Tynemouth Photographic Society
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PRESIDENTIAL EVENING 25th SEPTEMBER 2025
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Presidential Evening by Linda McGregor: Adam Lang, Lang Shot Photography
Last night at the Society we enjoyed the second evening of the new season and, for her Presidents Evening, Linda had invited Adam Lang, a photographer based in Gateshead.
An excellent turnout of members were treated to a really interesting talk illustrated with some wonderful images taken by Adam who introduced us to his distinctive style of photography capturing street and travel scenes which kept the audience entranced throughout.
Adam noted that he had only really got serious about image taking some 10 years ago when he obtained his first ‘serious camera which gave him the ability to shoot in conditions when most of us would stay inside! He took us on a journey from Newcastle city centre to Portugal and the Czech Republic taking stunning photographs of the street scene and in particular getting brilliant shots in fog, heavy rain and snow as well in more benign conditions proving that poor conditions do not need result in us staying indoors; indeed, as Adam stressed and demonstrated, heavy rain, snow and in particular fog can provide the most atmospheric of conditions for photography.
His street scenes after dark were some of his best images and his use of medium telephotos were especially stunning noting that most street scenes tend to be taken with 35mm or 50mm lenses.
His ability to capture the vibrant colours of buildings in Lisbon and Porto complemented by the iconic trams in these cities were especially noteworthy and he noted that he rarely uses a tripod instead relying on using the high ISO capabilities of modern equipment.
He noted that he is keen to create photography ‘projects’; a current idea is to capture images of barbers whilst on his travels. Food for thought there!
His final section saw us return to Newcastle with a number of spectacular images of the streets around the Tyne Bridge and Quayside and I’m sure there will be a number of members, myself included, who will be looking out for damp, misty evenings to head up to ‘The Toon’ this autumn!
Huge thanks to both Adam and Linda for a brilliant evening ending with a splendid buffet provided by our President over which we could enjoy and admire some of Adams prints and discuss our next ideas about where to point our cameras!
Andy Louch
26 September 2025
Last night at the Society we enjoyed the second evening of the new season and, for her Presidents Evening, Linda had invited Adam Lang, a photographer based in Gateshead.
An excellent turnout of members were treated to a really interesting talk illustrated with some wonderful images taken by Adam who introduced us to his distinctive style of photography capturing street and travel scenes which kept the audience entranced throughout.
Adam noted that he had only really got serious about image taking some 10 years ago when he obtained his first ‘serious camera which gave him the ability to shoot in conditions when most of us would stay inside! He took us on a journey from Newcastle city centre to Portugal and the Czech Republic taking stunning photographs of the street scene and in particular getting brilliant shots in fog, heavy rain and snow as well in more benign conditions proving that poor conditions do not need result in us staying indoors; indeed, as Adam stressed and demonstrated, heavy rain, snow and in particular fog can provide the most atmospheric of conditions for photography.
His street scenes after dark were some of his best images and his use of medium telephotos were especially stunning noting that most street scenes tend to be taken with 35mm or 50mm lenses.
His ability to capture the vibrant colours of buildings in Lisbon and Porto complemented by the iconic trams in these cities were especially noteworthy and he noted that he rarely uses a tripod instead relying on using the high ISO capabilities of modern equipment.
He noted that he is keen to create photography ‘projects’; a current idea is to capture images of barbers whilst on his travels. Food for thought there!
His final section saw us return to Newcastle with a number of spectacular images of the streets around the Tyne Bridge and Quayside and I’m sure there will be a number of members, myself included, who will be looking out for damp, misty evenings to head up to ‘The Toon’ this autumn!
Huge thanks to both Adam and Linda for a brilliant evening ending with a splendid buffet provided by our President over which we could enjoy and admire some of Adams prints and discuss our next ideas about where to point our cameras!
Andy Louch
26 September 2025
The Stan Bewick Summer Challenge 25/26
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The results of the Stan Bewick Summer Challenge competition was held on 18th September, the first night of our new 25/26 season.
This is a new competition in memory of Stans life and work at Tynemouth Photographic Society and members were asked to return an A4 print of their individual subject, taken over the summer break.
All the prints were hung in a display around the downstairs room, showing only the title of the print and no authors name.
Stans Niece Amy and his brother Denis joined us for the evening and they chose their favourite top three prints.
In first place was Diane Wailes with 'A Seat', second place went to Chris Parker for 'A Reflection' and third place was Terry Dawson with his print 'A Door'.
