Image of Thames wins award

A Northfields photographer has won a top prize for her striking picture of the Thames - taken from the Shard.

The image ' Sweet Thames Flows Softly' (pictured right) by Maggi Marmion from Northfields Camera Club, was described by the judges as ' a super view, gorgeous, extremely well observed.''

Maggi beat off comptetion from 71 other photos (12 of them from top clubs in North West London) and won the Park Street Interclub Competition Landscape Cup.

She says she took the photo last winter using a wide angle fisheye lens and worked on the image in Photoshop (using HDR technique).

Northfields Camera Club meets on Tuesdays from 8pm - 10pm except the second Tuesday of the month and all of August.

Coming up in the next 3 months
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18 February     Night Shoot with the club members
25 February    Guest Speaker - Steve Brabner who will be giving a presentation titled "Taking Images and making Images"

4 March       Club Competition - (Digital Image) set subject -Table Tops - To be judged by Dave Hipperson
18 March      Photoshop Workshop
25 March      Guest Speaker Stephen Cotterell - Stephen is a very successful photographer and will be giving a presentation on his work

1 April     Club Competition - (Print)  Set Subject - Humour - To be judged by Terry Coffrey
15 April    Guest speaker Viveca Koh who will give a presentation on "iPhoneography to Photo Illustrations"
22 April    Club Night - A Picture I wish I had Taken
29 April    Neat Trick with Flash guns Part 3  - hands on workshop with or member Paul James

See full 2014 diary on website

14th February 2014