Competition News
Mobile Phone Competition 2022
This was an “open” competition (with no set subject) for digital images. Accordingly, the images entered covered all sorts of subjects and styles (including landscape, seascape, travel, sunsets, street/candid, close-up, nature, [...]
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, [...]
Guest Speakers
Colour, Tones and Textures
Ruth is exclusively a landscape (including seascapes and some urban) photographer and she began her talk by outlining the kit she uses. She has a Nikon D850 plus (the more lightweight) [...]
The Art of Wildlife Photography
Bob Brind-Surch has been a keen naturalist from a very young age and a photographer from his late teens. Nowadays, as a professional photographer, he considers himself foremost a naturalist who [...]
Videography
Bernie has been passionate about photography ever since his parents bought him his first camera when he was just 11 years old. He is a (now retired) portrait and wedding photographer. [...]
Photographing Motion
He gave us a fascinating presentation on the lives and photographic achievements of “A Pair of Pioneers” – Eadweard Muybridge and Harold “Doc” Edgerton. First Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward Muggeridge, 1830 [...]
Getting Started with Portraiture
The photography website that Damon runs can be found at http://www.photokonnexion.com Damon has been a keen photographer all his life and a professional for the last twelve years. As well as [...]
Long Exposures
More of Alex’s work can be found at https://www.alexharephotography.com/ He is also on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Alex is a professional landscape and commercial photographer He also teaches photography, including in [...]
Other News & Announcements
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 [...]
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” [...]
LBPC Photo Edit Challenge – Apr 2020 (Archived)
We are holding the first LBPC Photo Editing Challenge on Wednesday 29th April 2020. The New Photo Editing Challenge - April 2020 We are holding the first LBPC Photo Editing Challenge on Wednesday [...]
Mobile Photo Challenge – Submit Feb 2020 Entries (Archived)
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Norse Themed Photoshoot, Milton Keynes (Archived)
LAST FEW PLACES! Norse Themed Photoshoot, Milton Keynes Sunday, October 13th 2019. The afternoon session is fully booked and the morning session is nearly full so if you're thinking about joining us you'd best [...]
Evening Photo Walk – Wolverton Viaduct 31st July (Archived)
Details An evening photo walk at Wolverton Viaduct, MK. Wednesday 31st July 2019 NOTE: to accommodate the earlier sunset times the meetup time has been brought forward to 7 pm. Meet up at [...]