The Two Hemisphere competition is an annual bilateral photographic competition between LBPC in the UK and Camberwell Camera Club in Melbourne, Australia. Each club enters 30 PDIs and these are judged both in the UK and in Australia. Each entry is scored out of twenty and all the scores (from both the UK and the Australia judges) aggregated to determine the winning club.
Since the competition started in 2009 LBPC has won four times, Camberwell has won three times and there has been one dead heat.
The experts tell us that we are living in the digital age. An age where parameters such as speed, precision, ease of doing and efficiency will lead us to better and more productive lives. Some industries and activities are affected more than others and photography is high on the list. Changes to cameras, computers and available computer software packages have been profound and the whole photographic scene has evolved into a new art form. It is against this background that Ruth Goldwasser of Camberwell (Australia) Camera Club set off to a Royal Photographic Society Audio Visual Conference in the UK in 2008, where she made friends with Dave Gillow of Leighton Buzzard (UK) Photographic Club. From this chance encounter a new type of activity has evolved -International Club competitions.
The Two Hemisphere Challenge is a still photography contest between the two clubs using digital techniques. The contest is held annually and is based on the quality of work as assessed by two photographic judges, one from each country, as judged from 2×30 images. Each year the challenge is hotly contested and has matured to the extent that this year, Dave Gillow’s son, Martin has designed and produced a Virtual Trophy as a record of success. Modern technology has brought photographers from across the world together in a friendly competition which will see an improvement in the quality of the photography produced from our two clubs.
Peter Brady
Camberwell Camera Club IncView the Trophy, the images and scores, plus the judges comments.
To view the Trophy click HERE or go to http://www.two-hemispheres.com
The competition is an “open” competition and the 60 entries this year covered – as usual – a wide range of subjects, approaches and styles. The UK judge was Chris Forster DPAGB EFIAP FBPE, an experienced photographer and CACC (Chilterns Association of Camera Clubs) judge.
When all the judging has been completed the result, together with all the scores and the comments of the two judges, will be published on the Two Hemispheres website at www.two-hemispheres.com.
Success for the winning club is marked by the award of a Virtual Trophy, also to be found on the Two Hemispheres website. That Virtual Trophy is currently held by LBPC.
September 2021
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 the Judges or Speakers at the start of [...]
November 2023
Another Year!
Andy is a renowned natural history photographer who has photographed virtually every species of mammal, insect, and bird in the UK. Andy’s life-long interest in natural history eventually developed into a serious photographic passion. Yet somehow he also finds [...]
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 are three matches in each group with each [...]
“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 Now”. Having been inspired by some pictures he’d [...]
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 symbols of peace, a sense of being at [...]
October 2023
AI Photography
On Wednesday 25 October he unravelled some of the mysteries of AI in photography for his fellow members. AI is a complicated subject and Paul set out to explain to us what AI is as it relates to photography [...]
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 Buzzard. The brief and accompanying map clarified that [...]
The Little Print Show
His mission was to offer us an alternative to “mainstream camera club” activity and explain his artistic approach to photography. Jonathan took his first photograph in 2011 and joined a Camera Club in 2012. His newfound hobby soon turned [...]
A Photographic Journey – LRPS with PRPS
On 27 September we began our programme of talks, demonstrations, competitions, and challenges with a splendid presentation from Steven Clennell LRPS. Steven Clennell is a member of the Princes Risborough Photographic Society (PRPS, where he is Programme Secretary (Judges)). [...]
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 judge for the competition was Kathy Chantler ARPS, [...]
July 2023
Woodland Ways by Paul Mitchell
Paul is an award-winning professional landscape photographer and specialist book designer. His talk centred on his photographic speciality – woodland photography. Paul has been interested in photography since his school days. He has a professional background in graphic design. [...]
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. The Howard Morris Trophy alternates with [...]
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 rules, members may enter up to two images [...]
May 2023
Portraiture Workshop
This was a follow-up to the workshop last September when Damon Guy dropped in to introduce us to the basics of lighting for portraiture. Building on what we had learned then, we had an opportunity to direct the models and expand [...]
April 2023
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 consist of three to six prints or digital [...]
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 photographic style that involves slow shutter speeds 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 illustrated talk – “Odos in Oz” – about [...]
