News 2021-2022

Courier Report 8th April 2022
Posted on Fri 8 Apr 2022
This week’s meeting of the Isle of Man Photographic Society was a nature competition held in the memory of Richard Shafto a long time member of the society. The competition also served  as a debut for the judge Dave Salter who is the Vice President of the Western Photographic...
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Courier Report 25th March 2022
Posted on Fri 25 Mar 2022
At this time of the year, photographers often have to battle against the elements in order to pursue their hobby. The Isle of Man Society, in common with many others, has faced a different challenge recently with the Covid-19 Pandemic, severely restricting its...
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Courier Report 18th March 2022
Posted on Fri 18 Mar 2022

For the March ‘Open’ competition, our President, Tony Curtis, was the judge in what was a Covid-enforced departure from the normal practice of having an external person to judge competitions. Tony is an experienced photographer but one who has not entered the Society’s competitions for a...

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Courier Report 11th March 2022
Posted on Fri 11 Mar 2022
This week’s meeting of the Isle of Man Photography Society was a presentation from club member Andrew Cairns following his visit to Japan. Andrew has been waiting patiently for Covid restrictions to end so he could share his presentation with fellow society members. Andrew's 3 week...
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Courier Report 4th March 2022
Posted on Fri 4 Mar 2022

A recording of a Zoom competition in which the IOM Photographic Society participated was the subject of this week’s meeting of the Society – and a highly unusual format provided one of the main interests.  With the Covid pandemic having caused chaos for the holding of regular photographic...

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Courier Report 25th February 2022
Posted on Fri 25 Feb 2022

The Isle of Man Photographic Society enjoyed an excellent evening hearing all about the inside story of professional photography from local well-known commercial, wedding, portrait and press photographer Andrew Barton.

Andrew ...

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Courier Report 18th February 2022
Posted on Fri 18 Feb 2022
It was a Competition night at this week’s meeting of the Isle of Man Photographic Society where the topic of the competition was ‘Environment’ attracting the best attendance for 2022.

The judge for the evening was John Keelan who delivered some excellent...

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Courier Report 11th February 2022
Posted on Fri 11 Feb 2022
The meeting of the Isle of Man Photographic Society this week was a practical workshop with a model and full studio lighting set up. The theme for the evening was “Mining” and thanks to IOMPS President Tony Curtis and his fellow Miner James Aitchison for giving their time for what turned...
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Courier Report 4th February 2022
Posted on Fri 4 Feb 2022

At the start of each new year, Society members look forward to the presentation by their President, wondering what delights he (or she) has planned to entertain us.

This year’s President, Tony Curtis, projected what he described as “a series of random...

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Courier Report 28th January 2022
Posted on Fri 28 Jan 2022

With the current covid situation continuing to cause some concerns for the holding of the normal weekly indoor meetings, the IOM Photographic Society committee took the decision to switch to an outdoor session for the society’s meeting this week.

Noel Coward may well have alleged...
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Courier Report 17th December 2021
Posted on Fri 17 Dec 2021
The latest meeting of the Isle of Man Photographic Society was an intriguing affair as we pitched our skill and abilities against two clubs from the adjacent Islands. Representing Northern Ireland were the Catchlight Camera Club whose pedigree includes Irish Champions 2018/19 Northern...
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Courier Report 10th December 2021
Posted on Fri 10 Dec 2021

The meeting of the IOM Photographic Society this week was the occasion for the judging of the Second Open Competition, for both prints and digitally projected images.  Given the current covid situation, it was perhaps not surprising that our audience was rather smaller than normal....

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Courier Report 3rd December 2021
Posted on Fri 3 Dec 2021

David Kneale, Chief Photographer with Isle of Man Newspapers, was the guest speaker for the Society’s last November evening. Interestingly, though he has judged for, and given presentations to, the Society about his many jaw-dropping experiences as a professional photographer in the...

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Courier Report 26th November 2021
Posted on Fri 26 Nov 2021

This week the Isle of Man Photographic Society meeting was the first assignment of the season, entitled 'Three of a Kind'. We were delighted to be able to have this as it had to be postponed from last year's lockdown, and members had already submitted images.

Ray Davies...

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Courier Report 19th November 2021
Posted on Fri 19 Nov 2021

The meeting format of the Isle of Man Photographic Society this week was a presentation by one of the IOMPS members Chris Blyth, entitled “Travels Around America.”

An introduction to the early history of the USA, including the treatment of the indigenous tribes and the...

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Courier Report for the 12th November
Posted on Fri 12 Nov 2021
The meeting of the IOMPS this week was a presentation from the esteemed broadcaster and film maker Charles Guard. However, before the evening got underway President Tony Curtis took the opportunity to confirm the results from the recent 3 Way Battle, a competition held annually between...
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Three Way Digital Battle 2021
Posted on Thu 11 Nov 2021

The only time in the year when all three island photographic clubs meet in competition is for the Three Way Digital Battle, the event overseen in rotation between the clubs on an annual basis. This year it was the turn of the IOM Photographic Society to...

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Courier Report 5th November 2021
Posted on Tue 9 Nov 2021

The “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” provided us with a very windy evening and heavy rain for this week’s meeting of the IOM Photographic Society – so perhaps not surprisingly it was a rather smaller group of members than usual in attendance for the 1st Open Competition of the new...

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Courier Report 291021
Posted on Mon 8 Nov 2021

Please, could you please arrange greater opportunities for us to improve our photography by holding more practical evenings?” is a plea often heard from members of the Society. It was extremely gratifying, therefore, to witness such a supportive turnout last Wednesday. The hard-...

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Courier Report 221021
Posted on Mon 8 Nov 2021

On Wednesday 13th October at the Isle of Man Photographic Society, we had a wonderful presentation by Dr Patricia Tutt. She is a well-known architect, and also a keen and experienced photographer.

Her topic was Composition. Her talk was lavishly illustrated with photos, she showed us...

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Courier Report 151021
Posted on Fri 22 Oct 2021

The meeting format of the Isle of Man Photographic Society this week was tutorials, however before the tutorials commenced, Tony Curtis Chairman of the IOMPS announced that His Excellency Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant General Sir John Lorimer, KCB, DSO, MBE had graciously...

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Courier Report 081021
Posted on Fri 8 Oct 2021
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The first meeting of the new season of the IOMPS took place this week with a warm welcome and introduction to new members. Newly elected...

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IOMPS Courier Report for 24th September
Posted on Sun 3 Oct 2021

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The nights are drawing in and this tells us that we are almost in the Season of Autumn, with Winter just around the corner! So, what better way to spend those cold, wet and windy Wednesday evenings between now and next April than among photographic (...

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IOMPS Courier Report for 1st October
Posted on Sun 3 Oct 2021
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One of the events organised this summer for members of the IOM Photographic Society was an evening practical workshop...

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