Tynemouth Photographic Society
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2017 NECA winners!
TYNEMOUTH VIDEO FILM-MAKING GROUP were the proud winners of a 20 minute programme competition with films produced by their members. The certificate was presented to the Group's chairman Doug Tweddle by Brian Dunkley, President of The North East Cine (&Video) Association which holds this competition annually.
Each club provides a minimum of 2 films in their programme to give a maximum running time of 20 minutes. They are carefully considered for quality, content, and overall entertainment value. The films have no subject restriction and were judged by well-known I.A.C., B.I.A.F.F., and U.N.I.C.A. judges Annabelle & Reg. Lancaster in London.
Our entry consisted of 4 films, Trevor Ermel's "Croation Contrasts", "Alfie & The Kaiser" by Doug Tweddle, and secretary John Burton's "Weally?" Film number 4, "Lost In Translation", was a group comedy written by David Peffer, filmed by Trevor, with David & John as the cast.
TYNEMOUTH VIDEO FILM-MAKING GROUP were the proud winners of a 20 minute programme competition with films produced by their members. The certificate was presented to the Group's chairman Doug Tweddle by Brian Dunkley, President of The North East Cine (&Video) Association which holds this competition annually.
Each club provides a minimum of 2 films in their programme to give a maximum running time of 20 minutes. They are carefully considered for quality, content, and overall entertainment value. The films have no subject restriction and were judged by well-known I.A.C., B.I.A.F.F., and U.N.I.C.A. judges Annabelle & Reg. Lancaster in London.
Our entry consisted of 4 films, Trevor Ermel's "Croation Contrasts", "Alfie & The Kaiser" by Doug Tweddle, and secretary John Burton's "Weally?" Film number 4, "Lost In Translation", was a group comedy written by David Peffer, filmed by Trevor, with David & John as the cast.
Fiddler's Green, 24/9/2017
Posted 25/9/17
Howard writes:
Dorothy and I attended the unveiling of the Fiddler's Green fisherman statue at the Fish Quay today. This is based on a photograph taken in 1959, by an ex member - and President - of TPS, Harry Hann. Harry was in attendance and I just took this one picture of him with the statue in the background.
Posted 25/9/17
Howard writes:
Dorothy and I attended the unveiling of the Fiddler's Green fisherman statue at the Fish Quay today. This is based on a photograph taken in 1959, by an ex member - and President - of TPS, Harry Hann. Harry was in attendance and I just took this one picture of him with the statue in the background.
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10-minute summers, 21/9/2017
Posted 22/9/17
The main Photo Group's new season has started. It was good to see several new people who we hope will be sufficiently interested in our activities to become regular members.
Our first meeting gave members a chance to describe their summer, in 10 minutes or less.
Graham Relf was scheduled first with two AVs (audio-visual sequences). The first was a narrated documentary about a week spent in West Cumbria. The second was a musical sequence using flower photos from his garden (a copy of this may be seen here).
Arthur Smith then gave an amusing talk about his pinhole photography and continued use of a Kodak Brownie. He still processes his own black and white film. He showed some very atmospheric pinhole photography, mainly taken at Beamish. A highlight was a very Dali-esque colour photo of Betty (his mannequin) on a beach.
Diana Hilton was next. She started with a bold monochrome photo of a Virgin train crossing the castle bridge in front of All Saints Church in Newcastle. Losing the bright red of the train made a good composition. She then took us to various locations in Scotland and showed some wild life: birds and a rat!
Stan Bewick had prepared another narrated AV documenting his visit to the Hermitage in St Petersburg. It brought out the lavish decoration of the building, with sumptuous reds and gold.
John McGuinness took us first to the Farnes and to Bempton cliffs in Yorkshire, showing wonderful photos of birds in various kinds of activity. A most unusual sight which he said had taken an hour to get, was of a dragonfly in flight! After some photos of his son's recent wedding John then showed some very impressive (scary!) pictures from a climbing trip to the Dolomites.
Keith McWhirter ended the show in style with photos from a trip to Oban and a boat trip from there to the islands of Staffa, Iona and Mull.