March 2023
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, sport, candid/street, wildlife, still life, impressionist, colour, monochrome, [...]
February 2023
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 scope of the challenge were further defined as [...]
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 that helps define the main focus, the positive [...]
January 2023
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) Fuji X-T3 and X-T30. She also has a [...]
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 photographs what he observes rather than a photographer [...]
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. But he remains in demand as a speaker [...]
December 2022
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, and more. Again, there were no Section Two [...]
November 2022
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 or four clubs are matched against each other. [...]
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 our images, and get the panels (one per [...]
October 2022
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 or stormy, clear or cloudy. For this competition, [...]
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 to 1904. Muybridge was born in Kingston upon [...]
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.” Subject to that, and to allow as much [...]
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 be discovered in stonework carvings in the church, [...]
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 being a photographer he is also a writer, [...]
1st Competition 2022-23 – Open 1
Accordingly, this was an “open” competition for both prints and digital images. And with the normal separate sections for both advanced photographers (Section One) and beginners and improvers (Section Two). As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, [...]
Welcome Back
Last Wednesday (7 September), after a brief introduction from new Chairman Tim Crabb, we kicked off the season with the traditional informal welcome back show of “what we did on our holidays” pictures. Members, and indeed some new faces, were [...]
June 2022
Digital Image of the Year Competition
As set out in the competition rules, members may enter up to two digital images that have “previously been entered … in one of that season’s six club league competitions”. Our independent judge this year was Lloyd Moore DPAGB BPE4*, [...]
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 partnership with fellow landscape professional Lizzie Shepherd (who [...]
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 to photograph a set location during a specified [...]
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, and both colour and black and white). There [...]
Annual General Meeting 2022 – News Headlines
In the meantime, here are “the news headlines”. Election of Club Officers The following Club Officers were elected for 2022-23: Chairman – Tim Crabb Vice Chairman – Paul Needham Treasurer – Graham Meers Vice Treasurer – Dave Gillow Secretary – [...]
May 2022
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 4-way crossroad. Woburn Village Centre is defined for [...]
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 the evening was Micki Aston who has judged [...]
Barbie Lindsay – Barbie’s Pic & Mix
More of Barbie’s work can be seen at http://www.barbielindsay.co.uk which is packed with all manner of images. Barbie is a leading creative photographer. She describes herself as “a little unconventional” and “a photographic obsessive” whose whole life revolves around [...]
April 2022
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 on the smallest number of objects in the [...]
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 2021. See https://lbpc.org.uk/2021/11/25/location-challenge-1-mk-market/ David, together with Tricia Meers, [...]
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 single projectable image. This is an “open” competition, [...]
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. The resulting images were critiqued on 24 November 2021. [...]
March 2022
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 – such as Yellow, Orange Yellow, and Orange – [...]
Members Evening: David Manning Prints
The meeting was also recorded for those members who were unable to attend in person. We began our return with a print evening as our very own David Manning ARPS entertained and educated us by showing us a selection [...]
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, candid/street, flowers, abstract, colour and monochrome, and plenty [...]
February 2022
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 to their order by marks awarded – 5, [...]
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, the church is visible from many different vantage [...]
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 as possible. The judge for the evening was [...]
John Curd – Tales of the Bee Bank
Through the various lockdowns of 2021, John “maintained a modicum of sanity” by learning about and photographing “solitary” bees and wasps at and around a natural sandbank in Rushmere. In the UK there are around 270 bee species and [...]
January 2022
Colin Jarvis – Mono Moods
Colin runs single day and residential workshops around the UK, as well as providing one-to-one photography tuition and post-processing tuition, for photographers of all levels More of Colin’s images, and details of his workshops etc, can be found at http://www.colinjarvis.co.uk Colin can [...]
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 or out of context”. Not surprisingly, there were [...]
Robert Harvey – Small is Beautiful
More of Robert’s work can be found at http://www.naturalworldphotography.net He would be very pleased for members to Join his group Inspirational Outdoor Photography on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/InspirationalOutdoorPix where you can post your own recent images for admiration and critique. The group only accepts [...]
December 2021
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, abstract, colour and monochrome, and more. Our judge [...]
