News

Members enjoyed the Christmas Party, particularly Santa Paul

We had a great Bonfire Party courtesy of Tom & Kath. Here are a few photos

Here are photos of the Annual Exhibition in the Tourist Information Centre from 1st to 20th October 2009

This is a photo of the Society's exhibition at the Rose Hill Chapel during the Medieval Market in July 2009

We also had an extensive display of our work at the Recent Art Market in Chesterfield

Chesterfield is twinned with several towns including Darmstadt in Germany. Darmstadt Fotoclub asked Chesterfield Photographic Society to mount a large exhibition in the 'White Tower'.

We worked on this for several months and 77 pictures from 25 members were exhibited in Darmstadt.

Thanks go to the team who have organised and created the exhibition particularly the 'mastermind', our Exhibition Secretary Jerry Daniel.

Eight members of Chesterfield visited Darmstadt for the opening and members of Darmstadt showed us the Mathildenhohe where artists were given land by the Grand Duke Ernst-Ludwig and created wonderful Art Nouveau buildings, paintings, furniture and glass. Fotoclub members showed us other areas such as the Herrngarten and Park Rosenhohe.

No doubt there will be lots of Darmstadt and Frankfurt pictures appearing over the coming months but here are some snaps of the exhibition and the Mathildenhohe. We also hope to create a page for the Darmstadt Fotoclub in the near future

	The White Tower where City Exhibitions are held. The following Pictures show some of the panels.

and now a couple of the exhibition being opened:


Werner Kumpf and the Mayor of Darmstadt's representative

and finally a photo of the Wedding Tower and Russian Chapel in the Mathildenhohe

If you want to see more of the city please follow this link

Darmstadt City

When the weather was better for a day we had a great trip out to Harlow Carr RHS Gardens in early June and there are some excellent pictures on members flickr pages click

here and here and here and here and here

to see some of them. There are some excellent shots and it's difficult to show them here so do visit the members' flickr pages above.

Go to our Upcoming Events page for another brilliant shot by Steve Williams

	Lupin & Bee - Steve Williams
	Sheila in action by Christine
	by Jonathan Ratnage

Photographs for the Royal Hospital

The Society has given about 30 large prints to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital and these hang on the walls at various places around the hospital.

We are very grateful to Harrison Cameras for producing the high quality prints for us

The following photographs were taken when we visited to view the photos

Our Annual Exchange with Toyota City Photographic Society, Japan where both Societies send a show of members work has taken place.

Chesterfield will be showing this early in the New Season 2006/7.

Toyota have shown Chesterfield's and want to continue to continue these exchanges for years to come.

Hitoshi Yokokume also printed a number of our photographs and these were seen by more than 800 people.

This isn't really news but this meeting was a 'milestone' in the development of the Society.

In the Spring of 2002 we hosted an evening with Derbyshire County Council for photographers from Toyota City. We had a great evening and have kept in touch via email and the Web with one of the visitors, Mr Hitoshi Yokokume. Hitoshi has produced an impressive book of his holiday here and it is available to society members

We have also held five exchanges, originally on slide and now using digital AV tools.

	The Meeting in Chesterfield Library in April
	One of Hitoshi's pictures of the exhibition the photographers had of their trip to the UK.

It is with regret that we note the passing of two long-standing members, Cyril Price and Roy Thompson.

They had been members for many years and had contributed much to the Society.

Roy Was instrumental in running our popular 'Then & Now' Photographs at the Annual Exhibitiion, 2006's 'Then & Now' was a memorial to Roy.