Meetings 2024-2025

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Thu 19 Dec 2024 - Club trip into Cheltenham to shoot the Christmas festivities

7:30pm

Andy Roberts is organising a club trip into Cheltenham to shoot the Christmas festivities. Meet opposite Queens Hotel @ 7:17-7:30pm. Tripod an advantage but not essential.

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Tue 17 Dec 2024 - Christmas Party

7:30pm

Club Christmas get-together at the Victory Club Lypiatt Road.

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Thu 12 Dec 2024 - Print Aggregate Competition, Round 2

7:30pm

Print Competition for colour and monochrome images in advanced and intermediate sections.

Judge: Louise Hill

Submit entries by November 28th

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Thu 5 Dec 2024 - Warren Alani - Sports Photography

7:30pm

By Zoom at Home

Warren's photography particularly focuses on sports, portraiture, architecture and travel, as well as street-style snapshots. In addition to his RPS and FIAP awards, he also holds the coveted MPAGB Distinction. His photographs were selected for the prestigious 'PAGB Masters of Print' exhibition for seven consecutive years.

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Thu 28 Nov 2024 - Harry Sedgwick Competiton

7:30pm

This annual competition is named after the late Harry Sedgwick, a CCC member whose photographic passions were landscape, people and architecture. Every year the subject rotates among those three genres. This year's theme is people. Members each submit three images which are scored out of 20 by the external judge. The member with the highest total wins. An enjoyable but tense evening is assured.

Judge: Lee Spencer Fleet

Hand in entries by November 14th

Submit entries for the Print Aggregate Competition - Round 2

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Thu 21 Nov 2024 - PDI Aggregate Competition, Round 2

7:30pm

Round 2 of the competition for Projected Images Competition for digital images in colour or monochrome for advanced and intermediate sections.

Judge: Steve Field (TBC)


Submit Entries by November 7th

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Thu 14 Nov 2024 - Mark Sisson - From Alaska to Argentina

7:30pm

Shropshire-based Mark is one of the UK's leading wildlife photographers, a job he describes as 'The best job in the world'. He has been awarded in many wildlife competitions and won the 'Outdoor Photographer of the Year' title in 2011. A number of CCC members have been on his trips and assure us that we are in for a great night.


Submit entries for Harry Sedgwick Competition - People.

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Tue 12 Nov 2024 - Battle v Cheltenham USA - Postponed. New date TBA

7:30pm

On Zoom At Home

Our annual online battle against our namesake club in Philadelphia. Uniquely this happens twice in the day, once with an American judge and once with a British Judge. The outcomes can be very different!

Judges: TBA

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Thu 7 Nov 2024 - Jonathan Genevaux - Waterscapes of the UK and France

7:30pm

Jonathan grew up on the West coast of France, in a rural region wedged between the sandy waters of the Gironde estuary and the wild Atlantic Ocean. He first worked as a portraitist for a professional studio in the French Alps, and as a sports photographer for the UK studio DE Photo in Bristol. He travelled widely and says: "I started to notice that wherever I went, and whatever type of photography I explored, something kept drawing me back to that one element: water".


Submit entries for PDI Aggregate Competition - Round 2

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Thu 31 Oct 2024 - David Lingham FRPS - Creating Series and RPS Fellowship

7:30pm

David started taking pictures in the late 60's using the family Kodak Instamatic camera and was awarded his FRPS in 2000. Today he works exclusively in black and white analogue film photography with both 35mm and 6x6 medium film formats, using a variety of cameras including pinhole and Holga

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Thu 24 Oct 2024 - Print Aggregate Competition, Round 1

7:30pm

Competition for colour and monochrome images in advanced and intermediate sections.

Judge: Peter Gennard MFIAP EFIAP/p

Submit Entries by October 10th

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Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Julian Elliott Photography - Last minute change

7:30pm

In a last-minute change to the advertised programme due to illness, we are pleased to welcome Julian Elliott, a popular travel photographer. See https://www.julianelliottphotography.com/. Julian will present a specially curated set of images from the past year.

This presentation will be via Zoom in the hall.

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Thu 10 Oct 2024 - Mike Martin - Shooting People

7:30pm

Mike is a club photographer who is making quite a name for himself for his portraits. He says: "Until a few years ago, my portraits were mostly candids with a rare shoot on a club studio evening - then it changed, having tagged along with some inspiring people, who got me started. I've now worked with 80+ models and am adding more all the time.

Hand-in entries for Print Aggregate Competition Round 1

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Thu 3 Oct 2024 - PDI Aggregate Competition, Round 1

7:30pm

Projected Images Competition for digital images in colour or monochrome for advanced and intermediate sections.

Judge: Les Loosemore ARPS DPAGB AWPF


Submit Entries by September 19th

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Thu 26 Sep 2024 - Kim Dung Duong - Travel, Surrealism and Personal Projects

7:30pm

Kim Dung Duong is a photographer specialising in surrealism and portrait documentary. She works as an art director in the advertising industry and has a degree in graphic design. She says: "My photography combines advertising language with documentary photography, resulting in striking compositions, vivid colours, and inspiring moods that provoke thought and evoke emotion."

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Thu 19 Sep 2024 - Megan Williams - Five Years On!

7:30pm

Five years ago Megan Williams presented to us as one of the students at the University of Gloucestershire. Now having graduated with a 1st class degree in Editorial and Advertising Photography, she comes back as a successful photographer specialising in canine, equine and farming subjects.


Submit Entries for PDI Aggregate Competition Round 1

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Thu 12 Sep 2024 - Print Appreciation Evening

7:30pm

A popular and interactive evening, great for talking about photographs and photography. Members gather in small groups to discuss the highlights and lowlights of pictures submitted anonymously by other members.

Please bring along some prints of any size (mounted or unmounted) for an evening of small-group friendly discussions and critique.

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Thu 5 Sep 2024 - CISP Evening

7:30pm

We start the new season with a video celebration of the best entries from the Cheltenham International Salon of Photography 2024. Produced by Richard McCleery, the video is a real visual feast and showcase of the best photography from around the world.

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