each month for members photos. Well done Jonathan.

There is still space available for members photo contributions, who may not have had time to process their photos and get them in to myself, before the 10.00 pm deadline.

SO,  SATURDAY AFTERNOON this weekend is for PHOTO PROCESSING & MAILING........................................................................... never mind watching the RUGBY!!!

Thanks.

Cliff