PhotoGroup
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Summer 2010

Outdoor events and meetings

All Chiltern Society members with an interest in all levels and styles of photography are welcome to attend all PhotoGroup meetings and events. Our second outdoor photoshoot for the year will be on Wednesday, 7 July at Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. This historical town is located on the banks of the River Thames. Quiller Barrett will be our guide. Meet at 10.30am in the Cattle Market car park, bounded by Thames St, New Rd and Wood St. Thames St is the first turning on the left after crossing the Thames from Crowmarsh Gifford. Take the third turning on the right in Thames St into New Rd and then the first on the right to find the entrance to the car park in Wood St. There are toilets in the car park and parking costs £1.80 for five hours. Lunch will be arranged in a local pub.

On Wednesday, 25 August the PhotoGroup will visit the villages of Great and Little Kimble and nearby Ellesborough, located near Princes Risborough. Further details to follow.

The next indoor meeting will be the Group's AGM held at 10.30am on Saturday, 23 October at the Amersham Community Centre.

The Chilterns photo archive

Last year's outdoor photoshoots in Denham, Aldbury and Goring & Streatley increased the number of locations and photographs for the Group's archive (www.chilternphoto.org.uk). Members' individual photographic projects make a valuable contribution in either creating new channels or updating existing ones. For example, a new Chiltern Escarpment channel comprises the villages of Chinnor, Bledlow, Lewknor, Britwell Salome, Pyrton and Shirburn. A new channel also exists for Chesham. Current projects include Naphill, Gerrards Cross and an update of the Hemel Hempstead channel.

Collectively, they make up over 4,000 captioned pictures covering over 40 locations in the Chilterns. They form a valuable pictorial archive for future generations, recording the region's special character, qualities and amenities, including images of everyday scenes that are not usually photographed. The website regularly receives around a thousand hits each month, including many from overseas visitors.

Online Photographic Exhibition

The PhotoGroup's Online Exhibition 2010 is the largest so far. It comprises 178 fine photographs taken by Society members and arranged in four categories: Buildings, Flora & Fauna, Landscapes and Heritage. You can see them all in a new browser window here.

The annual exhibitions are open to all Chiltern Society members. They are not competitive events, so there are no winners. For the first time entries were not necessarily confined to the Chilterns. In fact many of the photographs depict scenes taken from around Britain and various worldwide locations. As we go through the remainder of the year why not think about selecting some of your own favourite photographs for possible inclusion in next year's Online Exhibition? You are also welcome to add your comments about any of this year's images for possible publication online. Around a dozen informative comments on selected photographs have already been published. Please email comments to the ChilternPhotos Editor, Quiller Barrett.

Bradenham House, pictured by David Iles.