Competition News
Location Challenge 3 – Woburn Village
The location was selected this time by John Curd – the winner of our last challenge in February. His chosen location was Woburn Village Centre. The brief added “Woburn Village is a [...]
Biennial Landscape Competition 2021-22
As usual there was a great variety of excellent images, from landscapes to cityscapes and seascapes (although the rules dictated that these must contain a large proportion of land). Our Judge for [...]
League Competition – Minimalism
The set subject was “Minimalism”. To this the Club Programme added – “Minimalist photography is a form of photography that is distinguished by extreme, austere simplicity. It emphasises spareness and focuses solely [...]
Location Challenge 1 – MK Open Market Exhibition
MK Open Market was originally chosen for our first ever location challenge by David Bolam. And the resulting images were critiqued by Alan Taberer, from ImageZ Camera Club, on 24 November [...]
Portfolio Competition 2021-22
Entries for this competition must consist of three to five pictures to be judged as a panel. For digital images this means combining the pictures (sized and positioned as required) into a [...]
Photographic Exhibition: MK Open Market Saturday 9 April
This was our first ever “location challenge” and the brief for the challenge was to photograph a set location during a specified period – any style, any processing, any time of day. [...]
Colour Challenge 2 – Analogous Colour Scheme
Using the RYB (Red, Yellow, Blue) colour wheel, first described by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666, we were asked to produce images featuring “analogous” colours. These are groups of three colours – [...]
League: Open 3 Competition
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, the entries displayed a great variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, seascapes, travel, natural history, portraits, motorbike racing, [...]
Rosebowl Competition 2022 – 3rd Round
For each match, each club submits 15 images. The images are marked out of 20 and, after all the images have been marked, points are allocated to each of the clubs according [...]
Location Challenge 2 – All Saints Church
The brief provided “Images can be taken anywhere within the confines of the churchyard, including the church building, both inside and out. Photographs may also be taken from outside the churchyard. Notably, [...]
Match-A-Slide Competition 2022
The rules for this event were that each club in turn puts up an image from their pool of 36 images and the other clubs try to match it as close [...]
League: Something Weird Competition Results
The set subject was “Something Weird”. This was further described in the Programme as follows – “For this competition, we are looking for something that’s unique, strange, crazy, out of the ordinary [...]
League: Open 2 Competition Results
This was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – landscapes, travel, close ups, motor racing, candid/street, animals, birds, insects, flowers, [...]
Location Challenge #1 – MK Market
The location, chosen by David Bolam, was Milton Keynes Outdoor Market. 51 images were submitted. And Alan Taberer of ImageZ Camera Club in Weston Turville, a CACC judge and a regular visitor to [...]
League: Intimate Landscape Competition Results
The set subject was “Intimate Landscape”. This was further described in the Programme as follows. “An intimate landscape is one in which you’re selecting and isolating one small part of a scene [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Colour Challenge #1
For the challenge, Carol and Tricia were looking for “images with mainly Complementary Colours – ie, opposite colours on the colour wheel; ie, Yellow and Purple, Red and Green, Blue and Orange.” [...]
League: Open 1 Competition Results
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – landscapes, travel, close ups, motor racing, candid/street, animals, birds, insects, [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Art and Artists Part Two
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscape, seascape, cityscape, candid/street, animals, flowers, colour, and monochrome, [...]
Guest Speakers
Barbie Lindsay – Barbie’s Pic & Mix
More of Barbie’s work can be seen at http://www.barbielindsay.co.uk which is packed with all manner of images. Barbie is a leading creative photographer. She describes herself as “a little unconventional” and [...]
Members Evening: David Manning Prints
The meeting was also recorded for those members who were unable to attend in person. We began our return with a print evening as our very own David Manning ARPS entertained [...]
John Curd – Tales of the Bee Bank
Through the various lockdowns of 2021, John “maintained a modicum of sanity” by learning about and photographing “solitary” bees and wasps at and around a natural sandbank in Rushmere. In the [...]
Colin Jarvis – Mono Moods
Colin runs single day and residential workshops around the UK, as well as providing one-to-one photography tuition and post-processing tuition, for photographers of all levels More of Colin’s images, and details of his workshops [...]
Robert Harvey – Small is Beautiful
More of Robert’s work can be found at http://www.naturalworldphotography.net He would be very pleased for members to Join his group Inspirational Outdoor Photography on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/InspirationalOutdoorPix where you can post your own recent images [...]
Lizzie Shepherd – Mood Versus Composition
More of Lizzie’s work can be found at http://www.lizzieshepherd.com She is also Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LizzieShepherdPhotography And she is on Instagram and Twitter. Lizzie is a member of the judging panel for the [...]
Other News & Announcements
Photographic Exhibition: MK Open Market Saturday 9 April
This was our first ever “location challenge” and the brief for the challenge was to photograph a set location during a specified period – any style, any processing, any time of day. [...]
Return to F2F meetings in 2022
At our committee meeting on 22nd November, we reached an agreement that we should Zoom until the end of February 2022. We also felt that after this date we would [...]
Chairman’s Welcome Back Message – Sep 2021
It's that time of year again when we start a new year at the club next Wednesday 08/09/2021. We’re starting our new season on 8th September as you know and it promises to [...]
Club Etiquette
Your Content Goes Here Face to Face meetings Look out for new members and guests; introduce yourself and help them feel comfortable. Chairman to Introduce any new members to the club and [...]
New Members Only Account
Dear Members, This year, you will need to create a new LBPC Members Account to access the Members Only area of the website. Note: Members who have already created an account while helping to [...]
Shooting Horses – Yeguada Inspirada Stud
The event was run by Elizabeth Jane Lazenby BA(Hons) Fine Art QTFE2 LRPS ASEA DPAGB BPE4 EFIAP LMPA, the professional equine and fine art photographer from Barnsley. Jane has previously “visited” [...]