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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4th June | Practical | Tabletop Photography | |
| 11th June | Club Outing | Details in email | |
| 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 – The History of Fine Art Photography | Mike Lawrence | |
| 13 Aug | Summerschool – Fine Art Photography Up to Date | Christine Widdall and Jeni Harney | |
| 20 Aug | Summerschool – Sports Photography | Eddie Leach | |
| 27 Aug | Summerschool – Beyond the Postcard – Fine Art Landscape | Christine Widdall and Gill Brett | |
| 03 Sept | Annual Competitions (entries now closed) | Judged by Steve Proctor | New Format this year – please read the rules carefully |
| 10 Sept | Street and Urban and Travel | Presented by Gavin Taylor | A selection of Prints showing different types of street and urban locations and travelling with your phone |
| 17 Sept | Presidents Evening – a 40 year Retrospective in Prints | Plus buffet supper | |
| 24 Sept | AGM – and Presentation of Awards and Trophies | ||
| 01 Oct | A Feeling of Impressionism by Steven Le Prevost’ | Steven Le Prevost MPAGB FRPS FIPF AFIAP BPE5 | Zoom |
| 08 Oct | Appraisal PDI / Prints | ||
| 15 Oct | Gallery Close Up and Macro and Table Top and Bugs | Member Evening – Upload to Portal | |
| 22 Oct | Evolve Battle | Our Annual Battle against Evolve | |
| 29 Oct | Halloween Shoot | Time to dress up and model as scary as you like | |
| 05 Nov | 1st Quarterly | Yes, it’s competition time again! | |
| 12 Nov | TBA | ||
| 19 Nov | Wildlife For All Seasons | Robert Harvey BA ARPS EFIAP CEnv CSci MCIWEM | Exciting wildlife photographs do not require overseas travel! Featuring owls, kingfishers, puffins, hares, otters, seals and deer, this talk shows how, when and where to make striking images of iconic British species in the wild. |
| 26 Nov | Members “10 of the best” | ||
| 3 Dec | Folios from L&CPU | ||
| 10 Dec | Gallery – Sports Photography | UPload to Portal | |
| 17 Dec | Christmas Party – Social Night / Quiz | (Don’t ask Chris) | |
| 24 Dec | Christmas Holiday | Happy Holidays everyone! | |
| 31 Dec | Christmas Holiday | Happy Holidays everyone! |