| Date | Event | Location |
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| 21st September 2023 | Social at King's Arms at 6:30pm and introduction to season.
The theme for the season is "Mankind and the Environment" | |
| 28th September 2023 | Speaker1 - Jerry Webb
Street Photography | Home |
| 5th October 2023 | First, a preview of certain 23/24 club evenings. Then members will share their images of Birmingham, Oxford, RHS Wisley and 1940s Bletchley. Future meetups will also be discussed. | Small Hall |
| 12th October 2023 | Competition 1 - PRINT
Open 2023
Judged by Steven Galvin | Small Hall |
| 19th October 2023 | Speaker 2 - Warren Alani-'Capturing The Imagination' Images of landmarks and travel scenes are subverted to reveal the relationship between humans and the environment around us. Sports reportage is presented in a new way to uncover hidden drama and unique moments. Architectural depictions are reframed to expose unseen characteristics. | Small Hall |
| 26th October 2023 | What makes a good image?
An interactive session with Peter about how to review and identify good images - both digital and print. We’ll also go over the way in which competition scoring works and recap on the use of the Info Centre for competitions. | Small Hall |
| 2nd November 2023 | Speaker 3 - LAST MINUTE CHANGE
Claire Carter of https://www.carterart.co.uk/ will give us a presentation on the Northern Lights | Home |
| 9th November 2023 | Competition 2 - DIGITAL
Abstract architecture
Judged by Lloyd Moore | Small Hall |
| 16th November 2023 | Practical Evening. Bring your camera. We'll be showing how to cut mounts, photographing objects in front of a monitor, use of a Lightpad and using complimentary colours. | Small Hall |
| 23rd November 2023 | Member's favourite locations | Home |
| 30th November 2023 | Speaker 4- Ashley Franklin
Human Environment The wider world of Photography Part 1 | Home |
| 7th December 2023 | Competition 3 - PRINT
Mankind in the landscape
Judged by Peter Cox | Small Hall |
| 14th December 2023 | Christmas Social | |
| 21st December 2023 | Christmas Break | |
| 28th December 2023 | Christmas Break | |
| 4th January 2024 | Preview of next Season 2024/2025 Theme, Competitions and Speakers.
Roger will present images on Marrakesh and Brenda will show photos of Cuba | Home |
| 11th January 2024 | Peter will Roll out a challenge to produce panels for street, windows, doors or gates. In the second half, he will demonstrate new features in Lightroom. | Home |
| 18th January 2024 | An interactive evening of Wildlife and Intimate Landscape Photography. We'll review the 2023 WPOTY images, and the Pinner 2023 competition. Finally we'll share some inspiration for Intimate Landscape photography. | Home |
| 25th January 2024 | Speaker 5 - James Kerwin
Abandoned Architecture | Home |
| 1st February 2024 | Competition 4 - DIGITAL
Street photography
Judged by Colin Mill | Small Hall |
| 8th February 2024 | Alvin will demonstrate some basic features of Photoshop to encourage members to give it a try. We'll then present and discuss some images that have been modified using AI. Finally Adrian will demonstrate how to use AI in Photoshop. This evening will be of interest to all, whether or not you are interested in Photoshop itself. | Small Hall |
| 15th February 2024 | Review of May 2023 workshop, ideas for future workshops. Then an Image Surgery - we'll break in to groups to discuss recent competition images and to give each oher feedback on images we bring in. | Small Hall |
| 22nd February 2024 | Speaker 6 - Mike Martin
Mike charts his journey into creative portraits, discussing how to get started, the value of collaboration with others, thoughts, composition and style. He'll de-mystify the process and encourage members to become more adventurous and have a go themselves. Mike is an Ambassador for Fotospeed, a photographic paper company. | Small Hall |
| 29th February 2024 | Competition 5 - PRINT
Counterpoint in the environment
Judged by Kathy Chantler | Small Hall |
| 7th March 2024 | Peter will review the challenge of panels and there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss each of them. He will then rollout the next challenge for which we'll have planty of time! | Home |
| 14th March 2024 | Speaker 7 - Steven Fairbrother
The Full Monty Predominantly wildlife and landscape photography, but also including drone, aviation, macro and architectural images, this talk aims to have something for everybody. It also includes videos taken with a DSLR and drone.
You’ll hear the stories behind the images, what I was hoping to achieve and how I went about it. As a helpful guide, camera settings accompany each image. | Small Hall |
| 21st March 2024 | Interclub Intimate Landscapes Competition
Digital on Zoom | Home |
| 28th March 2024 | Our Annual Exhibition - please bring 2 printed and mounted images, and copy the images in to Dropbox before the end of Wednesday. There will be a bar for charity. Feel free to bring friends and family. | Small Hall |
| 4th April 2024 | Easter Break | |
| 11th April 2024 | Easter Break | |
| 18th April 2024 | Competition 6 - DIGITAL
Environmental portrait
Judge Chris Forster | Small Hall |
| 25th April 2024 | Speaker 8- Chris Palmer
Chris will discuss the creative process that he uses, both when out shooting, and subsequently when producing his prints. He will show many of my latest prints, and culminate in the work he produced to earn his RPS Fellowship. www.chrispalmerphotographer.co.uk | Small Hall |
| 2nd May 2024 | AGM
Presentation of competition winners/runners up and awards
Hall of Fame presentation
Summer “Projects”
Comedy Wildlife Awards 2023
Funny Images | Small Hall |
| 9th May 2024 | 3-Way Competition
TDCC, Ealing PS & Image Z | Church Hall |
| 16th May 2024 | End of Season Social | |
| 23rd May 2024 | Peter to host an evening photographing Berkhamsted at dusk. | |
| 30th May 2024 | Alvin & Brenda to host an evening photographing Tring Park or Amersham | |
