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Young Female Blackbird with Rowan Berry by Dave Hobbs

Next Week - Paul Radden

Paul Radden, previously of this 'parish' and president of The East Anglia Federation is kindly giving us a presentation. It will be good to catch up with him to see how he and Shirley are doing having moved to Norfolk. His presentations are always interesting.

The zoom invitation for the meeting is below. All are welcome to come along: members & non-members alike.

Zoom Invite

Topic: H2 Club Evening
Time: "Doors" open at 07:30 PM for 7:45 Start
Every week on a Thursday

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82906584413?pwd=dnFuRG9LUzBzU0hlSFZ3NDAzYkluQT09

Meeting ID: 829 0658 4413
Password: 927576

"Any Questions"

Last night was rather a fun evening based on the "Ask The Panel" format. Chris picked from a set of questions for the panel of distinguished photographers to address. The panel of Jeff (Sinclair), Heather (Clarke), Stan (Chippett) and Dave (Hobbs) did a great job dealing with the varied range of questions which led to a really interesting debate on each of the many and varied topics covered.

Big thanks to everyone who sent in questions and thanks to the panel of experts. And last (but not least) our thanks to the club members who really joined in with the spirit of the evening and making for a fun night.

The Vaping Man by Warren Martin

Social Media - Facebook

H2 has a Facebook group. If you are a Facebook user you can find it here
Please do all you can to support it by posting interesting images, articles and discussing posts with other members of the group.

The day after the still life by Jo Cleall

Trudy Kepke: Art Through A Lens

One of the questions at last night's meeting was about 'where we find inspiration'. A speaker I attempted to get for the club was Trudy Kepke whose work is certainly influential and interesting. Unfortunately, she was unable to do a talk for us this time around.

Trudy creates surreal worlds using Photoshop and you can find out more about her in this CameraWorld interview, or on her Twitter feed and for some idea of her techniques her Youtube Channel.

Of course the main reason for mentioning her is that I just wanted an excuse to share this lovely image of hers - do take a look at her work :)

Comma by Graham Woolmer

Deer in Epping Forest

A question that we didn't get around to last night was:

"As I travel on M25, M11 and roads around Epping I see herds of deer.
Does any of the panel know where is best to try and photograph them and where to park?"

The important thing to remember is that deer are usually much more active at dawn and dusk, so you are unlikely to have much luck in the middle of the day.

The two locations I see the most deer are, either side of Crown Hill to the East of Lodge Road.
Parking for this is tricky at the moment as you used to be able to park just off the road at Crown Hill but Epping Forest is suffering from Parking Restrictions at the moment so the nearest parking is where Lodge Road meets the Epping New Road.

The other location I often see them is at the back of The Warlies Estate near the mobile home site.
Parking for this is on Pick Hill.

Friend of the club Peter Warne is an expert on the wildlife in Epping Forest, why not checkout his Flickr portfolio for more ideas of what to shoot whilst you are in the woods.

Chris

The Programme

We have been working hard to get a programme together for the next few months. Retaining what we could from the old programme and taking advantage of the fact that we are meeting over Zoom to bring in some speakers we would not normally have been able to:

23 July 2020	Paul Radden
30 July 2020	Justin Minns
7 Aug 2020	Outdoor Evening
14 Aug 2020	David Watts

Knighton Woods by Chris Shepherd

Interested in Joining Us?

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Visitors are welcome to join our virtual meetings, just use the zoom links in this newsletter.

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