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OPENING EVENT: 23 MAY

Next meeting will be Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 20:00

Come and join us at our next Viewfinders club meeting. It will be held at the Swedish church, 35 avenue des Gaulois, 1040 Brussels. The meeting will also be streamed live via Zoom, but only to paid-up members.

The meeting will be the last one of the 2024-25 season. We will have the Viewfinders AGM. The main events of the 2024-25 season will be briefly described and the club treasurer will present the financial report for the season and describe the evolution in the club’s membership. The Viewfinder’s committee for 2025-26 will then be elected.

As is traditionally the case in the last meeting of each season, we will have a “finger-food party” during the break.

A guest speaker, Georg Berrisch, will talk about his 18-month travel in South America, mostly Argentina and Chile. He will show some of his photos from Patagonia and the Altiplano.

Looking forward to seeing you at the club meeting.

Joaquim, Secretary

March-April 2025 #308.pdf

Recent News and Updates

New Be.Viewfinders Festival organized by the club coming soon. More here.

New album for Challenge "It's A Square World" published.

Photowalk in Ghent, Sunday 13 April.

Trip to Antwerp Photo Museum / Lee Miller exhibition on Sunday March 23rd .

New exhibition "Collective" happening at BCW, March 2025.

Photo walk to the Brussels "Bright" festival Feb 15th.

Graffiti Art Photo Walk at Marius Renard -Anderlecht on Sunday, 8 December.

The club celebrated its 30th Anniversary !!

Night Photowalk to European Quarter on Thursday, 21 November.

Compact Camera photowalk on Sunday 3 November.

Added a new page with photos from the RPS-Viewfinders Weekend Wonder Walk.

New photo albums from last season's Projects and Challenges have been added on the website.

Viewfinders and RPS-Benelux photo walks in Brussels, 18-20 May 2024.

New web page published with details of the recent Minimal exhibition. Go here.

Viewfinders featured on Bruzz TV. Link is further down in the Home page.

Our last meeting was....

May 2025

Alun had a presentation on the main characteristics of lenses used for photography which should guide your choice, the main ones being focal length, linked to the angle of view, and maximum aperture, linked to depth of field . His presentation was centred on his own choice of lenses for event photography, but he also mentioned how different genres of photography have different requirements and can therefore lead to different choices.

The second part of the meeting was dedicated to showing photos from some members of Viewfinders. Eight members showed their photos, ranging from a sample of her work presented by Paulina M., a recent Viewfinders member, to photos taken on a trip to Guatemala by Janet W., photos from Ethiopia by Beatrice S., and including also some photos closer to home, such as those of a German open cast coal mine near Aachen, by Héctor E., the royal greenhouses in Laeken by John S. or photos taken along the canal between Brussels and Haren by Adrian C. Dagmara J. showed photos taken during the recent Viewfinders photo walk in Ghent and Piotr W. closed this part of the meeting with a series of photos from a big rock festival in Poland, called Pol'and Rock.

Joaquim Capitao

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps, by the Beatles" © Marci Bayona

April 2025

We had a TTT on backup strategies, presented by Alun Foster.

The main event of the meeting was the second of this season's members’ challenges, on the theme of “Song titles”.

David Vannucci, was the guest judge for this challenge. David is a Belgian concert, festival and tour photographer based in Brussels and Lisbon, who was our guest speaker at the September 2024 Viewfinders meeting.

Unfortunately, David had to cancel at last minute so the dynamics of the voting were adapted for the evening. He was really looking forward to participate in this event, and an online video call was organized a week later to listen ti his comments on the photos that participated as well as presenting his winning choices for the challenge.

The overall winner selected by David was a photo inspired by a music by The Beatles, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.

The best projected image was a photo inspired by “Paris Texas”, by Ry Cooder.

The best print, selected by those present at the meeting, was inspired by “The Show Must Go On”, by Queen.

Finally, the “people’s choice” award went to a photo inspired by “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window”, by Patti Page.