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The Royal Berkshire Hospital has, for some years now, invited Photographers and Artists to exhibit their work on the wall panels in the South Wing of the hospital. Exhibitors are allowed to show their work for a period of six weeks and Reading Camera Club members have been given the opportunity to exhibit their photographs (mounted, framed and safely secured onto the panels) from the 4th of June to August 28, 2021.

You can visit the Exhibition free of charge at any time during the day or evening by going to the South Wing of the hospital where you will find the panels outside the entrance to Outpatient 1 and adjacent to the coffee/tea bar (which is open to members of the public). You will be able to purchase any of the mounted images (without the frames) if you wish to do so. Information regarding price and details about how you can make the purchase is clearly displayed on the panel. 25% of the price paid will be donated to the hospital charity fund. Please make some time to visit our hospital and support the Exhibition.

Graham shows some of his images as he started with them – and then how they finally appear. His work can be seen by visiting his website.

This is the 2nd of our talks this season, see events for more details of the summer programme. Our summer programme is available to all takers for a small fee of £7. Click here to join us.

Our first competition of the season had 49 entries from 17 members. The judge, Chris Whitling commented on the high quality of the images overall. In the end it was a very tight competition, but ahead of the pack, the winner by a clear margin was David Watkins, who scored one 20 and two 19s. In second was Stella, Maureen and Ramesh.

The videos of the session is available for members, please log in and it will be available in the News section.

Full results are available for members.

The following images scored 20 points.

It is time for our first competition of the Summer Programme. It is an open subject, so anything goes.
Images should be uploaded via the photoentry site. See link under members area after signing in.
Members can enter up to 3 images each, which will be assessed and marked by an external judge. Marks are given out of 20 for each image; the member who scores the highest marks over the Summer wins a free membership to the 2021/2022 season.

The deadline for uploading photos will be this Wednesday at 23:59.

Images should be resized to fit 1600×1200, the photoentry site will do this for you, if your image is not too big.

If you are new I would encourage you to enter. The judges are usually very good and will give you valuable feedback on your images.

Speaking of new, it is not too late to join our summer programme, see the meetings section for full details, and click join us, to … erhm … join us.

This Friday we continue our summer programme with the first talk for the season. Malcolm’s presentation features 134 different species of Birds, Butterflies and Mammals at 37 different locations with Maps and Directions showing Date, Equipment and Settings.

All events in our summer programme. including 3 more talks, walks, competitions and other events are available to guests for the low total sum of £7. See our website for more details. All events, except walks, are virtual via zoom.