This week the club welcomed judge Simon Bedwell LRPS to the St Patrick’s Centre to judge our Open Print Competition No.2. Simon is a member of the Tandridge Photographic Society, and visits us for the first time this week. The entry of 26 images were all to be...
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Open PDI Competition No 3
Dec 13, 2023 | 0 Comments
The meeting this evening, held online, was our third open projected digital image competition of the 2023/24 season, critiqued and judged by Royston Williamson. Royston last judged at the club in April of this year, and is on the SPA judges panel. We had...
Open Projected Digital Image Competition Number 2 — Judged by Eddie Lord
Nov 15, 2023 | 0 Comments
Our competition this evening was judged by Eddie Lord, visiting us from the Crawley Downs Camera club. We had 32 images entered into this competition, all in one class. It was clear during the evening that our judge was looking for impact from an image, and...
Studio Portrait Night 4 with Joe Franklin
Nov 1, 2023 | 0 Comments
This week we welcomed back Joe Franklin for a further studio based portrait photography session. Joe has been with us three times before to provide similar evenings, on those occasions using everything from large studio strobe lighting with soft boxes to achieve his...
Photocraft hits the SPA!! plus our own Smartphone competition
Oct 26, 2023 | 0 Comments
Brian, our host for the evening, began by formally congratulating our medal winners at last Saturday’s SPA Individual Print and PDI Competition. While Storm Babet hammered the roof of East Horsley Village Hall, our intrepid trio were taking the other SPA camera clubs...
North America as Resident a talk by Pedro Landers CPAGB
Oct 13, 2023 | 0 Comments
Pedro, who now lives in Devon, spent 10 years in the US, part of that time in the Pacific Northwest, and part in New England in the Northeast. Being a very keen photographer, living there for this length of time gave him the opportunity to discover and photograph the...
Projected Digital Image Competition No 1, judged by John Nathan ARPS
Sep 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
Our first open projected digital image (PDI) competition of the club year was held this Wednesday 20th September, judged by John Nathan ARPS. John has been a judge or provided talks at our club on many occasions, but this was his first visit to our new home. A...
Monochrome Print Competition No 2, judged by Keith Newton
May 31, 2023 | 0 Comments
31 May, 2023 This evening we welcomed Keith Newton as our judge for our final monochrome print competition of the club year. Keith is a member of the Woking Photographic Society as well as the Aldershot, Farnham and Fleet Camera Club, and an accredited judge. We...
Open Print Competition No 4, judged by Darren Pullman
May 17, 2023 | 1 Comment
17th May 2023 This evening we welcomed Darren Pullman CPAGB BPE3* EFIAP, an old friend from Carshalton Camera Club to judge our final open print competition of the season. We had 14 prints submitted for this competition, and our judge decided to hold every print...
Barbie’s Indian Takeaway, a talk by Barbie Lindsay MPAGB FBFE CFIAP/3 AWPF
May 10, 2023 | 0 Comments
This week we had the pleasure of a visit (via Zoom) from Barbie Lindsay, describing and illustrating her trip to India around a decade ago. This talk was originally scheduled for the end of January this year, but had to be abandoned due to IT issues on the evening. ...
Blossom Walk, The Grove
Apr 19, 2023 | 0 Comments
Our first club meeting following the Easter break was an informal walk with our cameras around The Grove in Carshalton, meeting at the bridge crossing the outflow from the ponds. Around a dozen members attended as sunset approached. Blossom, by David M Spring blossom,...
Creative and Experimental Photography
Feb 22, 2023 | 0 Comments
Internal club evening The week we held an evening dedicated to creative and experimental photography, and talked about the images submitted for this session. With an evening operating under this remit, as expected we had a very broad spread of styles and...