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Putney Group Update – May 2013

High Rise, Justin Welch Hertford Rd Allotments, Andrew Wilson Benches, Amir Azimi Frankfurt Station, Leonard Caudrey There were four main elements to this month’s meeting – discussion of our chosen theme ‘Parallels’, our exhibition, our next potential outing and an extra element from myself on the magic of Turner the painter and what all photographers [...]

Putney Satellite Group Update, April 2013

Wow, has spring finally arrived – everything growing like mad, with blossom everywhere – fab. March Meeting: Thanks to Lesley for hosting; the refreshments were of a particularly high standard (how does she know I can kill for After Eights) and clearly shows me how I need to sharpen my act. The theme this month [...]

Putney Update for November 2012 and January 2013

At our November meeting, kindly hosted by master baker Lesley Bruce (wow her biscuits are to die for) we discussed what we might like to do for an exhibition in 2013. The idea to join The Wandsworth Arts festival was floated and our secretary, Andrew Wilson, was tasked with going away and seeing how this [...]

Putney Group September update

I hope you are all well and finding the odd moment to grab your cameras. Although the weather’s not been that good, we are forecast a few nice days next week which will be great – a last blast before the darker days of winter truly set in and the clocks go back… argh! Never [...]

Putney Group May Update

Mira Joshi Andrew Wilson Good to see you all this evening; there was some fine work done around our theme of bikes and I hope that the people who couldn’t get down to the estate in Roehampton were pleased to see what the artist had done with his bikes – the artist’s Romanian inspiration of [...]

Putney Group March Update

Simon Merritt Andrew Wilson Justin Welch Firstly, a big welcome to Amir, who stunned us with his pictures of the Red Arrows, truly some of the best shots I’ve seen of them – truly memorable (I will ask if he can post them up on Posterous for all to see). Besides being taken airborne, we [...]

Putney Group November Meeting

Our meeting was packed full of brilliant content – both photographically and of a practical nature. We reviewed everyone’s contributions to our theme of the month – freeze motion – which included the images below. Photo by Justin Welch Photo by Guy Conway Photo by Andrew Wilson Photo by Leonard Caudrey Justin gave a demonstration [...]

Putney Group September/October update

September’s meeting was fun, we were pleased to welcome new member Kathryn Geels and some old faces. The pub crawl theme appeared to go down really well, with a tremendous amount of creativity on show: Justin Welch photo Justin Welch photo Andrew Wilson photo Kathryn Geels photo This month’s outing is to Brentford and Strand [...]

Putney Group July meeting update

We had a great meeting on the 21st – Andrew had retraced the steps of a photographer from July 1986, who had taken part in the Domesday Project of that year and photographed the River Thames near Kew. BBC decided this year to publicise the project and ask members of the public to update these [...]

Putney Group – Bridges theme and June Meeting

by Justin Welch by Ida Pap by Andrew Wilson by Leonard Caudrey For June’s theme, please visit www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday, where you will see that they are celebrating the 25 anniversary of a project conducted in the 80’s, where people were encouraged to take pictures of their local areas. If you wish to take part, choose any [...]