Denis and Amy presented Diane with her trophy, an individual piece of glassware from the Sunderland Glass Centre.
Members and guests enjoyed refreshments, time to chat and enjoy being back together again for the new season.
This is a new competition in memory of Stans life and work at Tynemouth Photographic Society and members were asked to return an A4 print of their individual subject, taken over the summer break.
All the prints were hung in a display around the downstairs room, showing only the title of the print and no authors name.
Stans Niece Amy and his brother Denis joined us for the evening and they chose their favourite top three prints.
In first place was Diane Wailes with 'A Seat', second place went to Chris Parker for 'A Reflection' and third place was Terry Dawson with his print 'A Door'.
Denis and Amy presented Diane with her trophy, an individual piece of glassware from the Sunderland Glass Centre.
Members and guests enjoyed refreshments, time to chat and enjoy being back together again for the new season.
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Archive Print Exhibition - The Beacon Centre, North Shields 2025
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A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION OF PAST TIMES IN OUR AREA
To co-ordinate with the North Shields 800 celebrations we have chosen 24 images from our extensive Archive collection to assemble a display in The Beacon Centre, North Shields. These pictures portray historical local scenes and events, some of them dating from 1860. Over time, some of our members have taken the time to digitalised these wonderful old pictures, which now enables us to print them. The collection of chosen prints, details of how to purchase a copy of our 'Archive Pictures of the old Borough of Tynemouth book' and information about our Club is all part of the display and the space was kindly offered to us by the Beacon Centre team. On set-up day in the Centre, there was quite a bit of interest from local people viewing the prints and a few of the Archive books were purchased. Thanks must go to the members who enabled this event to take place, Howard Wilson, Henry Tennant, Tina Ormerod and Linda McGregor. |
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The Annual Print Exhibition on tour 2025
After 2 weeks at the Oxford Centre Longbenton where it was very well received and enjoyed by visitors and staff, our Annual Print Exhibition is now at the White Swan Centre Killingworth for a two week stay.
Many thanks to Howard and Henry for assembling and displaying our members prints.
After 2 weeks at the Oxford Centre Longbenton where it was very well received and enjoyed by visitors and staff, our Annual Print Exhibition is now at the White Swan Centre Killingworth for a two week stay.
Many thanks to Howard and Henry for assembling and displaying our members prints.
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Video Film-Making Group
The video group AGM and Presentation Night was held on Monday 14th April. The picture below shows, from left to right, Group Chairman Dave Peffer and cup winners John Burton, Alwyn Scott, Doug Tweddle and Trevor Ermel.
The video group AGM and Presentation Night was held on Monday 14th April. The picture below shows, from left to right, Group Chairman Dave Peffer and cup winners John Burton, Alwyn Scott, Doug Tweddle and Trevor Ermel.
100th Birthday Celebration
An Exhibition and a celebration on the occasion of his 100th birthday for Roy Elwood FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP and Honorary Life President of Whickham Photographic Club was held on Friday 4th April 2025.
As Roy was a member and past President (1989-1990) of Tynemouth Photographic Society, the current President and guests were invited to attend the celebratory evening at Whickham Photographic Club.
The Print Exhibition was from the past seven and a half decades of his excellent photography and the prints included Roy's love of the human form, natural light, composites and monochrome photography including his successful FRPS panel of nudes.
A wonderful buffet, refreshments and a warm welcome were provided by the Whickham members.
The attending members from Tynemouth Photographic Society were current President Linda McGregor, past Presidents Howard Wilson and Alan Forster along with members Dorothy Wilson and Trevor Ermel.
An Exhibition and a celebration on the occasion of his 100th birthday for Roy Elwood FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP and Honorary Life President of Whickham Photographic Club was held on Friday 4th April 2025.
As Roy was a member and past President (1989-1990) of Tynemouth Photographic Society, the current President and guests were invited to attend the celebratory evening at Whickham Photographic Club.
The Print Exhibition was from the past seven and a half decades of his excellent photography and the prints included Roy's love of the human form, natural light, composites and monochrome photography including his successful FRPS panel of nudes.
A wonderful buffet, refreshments and a warm welcome were provided by the Whickham members.
The attending members from Tynemouth Photographic Society were current President Linda McGregor, past Presidents Howard Wilson and Alan Forster along with members Dorothy Wilson and Trevor Ermel.
