Tue 16 Sep 2025 - Welcome Back Meeting - the Start of a New Season
Tue 23 Sep 2025 - Members Evening 01 - Group Practical work
The first of our Members Evenings, where we are expected to do some group practical work. The topic for this is TBC but it might be a Critique Evening.
Tue 30 Sep 2025 - (CC) Speaker 01 - Lloyd Moore "The Art of Storytelling - the Extra Element"
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 about what we are trying to tell our viewers. 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.
Mon 6 Oct 2025 - Ron Harvey Landsape Competition at Potters Bar against several other clubs
The Ron Harvey Landscape competition is an external competition in which we have participated for several years. It is one where we pit our talent against several other clubs.
Further details will be announced nearer the time.
Judge: Naomi Saul.
Tue 7 Oct 2025 - (CC) Print Competition No 01 - Open, Any subject - Judge: Ben Pike
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
Tue 14 Oct 2025 - Speaker (ZOOM): Emma Finch "Portraits with Impact"
Our first ZOOM speaker of the year will be Emma Finch from Manchester, where she is a top portrait photographer. Emma has also given talks to Zoom-only clubs like Camversation and MyPhotoClub. An enticing night for all those interested in photographing people.
Tue 21 Oct 2025 - PUB Evening at the Sun in Lemsford
A PUB Evening at the SUN in Lemsford. This is a way to get to chat with members for a longer period of time that at a normal club meet-up. It is also ma good opportuntiy to get to know the committee and any new members this year.
Tue 28 Oct 2025 - PDI Competition No 1 (Christchurch) Theme "TBC" : Judge Ken Payne
Our first PDI Competition with a theme. Full details will be given nearer the time.
Tue 4 Nov 2025 - Speaker (Christchurch): Tom Peck "Mobile Phone Photography"
As the camera on mobile phones improve dramatically we are starting to get stunning full definition images from them. Tom Peck will be here to discuss mobile phone cameras and software in the first part of the talk and lead us through an interactive session in the seconf half of the evening. This should be a fun interactive session for all to enjoy. I will inform members before the talk of any software that need to be on their phone for them to enjoy the evening.
Tue 11 Nov 2025 - Members Night 02
Members' Night No 02 - a chance for us to do practical work in a group. All suggestions welcome.
Tue 18 Nov 2025 - Members' Night 03 - Group Practical work.
Members' Night No 03 - a chance to do some group practical work on a particular topic. All ideas greatly welcome.
Bring in your prints for the following week's Print Competition.
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Print Competition No 2 - Judge - Lloyd Moore
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.
Tue 2 Dec 2025 - Speaker (ZOOM): Geoff Drake "Photographing a City - Liverpool"
Liverpool is a great place for a photographer. The riverfront with its new architecture and newly redesigned docks; the Baltic triangle with its many old places of work and loads of graffiti; the two cathedrals dominating the student area; the classical buildings around the main station at Lime Street; and the musical heritage of Billy Fury, the Beatles, Cilla Black and many others - all make this a photographer's paradise. And who better to tell us about it than geoff Drake, the author of the FotoVue book "Liverpool", an invaluable guide if you are visiting the city. ...
Tue 9 Dec 2025 - Members' Night: Master of Prints evening
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.
Tue 6 Jan 2026 - Speaker(Zoom): David Gilliver "Light Painting"
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.
Tue 13 Jan 2026 - PDI Competition (ZOOM) : Theme "TBC" - Judge - Rebecca Entwistle
Our second PDI Competition with a theme, this time on Zoom. The judge will be Rebecca Entwistle from Manchester.
Tue 20 Jan 2026 - Members' Night Number 04
Members Night No 04 - a chance to do group practical work. All suggestions welcome.
Tue 27 Jan 2026 - Speaker (Zoom): Shona Perkins "Blurred perceptions - ICM in Scotland"
Tonight we welcome on Zoom a new speaker for us and also a new topic for us. Shona Perkins from Scotland will show us how she uses ICM - Intentional Camera Movement - to obtain impressionist like image of beaches and landscapes up on the isles of the Outer Hebrides. Shona also works with a (painter) artist in exploring and exhibiting the landscapes there.
Tue 3 Feb 2026 - PDI Competition No 3 (ZOOM) with a theme : Judge Garry Langley
Our THIRD PDI Competition of the year will have a theme and will be on Zoom. Judge : Gary Langley.
Bring in your Prints for teh following week's PRINT Competition.
Tue 10 Feb 2026 - Print Competition 03 Judge Naomi Saul
Our third print competition of the year - Judge Naomi Saul
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.
Tue 17 Feb 2026 - Speaker (ZOOM): Stan farrow "Abstract Photography"
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. ...
Tue 24 Feb 2026 - PDI Competition No 4 with a theme - Location TBC
Our FOURTH PDI Competition with a theme. Judge: TBC
Tue 3 Mar 2026 - Members Night No 05
Members Night No 05. A chance to do a practical topic in groups on a particular topic.
Tue 10 Mar 2026 - Pub Evening at the SUN, Lemsford.
Pub evening at the SUN in Lemsford. This gives you a longer time to chat with other members and get to know them better. You cna also bring down any equipment you want, like cameras, to find out better how they work. But a great social evening.
Tue 17 Mar 2026 - PDI Competition No 5 with a theme (TBC) : Location TBC : Judge TBC
Our FIFTH PDI Competition with a theme. Location: Christchurch or Zoom. Judge TBC
Tue 24 Mar 2026 - Members Practical Night No 06
Members Night No 06. A chance to work in groups on a practical project. All suggestions welcome.
Tue 31 Mar 2026 - Speaker (ZOOM): Chris Upton "Essential Composition"
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.
Tue 7 Apr 2026 - MULTIBATTLE competition at Bishops Stortford - NO CLUB TONIGHT
This is a an external competition with several other photographic clubs but there will be an added incentive for us this year. It is that we won the competition in 2025 and we therefore have to defend the trophy - an our pride.
Note - there will be no official Club Night tonight as it is the first week after Easter Sunday.
Tue 14 Apr 2026 - Annual PDI Competition (Christchurch) - Judge : David Steel
Our ANNUAL PDI competition will take place tonight and be judged by David Steel.
Bring in your PRINTS for the following week's Annual Print Competition.
Tue 21 Apr 2026 - Annual Print Competition Judge : Martin Patten
Our ANNUAL PRINT competition - Judge Martin patten
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.
There will be a trophy for the first place in the Colour Print section and another trophy for the first place in the MONO section.
Tue 28 Apr 2026 - Speaker (Christchurch): Peter Warne "African Wildlife - beyond Safari Tourism"
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 ebst 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.
Tue 5 May 2026 - Print Competition - Panels of Three and Panels of Five - Judge Dave Hipperson
This is a prints competition. The first half will be made up of panels of three prints, the second half with panels of five. They should all tell a story or set a theme in their collection. Full details will be sent out nearer the time.
Tue 12 May 2026 - AGM and Trophy Winner announcement over Zoom
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.
Tue 19 May 2026 - PDI Knockout Competition - we are the judges
Our Annual FUN PDI Knockout Competition. We can submit up to two images per person and these are drawn again each other in pairs. We vote on the better one, which goes through to the next round. We continue this till we reach a final two images. The winner of this final round wins the competition - for which there is a prize.