Return to F2F meetings in 2022
At our committee meeting on 22nd November, we reached an agreement that we should Zoom until the end of February 2022. We also felt that after this date we would act in accordance with the majority of members [...]
November 2021
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 the Club, kindly provided a critique of all [...]
Lizzie Shepherd – Mood Versus Composition
More of Lizzie’s work can be found at http://www.lizzieshepherd.com She is also Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LizzieShepherdPhotography And she is on Instagram and Twitter. Lizzie is a member of the judging panel for the Landscape Photographer of the Year. Her “Mood versus [...]
Robert Friel – Phoneography
More of Robert’s work, including his ARPS images, can be found on his website at http://robfriel.co.uk/ He is also on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Robert is the Chair of Princes Risborough Photographic Society. His well illustrated talk took us [...]
October 2021
Damon Guy – Breaking the Rules
The photography website that Damon runs can be found at http://www.photokonnexion.com/ Damon’s talk was about the conventions that help us compose pictures. His aims were to get us thinking about the traditional “Rules of Photography”, considering ways to go [...]
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 that captures your interest and presents an ‘intimate [...]
Member’s Evening – Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
This was a Members Evening and was all about the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and, in particular, the RPS Distinctions. Full details of these Distinctions can be found on the RPS website and they are Licentiate (LRPS), Associate (ARPS), and [...]
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.” It soon became clear, however, that not everyone [...]
September 2021
David Keep – A Project-based Approach to Photography
More of David’s work can be seen at https://www.davidkeepphotography.co.uk/ In addition to his images, there are also links to his video tutorials on his YouTube channel And David can also be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. So, David [...]
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, flowers, abstract, colour and monochrome, and more. Our [...]
Simon Turnbull – Intimate Landscapes
More of Simon’s work can be found at https://www.simonturnbullphotography.com/ He is also on Instagram @simonturnbullphotography And on Facebook @SimonTurnbullPhotography For more information about intimate landscapes Tring & District Camera Club have set up a resource for photographers wishing to develop their understanding [...]
Chairman’s Welcome Back Message – Sep 2021
It's that time of year again when we start a new year at the club next Wednesday 08/09/2021. We’re starting our new season on 8th September as you know and it promises to be a good one. Carol and Tricia have [...]
July 2021
New Members Only Account
Dear Members, This year, you will need to create a new LBPC Members Account to access the Members Only area of the website. Note: Members who have already created an account while helping to test the process DO NOT need to re-create their account. [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Art and Artists Part Two
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscape, seascape, cityscape, candid/street, animals, flowers, colour, and monochrome, and more. Our judge for the competition was [...]
June 2021
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 several times via Zoom to lecture (about [...]
Annual General Meeting 2021 – Headlines
In the meantime, here are “the news headlines”. Election of Officers The following club Officers were elected: Chairman – Mike Kitchingman Vice Chairman – Dave Gillow Treasurer – Graham Meers Vice Treasurer – Dave Gillow Secretary – Sue Brinkworth Programme [...]
May 2021
PDI of the Year Competition Results – May 2021
As set out in the competition rules on the club website, members could enter up to two digital images that have “previously been entered … in one of that season’s six club league competitions”. Our independent judge for the competition [...]
Howard Morris Memorial Trophy – May 2021
The competition was judged this year by Colin Westgate FRPS MPAGB FFIAP, Zooming in from Mersea Island in Essex. Colin has been taking photographs for over 60 years. He is a Member of the London Salon of Photography and has [...]
Andy Marland – The Industrial tourist – Exploring the Industrial North
This is his exploration of the remnants of the northern industrial landscape. With more and more sites being demolished he is probably just “one step ahead of the wrecking ball”, both as a photographer and in his engineering career. [...]
April 2021
Portfolio Competition – April 2021
Entries 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 single projectable image. This is an “open” competition, with no set subject, [...]
Martin Patten – Improve your Photography
More of Martin’s work can be found at https://www.cameradays.co.uk/ Martin is a “passionate photographer”, Chairman of the Chilterns Association of Camera Clubs (our parent federation), past President of Watford Camera Club, and an experienced photographic judge. But he says [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Art and Artist Part Two
This Chairman’s Challenge was, therefore 'Art and Artists Part 2' as we were again asked to recreate the style of an artist or art movement photographically. And this also followed on naturally from Jane Lazenby’s excellent 'Inspired by Art' [...]