Current and past Presidents of Tynemouth Photographic Society - Howard Wilson - Roy Elwood - Linda McGregor - Alan Forster
Trevor Ermel - Howard Wilson - Roy Elwood - Linda McGregor - Dorothy Wilson - Alan Forster
Masters of Print Success
The coveted Masters of Print competition is a yearly competition, usually held each December, followed by a public Print Exhibition in various venues around the country.
As the name implies, this is a print only competition in three categories - Mono, Colour and Nature and may be entered directly by individual photographers who are members of PAGB affiliated clubs, as we are in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation.
Clubs from all over the country enter this prestigious photographic event and only 60 prints are selected each year.
Of the 60 selected there are gold and silver medals awarded for each of the Mono, Colour and Nature sections.
Tynemouth Photographic Society are proud to announce that our member, Peter Stevens, won the silver medal in the colour section with his print 'The Hand'. He was presented with his medal on behalf of NCPF President Gerald Chamberlin by our President Linda McGregor.
The coveted Masters of Print competition is a yearly competition, usually held each December, followed by a public Print Exhibition in various venues around the country.
As the name implies, this is a print only competition in three categories - Mono, Colour and Nature and may be entered directly by individual photographers who are members of PAGB affiliated clubs, as we are in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation.
Clubs from all over the country enter this prestigious photographic event and only 60 prints are selected each year.
Of the 60 selected there are gold and silver medals awarded for each of the Mono, Colour and Nature sections.
Tynemouth Photographic Society are proud to announce that our member, Peter Stevens, won the silver medal in the colour section with his print 'The Hand'. He was presented with his medal on behalf of NCPF President Gerald Chamberlin by our President Linda McGregor.
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'The Hand' by Peter Stevens - Silver Medal winning print
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North Tyne Area Print competition
Last night four of us attended the N Tyne Area print competition hosted by Gosforth club. The judge was David Ord. We came away winners and Linda was presented with the cup.
Last night four of us attended the N Tyne Area print competition hosted by Gosforth club. The judge was David Ord. We came away winners and Linda was presented with the cup.
I have attached a copy of my score sheet for the night.
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David didn't rush things and gave a good description and judging of each entry. He explained that marks were tight as all the prints were good and it would be unfair to give a good print 20 out of 30.
A Gosforth member's print 'The Velvet Touch' was judged best print, and very nice it was too.
The room was packed out and Whitley Bay had 20 members present!
Gosforth provided a superb buffet, complete with chips and there was plenty for everyone.
An excellent night, topped of with an excellent result for us. Thank you to all members who produce prints and allowed us to select from their work.
Howard Wilson
A Gosforth member's print 'The Velvet Touch' was judged best print, and very nice it was too.
The room was packed out and Whitley Bay had 20 members present!
Gosforth provided a superb buffet, complete with chips and there was plenty for everyone.
An excellent night, topped of with an excellent result for us. Thank you to all members who produce prints and allowed us to select from their work.
Howard Wilson
Annual Print Exhibition 2024
Our Annual Print Exhibition was held at our Club Rooms at Howard Street on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th May 2024.
The event ran from 10am to 4pm both days.
As usual the exhibition was manned by members who had generously volunteered their time.
As well as viewing a wonderful selection of member's work, visitors could enjoy light refreshments, chatting to our members and a chance to vote for their favourite print in the exhibition.
Every print was labelled with the photographers name, a title and if successful, the award they had been given by the judge of the exhibition - Graeme Clarke.
There were many votes cast over the two days and when counted after the event, the prints with the most votes were:
Our Annual Print Exhibition was held at our Club Rooms at Howard Street on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th May 2024.
The event ran from 10am to 4pm both days.
As usual the exhibition was manned by members who had generously volunteered their time.
As well as viewing a wonderful selection of member's work, visitors could enjoy light refreshments, chatting to our members and a chance to vote for their favourite print in the exhibition.
Every print was labelled with the photographers name, a title and if successful, the award they had been given by the judge of the exhibition - Graeme Clarke.
There were many votes cast over the two days and when counted after the event, the prints with the most votes were:
1st Place - Chris Parker 'Stan'
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2nd Place - Peter Stevens 'A view from Hadrians Wall'
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3rd Place - Chris Parker 'Reine Harbour'
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Our Presentation Night - Thursday 9th May 2024
This was our end of season awards night and was also the launch of our Annual Print Exhibition 2024.
