Up to three entries per member per round for each of the four competitions. Mono General, Monochrome Portrait (Vic Seaton Cup) Colour Print (Jubilee Cup), Digital Art (print)
Sue Barker takes us as we reach the Permian and Triassic periods when we will discover an age of desert sandstones and evaporites
Introduced by Mike Gibson and Mike Asquith. We often buy second hand microscopes that just don't live up to expectations, or our ageing instrument is just tired. In this session we will look at basic servicing and alignment of your microscope and how to get the best out of it.
A competition for members to submit natural history photos as per PAGB rules 2018. up to three projected images per member per round allowed
Steve Barratt from Liverpool University. The science fact and science fiction of black holes. Hoe are they formed, what are their properties and how can we observe them? what about tv and the movies? does Hollywood ever get it right?
A chance to see some of the best colour and mono images from the 2022 competitions run by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain.
Fixing samples in preparation for embedding & sectioning. In this series of three meetings Mike will cover the method behind the making of most microscope slides. This, the method behinf the making of most microscope slides. This, the first of three sessions, will deal with fixation - why is it necessary, and how is it done?
A themed competition for up to three digital and/or print images per member per round. entries in this round to illustrate 'wheels'
Sean Karley will continue his series of talks about The Plant Kingdom. He will try to cover all aspects of Botany
The round where the winners from the previous three rounds of our pictorial images competition vie for the trophy. with an invited judge.
Many different and sometimes surprising substances show differently and often very spectacularly under the microscope with polarisation. Tonight will be an opportunity to try out different techniques and samples for polarization effects under the compound microscope
Alan will gives us the benefit of his wide experience to show us how to take good still life images