Sep
10
2023Oldham Camera Club and The Leica Store Manchester help Manchester Foundation Trust Hospitals celebrate the “75th Anniversary of the Foundation of the NHS”
Readers will be aware that 2023 marks the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the NHS and so this year the Trust was keen to ensure it had a suitably large presence in the Manchester Pride Parade and to ensure that their efforts were captured for their Internal LGBT Community along the wider community of healthcare workers across the whole of the Trust.
The clubs association with the Trust began in 2022, when it was invited to photograph the Trusts contribution to the Pride Parade, and it seems they were so pleased with the results that they appointed OCC their official photographers for this years much enlarged representation.
Mindful of the need to photograph a projected 200 plus members of the Trust as they gathered for the parade and then capture their experiences as they paraded through the streets of Manchester, the club was able to call upon the invaluable experience of Dave Kennedy from the Leica Store in Police Street Manchester to assist the clubs representatives Roger Donallon, and Heather and Steven Birds to capture the events of the day and return to the Trust over 800 informal images, for use on their internal network, which boasts a potential audience of some 26,000 people. A few of the images, selected at random from the ones each photographer took appear below.
It seems everyone enjoyed themselves and Oldham Camera Club would like to take this opportunity to thank the Trust for expressing their confidence in its members to deliver what they required in terms of images and in particular to thank David and the rest of the team at the Leica Store in Manchester for enthusiastically supporting the club and helping out on the day.
The Trust were so pleased with the results…that they have already asked if we will cover the event again for them next year. !
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Aug
16
2023Just as the L&CPU seems to be trying to encourage clubs across the federation to have their members print and display their images, OCC are trying to do their bit to assist by way of reinstating its traditional Mono Print Competition this year, which because of the impact of the Pandemic, has, for the past few years had to take the form of a Mono DPI competition over Zoom.
This year however, the club has decided it’s time to revert to the normal format and invitations have been issued to over 25 clubs who previously participated in the DPI version. Additional promotional activity is planned to get the details advertised.
Gordon Jenkins APAGB and former President of the L&CPU has kindly agreed to judge the competition which will take place at the clubs premises on 23rd November 2023.
Any club wishing to take part should contact OCC via the “Contact Us” link in the About Tab of the clubs Web Site.
The next Charity Mono DPI Competition is being planned for early 2024, More Information to follow soon.
Aug
16
2023The cheque presentation at the Christie in Manchester took place on the 30th June 2023.
Pictured in the image are, from the Christie: Adam George – Community Fundraising Co-ordinator together with two of his with his colleagues from the on site team, Heather Brookfield and Wingsan Tai. Also depicted, from OCC, is Heather Birds – Secretary and John Moss – Treasurer
Both the Christie and Dr Kershaws wish it to be known how thankful they are to all the clubs and individuals who contributed to the fund.
The first presentation was at Dr Kershaws and this took place on the 4th April 2023. See Previous Post HERE
Oldham Camera Club raise more than £1,000.00 for the Christie Cancer Hospital & Dr Kershaw’s Hospice
Oldham Camera Club 2023 Syllabus
The next Charity Mono PDI Competition is being planned for early 2024 with more information to follow in early December. However the OCC MONO PRINT Competition is returning on 23 November 2023, full details will be published shortly
Aug
24
2022The the Annual Exhibition images have been judged and Steven Birds has taken the lions share of the trophies with “Egret Grabs a Takeaway”, the image was awarded Best PDI in the Natural History section, also Overall Best Colour PDI and the Senior Citizens award.
“Egret Grabs a Takeaway” – By Steven Birds
Best Natural History PDI
Best Colour PDI
Senior Citizen Award
Best Monochrome PDI was “Skyfall” by Grant Hirst
Best Monochrome PDI which was in the Mood Section and was awarded 1st place
Open Colour PDI was awarded to Alan Andrew for “Heads its Mine”
Landscape Section was awarded to Stephen Riley for “Beach at Roan Head Cumbria”
sadly Stephen passed away before the results were known.
The Portrait Section was awarded to Alan Andrew for “In the Evenings Sun”
Photo Journalism was awarded to John Moss for Recovery above Scamonden – Storm Franklin
The John Arnold Award with a Theme of Cycles was awarded to Gail Kelsall for “Bike in the Boot”
Jun
09
2022Alan Andrew won all four sections in round two of our Photographer of the Year comp held on the 2nd of June, collecting all seven of the max 20 points awarded along the way!
