For a different type of evening at the club, Alex and Michelle paid us a visit from The TinType Trailer on 7th November. TinType Trailer specialise in Wet Collodion Processing onto tin plate and travel the country with their trailer-come-darkroom and studio. This was a very enjoyable evening with lots of hands on interaction between the club members and Alex and Michelle, culminating in a number of images being taken and processed as part of the evening. As ever, time was against us otherwise we could have spent a lot longer with them.
The processed images can be found below, together with links to The TinType Trailer, their blog about their visit to the club and Conor’s enjoyable summary of the evening. Thanks to Lewis and Helena for the images and video and Steve for scanning the processed group images, the latter of which look dark but appear better on TinType Trailers blog.
From Conor:
Probably the most intriguing and mad set up we have had at the camera club of late. Having your picture taken with a camera from the 1870’s and processed on a thin plate of tin with a multitude of authentic chemicals of the era will take some beating. It was indeed a most enjoyable experience by common consent, just thank goodness things have moved on a bit since then. Michelle & Alex from Tin Type Trailer were really good folk to have at the club and gave us a wonderful insight into their passion for an aspect of the photographic processes of yesteryear. Great stuff. Thanks to everyone who helped with the packing up of all that gear at the end.
Last Monday, November the 7th 2016, myself and Alex were invited to the Macclesfield Camera Club at Macclesfield library. I have to be honest I was a little nervous about speaking to a group of photographers and camera enthusiasts, especially in a lecture theatre. My nerves were soon gone when the club members began to turn up 20 minutes early, showing a real excitement, as we continued to set up our studio and inside darkroom.
Over the last few months we have been invited to work at all kinds of evening and indoor events as well as the summer festivals that we attend with the trailer. This has been a great time for us to develop our set up, which we feel is working fantastically. Please see http://tintypetrailer.co.uk/velvet-burlesque/.
The evening was a huge success, we began the evening with a quick intro to Wet Plate Collodion, followed by a demonstration of making a tin type, we then finished with some group photos and lots of sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Congratulations to Keith Parker who recently came second in the Aspiring Class of the Disabled Photographer’s Society (DPS) competition on the theme of ‘Landscape’. The DPS is a national charity for disabled photographers in the UK and has over 500 members. Keith’s image is of the Newcastle Swing Bridge taken at night.
Thanks to all who attended and submitted entries for our first competition of the season, ‘Mono’ prints. Thanks also to our judge, Graham Currey for his judging and comments on the night. Congratulations go to Paul Scott, Anthony Gosling and Denis Jones for taking first, second and third places respectively. Also, well done to all the people who’s images were Highly Commended and Commended.
As this was the first competition of the season, we won’t be publishing the league table yet.
Martin James, the Ranger at Teggs Nose is keen to utilise the facilities that he manages to the full, and so, having just established a small exhibition space he asked us if we could fill it with a photographic exhibition. We had seven days in which to pull together a range of images that would appeal to the theme requested by Martin “Local wildlife and Landscapes”. The exhibition will be in place until at least 22nd August. Martin will seek to vary the style of exhibition from time to time and he may well ask us to do another exhibition in due course when, under less time pressure, we will be able to widen the number of club members involved. This exhibition contains images from Mark Helliwell, Kevin Blake, David Tolliday, Alison Lomax, Steve Gresty and Conor Molloy. Spread the word and hopefully we can get as many people viewing the work as possible.
Camera Club exhibition at the Teggs Nose tea rooms.
Congratulations to three of our members for putting on two great exhibitions as part of the Barnaby Festival.
Val Lear and Mark Helliwell, in conjunction with Rachael King, have an exhibition following the life of a hoarder with OCD through the medium of photography, video and personal writing. It’s on at the Gateway gallery on Prestbury Road up to and including Sunday 26th June. There will also be a presentation on OCD/hoarding on Saturday 25th from 1-3pm, followed by a mindfulness session to 4pm.
David Tolliday is showcasing his fantastic astro-photography skills with a number of his images on display at Brewtique, 8 Market place, until 26th June. You can also choose from a great selection of beers here if you’re that way inclined.
Please get along to both if you can, they are well worth a visit.
