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.
Sunday 26th October 2025
PDIs for the Smartphone Competition - CLOSING DATE
Closing date for this PDI competition.
All submissions must be in the correct format and be received before midnight tonight.
This is a fun competition for images taken and edited on a smart phone.
Members can enter up to two images, and any editing must be carried out on the phone.
Good luck to all who have entered!
30th October 2025
Inter Club Competition with Bury
We host the second round of our inter club competition with Bury PS.
Each club will enter 10 Prints and 10 PDIs, and independent judge Graham Currey will comment and score each one.
This is a great opportunity to enjoy wonderful images from both clubs, and for members to renew friendships.
Sunday 2nd November 2025
PRINTS and PDIs for the Concept Competition - CLOSING DATE
Closing date for this Prints and PDIs concept competition Contra Jour.
All submissions must be in the correct format and be received before midnight tonight.
Members can enter up to two Prints and up to two PDIs.
Good luck to all who have entered!
6th November 2025
Smartphone Competition
Images taken and edited on a mobile phone can be entered in this fun competition.
The closing date for entries was Sunday 26th October.
Jet Lendon from Jet Black Squares Smartphone Photography returns to pass her constructive thoughts and comments on each image.
Jet is the founder and Creative Director of Jet Black Squares. Combining her former teaching career in the East End of London with a more recent corporate photography business of 14 years, she has created a hub for everything creative surrounding the smartphone.
13th November 2025
Concept Competition Round 2: “Contre-Jour”
This is the second of two Concept competitions, and is for Prints and PDIs.
The Judge will be confirmed soon.
Members can enter up to two Prints and up two PDIs.
The closing deadline was Sunday 2nd November.
Contre-jour is a photographic technique that involves shooting directly into a light source, such as the sun. The technique originated in painting and has been used for decades. The French phrase contre-jour literally translates to against daylight.
Contre-jour creates bold contrasts and is often synonymous with silhouette photography. To manage the tonal range, you can use in-camera exposure compensation and histogram controls. You can also apply shadow reduction in software to bring out details in the backlit subject.
Contre-jour produces backlighting of the subject. This effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes and emphasizes lines and shapes. The sun, or other light source, is often seen as either a bright spot or as a strong glare behind the subject.
For examples enter “Contre Jour in photography” in your search engine and click on “images.”
20th November 2025
Photo Critique Evening
We shall be looking at some past entries in our competitions and discussing them with a positive critique.
The process is to learn what makes a good image, and what can be done to further improve an image, either by camera work when taking the image, or in editing techniques.
Club member and professional photographer Dave McNabb will be leading the discussions.
27th November 2025
Lecture
We welcome our own club member Brian White with his illustrated lecture on Wildlife.
Brian has been a professional photographer, and tonight his entertaining lecture will be about his recent trip to photograph wildlife in its natural habitat.
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.
4th December 2025
Looking Ahead to Concept Competitions 2026
We will be looking at photography styles for our Concept Competitions in 2026, and discussing the two concepts we will be featuring.
11 December 2025
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.
18th December 2025
Christmas Break
There is no meeting this evening, and we are closed until our next meeting on Thursday 8th January 2026.
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.
The details of “What’s On for 2026” will be published here nearer the time.