Programme

The first of this season's speakers and it will be in person at Christchurch.

Lloyd Moore will give us a talk entitled "The Art of Storytelling - the Extra Element".  Hopefully this will give us tips on how to make our images have that wow factor and a warmth that will convey our reasons for taking the photograph.  Let's take these tips into our images for the coming year.

Remember to bring in your prints for the Print Competition the following week.

Our first Print Competition of the season.  This is an Open competition and there is no time limit as to when the image was taken.  Please bring your prints in to Christchurch on the previous week's meeting.

Judge: Ben Pike

A PUB Evening at the SUN in Lemsford.  This is a way to get to chat with members for a longer period of time than at a normal club meet-up.  It is also a good opportunity to get to know the committee and any new members this year.

This is the first PDI competition and there is no set theme. You can enter up to four PDI images of any subject which can have been taken at any time. The first two will be judged in the first part of the evening (Round 1) and the second two will be judged in the second part of the evening (Round 2). Each round will be judged as a separate competition.

Judge - Ken Payne

Members' Night No 02 - a chance for us to do practical work in a group.  All suggestions welcome.

Our second print competition of the year - Judge Lloyd Moore

This is an OPEN competition and there is no date restriction on when you took the image for the print.  Up to two colour images and up to two Mono images are allowed for this competition.  Full details will be given two weeks in advance.

Rachel Dunsden will be the guide for our Members evening for the "Masters of Prints" evening.  This will be a collection of prints from the PAGB competitions that were submitted by members of photographic competitions all over the country.  The prints received very high recommendations in the PAGB competitions.

We welome back on ZOOM, David Gilliver, who gave us a great presentation on macro photography with his "Little People" presentation last year.  This time David will be talking about his other photographic passion "Light Painting".

As it will be the dark season maybe we could follow that up with a Members' practical night on the subject.

Members Night No 04 - a chance to do group practical work.  All suggestions welcome.

If possible please bring your prints for the 3rd Print competition tonight as we do not  meet in person again until the date of the competition on the 10th February.

This is the third PDI competition and has two rounds.

Please submit up to two images on the theme of Red for round 1 and up to two images of an open nature for round 2. Images with a Red theme must have been taken after the 13th of May 2025 but there is no date restriction for open images.

Judge: Gary Langley.

And now for something different - Stan Farrow will talk to us about "Abstract Photography". What exactly is Abstract Photography?  

It discusses why photographers should consider doing abstract work, and how this might have a spin-off into their other day-to-day photographic work.  The presentation includes a discussion of what abstract art is, and whether there is truly such a thing as abstract photography. ...

Members Night  No 05.  A chance to do a practical topic in groups on a particular topic.

This is the fifth PDI competition and has two rounds.

Please submit up to two images on the theme of Minimalism for round 1 and up to two images of an open nature for round 2. Images with a Minimalism theme must have been taken after the 13th of May 2025 but there is no date restriction for open images.

This competition could take place at Christchurch or over Zoom.

Judge: TBC.

We welcome back Chris Upton to speak to us about "Essential Composition".  We can all buy cameras, press the shutter button and take images.  But will they be any good?  How can we tell a story with our images because they have good composition.  Can we teach photographic and artistic composition or are these gifts that we're either born with or not?  Chris will discuss all these tonight.

The ANNUAL PDI competition will take place tonight.

You can enter up to four PDI images of any subject which can have been taken at any time. The first two will be judged in the first part of the evening (Round 1) and the second two will be judged in the second part of the evening (Round 2). The winner will be the author who has the highest aggregate score for the four submitted images.

Bring in your PRINTS for the following week's Annual Print Competition.

Judge: David Steel

Peter Warne is a local speaker and has given a talk before to us about "African Wildlife - beyond Safari Tourism".  I missed this talk but everyone that was there thought it was the best wildlife talk they heard.  So hopefully I will be able to hear it tonight.  For those members who did hear Peter's talk the first time, he assures me that he has updated this talk quite a lot so there will be lots of new material there.

Bring in your Panel Prints for the following week's Panels of THREE and Panels of FIVE competition.

The AGM and announcement of the Trophy winners for the season. Please submit any topics you want discussed at the AGM a few weeks beforehand.