Beautiful Photography

kinetic spokes  by Patricia Sweeney

The photographic community 1x.com is a real find and its worth spending time there just admiring the beautiful photographs.

Take the work of the most talented photobloggers, various famous photographers, and many serious amateurs, select their best work and collect it all in one place - that is 1x.

Although anyone can join, all photographs submitted to the site are screened before being published. This means that the quality of images are very high indeed. Visit, explore and enjoy 1x.com

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Lost Camera

As well as being amusing, this is a very good idea indeed.

Adding a set of instructions in picture format to keep on your camera in case it gets lost seems such a good idea, its a wonder that nobody seems to have thought of it before.

Just take a set of photos that you never delete so that "when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner."

The full instructions and all the pictures can be seen at Andrew McDonald's site in his article A Pictorial Guide to Avoiding Camera Loss

P.S. There are a couple of good suggestions in the comments for Andrew's article which are worth reading.

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Incredible light graffiti

Many thanks to club member Ann Keyse for the link (below) to this article in The Mail Online which tells more about these fantastic photographs.

The name light graffiti struggles to do these displays justice.

The fantastic spectacles of colour - which are the latest trend in street art - are as impressive as fireworks.

A host of light sources, from flash lights and bike lights to blinking LED lights, are used to 'paint' a picture straight onto the camera lens.

Also known as light drawing or light painting, these arresting images are created with long exposure cameras in the dark. Sometimes the exposures run on for longer than an hour.

Full article and more photographs can be found here.

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Mass Gathering in defence of street photography

23rd January 2010

I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.

Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws.

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St David's Church - The Tin Church

The Tin Church - St David's, Pensarn

St David's Church on South Parade, Pensarn was built just over 125 years ago as a temporary measure. It is scheduled for demolition in early 2010 and Abergele Camera Club have been invited to photograph the old tin church before the demolition. We have also been asked if we would keep a pictorial record of the demolition and construction of the new church on the same site.

The last service is being held on 3rd January and after the service there will be a small parade, a form of 'marching out' of the old church.

The church was built around 1886 as a temporary measure for the English community. At that time, Pensarn was a premier seaside resort and many families came for their holidays from the Manchester area as well as from the wealthier industrial areas of North Wales.

Arrangements have been made for the church to be opened at 10.00am next Saturday 19th December 2009 to facillitate photographing the church interior. I have not seen the inside of this church, but I am informed that it is completely wood-lined and quite beautiful.

This will prove to be an interesting project for the Club, as well as an important documentary record of the old and new St David churches in Pensarn for future generations. I'm certain that when this 'temporary' church was built 125 years ago, that none of the builders would ever have dreamed that it would still be standing this far into the future.

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