2025/26 ProgramME
Our meetings in the 2025/26 season will mainly be in-person meetings at St Mary's and a few upstairs in the Harvey Tavern 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 1st September 2025 - 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 8th September 2025 - Upstairs Harvey Tavern
COMPETITION: PDI Round 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Colin Miller. Submit your images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI Round 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is Colin Miller. Submit your images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 15th September 2025 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Simply Still Life
By Cherry Larcombe
TALK: Simply Still Life
By Cherry Larcombe
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Simple and minimalistic Still Life using charity shop vases, bottles and natural light, flowers and plants, both dead and fresh. Created in camera and enhanced in PS, sometimes with added texture, and backgrounds created with brushes to create shapes.
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Monday 22th September 2025 - ST MARY's
COMPETITION: Print 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is members judging
COMPETITION: Print 1
The theme is Open, and the judge is members judging
Monday 29th September 2025 - ST MARY's
Lecturetts
by Members
Lecturetts
by Members
Monday 6th October 2025 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI Round 2
The theme is Open, and the judge is Alan Lomakin
https://www.mallingphoto.co.uk/photo_16951175.html
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI Round 2
The theme is Open, and the judge is Alan Lomakin
https://www.mallingphoto.co.uk/photo_16951175.html
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 13th October 2025 - Upstairs Harvey Tavern
TALK/ WORKSHOP:
by Steve Boyle - Shoreham Steve
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shoreham_steve/
TALK/ WORKSHOP:
by Steve Boyle - Shoreham Steve
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shoreham_steve/
Monday 20th October 2025 - ST MARY'S
TALK / Workshop: Lightroom & Photoshop workshop
By Nigel French
https://www.nigelfrench.com/
TALK / Workshop: Lightroom & Photoshop workshop
By Nigel French
https://www.nigelfrench.com/
Monday 27th October 2025 - ZOOM
TALK: All the gear and no idea
by Roger Hance
https://rogerhancefrps.com/
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: All the gear and no idea
by Roger Hance
https://rogerhancefrps.com/
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
We all know people in camera clubs that have all the latest camera equipment, but they never seem able to ‘consistently’ take winning images. Yet other people in the club seem to regularly produce images that score highly. Why is this?
There are numerous reasons, and in this talk I try to explain some them and how you can avoid the pitfalls so many photographers fall into.
I show some of my best images, across a range of subjects and I explain how and where I have taken them. As in a lot of my talks, I also show the `original raw file` and then ‘finished image’ and explain how an image can be improved significantly with careful processing.
There are numerous reasons, and in this talk I try to explain some them and how you can avoid the pitfalls so many photographers fall into.
I show some of my best images, across a range of subjects and I explain how and where I have taken them. As in a lot of my talks, I also show the `original raw file` and then ‘finished image’ and explain how an image can be improved significantly with careful processing.
Monday 3rd November 2025 - ST Mary's
TALK: Wildlife Photography
By Paul Silhhiam
http://www.photosnapshot.co.uk/page/wildlifepresentation.html
TALK: Wildlife Photography
By Paul Silhhiam
http://www.photosnapshot.co.uk/page/wildlifepresentation.html
I would describe myself as a "Non Professional" photographer, that is to say I do not earn a living from taking photographs. That does not mean I cannot take a quality photograph!
The benefit for me is that I have complete photographic license, every photograph I take is of my own choosing for my own reasons and on any subject that takes my fancy. I am very fortunate nobody else calls the shots apart from myself.
The benefit for me is that I have complete photographic license, every photograph I take is of my own choosing for my own reasons and on any subject that takes my fancy. I am very fortunate nobody else calls the shots apart from myself.
Monday 10th November 2025 - 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 17th November 2025 - ST MARY'S
Workshop: Lightroom Photoshop Topaz etc.
by members
Workshop: Lightroom Photoshop Topaz etc.
