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September is the time of year when the Outlaws pack their camera bags, suitcases and embark on a journey to a location in the UK. We have visited many areas, from Norfolk in the east, Pembrokeshire in the west and Hastings in the south. This year we headed north to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.

As British photographers we are used to all weathers but this year’s weekend weather proved very challenging. Whilst our home of Nottingham suffered a deluge of rain, we endured a blanket of grey cloud for the duration of the trip. It was great to be dry but any contrast for landscape photography was absent. Outlaws are made of strong stuff and were not to be defeated and worked a location to capture images all the same. Some members can claim to have seen the sun, a couple even a sunset. Typically, as we gathered for the group portrait in Balloch on the last morning the weather cleared and the sun appeared!

Every day we all headed out with hope that our empty memory cards would be filled with images, some starting very early as they had sunrises in mind, others with a full agenda of locations that needed to be visited and one or maybe even two members considering night-time shoots. But all had one thing in common and that was to see and photograph Scotland, ranging from its iconic castles, lochs and waterfalls to the stylish architecture and personalities of Glasgow.

There were plenty of opportunities for social breaks, lunches and dinners together as well as evenings where they could discuss the day’s activities over a beer, something the Outlaws looked forward to.

Some of the Outlaws tales of the trip will follow over the next few posts.

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August 2023 PDI Competition

August sees the Outlaws completing their fourth Projected Digital Image (PDI) competition of the year and things have started to warm up. Following this month’s competition, the DPI leader board is now as follows, Malcolm Nabarro leads the way with 285 points, followed by Chris Holdsworth on 276 and Nigel Stewart also on 276 points. Lester Woodward and Ray Andrews both have 274 points, let battle commence. The evenings judge was Gary Langley, a NEMPF competition judge who some of the Outlaws had met on previous occasions. Gary offered constructive comments and liked to “tell it as it is” and score images in his own unique manner.

There were two categories for Gary to judge on the evening, the Open category and the Themed, which this month was “High Key/Low Key”. There were approximately thirty entries in the Open category and twenty-eight in the themed.

At last Thursdays club night the Outlaws refreshed their lighting techniques, model compositions as well as offering encouragement and direction to the all female sitters. There were three models on the night Maddie a professional model, Marion a firm friend of the club that has supported us in this role for the past three years and club member Christine who couldn’t resist the opportunity to strike a pose in front of the cameras.

The members installing the lighting equipment arrived in good time as setting up the equipment & creating scenes for the models takes some time and it all had to be in place ready for the eager Outlaws when the club night officially started.

July 2024 Third Print Competition 

It is late July and the third NOPS print competition of the year was about to take place. Going into this round Lester Woodward currently holds the top slot on 217 points with Lois Webb with a very close 215 points, so there is still all to play for & there are several other Outlaws that are challenging for the POOTY (print outlaw of the year title) tittle.

The judge for the evening was David Kissman who had visited at a similar time the previous year and on that occasion had really constructive comments/critique to offer the entrants.

There were two categories for David to judge, the Open category (a mix of various genres) and the Themed which was “Nature”. In total there were 23 entries in the open and 18 in the themed.

The Open competition again attracted a wide variety of genres of photography and the themed competition had many stunning images from the natural world. The prints were all worthy of hanging in any gallery.