After all of this Rachael Sewell gave a brief description of a new public Facebook page that has been created for the club. A link to this can be found on our links page. There was some discussion of members' concerns about getting involved with Facebook.
Posted 22/9/17
The main Photo Group's new season has started. It was good to see several new people who we hope will be sufficiently interested in our activities to become regular members.
Our first meeting gave members a chance to describe their summer, in 10 minutes or less.
Graham Relf was scheduled first with two AVs (audio-visual sequences). The first was a narrated documentary about a week spent in West Cumbria. The second was a musical sequence using flower photos from his garden (a copy of this may be seen here).
Arthur Smith then gave an amusing talk about his pinhole photography and continued use of a Kodak Brownie. He still processes his own black and white film. He showed some very atmospheric pinhole photography, mainly taken at Beamish. A highlight was a very Dali-esque colour photo of Betty (his mannequin) on a beach.
Diana Hilton was next. She started with a bold monochrome photo of a Virgin train crossing the castle bridge in front of All Saints Church in Newcastle. Losing the bright red of the train made a good composition. She then took us to various locations in Scotland and showed some wild life: birds and a rat!
Stan Bewick had prepared another narrated AV documenting his visit to the Hermitage in St Petersburg. It brought out the lavish decoration of the building, with sumptuous reds and gold.
John McGuinness took us first to the Farnes and to Bempton cliffs in Yorkshire, showing wonderful photos of birds in various kinds of activity. A most unusual sight which he said had taken an hour to get, was of a dragonfly in flight! After some photos of his son's recent wedding John then showed some very impressive (scary!) pictures from a climbing trip to the Dolomites.
Keith McWhirter ended the show in style with photos from a trip to Oban and a boat trip from there to the islands of Staffa, Iona and Mull.
After all of this Rachael Sewell gave a brief description of a new public Facebook page that has been created for the club. A link to this can be found on our links page. There was some discussion of members' concerns about getting involved with Facebook.
TPS Outing To Newcastle/Gateshead Quayside, 20/7/2017
Posted 25/7/17
Wendy Pratt writes:
We can't get there until 7pm but we hurry down to find Diana who knows we are coming, and soon we meet up on the Newcastle side. We walk under the Tyne Bridge and David stops to take a group photo in the sunshine. We carry on along the bank until round a bend we realise we can see Dunstan Staithes across the river. This is a good opportunity for admiring the view and using our cameras. We are having so much fun that we don't notice the time until David points it out and we turn back to be at the Millennium Bridge in time for sunset, but we get delayed again when a Heron flies in and starts fishing. That makes us notice we are starting to feel hungry, but we have no time for fishing ourselves as the Bridges call. We set up our tripods by the Baltic, then on the Millenium Bridge, and finally on the Newcastle bank, taking shots, talking and laughing as we work. Finally we call it a day and head back to David's car, with me tiring and lagging behind - in fact David turns back laughing and asks me if I will be requiring a fireman's lift! We say goodnight to Diana at her Metro stop, and David opens my front door and leaves as he heads home. It's past 11pm, it's been a fantastic evening, but I'm straight off to bed in no time.
Posted 25/7/17
Wendy Pratt writes:
We can't get there until 7pm but we hurry down to find Diana who knows we are coming, and soon we meet up on the Newcastle side. We walk under the Tyne Bridge and David stops to take a group photo in the sunshine. We carry on along the bank until round a bend we realise we can see Dunstan Staithes across the river. This is a good opportunity for admiring the view and using our cameras. We are having so much fun that we don't notice the time until David points it out and we turn back to be at the Millennium Bridge in time for sunset, but we get delayed again when a Heron flies in and starts fishing. That makes us notice we are starting to feel hungry, but we have no time for fishing ourselves as the Bridges call. We set up our tripods by the Baltic, then on the Millenium Bridge, and finally on the Newcastle bank, taking shots, talking and laughing as we work. Finally we call it a day and head back to David's car, with me tiring and lagging behind - in fact David turns back laughing and asks me if I will be requiring a fireman's lift! We say goodnight to Diana at her Metro stop, and David opens my front door and leaves as he heads home. It's past 11pm, it's been a fantastic evening, but I'm straight off to bed in no time.