We offered a warm welcome to our invited guests - the Chair of North Tyneside Council Brian Burdis, who officially opened our Exhibition and was presented with a copy of our book ‘Archive Pictures of Tynemouth Borough’ - North Tyneside Councillor Pat Oliver - we had the new Chairman of the Northern Counties Photographic Federation, Gerald Chamberlin, who presented the trophies and certificates to our winning members and also Graeme Clarke who we thanked for judging our Annual Print Exhibition this year.
After the trophies and certificates were presented we enjoyed the wonderful buffet, provided by our members, and were able to chat and socialise with our guests and a number of members from some of our local Photographic Clubs.
Congratulations to those members who won trophies or certificates.
This was our end of season awards night and was also the launch of our Annual Print Exhibition 2024.
We offered a warm welcome to our invited guests - the Chair of North Tyneside Council Brian Burdis, who officially opened our Exhibition and was presented with a copy of our book ‘Archive Pictures of Tynemouth Borough’ - North Tyneside Councillor Pat Oliver - we had the new Chairman of the Northern Counties Photographic Federation, Gerald Chamberlin, who presented the trophies and certificates to our winning members and also Graeme Clarke who we thanked for judging our Annual Print Exhibition this year.
After the trophies and certificates were presented we enjoyed the wonderful buffet, provided by our members, and were able to chat and socialise with our guests and a number of members from some of our local Photographic Clubs.
Congratulations to those members who won trophies or certificates.
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Video Group Presentation Night - 29th April 2024
Most of our members were present at our final meeting of the season on 29th April 2024, when we took this 'selfie' prior to the presentation of the competition trophies
Most of our members were present at our final meeting of the season on 29th April 2024, when we took this 'selfie' prior to the presentation of the competition trophies
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Stan's Day
Posted 20/02/24
On Saturday 17th February we held a day in acknowledgement of the late Stan Bewick. On display was a selection of Stan's prints, going back as far as his mono and colour Cibachrome, flush mounted 20" x 16" prints and up to his much more modern digital work. Also his numerous cameras and lenses, and various other bits of memorabilia and artifacts were on display.
The rooms were open from 11.00 until 3.30, and President Howard Wilson and Stan's niece Amy from Darwin Australia said a few words. Her father (Stan's brother) Dennis was also present.
We estimate that there were over 60 people in attendance, so for all of those people to be able to view the collection of prints, as well as the cameras and certificates etc. was super. Those who were there will know that I said I had the idea of yesterday in my head since the day Stan passed away and without me asking, almost straight after that day Dennis and Amy offered anything of Stan's photographic memorabilia if we could make use of them in his memory.
Among the many visitors was Roy Elwood, past TPS President and member, and since then of Whickham club, attended even at 98 - he will be 99 in April.
As Sarah Timney, a past TPS President said to me when I asked what she thought Stan would have made of the day, 'His usual modest self, slightly embarrassed, but secretly delighted.' I don't think any of us could have put it better.
Amy and Dennis have told me how touched they were by the display and number of people who attended - Dennis said 'unbelievable'.
Stan's memory will live on.
Posted 20/02/24
On Saturday 17th February we held a day in acknowledgement of the late Stan Bewick. On display was a selection of Stan's prints, going back as far as his mono and colour Cibachrome, flush mounted 20" x 16" prints and up to his much more modern digital work. Also his numerous cameras and lenses, and various other bits of memorabilia and artifacts were on display.
The rooms were open from 11.00 until 3.30, and President Howard Wilson and Stan's niece Amy from Darwin Australia said a few words. Her father (Stan's brother) Dennis was also present.
We estimate that there were over 60 people in attendance, so for all of those people to be able to view the collection of prints, as well as the cameras and certificates etc. was super. Those who were there will know that I said I had the idea of yesterday in my head since the day Stan passed away and without me asking, almost straight after that day Dennis and Amy offered anything of Stan's photographic memorabilia if we could make use of them in his memory.
Among the many visitors was Roy Elwood, past TPS President and member, and since then of Whickham club, attended even at 98 - he will be 99 in April.
As Sarah Timney, a past TPS President said to me when I asked what she thought Stan would have made of the day, 'His usual modest self, slightly embarrassed, but secretly delighted.' I don't think any of us could have put it better.
Amy and Dennis have told me how touched they were by the display and number of people who attended - Dennis said 'unbelievable'.
Stan's memory will live on.
images by Alan Forster and Chris Parker