March 2021
Janey Lazenby – Inspired by Art
More of Jane’s work can be found at http://www.ejlazenbyphotography.co.uk https://ejlazenby.com/ Jane is also on Instagram and Facebook. Jane visited us last summer to show us how to include textures in the post-processing of digital images. She Zoomed in again [...]
League: Theme Reflections Competition Results – March 2021
The set subject was “Reflection” – with the added briefing “Any photograph in which the predominant/focal interest of the image is a ‘Reflection’. Example: Reflection in a puddle, glass or mirror, lake, canal, river, wet pavement”. Our independent judge for [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2021 Results
Each club enters 30 PDIs and these are judged both in the UK and in Australia. Each entry is scored out of twenty and all the scores (from both the UK and the Australian judges) are aggregated to determine the winning [...]
February 2021
Trevor Morecraft – Chernobyl and Pripyat
Trevor has been taking photographs for many years and is President of Winchester Photographic Society. He has made two two-day visits (in 2016 and 2019) to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power [...]
League: Open 3 Competition Results – February 2021
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries covered a wide range of subjects and approaches, as well as many photographic genres including landscape, seascape, architecture, nature, travel, still life, creative, close-up, colour, and monochrome, and [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Website Banner Image
As explained in the brief, “This is your chance to have your image appear on the Club’s website home page. The images used on the home page of the Club’s website have very specific dimension requirements. And not every image [...]
January 2021
The Art of Metamorphosis – Part 2
More of Andrea’s work, including her MPAGB, DPAGB, and CPAGB panels and some wildlife photography, can be found on her website at https://www.andreahargreaves.art/ Andrea began with the “Valkyrie”. She described how she had sent an image entitled “Fallen Angel” [...]
Graham Dean – The Camera Doesn’t Lie
More of Graham's images, together with a PDF with links to images used in the first part of the presentation, can be found at grahams-gallery.co.uk Graham began, by posing the question “do you see the world as it [...]
Martin Addison – Looking Outside the Frame
More of Martin’s work can be found at https://martinaddison.photography/home Martin can also be found on Facebook, ISSUU, and YouTube. Martin has been taking photographs for very many years and is a member of Worcestershire Camera Club where he leads [...]
December 2020
Jonathan Vaines – Compose Yourself
He is also President of the Cambridge Camera Club and a regional organiser for the RPS. His introduction to photographic composition explained both the basics of photographic composition and some more complex ways of structuring photographs. Photographic composition [...]
Les Forrester – Monochrome and Architecture
More of Les’s images can be found at https://www.lesforrester.com Les can also be found on Instagram and Facebook. Les has competed around the world in international competitions and won numerous awards. And in 2018 he was invited to join [...]
November 2020
League: Open 2 Competition Results – November 2020
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries covered a wide range of subjects and approaches, as well as many photographic genres including landscape, seascape, nature, still life, creative, close-up, colour, and monochrome, and more. Our judge [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – Arts & Artists
The subject of the Challenge was “Art and Artists” and we were required to photographically replicate the style of an art movement and/or artist. As explained in the Programme, “This challenge is to pick any artist: Hockney, Lautrec, Rothko, da Vinci, [...]
The Art of Metamorphosis Part 1 – Andrea Hargreaves
More of Andrea’s work, including her CPAGB, DPAGB and MPAGB panels, can be found on her website at https://www.andreahargreaves.art/ NB: Members can watch the recording of the meeting in full on the ‘Members Only’ section of the website. [...]
October 2020
PDI Knockout Competition – October 2020
The DI Knockout is, as the Programme puts it, “a sophisticated, utterly unfair and usually pretty chaotic competition. Contestants submit up to 6 images each, which are anonymously and randomly selected for projection in pairs. One of each pair is chosen [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘At Home or Garden’ – October 2020
As print handling is impracticable in current circumstances, the Committee has suspended all print competitions until further notice. Accordingly, our competitions are being confined to digital images. The set subject was “At Home or Garden” – with the added briefing [...]
Chairman’s Challenge – 2020 Vision
As explained in the Programme, this meant: “Your interpretation of the phrase 2020 Vision. What does the year 2020 mean to you? Has Covid affected your lifestyle? Or the urban slang term for hindsight, could you have approached your photography differently? [...]
