2024/25 ProgramME
Our meetings in the 2024/25 season will mainly be in-person meetings at St Mary's with some online Zoom talks.
We meet on Monday evenings at 19:30 for a 19:45 start.
Visitors are welcome at both in person and Zoom presentations from outside photographers. All we ask is a £5 contribution towards club funds, on the door if we are meeting in person. Or if you want to join a zoom meeting please book online using TicketSource
We meet on Monday evenings at 19:30 for a 19:45 start.
Visitors are welcome at both in person and Zoom presentations from outside photographers. All we ask is a £5 contribution towards club funds, on the door if we are meeting in person. Or if you want to join a zoom meeting please book online using TicketSource
Monday 2th September 2024 - ST MARY'S
SOCIAL: Welcome back to the club after the break.
A chance to show off what you’ve been doing over the summer, to prompt some informal chat. Not a competition!
SOCIAL: Welcome back to the club after the break.
A chance to show off what you’ve been doing over the summer, to prompt some informal chat. Not a competition!
Monday 9th September 2024 - ZOOM
TALK: Portraits
by Catherine Knee
TALK: Portraits
by Catherine Knee
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Exploring portrait photography in different styles, expanding our perception of what a portrait photograph is.
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Monday 16th September 2024 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI Round 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Faith Lee. Submit your images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI Round 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Faith Lee. Submit your images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 23th September 2024 - ST MARY's
TALK: Underwater photography
by Colleen Slater
TALK: Underwater photography
by Colleen Slater
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Colleen Slater is a creative, macro photography specialist with an interest in the smaller things in life, whether insects – beetles, spiders, butterflies, moths and ladybirds – or flowers, her evocative, atmospheric and intimate images draw attention to the ordinary, often unnoticed things in the everyday world. Her latest images reveal close up details found in the urban environment.
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Monday 30th September 2024 - ZOOM
TALK: Living and working as a professional photographer in Namibia
by Scott Hurd
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: Living and working as a professional photographer in Namibia
by Scott Hurd
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
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The content of Scott’s presentations is as diverse as the Namibian people, the wildlife and the land itself. He talks lovingly of a land that fast became his home. Camera technique in these very different, sometimes arduous and often extreme conditions is also covered and questions are encouraged throughout. This is an Africa that visitors can only guess at.
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Monday 7th October 2024 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Print competition 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Colin Miller
COMPETITION: Print competition 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Colin Miller
Monday 14th October 2024 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Urban and street monochrome
by Jerry Webb
TALK: Urban and street monochrome
by Jerry Webb
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Jerry Webb is a British photographer and designer.
As a PHOTOGRAPHER he is self-taught and often at odds with conventional perceptions, interpreting what he sees using his own individual methods and distinctive style. His photographs include people, portrait, event, street and project photography and he has been published many times. He has had exhibitions in London and Sussex where he now lives and works. Although he works largely in monochrome Jerry is an accomplished colour photographer and processor. His work is a combination of self-initiated projects and commissioned photographs. |
Monday 21st October 2024 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI Competition 2
The theme is open and the judge is Audrey Marshall
COMPETITION: PDI Competition 2
The theme is open and the judge is Audrey Marshall
Monday 28th October 2024 - ZOOM
TALK by Viveca Koh - Collection of Moments
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK by Viveca Koh - Collection of Moments
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
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I am a self-taught Fine Art photographer, with a special fascination for small details, for lost, abandoned, poignant and generally broken objects, and also for darkness contrasting with light, both in a physical and emotional sense.
Many of my illustrative images simply evolve as I am working on them - I start off with a quite straightforward idea of what I want to achieve but am always willing to venture wherever the photograph wants me to go, as I overlay multiple images together or add textures, scanned documents as new layers, and subtle shading. Two photographs may blend together in a way that I could not have previously imagined, and this is one of the things that I find so exciting and all-consuming when I work, to produce a final image that perhaps a little bit different, that invokes emotion in the viewer and makes them question their sense of the world as they know it. |
Monday 4th November 2024 - No meeting, due to no room avalibility
Monday 11th November 2024 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Landscape Photography
by Slawek Staszczuk
TALK: Landscape Photography
by Slawek Staszczuk
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In my personal work I have but one goal. And that is to find and capture beauty in the world around me. Beauty is often transient and only happens for a few minutes. Or seconds, or a fraction of a second…
So my job is to be on the lookout for those moments. To be ready and to make the best of them. It is obviously a very subjective process. Since beauty is “in the eye of the beholder”. Besides, you could argue that everything on earth has already been seen. And it has probably been photographed as well. But not in every way… That’s where we can make a difference. However small. |
Monday 18th November 2024 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Natural history - PDI and Print
Our annual Natural History competition judged by Bob Webzell with both Prints and PDI's. Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
www.webzell.co.uk/
COMPETITION: Natural history - PDI and Print
Our annual Natural History competition judged by Bob Webzell with both Prints and PDI's. Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
www.webzell.co.uk/
Monday 25th November 2024 - ZOOM
TALK: Seascape/ waterscape
by Jonathan Genevaux
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: Seascape/ waterscape
by Jonathan Genevaux
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
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I was fortunate enough to grow up on the west coast of France, in a rural region wedged between the sandy waters of the Gironde estuary and the wild Atlantic Ocean. From an early age, I spent my time immersed in water, from days spent surfing learning the intimate secrets of the ocean’s waves, to time spent discovering the rich flora and fauna of the wetlands where my grandparents tended their oyster pools.
