Chichester Camera Club Exhibition

Knoll Gardens Foundation

We have had the following from the Foundation. We wonder if this would be worth the Club making a visit here. It is a wonderful place to take photos and have a walk. I cannot find the cost of entry. Peter


The sun has been shining, the garden looks stunning and there’s rather a lot of news from the Knoll Gardens Foundation including the announcement of our new artist in residence!

We have also welcomed new volunteers – including an administrator, a bumble bee surveyor and support for Education Volunteer Tracy Standish with our new Bugs and Buds toddler group – which is proving a huge success.

Our annual Garden Wildlife Survey is taking place on 8 August this year and we have a team of experts lined up to help visitors and volunteers identify as many species as possible on the day. Last year’s total was 61 – it would be wonderful to beat it!

I do hope you enjoy finding out what has been going on and will be able to join us in the garden at Knoll this summer. It would be wonderful if you could also take the time to forward the newsletter to anyone else you think may be interested in getting involved – or even print a few copies off and give them to friends and colleagues, or pop on a notice board.

You’ll find further updates and information online at www.knollgardensfoundation.org

Thank you for your interest and support.

Amanda Walker
Trustee
Knoll Gardens Foundation
01725 512200

Dear SCPF Member Clubs

Southampton Camera Club are delighted to be able to make you aware of the following special events, we would be delighted if you can join us and you are welcome to share our news with anyone you feel would like to come along.

An evening with Simon Stafford We are delighted to invite you to this special and just announced event ... Simon has had his work  published internationally in newspapers, books and magazines, and his photography and writing is featured regularly in the UK photographic press, including Practical Photography, Digital SLR Photography, Professional Photographer and Nikon Pro.  A life-long Nikon user Simon is also the Technical Editor of Nikon Owner magazine, and author of over twenty-five books on the Nikon camera system. Well regarded as a very knowledgeable and skilled photography tutor Simon presents a wide range of his own photography seminars and workshops, plus he is a highly experienced leader of landscape, travel, and wildlife photography tours in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia. More details: Visit our web page - £5 on the door...   An Introduction to Digital Editing Join us for a Saturday morning introduction to Digital editing... only £5, places are being reserved as you read this ... so click the link and find out more!

Volunteers sought to locate, investigate and record

Dear All, 

I am writing to let you know about our public art project. This project aims to locate, record and photograph public art, namely artwork made by an artist, arts practitioner or craftsperson and located in publicly accessible spaces and places in Wiltshire. Data collected as part of the project will be made available in the Local Studies Library at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre with images deposited in the Historic Photograph and Print Collection. The images will then be pinned to the Know Your Place site http://www.kypwest.org.uk to map their location geographically. More details can be found at this link: https://creativewiltshire.com/get-involved/ and on the attached flyer.

Creative Wiltshire are running a series of workshops across the county for those interested in getting involved in the project; to help prepare, organise and collate material. Volunteers are encouraged to register their interest to help support public art in the places that matter to them.

I’ve attached details of the first workshop to be held in Calne Library on Tuesday 11 July 2017 at 6pm to 7pm. This is followed by a workshop at Marlborough Library on Thursday 20 July 2017, 6-7pm. Other dates are in the process of being arranged in other locations across the county. Please email localstudies@wiltshire.gov.uk to find out more details on these events.

We’d very much appreciate it if you could forward this to your networks, club members or to anyone you think might be interested in helping us with this project. Please also feel free to include this information in any newsletters or distributions/circulations you might have.

Many thanks

Best Wishes

Meril Morgan

Arts Lead

Wiltshire Council Arts Service

Department of Communications and Communities

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Cocklebury Road

Chippenham

Wiltshire

SN15 3QN

Tel: 01249 705531

Mobile: 07793 802665

Email: arts@wiltshire.gov.uk

Web: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/arts-galleries 

Blog: http://theartsinwiltshire.wordpress.com

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Steam Car Rally at the Museum 20th June

There will be an unusual event at the museum on Tuesday 20 June, when a group of steam cars will be visiting. 
The Steam Car Club of Great Britain will be stopping off at the museum for a few hours, so this will be an amazing opportunity to see thirteen of these stunning vintage and veteran cars at close quarters.  
The cars will be arriving at 11.30am and leaving around 4pm, and parked on the forecourt of the museum for all to enjoy.

Ancient Landscapes Through the Lens: A guided photographic walk to Fyfield Down

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 11.00 to 13.00

Join David Walker and Peter Norton, as they lead a walk through this ancient landscape, and along the way, providing some invaluable advice on how best to photograph it.
For full details of the walk and where to meet, please follow this link:

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/events/ancient-landscapes-through-lens-guided-photographic-walk-fyfield-down

Meet at the car park off the A4, 1.5 miles from Marlborough on the Manton Estate.

Contact on the day David Walker 07840 326302

Kit List Please bring stout shoes, clothing suitable for all weathers, photographic equipment, and any drinks and snacks you may require. This walk is not suitable for those with walking difficulties.

Duration  An 4 mile circular walk taking in far ranging views, rock formations and a reconstructed Dolmen.

Details  After a 1.5 mile walk an extraordinary shallow valley opens up, littered with massive grey stones – 1,000’s of them. This is Fyfield Down and the stones are what are left of a massive sheet of rock that broke up during the last Ice Age. From a distance, the sarsens have often been mistaken for flocks of sheep, hence their name Grey Wethers (Old English term for sheep). This stone was used to build famous monuments like Avebury Stone circle and Stonehenge

Once the entire area used to be covered with sarsen stones and you apparently you could walk for 2 miles stepping from stone to stone, but now there are very few left. The last order of sarsen stones from this area was in 1938 and four cart loads where taken to repair Windsor Castle.

  

This is one of the country’s oldest National Nature Reserves, created in 1955. The site is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) because of the landforms it contains and the wildlife it supports. The whole site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and its historical importance was recognized when it was made part of Avebury World Heritage Site.

   

The structure was rescued from imminent collapse in 1921 by archaeologists. Restoration work was undertaken to shore up the dolmen by incorporating a concrete support to one side which was engraved with the year of its salvation - 1921.

After 3 miles the Devil’s Den dolmen stands alone in a field at Clatford Bottom. The word 'dolmen', is thought to be a derivative of ‘dillion’, meaning boundary mound.

The Devil's Den is a Neolithic burial chamber first recorded in 1723 by the antiquarian – William Stukeley, who's illustrations show a long barrow of considerable length with several large sarsen stones which have all but disappeared now. Today the structure comprises of just three massive sarsens arranged similar to that of a Welsh ‘Cromlech’.