XRR VISIONS 2020
"The global pandemic has greatly impacted our lives and our club activities, but thank goodness we can still meet and share our mutual interest on online platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc. XRR has therefore adapted its [...]
Annual General Meeting 2020 – Headlines
In the meantime, here are “the news headlines”. Election of Officers The following club Officers were elected: Chairman – Mike Kitchingman Vice Chairman – Dave Gillow Treasurer – Graham Meers Vice Treasurer – Sally Kitchingman (for 2020-21 only) Secretary – [...]
September 2020
League: Open 1 Competition Results – September 2020
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscape, seascape, cityscape, candid/street, animals, flowers, colour, and monochrome, and more. Our judge for the competition was [...]
Street Photography – Ian Boulton
More of Ian’s work can be found on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/40023368@N05/ and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/boultonian/?hl=en “Street photography” can be defined as a documentary form of photography produced candidly in the public realm without staging or manipulation. It therefore [...]
Wildlife Photography Part 2 – Tracey Lund
Wildlife Photography Part 1 Once more Tracey took us around the world. We started in the USA, on Kodiak Island in Alaska, with grizzly bears and their cubs enjoying the fruits of the salmon run. Then, still in the [...]
August 2020
Chairmans Club Welcome – Sep 2020
Hi Everyone, This heralds the start of our new season, an unusual one as we’ll be running virtually, although we are all familiar with the format by now. This is because adhering to the risk assessments required by the school will make [...]
Odonata (Dragonflies & Damselflies) – John Curd
During “lockdown”, and thanks to Zoom conferencing, we have enjoyed a selection of fascinating speakers from places too far distant to visit us in person. But sometimes you don’t need to look so far afield for your expert speaker. The [...]
Smartphone Photography – Jeanette Lendon
More of Jeanette’s marvellous images, and details of her “Smartphone Safaris” and other workshops, can be found at https://www.jetblacksquares.com/ Jeanette was previously a primary school teacher. But, having always loved photography, she did “lots of courses” and started her own [...]
July 2020
Wildlife Photography Part 1 – Tracey Lund
Wildlife Photography Part 1 Tracey has been interested in photography since she was a child and has always loved wildlife. On a dream trip to Africa in 2004, with her first (film) SLR, she began to take photography and [...]
Textures – Jane Lazenby
Jane has been a keen photographer since her teenage years and has successfully combined this with her fine art painting and her love of teaching. She describes herself as a professional equine and fine art photographer – and she also [...]
Creative Flower Photography – Cherry Larcombe
More of Cherry’s work can be found at https://www.cherryannette.com/ Cherry explained that creative photography is “not just about Photoshop, it starts in the mind”. It’s about ideas and imagination and then taking the shot. “If you want to be creative, [...]
June 2020
Photo Edit Challenge (Round 2) – June 2020
Back on 6 May, we ran the original Photo Edit Challenge. SEE HERE for a full report. Such was the enthusiastic response that we were unable to show all the submitted images. So on Wednesday 17 June, we ran Round 2 of [...]
Composites – Elaine Butler
More of Elaine’s work can be found at http://www.elainebutlerphotography.com/ Elaine told us “I do photography simply because I enjoy it”. She has been a member of the Palmerstown Camera Club for nine years. As winner of their Advanced Club League Competition [...]
Print and PDI of the Year Competition Results – June 2020
As set out in the competition rules on the club website, they could enter up to two prints or digital images that have “previously been entered … in one of that season’s six club league competitions”. As print handling is impracticable [...]
May 2020
The Art of Macro – Tony North
More of Tony's work can be seen at https://www.artofmacro.com Although interested in photography for most of his life, Tony acquired his first DSLR about four years ago and has been doing “serious macro” only for the last three years. [...]
Biennial Landscape Cup Competition Results – 2019-20
This is a biennial competition for the Landscape Cup, sponsored by Barbara Fleming, to encourage club members to go out and do more landscape photography. It alternates with our other biennial competition, the Howard Morris Memorial Trophy for monochrome prints. [...]
Photo Edit Challenge (Round 1) – May 2020
A little while ago the Club released five unprocessed images (two jpegs and three RAWs, provided by club members) for download. Members were then invited to edit these files any way they wished. “Everything is up to you … be [...]
