Corona Virus (COVID 19) update: ALL MEETINGS ARE NOW ON-LINE USING ZOOM CONFERENCING UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Time and Place

Meetings are at 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start. Our normal meeting place is the North Chadderton Conservative Club (The Blue Club), Victoria Street, Chadderton OL9 0HH. At present, due to Covid-19 restrictions, we are only meeting online. See programme of meetings below.

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Month	Day	ZOOM MEETING details - will be emailed to all members in time for the meeting.
Apr	9	Trial of Zoom and Online OPS Meetings
	16	Macro, Hand in for Appraisal
	23	On-line Q&A
	30	Appraisal
May	7	On-line Q&A
	14	Spring Flowers & Garden Birds Gallery, Hand in for 1st Quarterly
	21	David Keep ARPS CPAGB BPE4 PROJECT BASED APPROACH TO PHOTOGRAPHY - producing images with the Wow factor
	28	First Quarterly Judging - by Nigel Plant - with Zoom
June	4	Photography Talk with Mike Lawrence DPAGB AFIAP
	11	Colour Red Gallery
	18	What's in your Bag - Member Talk
	25	Appraisal PDI
July	2	"Architecture" Les Forrester BA Hons photo, ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3
	9	"Passion for Photography" - Chris Upton ARPS
	16	2nd Quarterly - Judged by Keith Barber FIScT CPAGB LRPS
	23	"Lighting the Subject" with Gavin Taylor
	30	Appraisal - Documentary photographs only (please see the OPS Annual Competitions Rules for definition)
Aug	6	Summerschool: Better Macro Photography - with Christine Widdall MPAGB EFIAP FBPE APAGB HonLCPU
	13	Summerschool: Photoshop Composites - with Eddie Leach CPAGB
	20	Summerschool: Photoshop - cutting out without cutting out - with Mike Lawrence DPAGB AFIAP
	27	Appraisal
Sept	3	"Mono Moods" Colin Jarvis MA Photo, FD Photo, PGCE ARPS
	10	An Evening with Barbie and Russell Lyndsay MPAGB EFIAP FBPE
	17	President's Evening - Speaker - Steve Proctor DPAGB BPE5*
	24	AGM - by Zoom Meeting - Followed by presentation of awards from this year's annual competitions (Christine will hold them up to the camera and everyone will applaud) - followed by a slide show of the awarded images from the event presented by Mike Lawrence.
Oct	1	Presentation of latest folios from L&CPU
	8	Texture Aftermath - Pictures using a texture on them - upload your images to the portal
	15	Mike Martin AFIAP AWPF - "It is not what you make it is what you see".
	22	Appraisal
	29	Photoshop Composite Challenge Aftermath - upload your images to the portal
Nov	5	3rd Quarterly Results - Judged by James Hardy CPAGB LRPS
	12	Jenny Hibbert MPAGB, EFIAP AWPF- "Wildlife photography essentials".
	19	Appraisal
	26	High Speed Flash Photography - Mike Lawrence DPAGB AFIAP
Dec	3	Tony North BPE3 CPAGB The art of Macro
	10	The Square Crop - trying to make things in a square - Gallery
	17	Christmas Party - Social Night / Quiz
	24	Closed Christmas Holidays
	31	Closed Christmas Holidays
Jan 2021	7	Night Photography
	14	Critique Night with a judge - Peter Jones ARPS DPAGB BPE3 Nature
	21	High Speed Flash photography - aftermath
	28	Appraisals Landscapes & Open
Feb	4	Battle with Rochdale CC & IOM - Zoom
	11	4th Quarterly Competition - Jeremy Malley-Smith LRPS DPAGB BPE2
	18	Alan Saunders - Wildlife Talk
	25	Mono reflections - Gallery aftermath - Colin Jarvis MA Photo, FD Photo, PGCE, ARPS
March	4	Annual Club Competition part 1 - Judged by Marilyn Roberts DPAGB BPE2
	11	Annual Club Competition part 2 - Judged by Marilyn Roberts DPAGB BPE2
	18	Scottish Wildlife - Jeremy Malley-Smith LRPS DPAGB BPE2
	25	TBC (possibly Adrian Deaville competition)
		Updated 10th Dec 2020