February Meetings

1st February - Members’ Evening
You are invited to bring some work along to give a short (up to 15 minutes) presentation. (Please be aware that we only have a fixed amount of time available, so we cannot guarantee that all presentations will be shown on this occasion. If your work is not shown we may be able to fit it in at another time.)

8th February - Photographic presentations + groups
There will be a number of photographic presentations on DVD. Also the Studio Group and the Beginners' Group are meeting.


15th February - “Special Event” - Sean Smith, award-winning Guardian photographer. *
Sean will show us some of his superb photography. He is currently embedded with the US 101st Airborne Division in Shula, a Shia-dominated neighbourhood in north-western Baghdad. . His work there has won him a Royal Television Society award, the British Press Photographers' Association award for multimedia journalism and the British Press Awards digital journalist of the year prize. Sean was in Baghdad when the British and American coalition forces invaded in 2003 and has returned to the country several times since then.

*PLEASE NOTE that this event is subject to Sean's work commitments - if he is not available on this date then it will be rescheduled for another time.

22nd February - Monochrome and a Bit of Colour - Ann Miles FRPS, MPAGB, AFIAP
Over recent years Ann has given us a couple of superb presentations of her photography including beautiful “bad weather” landscapes, and this time may prove to be her best yet.

Workshop

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On 25th January 2011 we have our third Workshop session. Peter Lovelock returns to give a great presentation on Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins.

There will also be two Special Interest Groups meeting - the Transparency Group, and also the Competition Group, who will meet in the kitchen. For this group, please bring 2 or 3 images on a memory stick which you are thinking of entering for competitions or which you have entered.

Exhibition - "Stories in Stone"

An NDPS member, Paul Hurst ARPS, has an exhibition at the Hostry of Norwich Cathedral at present. It is a photographic record of 254 roof bosses in the nave of the cathedral. Accompanying the images is an interpretation of the story being told. The exhibition will be on display until Friday 14th January 2011. For more info, look at the "Events" section of our discussion forum on this website.