I started to notice that wherever I went, and whatever type of photography I explored, something kept drawing me back to that one element: water. I felt most inspired on days spent on sand dunes and clifftops capturing wave breaks between intense sea sprays, or wading into icy lochs to capture a dusk light setting between storm clouds. It is exhilarating how much a body of water will change a landscape, from year to year or even hour by hour. It thrills me that I can take two completely different shots in almost the same moment; one which captures fine movements as water pushes its way between rock formations, and another where the textures are frozen and the softened light becomes the focus. |
Monday 2nd December 2024 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Print 2 theme is Mono
Judge Gary Carter
COMPETITION: Print 2 theme is Mono
Judge Gary Carter
Monday 9th December 2024 - ST MARY'S
MEMBERS' EVENING: It's a Knockout
MEMBERS' EVENING: It's a Knockout
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Our annual It's a Knockout competition for a bit of fun. Submit your engaging or amusing images via PhotoEntry.
And there should be time for a bit of socialising at the bar and mince pies too. |
A social post-Christmas dinner the menu is here
Monday 13th January 2025 - Zoom
TALK: More than a bird on a stick talk
by Bob Webzell
www.webzell.co.uk/
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: More than a bird on a stick talk
by Bob Webzell
www.webzell.co.uk/
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
Monday 20th January 2025 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Print 3
The theme is Open, Judge Tim Clarke
COMPETITION: Print 3
The theme is Open, Judge Tim Clarke
Monday 27th January 2025 - Zoom
TALK: What Judges look for
by Cat Humphries
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: What Judges look for
by Cat Humphries
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
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I’m a freelance theatre, events and portrait photographer based near Watford, covering Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North London. I work with theatre and dance groups to photograph their performances and capture candid images of events for groups and organisations.
I’m also a trained camera club judge who does talks for photographic societies across the country and runs photography workshops. |
Monday 3rd February 2025 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI 3
The theme is mobile phone images - Judged by members
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI 3
The theme is mobile phone images - Judged by members
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 10th February 2025 - ST MARY'S
Members Lecturettes
Members Lecturettes
Monday 17th February 2025 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI 4
The theme is Open, and the judge is Cherry Larcombe.
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI 4
The theme is Open, and the judge is Cherry Larcombe.
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 24th February 2025 - ZOOM
TALK: A presentation of my artwork
by Steven Le Prevost
TALK: A presentation of my artwork
by Steven Le Prevost
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Copyright Steven Le Prevost https://www.stevenleprevost.com/copy-of-biography |
Monday 3rd March 2025 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Prints 4
Theme is open, and the judge is Faith Lee.
COMPETITION: Prints 4
Theme is open, and the judge is Faith Lee.
Monday 10th March 2025 - ST MARY'S
Talk: Light Painting workshop
by Robert Snary
www.facebook.com/robert.snary
Talk: Light Painting workshop
by Robert Snary
www.facebook.com/robert.snary
Monday 17th March 2025 - ST MARY'S
IMAGE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
The best of the PDIs and prints of the year all in one evening. Members can submit up to four images each, with any mix of PDIs and prints. The judge is David Eastley
IMAGE OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
The best of the PDIs and prints of the year all in one evening. Members can submit up to four images each, with any mix of PDIs and prints. The judge is David Eastley
Monday 24th March 2025 - ST MARY'S
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Prizes, Social
Including discussion of activities over the coming year, and presentation of the winners of the PDI and print league competitions.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Prizes, Social
Including discussion of activities over the coming year, and presentation of the winners of the PDI and print league competitions.
