What's on
To give you an idea of what our programme looks like, here is our programme 2021-22. We're still working on our programme for the upcoming season so check back in a few months for updates.

August 2021
  • 31st TBA
September
  • 7th Closing date for entries for the 1st monthly competition.
  • 14th Rushden Open Photographic Exhibition (part 1) - A chance to see (and comment on) the images from this well known annual exhibition.
  • 21st Members Evening - Alistair Birnie demonstrates how users of Adobe Lightroom can easily create their own portfolio website as part of their subscription.
  • 28th What do you see? - Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way.
October
  • 5th 1st Monthly Competition - Piers Hemy delivers his assessment and the results. Closing date for entries for the 2nd monthly competition.
  • 12th Rushden Open Photographic Exhibition (part 2) -  A chance to see (and comment on) the images from this well known exhibition.
  • 19th Online Speaker - Lee Sutton will Zoom in to deliver “My Photographic Journey”.
  • 24st (Sunday) Field Trip - Autumn Outing
  • 26th What do you see? - Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way.
November
  • 2nd 2nd Monthly Competition - Andy Hayes delivers his assessment and the results. Closing date for entries for the 3rd monthly competition.
  • 9th Members Evening including the One Photo Challenge - Submit some images and speak about them.  Successes, failures, how I made this, projects, things that don’t fit the competition categories – anything goes. Everyone was recently given the same images to work on.  Show us how you post-processed them. Category 1 - your best “straight” versions of the images. Category 2 - unlimited manipulation of the images is permitted. The Club competes annually against Littlehampton and Caernarfon clubs.  Each club submits 20 images and all 60 are judged at each club.  The club with the best aggregate score wins. Please submit four PDI images to be considered for the Club’s submission.
  • 16th Images from the Grampian Eye - Our chance to see how our entries compared to the others in this annual competition.  Will it influence your choice of entries for the next year?  
  • 23rd What do you see? Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way.  
  • 28th (Sunday) Field Trip –  TBC
  • 30th  3rd Monthly Competition - Nicola Shepherd delivers her assessment and the results. Closing date for entries for the 4th monthly competition.
December
  • 7th Speaker - James Kelly.
  • 12th (Sunday) Field trip - TBA
  • 14th SPF – Digital Images - We review the images which were successful in the 2021 SPF Digital Images portfolio.
  • 21st What do you see? - Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way.
January 2022
  • 11th 4th Monthly Competition - Andy Hayes delivers his assessment and the results. Closing date for entries for the 5th monthly competition.
  • 18th What do you see? - Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way.
  • 25th Speaker - Kim Grant will speak about “Coastal Photography”.
February
  • 1st 5th Monthly Competition - Piers Hemy delivers his assessment and the results. Closing date for entries for the 6th monthly competition (the last one of the year).
  • 6th (Sunday) Field trip – TBA
  • 8th Andy Hall speaks about “The Decisive Moment”. Closing date for entries for the Grampian Eye competition. Rules as for projected digital image: 12 images per club, no more than 2 per member.
  • 15th TBA
  • 22nd What do you see? Members critique the entries for the monthly competition and then we’ll see if the experienced judge saw them the same way. Closing date for entries for the Portfolio of the Year competition.
March
  • 1st 6th (and final) Monthly Competition - Nicola Shepherd delivers her assessment and results.
  • 8th Entries & judging for: Joyce Russell Trophy (PDI), Contemporary Aberdeen Trophy, A-V Competition
  • 15th Speaker - Diane Seddon delivers "Odd Things - A general talk about camera creativity – thinking outside the box, and getting your images noticed."
  • 22nd TBA
  • 27th (Sun) Field trip (TBA)
  • 29st TBA
April
  • 5th TBA
  • 12th Portfolio of the Year. - Alan Gawthorpe delivers his assessment of the entries to our second portfolio competition.  Whose name will be the third on the trophy? Closing date for entries for the SPF Folio competition.
  • 19th TBA
  • 24th (Sun) Field trip (TBA)
  • 26th Annual General Meeting.
    Please attend this meeting and use it as  an opportunity to air your opinions on the general running of your Club and choose the Management Committee for the coming season.

[note on abbreviations:  TBC - to be confirmed, TBA - to be arranged, PDI - projected digital images, SPF - Scottish Photographic federation]