Practical Photography

Contact – Andrew Rees

This group meets twice monthly on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, from 2:00 to 4:00pm. As the Practical Photography Group we tend to concentrate on the Practical Side (e.g. Techniques and  Subjects) we try to have a Photo Shoot during the First Meeting of the month and then a Show & tell Slideshow of the results, in the second meeting of the month in Meeting Room 1 at City URC, Windsor Place.

For future dates please check the Calendar on this page.

This group is open to all members of the U3A who have an interest in photography regardless of their skill level. The aim of the group is …

  1. to develop an appreciation of the art of photography
  2. to improve photographic skills, and
  3. to enjoy each others company.

 

Latest news from the group

Birds, Beasts and Barnes

Published 29th April 2025

We’re truly blessed to have an absolutely brilliant award winning Natural History photographer in the Practical Photography Group. Michel Barnes showed these photographs in his recent General Meeting talk, but the technology didn’t do them justice, so I persuaded him to let me publish them on the Group page.

You are encouraged to scroll through these images (using the arrow keys to go backwards and forwards, but please be aware they are all Copyright Protected, so please don’t try and download them.

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Photographers at work!

Published 11th April 2025

Michael gave a presentation to the General Meeting this week, and was unable (due to time issues caused by equipment difficulties) to show the first half of what he had prepared – a slideshow of some of the images taken by members of the two Photography groups, that had been exhibited at UHW Llandough last September.

Here’s an embedded PDF file of the presentation which I hope you’ll enjoy and appreciate some of the talent that’s present in the groups. Just click on the arrows to go backwards and forwards through the images, and read Michael’s commentary which he would have added if he’d been able to show them at the meeting.

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Then if you want to see a version of the photographs without the comments; again click on the arrows to go backwards and forwards through the photographs …


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Please remember these images belong to members of the two Photography groups and the Copyright belongs to them, so please don’t try and download any of them.

Panoramas

Published 11th March 2023

The Next meeting of the Practical Photography Group will be on Wednesday, 15th of March, when we will have a Show & Tell slideshow of our attempts at Panoramas.

The meeting will be in Meeting Room 1 at the United Reformed Church, Windsor Place and will start at 2:00 pm.