Nature Group outings
Posted 20/7/17
The group has had successful outings this summer to Washington Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, the Farne Islands and Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire. Some results can be seen on the Nature Group's page.
Posted 20/7/17
The group has had successful outings this summer to Washington Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, the Farne Islands and Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire. Some results can be seen on the Nature Group's page.
Our exhibition at the Oxford Centre, Longbenton
Posted 25/5/17
A selection of prints from our annual exhibition is here until June 4th
Photos by Arthur Smith
Posted 25/5/17
A selection of prints from our annual exhibition is here until June 4th
Photos by Arthur Smith
Trophy presentations 11th May 2017
Posted 11/5/17
Posted 11/5/17
Margaret Warren being presented with the Fox Talbot "150" Trophy, as Photographer of the Year
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The best print in the exhibition. Left to right:
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Our AGM on 27th April 2017
Posted 28/4/17
There was an unusually large turn-out for the meeting which we would like to think was due to this web site urging members to attend.
Some outcomes to note:
NB: Subscriptions for the coming year are now due.
Posted 28/4/17
There was an unusually large turn-out for the meeting which we would like to think was due to this web site urging members to attend.
Some outcomes to note:
- Howard Wilson is now our President and Keith Hildreth is the Vice-president.
- The Main officers of Treasurer and Secretary remain the same. All other posts to be decided at the first committee meeting.
- The theme for next year's President's Trophy is "Shadows". So start shooting. You will be able to submit 2 projected images.
- There is a modest increase in the annual subscription to £30 *. We believe this is still one of the lowest club fees around and excellent value.
- The winners in the Annual Exhibition were announced. Those who did not attend will have to wait until the preview evening on May 11th to find out the names.
- In "any other business":
- There was a plea for more members to have galleries on our web site. Please give some images to Graham. Any number will do but about a dozen is suitable. More details are on the galleries page.
- Arthur reminded us that this coming Sunday (30th April) is World Pinhole Photography Day and it would be good to see submissions from this club. Take pinhole photos on this day and submit them to the web site: World Pinhole Photography Day. There is also information on how to take such photos on Graham's site.
- Individual full member £30
- Individual concession £25
- Joint full members £55
- Joint concession £45
NB: Subscriptions for the coming year are now due.
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Video Film-Making Group Presentation Night on 24th April
Posted 27/4/17 Eight members were in attendance for a social evening with fish & chips and for the presentation of awards to the winners of this season's competitions. Pictured (left to right) are Competition Secretary Trevor Ermel, winner of the Christy Cup (Holiday Competition), the Bucas Cup (One Minute Competition), the George Draper Shield (Annual Competition) and the Dawson Rose Bowl (highest aggregate of marks for placings in all competitions); retiring Chairman Doug Tweddle; and Secretary John Burton, winner of the Richardson Cup (Open Competition), the Kip Halsey Memorial Trophy (best nature content in any competition) and the Nichol Cup (highest number of new films entered this season). |
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Photograph by Steven Wears
We won another N Tyne competition!
Posted 31/3/17
Last night we won the North Tyne Area projected images competition and came away with another trophy.
We beat Whitley Bay by 1 point, 211 to 210. Our top picture was John McGuiness' "Tyne Swing Bridge" with 28. Whitley Bay's Andrew Nicoll won the best picture with 30 for "Tynemouth Spray"., a huge wave over the pier.
Details of our results can be seen here.
Posted 31/3/17
Last night we won the North Tyne Area projected images competition and came away with another trophy.
We beat Whitley Bay by 1 point, 211 to 210. Our top picture was John McGuiness' "Tyne Swing Bridge" with 28. Whitley Bay's Andrew Nicoll won the best picture with 30 for "Tynemouth Spray"., a huge wave over the pier.
Details of our results can be seen here.
Tynemouth winners again! (NECA)
Posted 7/3/17
Our Video Film-making Group has won the NECA competition. More details and photo on their group page.
Posted 7/3/17
Our Video Film-making Group has won the NECA competition. More details and photo on their group page.
Photo provided by John Burton.