April 2020
Portfolio Competition Results – April 2020
However, as print handling is impracticable in current circumstances, the competition this year was restricted to digital images. This year our independent judge for the competition was Kathy Chantler ARPS. She is a very experienced photographer and Chairman of ImageZ Camera [...]
Panels and Triptychs – Steven Galvin
Steven works as a freelance photographer, judge and speaker. He has an IT industry background and is also a member of Marlow Camera Club. He has visited us on a number of occasions as a speaker and as a judge. [...]
PDI Knockout Competition – April 2020
The DI Knockout is, as the Programme puts it, “Our occasional unfair competition to determine, by audience vote, the best picture of the evening. Last man standing wins.” Images (anonymous and randomly selected by software) are projected in pairs and [...]
Matt Kloskowski – How to Edit Your Photos Like a Pro in Lightroom and Photoshop
Tuesday, April 14, 2020/ 1pm GMT Meeting Date/Time: Tuesday, April 14, 2020/ 1pm GMT Sign-up Link for everyone: https://www.bigmarker.com/matt-k/How-to-Edit-Photos-Like-a-Pro-Leighton-Buzzard-PC Title: How to Edit Your Photos Like a Pro in Lightroom and Photoshop Description: In this live [...]
March 2020
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Geometric’ – March 2020
The competition was therefore run as a “webinar” via Zoom. It was our first foray into the world of internet conferencing for our normal weekly meetings. And it was a great success with only very minor hiccups along the way. We are [...]
Stan McCartin, (ex. chairman of the CACC) Passed Away (Archived)
It is with great sadness that I heard today that Stan McCartin, (ex. chairman of the CACC and great all round guy) passed away. Many of us knew and respected Stan and, for my part, he was always there when I needed [...]
Changes To Competition Rules For 2020-2021
With the commencement of the 2020-2021 Season, the Committee has voted to change the size requirements for ALL images submitted to LBPC internal competitions. Also, members will be required to submit TWO versions of each image, each with a size identifier included [...]
Mobile Photography Challenge – Voting for June 2020 (Archived)
Due to technical issues, in some instances the voting form embeded on this page maynot display correctly. If you experience any issues direct links to the StrawPoll website are available below. MPC June 2020 Voting Form [...]
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 29th April 2020. ******** FIRST PRIZE: Bottle of [...]
Travels Towards the Edge – Sue O’Connell & Peter Brisley
As well as being distinguished travel photographers, the couple are also members of Bristol Photographic Society, PAGB accredited judges, and Fotospeed Ambassadors. More of Sue’s work can be seen at http://www.sueoconnell.photography | And Peters’s work can be seen at http://www.peterbrisley.photography [...]
The Art Of Mono & Club Competitions – Micki Aston
More of Micki’s work can be seen at http://astonimages.com/ Micki is a professional travel photographer based in Gerrards Cross who started as a black and white landscape photographer. She has been widely published in a variety of books and other [...]
February 2020
League: Open 3 Competition Results – February 2020
This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). As usual, the entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches and styles – including wildlife, seascape/marine, travel, landscape, portraiture, creative, colour and monochrome, and more. Our judge [...]
Challenge – Song Title
According to the website, “The subject is ‘Song Title’ and we’d like a portfolio of images, as many as you like within reason, that depict the song title (similar to Pictionary). No real rules for this as it’s a fun evening, I’m [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘People’ – January 2020
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “'People”. As usual, the entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches and styles. But street/candid photography and travel shots, in both colour and monochrome, predominated. The set subject, [...]
January 2020
Members Talk – Goodwood Revival by Roger Gage
The Goodwood Revival is an annual three-day festival of motor racing at the Goodwood Circuit in Sussex. Introducing his talk, Roger explained that, because of the large scale of the festival, the images he was using had been taken over [...]
December 2019
Pictorialism – Tony Bramley
Information about Tony’s photography training business can be found at https://lightacademy.co.uk/ His Suprematism work can be found at https://suprematism.co.uk/ Tony is a semi-retired professional photographer from Colchester. He has written several photography guides, runs a photography training business, and is [...]
