Tue 18 Nov 2025 - Speaker 01 - Lloyd Moore "The Art of Storytelling - the Extra Element" (ZOOM)
The second speaker of this season will give his talk over ZOOM. (This is a change from the original arrangements.)
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 if you want to enter the Print Competition for the following week and haven't handed in your prints already, please bring them on the night of the...
Tue 11 Nov 2025 - Members Night 02 (Christchurch) - Roy Ward - working with Flash
With current camera sensors getting better evey year, we can often go without using a flash, either built in or attached to a camera. However there are certain situations where flash is very useful.
Roy will discuss such situations and set up a table top scene where he will use flash. He will show the effect of moving the position of the flash and how it affects the final image.
Please bring along your own cameras and flash guns as Roy will give you a task on the topic of flash to attempt.
Tue 4 Nov 2025 - Speaker 03: Tom Peck "Mobile Phone Photography" (Christchurch)
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 second 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 installed on their phone for them to enjoy the evening.
Tue 28 Oct 2025 - PDI Competition No 1 Theme "OPEN" : Judge - Ken Payne (Christchurch)
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 and the second two will be judged in the second part of the evening. ALL the entries will be judged as ONE competition and will be assigned at the end of the evening into a first, one or more seconds, one or more thirds place positions plus any being marked as "commended" or "highly commended".
Each round will be judged as a separate competition.
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Mon 27 Oct 2025 - 4-way battle at Stevenage Judge: Ben Pike
The 4-way battle is a competition between the Photographic Societies of Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Letchworth Garden City and H2. It is hosted in turn by each of the clubs and this year it is being hosted by Stevenage. Their club meets at the Community Centre (next to Hobbycraft) in the Roaring Meg retail park.
Please come and support the club for this event. It gives you a chance to see the work being done by other clubs and to meet other photographers.
Tue 21 Oct 2025 - PUB Evening at the Cowpers Arms in Digswell
A PUB Evening at the Cowpers Arms in Digswell. 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.
You can get there by public transport using the train service to Welwyn North.
Tue 14 Oct 2025 - Speaker 02 (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.
Any non-members can obtain a Zoom ticket priced £3.30 by visiting the URL
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/welwyn-garden-city-photographic-club/t-qm...
Tue 7 Oct 2025 - Print Competition No 01 - Open, Any subject - Judge: Ben Pike (Christchurch)
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
Mon 6 Oct 2025 - Ron Harvey Landscape 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 30 Sep 2025 - Members' Night 03 - Group Practical work. Making an AV (Christchurch)
Members' Night No 03 - a chance to do some group practical work - this time on making an AV (Audio Visual). Bring you collection of images along and any MP3 music files, from which you want to make an AV.
Bring in your prints for the following week's Print Competition.
Tue 23 Sep 2025 - Members Evening 01 - Meet the Club's informal Critique Group. (Christchurch)
Tonight the members of the club's informal critique group will tell us about the purpose of the group and how it aims to improve their own photography by "critiquing" while composing the shot in the viewfinder.
They will show groups of "Stock" photographs each with a particular theme. The aim is to look at these images and think about what the photographer was trying to achieve. By changing the composition, can you produce a better image and reduce, or eliminate, the need for post processing?
Hopefully this will make for a fun, interactive and informative evening.
Tue 16 Sep 2025 - Welcome Back Meeting - the Start of a New Season (Christchurch)
It's welcome back to the club again - or welcome to the club if you are a new member - we'll be delighted to meet you all. An informal evening to meet up again and chat about what you took over the summer. You'll also hear about the programme for the coming year and we'll present trophies for last season. A very informal evening before we start the hard work for the coming season.