Competition News
Howard Morris Trophy
This is our biennial competition for monochrome prints originally instigated and sponsored by Howard Morris, one of our now late members whose great love was black and white prints. He also donated the trophy. [...]
Creative Vision Award
Sponsored by past-Chairman Mike Kitchingman ARPS, who has also provided the trophy, this internal competition will be an annual event. Announcing this new competition earlier in the season, Mike said "As you [...]
6th Competition 2024-25 – Tools of the Trade
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images, was “Tools of the Trade”. The Programme notes added “Implements, utensils or instruments used in the pursuit of a hobby or trade. [...]
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 [...]
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
Taylor & Rockell Double Header
Wendy started with her “My Life with a Camera”. This was not, she promised, “the whole 70 years”! But there was a picture of her at just two years old with [...]
Practical Evening – Wire Wool Workshop
And fortuitously, despite rain earlier in the day, the weather in the evening was dry and calm (if a tad chilly) – ideal conditions for our planned activity. So we all [...]
Annual General Meeting 2024 – Headlines
In the meantime, here are “The News Headlines”. Election of Club Officers The following Club Officers were elected for 2024-25: Chairman – Tim Crabb Vice Chairman – Sally Kitchingman Treasurer – Graham [...]
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, [...]