Competition News
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 [...]
4th Competition 2023-24 – Square Format
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Square Format”. The Programme notes added “we are looking for images where the composition has been enhanced by the use [...]
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, [...]
Guest Speakers
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 [...]
Sports Photography
Steve is mad about sport and likes nothing more than photographing it. Steve’s aim was to show us that you do not need a press pass to photograph sport. There is [...]
A Shot in the Dark
Mike has been working in theatre since 1982. He has provided images to theatre companies all over East Anglia as well as touring companies from all corners of the UK. In his hometown of [...]
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. [...]
Other News & Announcements
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 [...]
Double Bill
First, John Curd with pictures of dragonflies and damselflies. Then former club Chairman Bernie Raffe with some historical images. Our very own John Curd, a self-confessed “dragonfly obsessive”, provided a delightfully [...]
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. [...]