The Wonderful World of Infrared – Colin Southgate
More of Colin’s work, together with an article “Walking in an I/R Wonderland”, can be found at https://csouthgate.wixsite.com/colinsouthagte Normal photography involves the capture of visible light. Infrared photography, on the other hand, involves the capture of light that lies beyond [...]
League: Open 2 Competition Results – November 2019
This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). As usual, the entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches and styles – including landscape, seascape, cityscape, portraiture, travel, animals, birds, insects, colour and monochrome, and more. [...]
November 2019
Chairman’s Challenge – 20 November 2019 (Detail)
Curiously, the Chairman himself was unwell and unable to attend. (I hope you are feeling better now, Mike.) The broad idea, as the “Chairman’s Challenge” was originally introduced at a previous meeting, was that periodically the Chairman would announce a [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2019 Results
The UK judge for the 2019 Two Hemispheres competition was Jonathan Vaines LRPS CPAGB AFAIP. Jonathan is an experienced photographer and judge who has judged and critiqued at LBPC on several occasions. He is President of the Cambridge Camera Club and [...]
CACC Rosebowl Competition Round 1 – 2019
The Rosebowl Competition is a Projected Digital Images competition between the CACC clubs. 31 clubs are participating this year. It consists of a series of three “rounds”, run from October to February, in which random groups of three or four clubs [...]
Mobile Photo Challenge – Submit Feb 2020 Entries (Archived)
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October 2019
The Great War – Tim Brown
Last Wednesday (23 October 2019) LBPC members became better informed when Tim Brown, a keen amateur historian from Milton Keynes with a particular interest in this conflict, gave them an excellent illustrated talk. Tim’s presentation covered the whole chronology of [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Yellow’ – October 2019
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “'The Colour Yellow'. The entries displayed an imaginative and creative assortment of subjects – including flowers, insects, lemons, peppers, wellies, fishing net, and various forms of transport – as well as [...]
XRR Visions 2019 (Archived)
The XRR VISIONS 2019 final will be held on Wednesday 20th November 2019 Closing date for entries is 23:59 Sunday 30th October 2019 The XRR Visions 2019 competition is now open for entries @ £5 per person. This is a [...]
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 move quick! We have three fantastic models lined [...]
September 2019
League: Open 1 Competition Results – September 2019
This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). As usual, the entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches and styles – covering landscape, seascape, architecture, portraiture, candid/street, travel, animals, insects, long exposure, monochrome, abstract and more. [...]
Welcome Back – Sep 2019
Members, and indeed some new faces, were able to see what others had been up to during the summer break. And there was a veritable abundance of travel images for everyone to enjoy. There were pictures from locations far and [...]
July 2019
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 7 pm @ the car park located off [...]
PhotoWalk’s 2019 Gallery (Archived)
Members images from the 2019 Photo Walks are available to view in the Gallery CLICK HERE
Evening Photo Walk – Teardrop Lakes 24th July (Archived)
Details An evening photo walk at Teardrop Lakes, MK. Wednesday 24th July 2019 Meet up at 7:30 pm @ the car park located off Davy Way (Click HERE for directions) Shoot until about 9:30 pm (sunset: 21:o1 ; last light: 21:43 [...]
Evening Photo Walk – Dunstable Downs 17th July (Archived)
Details An evening photo walk at Dunstable Downs. Wednesday 17th July 2019 Meet up at 7:30 pm @ the Dunstable Downs, Chilterns Gateway Centre car park located off the B4541 (Click HERE for directions) Shoot until about 9:30 pm (sunset: 21:o9 [...]
June 2019
LBPC AGM – 2019 (Archived)
Held on Wednesday 19 June 2019. Full minutes will be made available in due course. In the meantime, here are “the news headlines”. Election of Officers The following club Officers were elected: Chairman – Mike Kitchingman; Vice Chairman – Dave [...]
Evening Photo Walk – Iron Trunk Aqueduct 10th July (Archived)
Here is a selection of images from the photo walk last year. If you would like to share your images from this walk you can upload them HERE and we will add them to a Gallery on the website. [...]
Evening Photo Walk – Furzton Lake 3rd July (Archived)
Here is a selection of images from the evening at Furzton Lake last Year. If you would like to share your images from this walk you can upload them HERE and we add them to a Gallery. Details A golden [...]
