Time and Place
Our meeting place is the North Chadderton Conservative Club (The Blue Club), Victoria Street, Chadderton, OL9 0HH.
Map to North Chadderton Conservative Club.
Parking: there is free parking in the evenings in Victoria Street in the car park opposite the club.
Meetings are at 7:15pm for a 7:45pm start. Doors open from 7 pm. A few meetings will offer streaming by Zoom.
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Programme
| Date | Event | How Presented | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th March | Model Shoot – Headshots | Bring Cameras | |
| 12th March | Appraisal – PDIs only – focussed on L&CPU Annuals | At the Blue Club TBC | Upload to portal You can have any image appraised but the focus will be on the images you intend to enter for the LCPU Individuals Competition |
| 19th March | British Wildlife -Andy Sands | By Zoom NB Zoom from home – we are NOT at the Blue Club British Wildlife will cover mammals, birds, insects etc from the British Isles. | www.andysands.co.uk |
| TUES 24th March | Adrian Deaville memorial Competition | By Zoom NB Zoom from home – we are NOT at the Blue Club Hosted by Rochdale and District CC | Run by Rochdale and District CC |
| 26th March | Minimalism Aftermath | Upload to portal | |
| 2nd April | Monochrome Gallery | Upload to portal | |
| 9th April | Battle with Daisy Nook | ||
| 16th April | Appraisal Prints and PDI | Upload to portal | |
| 23rd April | Close up / Macro Photography | Practical – bring cameras | |
| 30th April | 3rd Quarterly Competition | Upload to portal | |
| 7th May | “The Wild Side” | Steve Proctor MPAGB BPE5 PPSA | A digital talk on my Nature photography. |
| 14th May | “Texturetastic” | Jane Lazenby BA (Hons) ASEA, QTFE2, LRPS, DPAGB, AWPF, BPE5 EFIAP/B, FMPA | Covering the technique of using textures in post processing. |
| 21st May | Mini-Warwick | Fun style internal competition | |
| 28th May | Appraisal PDI / Prints | Upload to portal | |
| 4th June | Practical | Tabletop Photography | |
| 11th June | Members’ Evening | 10 of the best | |
| 18 June | John Widdall Trophy | A competition for Close Up and Macro, Architecture, Stitched Panaromic and Montage | Judged by Richard Speirs DPAGB HonPAGB HonNCPF from Dalston PS |
| 25 June | Beautiful Bugs: Discovering a Hidden World | Ann Healey FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/g A.APS BPE5* | Presented by a multi-award winning nature photographer, members will be treated to a feast of insect images, showing numerous different species, including many they will not have seen before. |
| 02 July | Nature Morte – The Dark Art of Still Life” | Gary Waldson | |
| 09 July | Appraisal PDI / Prints | Upload to portal | |
| 16 July | Looking Local by Chris Shepherd | As photographers we often suffer from “Locational Myopia”, constantly wishing we were in some exotic location with the best possible equipment. In this talk, I detail my fight with locational Myopia and ways to overcome it as well as a personal journey to become a landscape photographer. | |
| 23 July | 4th quarterly | ||
| 30 July | Challenge Aftermath – “Textures” | Aftermath of Janey Lazenby evening | |
| 06 Aug | Summerschool | ||
| 13 Aug | Summerschool | ||
| 20 Aug | Summerschool | ||
| 27 Aug | Summerschool | ||
| 03 Sept | Annual Competitions | New Format this year – please read the rules carefully | |
| 10 Sept | Annual Competitions | New Format this year – please read the rules carefully |