“Manically Happy” courtesy of Alan Andrew
“Manically Happy” won the Colour Print section for Alan while “Shush” won him the Mono Section.
“Shush” courtesy of Alan Andrew
“Into the Sunset” courtesy of Alan Andrew
“Into the Sunset” won the Colour PDIs and “I Think It’s Shot” scored 20 points in the Monochrome PDIs.
“I think it’s shot” courtesy of Alan Andrew
Alan now has a 12 point lead over Steven Birds in second place.
“Little Egret Grabs a Quick Take Away” courtesy of Steven Birds
“Little Egret Grabs a Quick Take Away” scored 19 points for Steven in the Colour PDI section.
Next up: Annual Exhibition closes on the 7th of July and PotY 3 on the 18th of August.
Mar
08
2022The Oldham C.C. Photographer of the Year round 1 was held on Thursday 3rd March judged by Graham Currey. It proved a good night for member Alan Andrew, winning three of the four sections and establishing a strong lead in the Photographer of the Year Competition.
Taking a Break by Alan Andrew
“Taking a Break” won the Monochrome PDI section and “Raiana” the Mono Print.
Raiana by Alan Andrew
It didn’t go all Alan’s way with Steve Riley winning the Colour Print section and Grant Hirst establishing on overall lead in the Colour PDIs.
Yellow Flower by Steve Riley
Loch Shiel by Grant Hirst
Grant’s Loch Shiel, one of his two 20 scoring images.
Round 2 will be held on Thursday 2nd June.
Jan
31
2022At Thursday’s Annual General Meeting it was decided that new members should enjoy half price membership for 2022 paying just £10 per quarter.
Olympus OMD MK3\ 45mm F/ 1.2 @ F/8
Jun
24
2021Photographer of the Year (POTY) competition 2021
Thursday 17th June 2021 was Round 2 of our Photographer of the year competition. We are still on Zoom so no prints but we have extended the digitals to 8 images 4 colour and 4 monochromes. The judge was Sally Sallett who is an experienced member of Wakefield Camera Club.
The colour section was won by Heater Birds with “Nuthatch Bathed In Midday Light” scoring 20 points. The monochrome section was won by Steven Birds with “Determined”. Both iof these are shown below. You can see other high scoring images in the Gallery.
Congratulations to all who took part.
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Nuthatch In Mid Day Sunshine by Heather Birds Score 20 WINNER of the Colour section
Determined by Steven Birds, Score 20 WINNER of the MONO section
Mar
05
2021Photographer of the Year (POTY 1) competition 2021
Thursday 4th March 2021 was Round 1 of our Photographer of the year competition. We are still on Zoom so no prints but we have extended the digitals to 8 images 4 colour and 4 monochromes. The judge was Alfred Brown of South Manchester.
The colour section was won by Ian Greenhalgh with an image called “Autumn Stroll” scoring 20 points. There were a number of 19’s scored City Of Wells Approaching Summerseat Station by Steven Birds, Day dreaming by Alan Andrew, Hail in the Dales by Paul Adams, Ready for my close up by Heather Birds and Tree at Winskill Stones by Steve Riley.
The monochrome section was won by Andrew Kay with “Crown Engine Houses at Botallack” runners up were Penelope Pitstop visits Oulton Park and Perch Rock Lighthouse by Stephen Birds and another Perch Rock image by Ian Greenhalgh who also had aanother 19 with Winter Steam East Lancs Railway. You can see these high scoring images in the Gallery. Congratulations to all who took part.
Autumn Stroll by Ian Greenhalgh, score 20 WINNER
Crown Engine Houses At Botallack by Andrew Kay, score 20 WINNER
Mar
05
2021Oldham Camera Club starting a new year
As you will have seen if you have had a look at our 2021 syllabus , Oldham Camera Club has started the year with a full, new and interesting syllabus. Although we are meeting via Zoom, it is working very well and our events have been enjoyed by all.
On 4th February, we had our first ever interclub battle against one of the best camera clubs in the region, South Manchester Camera Club, a very big club with some good photographers. The format was over zoom with each club submitting 15 images in digital format. The judge was Rob Hockney, a much respected photographer and one of the top judges. Rob was very complementary about the overall standard of the images submitted and the result was very close. We were very pleased to gain a draw with the result being 260 points each. A return match is planned later in the year.
Oldham Camera Club’s Alan Andrew was our star of the evening. He had a fantastic night with the winning image “Waiting for trouble” and two second place images “Geisha Girl” and “George and the dragon – shown below.
Waiting For Trouble To Arrive
Geisha Girl
George and the dragon
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