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Below is a summary of meetings that have been held since July 2024.
9th September 2026
A look at the Kelsall Methodist Church Festival of Creation Photographic Exhibition on 25th to 28th September 2026.
A look at Kitamura's 10 best-selling cameras for August 2026 ( Japan ).
Members Photos : Jodrell Bank field trip.
12th August 2026
Jodrell Bank field trip.
8th July 2026
A demonstration of the UCam247 'WearCam' stealth camera in a waterproof housing for Time Lapse photography. Circa 2017 with digital stills resolution of 2592 x 1936px. Cost £38.99 at the time. Rechargeable over USB. Cheap enough to stick on a post and collect later.
A look at Brassaï, the Hungarian–French photographer born in 1899, who took iconic black and white pictures e.g. the 1933 collection 'Paris by Night'. He started off with 6.5 x 9cm glass negatives, then moved to Rolleiflex medium-format 6 x 6cm. He developed his own photographs throughout his career in his home darkroom.
A mention of Man Ray, an American-born, a visual artist, painter and photographer born in 1890. Most of his career was spent in Paris.
Members Photos : On the theme of 'Summer holidays'
10th June 2026
A look at the photo competition run by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
A look at the AI photo restoration capabilities of ON1 Photo Raw Max.
A look at structural colour versus pigment colour which earned Gabriel Lippmann a Nobel prize.
Members Photos : Graffiti and murals
13th May 2026
A look at astrophotography, improvised using an Opticron HR.66 bird-spotting fieldscope on a heavy tripod.
A look at the Ricoh GR IV HDF ( integrated highlight diffusion filter ).
A look at the Kickstarter project 'I’m Back Roll' that gives your ancient analogue film cameras a digital upgrade.
Members Photos : Waterfalls and fountains
8th April 2026
A video on the British photojournalist and war photographer Don McCullin ( Sir Donald McCullin CBE )
Who takes better pictures, a professional with a cheap and terrible camera or a novice with a very expensive camera ?
Members Photos : Bridges and towers and pylons
11th March 2026
Large back-lit photo frames up to A1, red-eye removal from flash portraits using Affinity and example videos from the AI artist Kelly Boesch.
A video on street photography in New York.
Members Photos : Back Catalogue
11th February 2026
A look at some 'image-to-video' AI software such as DeeVid and Flow, with examples of what can be achieved.
Members Photos : Reflections and shadows
14th January 2026
A first look at Affinity published by Canva, a free-to-use suite of software, capable of photo editing, vector drawing and page design.
Members Photos : Chester cathedral and Christmas market field trip
10th December 2025
Chester cathedral and Christmas market field trip
12th November 2025
A catch-up of all things AI, from the new Corel PaintShop AI filters to ChatGPT text to image generation, Kling AI and the controversial OpenAI Sora 2 short video generator.
Members Photos : False colours
8th October 2025
A demonstration of RGB colour channel manipulation using free software such as Windows Photos and XnView MP to produce a variety of effects from sepia tinting to full-on psychedelic.
Members Photos : Country houses and castles
10th September 2025
A talk on BBC natural history cameraman Charles Lagus who worked with David Attenborough on Zoo Quest and had some fascinating assignments over the years, from 1954 onwards, eventually working on programmes such as Z-Cars.
Members Photos : Anderton Boat Lift and other outdoor events
13th August 2025
Anderton Boat Lift field trip
9th July 2025
A selection of nature and wildlife photos.
Members Photos : Birds and other wildlife
11th June 2025
A talk on astronaut Chris Hadfield's fabulous Earth photography from the ISS and his book 'You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station'.
Members Photos : Back Catalogue
14th May 2025
A talk on the history of macro photography with examples from past to present. Popular subjects were plants and insects, and even slime mold!
Members Photos : Mountains and hills
9th April 2025
A talk about James Nachtwey, an American photojournalist who has covered most of the major conflicts and wars since Vietnam. He has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984.
Members Photos : Spring flowers
12th March 2025
A talk about Martin Parr, a British photographer, photojournalist and photo book collector. His projects take on an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life.
Members Photos : Black and white and monochrome
12th February 2025
A talk on Martin Parr was cancelled due to a fire alarm.
Members Photos : Textures and patterns
8th January 2025
A talk about O. Winston Link, a professional photographer known primarily for black-and-white photographs of the last days of steam locomotives in the United States in the late 1950s. Click here for presentation.
Members Photos : Weather
11th December 2024
A quick look at the free Photopea image editing software that runs in a browser.
Members Photos : The annual photo competition
9th October 2024
A brief look at the Pentax 17; a 35mm film camera using portrait mode configuration to double the pictures per roll
Visual Studio programming : the creation of a high-resolution, multi-functional slide viewer which outputs mp4 files
Images versus Human Perception ( Trompe l'oeil, Escher, strange & impossible geometry, ink blots, false colours, false movement, autostereograms )
Members Photos : Back Catalogue
11th September 2024
Introduction to the new u3a website built with WordPress.
A look at the decline of film cameras followed by the decline of digital camera and the rise of mobile phone cameras.
A first look at the OnePlus 12 camera phone with Hasselblad branding.
Samsung S22 phone : 25Mpix versus 50Mpix picture resolution. Can you spot the difference ?
The Xiaomi 14 Ultra phone with 4 x 50Mpix Leica cameras.
ON1 software : the generative A.I. features arriving in 2025 for object removal and canvas expansion. Generative erase/crop.
XnView user filters explained with examples. Simple dot product maths and convolution filters.
Python programming : a beginner's guide to pixel manipulation using a simple image library.
Members Photos : Delamere Forest Field Trip and other outdoor events
14th August 2024
Delamere Forest field trip
10th July 2024
Introduction by Andy Barson, the new u3a Digital Photography convenor
Introduction to the new digital photography website
Looked at photos from the International Landscape Photographer of the Year / 2023
Looked at Video - Photographers Caught Cheating
Members Photos : using the classic 23mm APS-C focal length ( equivalent to 35mm full frame or 18mm 4/3 sensor )
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