Competition News
3rd Competition 2023-24 – Open 2
This was an “open” competition (with no set subject) for prints and projected digital images. As normal, the entries covered a wide variety of genres, approaches, and subjects – including wildlife (birds, [...]
CACC Rosebowl Competition 2023-24
(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 [...]
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 [...]
2nd Competition 2023-24 – Peace
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Peace”. This was further described in the Programme – “we are looking for images that depict ‘Peace’. Examples could include [...]
Location Challenge
This was the first challenge of the season. The location was selected this time by Chris Warby – the winner of last season’s final challenge. His chosen location was “Billington Road”, Leighton [...]
1st Competition 2023-24 – Open 1
As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, seascapes, travel, architecture, candid/street, portraits, wildlife (insects, animals, and birds), abstract, colour, and monochrome, and more. Our [...]
Howard Morris Trophy 2023
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. [...]
Print and Digital Image of the Year Competitions 2023
Our annual Print and Digital Image of the Year competitions took place on Wednesday 14 June. Members were invited to submit their best work of the season. As set out in the competition [...]
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 [...]
6th Competition 2022-23 – Long Exposure
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Long Exposure”. “Long Exposure” was further described in the Programme as follows. “As the name implies, Long Exposure is a [...]
5th Competition 2022-23 – Open 3
This was an “open” competition for both prints and digital images. As usual, entries covered an intriguing variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, seascapes, sunsets, silhouettes, portraits, travel, architecture, [...]
Location Challenge #5
The challenge was set this time by Tim Gould – the winner of our last challenge back in October. His chosen location was the Grand Union Canal. This location and the [...]
4th Competition 2022-23 – Negative Space
“Negative Space” was further described in the Programme as follows. “Negative space is the area surrounding the main subject or subjects in a photograph which is left unoccupied. It is this space [...]
3rd Competition 2022-23 – Open 2
As usual, the entries covered a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, seascapes, close ups, portraits, travel, architecture, candid/street, wildlife, still life, flowers, derelict boats, abstract, colour, monochrome, [...]
CACC Rosebowl Competition 2022-23
The Rosebowl is the CACC’s premier inter-club competition. It is a Projected Digital Images competition and consists of a series of three “rounds”, run from October to February, in which random groups of three [...]
Autumn Challenge – 2022
The purpose of the challenge was of course to get us out with our cameras taking new pictures. As usual, we were given only a relatively short time to take, select and process [...]
2nd Competition 2022-23 – Weather
This was further described in the Programme as follows. “Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm [...]
Location Challenge #4
The brief stipulated that this was “an architectural challenge. Images must include a building or buildings (or a part or parts thereof) within the confines of the location as the main subject.” [...]
Guest Speakers
The Art of Story Telling
Lloyd Moore DPAGB BPE5* EFIAP has visited us as a judge on numerous occasions. He is a part time professional photographer (with many years of experience) and a member and Past-President of the Watford [...]
Creative and Experimental Photography
His mission was to help us recover our creative powers. John has been taking pictures for many years. His photographs cover a wide range of subjects. But he specialises in close-up, [...]
Curd & Godber Double Bill
First, Terry – who specialises in wildlife photography – showed us twelve bird pictures and twelve animal pictures. Terry pre-selected these pictures last year as his likely contenders for 2023-24 competitions. [...]
Photographing Apollo – The Birth of Space Photography
Members enjoyed a riveting presentation, “Photographing Apollo – The Birth of Space Photography”, about the development of photography during the NASA Apollo space programme. Famously, the Apollo project from 1961 to 1972 succeeded in [...]
The Stories Behind My Favourite Images
Steve suggested that a lot of images in clubs are “similar”. But he likes to use creative digital techniques to produce visually distinctive images. Steve is a member (since 1983) and [...]
World War One
His presentation again covered many events throughout the European element of this global conflict. This is a huge subject and Tim wanted to “cover it all”! He therefore took us from [...]
Other News & Announcements
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 [...]
Photographic Exhibition at All Saints Summer Fete
All Saints was chosen as a location challenge by Roger Turner (as the winner of Location Challenge #1) back in January. He pointed out then that “there is considerable interesting subject matter to [...]
Photographic Exhibition
Back in February, many club members visited All Saints church to take pictures in and around the church. This was our second “location challenge” and the brief for the challenge was again [...]
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. [...]