Competition News
Photographic Challenge – Self Portrait
Challenge 3 was again set by our esteemed Programme Secretaries and was to produce “A Self Portrait” with a difference. The brief added the dare “How weird can you make it?” The [...]
Mobile Phone Competition
This was an “open” competition (with no set subject) for digital images which must have been captured using a Mobile Phone. Members entered 35 images this year covering an extensive range of [...]
5th Competition 2024-25
This was an “open” competition (ie, with no set subject) for both prints and projected digital images. The images entered provided, as ever, an exciting and diverse exhibition encompassing many subjects, approaches, [...]
CACC Rosebowl Competition 2024-25
(Under the Rosebowl rules, all rounds of the competition are now run online.) The Rosebowl is the CACC’s premier inter-club competition. It is a Projected Digital Images competition and consists of [...]
Portfolio Competition
This is an open subject competition, in colour or monochrome. But the images must show some link – such as a common colour, subject or shape – identifiable by the judge. Entries [...]
4th Competition 2024-25 – Parallel Lines
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images, was “Parallel Lines”. The Programme notes added “Create or use parallel lines as the main compositional feature of your image. Your parallel [...]
“Design a Record Cover” Challenge
Challenge 2 was again set by our esteemed Programme Secretaries and was to “design a record cover”. The brief suggested that we had been approached by a band who needed a photograph [...]
3rd Competition 2024-25
This was an “open” competition (ie, with no set subject) for both prints and projected digital images. The images entered exhibited, as usual, an eclectic variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – [...]
“Cutlery” Challenge
The challenge was set by our esteemed Programme Secretaries and was “Cutlery”. Briefing notes in the Club Programme added: “For this challenge you can use anything that you would use to eat [...]
NW Federation Competition 2024-25
This is an inter-club competition between ten members of the Federation of NW London Photographic Societies. The group stage of the competition sees clubs compete in four groups. The winners of each group [...]
2nd Competition 2024-25 – Doors and/or Windows
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Doors and/or Windows”. The Programme notes added “MUST be an architectural feature of a building – NOT a vehicle or [...]
1st Competition 2024-25 – Open 1
This was an “open” competition (ie, with no set subject) for both prints and projected digital images. The entries displayed the usual diverse range of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, [...]
Landscape Competition
This is a biennial competition for the Landscape Cup, sponsored by Barbara Fleming ARPS DPAGB, to encourage club members to go out and do more landscape photography. The Landscape Cup alternates with [...]
Mobile Phone Competition
This was an “open” competition (with no set subject) for digital images which “MUST have been captured using a Mobile Phone”. Members entered 70 images this year covering a plethora of subjects [...]
6th Competition 2023-24 – Transport
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Transport”. The Programme notes added “we are looking for images where the main subject of the image is a form [...]
Two Hemispheres International Competition 2024
The Two Hemispheres is an annual bilateral photographic competition between LBPC in the UK and Camberwell Camera Club in Melbourne, Australia. Since the competition started in 2009, LBPC have previously won six times, [...]
5th Competition 2023-24 – Open 3
This was an “open” competition (with no set subject) for prints and projected digital images. As usual, the entries covered a wide variety of subjects, genres, and styles – including landscapes, wildlife [...]
Second Location Challenge
The location was “Ivinghoe Beacon” selected by Martin Wood – the winner of this season’s first challenge. The brief made it clear that Martin reckoned there were lots of photographic opportunities in [...]
Guest Speakers
M.E., Myself and Eye
His aim was to transport us once more away from “mainstream camera club activity” and explain his artistic approach to photography. The talk follows on from his “The Little Print Show” [...]
Still Life, Allegory, Vanitas and Memento Mori
The talk covered the history and the differences between still life and its variants in Art and Photography. Still life is the art of capturing images of inanimate objects, such as [...]
Manual & Auto Camera Settings
He has found that too many people are over reliant on “auto” settings and he wanted to show us how to access and change the key manual camera functions. Martin’s “qualifications” [...]
Photo Art
Stan is a creative digital art photographer with many years of photographic experience (he saved his pocket money to buy his first camera at the age of eight or nine). And after early retirement [...]
Smartphone Photography
“We all have an amazing camera in our pockets – we just need to learn how to use them properly!” So says Jeanette “Jet” Lendon, a professional photographer specialising in smartphone [...]
Seaside & City Lights, Camera, Fairground Action & Fireworks!
Starting photographically at the point of twilight and moving into darkness, this talk was a wander through low light, long exposure, and night photography. Based in Oxfordshire, Peter is an award-winning [...]
Other News & Announcements
Royal Photographic Society Success
We were delighted to learn that, just the previous day, another of our members had achieved a Royal Photographic Society (RPS) distinction. Last December Tricia Meers submitted a panel of ten [...]
Intimate Landscape Critique
Our guest reviewer was the winner of the 2023 competition – Stuart Fuertado LRPS from Princes Risborough Photographic Society. There is no single definition of “Intimate Landscape. For the purposes of [...]
Audio-Visual Presentations
On Wednesday 24 January, as one of this season’s members evenings, we enjoyed a selection of marvellous AVs produced by some of the AV enthusiasts among our members. AVs can be documentaries, travelogues, [...]
Royal Photographic Society Success
And four members showed the rest of us, and some guests from Imagez Camera Club (Weston Turville), how to achieve those distinctions. During 2023 Sally Kitchingman and Wendy Taylor achieved the [...]
NW Federation Competition 2023-24
This is an inter-club competition between the twelve members of the Federation of NW London Photographic Societies. The group stage of the competition sees clubs compete in four groups of three clubs. There [...]
“How Did You Do That?”
So, on Wednesday 8 November, we had an evening of “How Did You Do That?” sessions from some of our members. Graham Meers presented “The Stag Leighton Buzzard – Then and [...]