WHAT’S ON
All our meetings are held on a Thursday night from 7.30pm, unless stated differently below.
We have a wide range of lectures, competitions and practical evenings for the enjoyment of our members.
22nd October 2026
Lecture
We welcome Maurice Wilson with his illustrated lecture on Macro photography.
Maurice is a Bury-based photographer who is part of the Photocrowd photo competitions community. He frequently shoots local sports and events, capturing sports like the British Water Polo League. His active Flickr photography stream features local sports, track and field, and action shots.
He also enjoys the challenges presented by macro photography, and it is this that he will be talking about tonight.
29th October 2026
Inter Club Competition
We will be hosting this meeting, which will be the second round of an inter club competition with our friends from Bury Photographic Society.
Both clubs submit 10 Prints and 10 PDIs to independent judge Graham Currey, who comments on each image and scores them out of 20 points. The club with the most points at the end of the meeting is the winner.
This is a great opportunity to enjoy images from another club, and to make new friendships.
5th November 2026
Open Night
At these evenings, we utilise the skills of our more experienced members to help and assist other members, while all enjoy the fun.
At this meeting we shall be looking ahead to the Concept Competitions for next year, and then looking at and discussing the images taken on an Open Night this year.
Sunday 8th November 2026
Competition Submission Deadline
Entry to our Print competition on 19th November closes tonight at 23.59 hours.
Members can enter up to two Prints.
Good luck to our members who enter, but late entries will not be included in the competition.
12th November 2026
Lecture
Details of this lecture are being finalised and will be published here soon.
Sunday 15th November 2026
Competition Submission Deadline
Entry to our Smartphone competition on 26th November closes tonight at 23.59 hours.
Members can enter up to two images, which must have been taken, and edited, on your Smartphone.
Good luck to our members who enter, but late entries will not be included in the competition.
19th November 2026
Print Competition Round 4
This is the fourth round of our Print competitions this year.
The judge will be Richard Nicholson.
Members can enter up to two Prints before the deadline of 8th November.
26th November 2026
Lecture
We welcome our own Brian White with his illustrated and very informative lecture based on his recent travels.
For over 30 years Brian has travelled extensively to various countries to experience and photograph the diversities of the cultures, landscape and wildlife.
For the last 20 years he has been a professional Self-Employed and Freelance Photographer, photographing a wide variety of commissions for his business. During this time, he has been photographing Weddings, Portraits, Commercial and Legal topics, and also travelling to many Countries and locations producing many travel photographs for his ever expanding portfolio.
Brian’s passion is to capture a sense of place or an expression of a person, wildlife or landscape from interacting with subjects, hoping to achieve a pleasing photographic image.
3rd December 2026
Smartphone Competition
This competition is for PDI images taken and edited on your smartphone.
The judge will be Jet Lendon from Jet Black Squares. For further information please click the link.
Members can enter up to two PDIs before the deadline of 15th November.
10th December 2026
Annual Fun Quiz
Tonight we are holding our annual fun quiz. There will be a range of subjects to test your general knowledge, and photography is unlikely to be included!.
We welcome members to bring their partners, spouses etc. to this fun meeting
17th December 2026
Christmas Break
There is no meeting this evening, and we are closed until our next meeting on Thursday 7th January 2027.
We wish our members and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and extend the seasons greetings to all our readers.