Once a month, BDPS goes out to a venue to undertake a shoot on location, or in the winter months, tries various indoor photographic genres. The middle of August promised to be a great night for an outdoor shoot, and we decided to work with two models at Smithill’s Hall to see how we could […]

On location at Smithill’s Hall

Bolton Digital Photographic Society was successful in winning the Bronze Medal in an interclub competition hosted by Bolton Camera Club on 10th August.  Each club put up 10 mounted prints and ten digital images, on subjects as diverse as wildlife, scenery and futuristic fantasies. The judge was Jeremy Malley-Smith of Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union. […]

Bolton Digital rise to the challenge in multi-club competition

It was our regular meeting night (Wednesday) and it happened to be Midsummer Day.  What better excuse, with the light lasting as late as possible, to find a beautiful park and go out photographing many interesting viewpoints?  Queens Park in Bolton has plenty of scope. Of course, you need a little picnic to start the […]

Midsummer Picnic in the Park

We had a fantastic visit from Lancashire Hawks and Owls on 24th May.  The team came on a gorgeous evening with about a dozen wonderful birds of prey and our members had a great evening photographing them in the garden at our meeting venue. Here are a couple of examples of the birds and some […]

Birds of Prey come to BDPS

On Friday May 6th 2016, five club members had a day out to Liverpool.We ventured to travel by train which was a novelty in itself. The waterfront has been substaltially modernised in recent years but the design did not detract from the well known buildings such as the Liverbirds. We walked and photographed a long […]

Day out to Liverpool

What a brilliant end of the year meeting we had on Wednesday 16th December. Melvin presented a marvelous talk based on his stunning landscape photography. In terms of landscape the photographs on show had something for everyone. Mountains, hills, moorland, rivers, lakes and lochs. Trees, barns, cottages, towers. Bridges, roads, pathways and trails. Light houses, […]

Brilliant Evening with Melvin Nicholson