Print and PDI of the Year Competition Results – June 2019
As the grand climax to the 2018-19 season, our annual Print and Digital Image of the Year competitions took place on Wednesday evening (12 June 2019) with members invited to select their best work of the season. This year the two competitions were again judged by Kathy Chantler ARPS (Chairman of the ImageZ Camera Club at Weston Turville) who has visited LBPC on numerous occasions, both as a judge and as a speaker.
Mobile Photography Challenge – Voting for May 2019 (Archived)
Vote For Your Top Three Images This month's entries are available to view in the gallery below. Once you have reviewed this month’s entries you can cast your vote below. Remember, you have 3 votes, [...]
May 2019
Jubilee Trophy Results (PDI) – May 2019
On Wednesday 22nd May 2019 LBPC hosted the Jubilee Trophy Projected Digital Images Competition. Our judge for this competition was Damon Guy, CACC Committee member as well as leading the CACC Judging Team. Some 30 members and 10 visitors from neighbouring competing clubs attended the Jubilee PDI Competition at LBPC.
How I Go About my Work – Julia Cleaver
More of Julia’s work can be seen at https://www.juliacleaver.com/portfolio How I Go About my Work (with tips & tricks on lighting, posing and low-cost gear) An Informal Presentation by Julia Cleaver, ARPS - Taking a look at some of the [...]
Howard Morris Memorial Trophy Competition Results – May 2019
On Wednesday 8th May 2019 members contested the Howard Morris Trophy. This is a biennial competition for monochrome prints established in memory of former club member Howard Morris. It is open to all club members (with no sections) who may submit two prints that have not previously been entered in any league competition.
April 2019
Practical Evening: Light Painting (Archived)
We took along our cameras and tripods. And experts Kingsley and Amy Summers from Milton Keynes came along to show us how this stuff is done and provide the necessary subject matter. We started with a presentation from Kingsley. He [...]
Members Talks – Mountain Gorillas by Chris Warby & Foxes by Paul Searle (Archived)
Mountain Gorillas, Uganda 2018 – Chris Warby Chris and his wife had travelled to the mountain forests of equatorial Uganda to see the mountain gorillas. This intrepid trip was undertaken to celebrate a significant birthday and significant wedding anniversary. [...]
Portfolio Competition Results – April 2019
The annual, and prestigious, LBPC Portfolio Competition took place on Wednesday 17 April 2019. Entries for this competition consist of three to five prints or digital images to be judged as a panel. This is an open subject competition, in colour or monochrome (monochrome meaning the image is developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour). But the images must show some link – such as a common colour, subject or shape – identifiable by the judge.
PDI Knock Out Contest – March (and April) 2019
This season the annual LBPC Digital Image Knock Out Contest started on Wednesday 6 March – and was subsequently completed on Wednesday 3 April! This competition is an incredibly cultured and refined event in which digital images (anonymously and randomly selected) [...]
Photo Quiz – April 2019 (Archived)
Last Wednesday (3 April) LBPC staged a Photo Quiz for its members. As the Programme notes put it – “A familiar object from an unfamiliar angle. Stump everyone with a picture of an object from an odd angle. PDIs only, an interactive quiz. Guess what it is.”
March 2019
Taking Images vs Making Images – Steve Brabner
Steve is a member of the Amersham Photographic Society. And he chairs a sub-group there (the Amersham Beyond Group) which concentrates exclusively on creative photography and photo-based art. Despite having been a photography enthusiast for over 40 years, Steve claims not to see anything interesting or take interesting photographs. He says he doesn’t do sunrise or sunset or wildlife. And, anyway, it’s all been done before. Accordingly, Steve prefers to “make” images and produce something unique. His talk is therefore about “creative photography” and took us through his experiences of making images.
Success at the East Anglian Audio Visual Competition (Archived)
Congratulations to Roger Gage for his success in the prestigious East Anglian Audio Visual Competition Congratulations to Roger Gage for his success in a prestigious Audio Visual competition which has often produced National and International prize winning sequences. [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Hetitage’ – March 2019
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Heritage” to which the programme notes added – “The history, traditions, artefacts, practices etc, of a country, society, culture. Possibly ancient monuments and buildings, museums, pancake day, Morris dancing. There [...]