by members
Monday 24th November 2025 - ST MARY's
COMPETITION: PDI Round 3
The theme is Open, and the judge is Gary Carter
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI Round 3
The theme is Open, and the judge is Gary Carter
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 1st December 2025 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Landscape and getting accreditation
By Nick Hodgson
TALK: Landscape and getting accreditation
By Nick Hodgson
Monday 8th December 2025 - ZOOM
TALK: Iceland in winter
By Colin Westgate
https://www.questphoto.co.uk/about-quest
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
TALK: Iceland in winter
By Colin Westgate
https://www.questphoto.co.uk/about-quest
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
Monday 15th December 2025 - ST MARY's
It's a knockout competition
It's a knockout competition
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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. |
Tuesday 6th January 2026 - at the Juggs Kingston https://www.thejuggs.co.uk/
ANNUAL DINNER
ANNUAL DINNER
A social post-Christmas dinner
Monday 12th January 2026 - probably upstairs Harvey Tavern
COMPETITION: PDI Round 4
The theme is Open (photos older than 5 years permitted), and the judge is Nick Ryan
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI Round 4
The theme is Open (photos older than 5 years permitted), and the judge is Nick Ryan
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 19th January 2026 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Landscape macro and travel
by Lloyd Laingley
TALK: Landscape macro and travel
by Lloyd Laingley
Monday 26th January 2026 - ST MARY's
COMPETITION: Print 2
The theme is Open (photographs older than 5 years permitted), Judge Faith Lee
COMPETITION: Print 2
The theme is Open (photographs older than 5 years permitted), Judge Faith Lee
Monday 2nd February 2026 - ZOOM
TALK: Living and Working as a Professional Photographer in Namibia – Thinking Photography
By Scott Hurd
https://www.h4urd.co.uk/
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 – Thinking Photography
By Scott Hurd
https://www.h4urd.co.uk/
If you not a member and want to attend you can buy a ticket via Ticketsource
Scott moved from the UK at the very start of the digital photography revolution. Finding himself as one of only three professional photographers in Namibia he was in high demand for a wide range of assignments. Embracing and teaching the new technology, in what was often an alien and frequently harsh environment, was a steep learning curve. Many of his courses were filling up three times over as Namibians were hungry to learn . The pressure was on. In the first half he explores the changes to photography, dispelling some of the myths that continue to shackle photographers.
He then examines some of his more demanding assignments, demonstrating how he approaches any photographic situation, ordinary or extreme, and how he sets the camera accordingly – he doesn’t give settings, situations and other photographers’ gear is always different - instead he explains the thinking behind the shot.
In the second half he journeys right across Africa, following the diamonds along the Orange River and then north, into the old diamond mining areas, way out into our Forbidden Zone.
Scott still recognises the truths that have been with us since the early days of film, yet casts off restrictions, pushing the camera to its limits, to walk away with THE shot. The talk, as usual is packed with tips and stories from Namibia, his home, and, arguably, the most photogenic country on the planet.
He then examines some of his more demanding assignments, demonstrating how he approaches any photographic situation, ordinary or extreme, and how he sets the camera accordingly – he doesn’t give settings, situations and other photographers’ gear is always different - instead he explains the thinking behind the shot.
In the second half he journeys right across Africa, following the diamonds along the Orange River and then north, into the old diamond mining areas, way out into our Forbidden Zone.
Scott still recognises the truths that have been with us since the early days of film, yet casts off restrictions, pushing the camera to its limits, to walk away with THE shot. The talk, as usual is packed with tips and stories from Namibia, his home, and, arguably, the most photogenic country on the planet.
Monday 9th February 2026 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Topic to be decided
By Ken Scott
https://touchingthelight.co.uk/
TALK: Topic to be decided
By Ken Scott
https://touchingthelight.co.uk/
Monday 16th February 2026 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: PDI 5 and Print 3
The theme is Monochrome, and the judge is Cherry Larcombe.
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
COMPETITION: PDI 5 and Print 3
The theme is Monochrome, and the judge is Cherry Larcombe.
Submit your PDI images in advance via PhotoEntry.
Monday 23th February 2025 - ZOOM
Inter Club Battle with Uckfield Camera Club - Judge is Caroline Preece
We will put up 30 images from each club with a maximum of 3 per person
Inter Club Battle with Uckfield Camera Club - Judge is Caroline Preece
We will put up 30 images from each club with a maximum of 3 per person
Monday 2nd March 2026 - ST MARY'S
COMPETITION: Prints 4
Theme is open, and the judge is Eddie Lord
COMPETITION: Prints 4
Theme is open, and the judge is Eddie Lord
Monday 9th March 2026 - ST MARY'S
TALK: Astro Landscapes
by Giles Smith
https://www.gilessmithphotographic.co.uk/nightscapes
TALK: Astro Landscapes
by Giles Smith
https://www.gilessmithphotographic.co.uk/nightscapes
Monday 16th March 2026 - 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 Darren Pullmen
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 Darren Pullmen
Monday 23th March 2026 - 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.
