Meetings 2025-2026

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Thu 4 Dec 2025 - Colour Print Competition (Joe Sipos Trophy) (Judge: Jim Bennett)

7:00pm

The last competition before the Christmas break, the Print Colour competition, with Jim Bennett returning to the club to decide who is awarded the Joe Sipos Trophy for 2025-26...

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Wed 3 Dec 2025 - 4-Way External Competition (hosted at Ely)

7:15pm

Come along to Ely for this annual fixture against our local friends and rival clubs, St Ives, St Neots and Ely, this year hosted by Ely Photographic Club...

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Thu 27 Nov 2025 - Sara Rawlinson "Fine Art Photography"

7:00pm

Sara Rawlinson is a multi award winning local artist from Cambridge who uses her photography to create fine art prints...

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Thu 20 Nov 2025 - Members' Night: From eclipses to London streets to audiovisual presentations

7:00pm

Come along and hear on a range of subjects from three of our own members - Jon Watkins will speak on how to photograph eclipses, Roger Orr's presentation topic is the streets of London, and Ian Johnson will demonstrate using PTE to make an audiovisual presentation. 

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Tue 18 Nov 2025 - Zoom Advisory Night: Colour Print Competition (Joe Sipos Trophy)

7:30pm

An informal evening on zoom ahead of the fourth competition of the 2025-26 season. You are welcome to share digital versions of images you are thinking of submitting for the Colour Print competition, whether for constructive feedback or to help you choose which to submit... 

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Thu 13 Nov 2025 - Set Subject "VERY BIG or very small" (Judge: Clive Harward)

7:00pm

The first of our Set Subject competitions this season is on the theme "VERY BIG or very small" and we are delighted to welcome Clive Harward to judge our images...

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Thu 6 Nov 2025 - Bob Brind-Surch "From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary part 2: Smart Shooting"

7:00pm

Possibly one of our most charismatic speakers, Bob Brind-Surch returns to give us the second of his talks about taking your camera off auto setttings and taking control... 

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Tue 28 Oct 2025 - Zoom Advisory Night: Set Subject "VERY BIG or very small"

7:30pm

An informal evening on zoom ahead of the third competition of the 2025-26 season. You are welcome to share digital versions of images you are thinking of submitting for the first Set Subject competition, on the theme "VERY BIG or very small", whether for constructive feedback or to help you choose which to submit... 

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Thu 23 Oct 2025 - Monochrome Print Trophy (Judge: David Steel DPAGB)

7:00pm

The second competition of the season is the Monochrome Print Trophy and we are pleased to welcome David Steel to judge the entries... 

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Thu 16 Oct 2025 - Ashley Franklin "The Wider World of Photography: Part 2"

7:00pm

Ashley is a professional photographer based in Derbyshire and has a varied and colourful career in the photographic world. He is particularly known for his photography of the Derwent Valley where he lives...

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Thu 9 Oct 2025 - Paul Haworth "Capturing light and night"

7:00pm

Paul is an award-winning landscape astrophotographer and filmmaker based in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Through his cinematic nightscape adventures, he brings the audience into the tranquillity of the landscape at night to join him chasing starry skies, the Milky Way and the aurora while he captures compelling images that reveal the majesty of the cosmos above our heads...

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Tue 7 Oct 2025 - Friendly vs St Ives (away) - 'Mix and Match'

7:30pm

Come along to St Ives for a new look to our annual fixture against our local friends and rivals St Ives Photographic Club - a 'Mix and Match' competition. It sounds like fun - click on the title above for more details of how a Mix and Match competition works...

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Thu 2 Oct 2025 - Annual PDI competition (Judge: Daphne Hanson DPAGB HonPAGB)

7:00pm

As is traditional, we kick off the competition year with the Annual PDI (projected digital image) competition, and we are delighted to welcome Daphne Hanson DPAGB HonPAGB to judge this year's entries...

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Tue 30 Sep 2025 - Zoom Advisory Night: Monochrome Print and competition entry arrangements

7:30pm

An informal evening on Zoom ahead of the second competition of the 2025-26 season. You are welcome to share digital versions of images you are thinking of submitting for the Monochrome Print competition, whether for constructive feedback or to help you choose which to submit... 

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Thu 25 Sep 2025 - Various Members "How to Present Images"

7:00pm

For this night we will have a number of short presentations and some live demonstrations about various aspects of image presentation especially the dark arts of producing the perfect prints...

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Thu 18 Sep 2025 - Dave Stewart LBPPA "Faces & Figures"

7:00pm

Something of a “larger than life” character, we have been treated in the past to Dave’s images of various high octane sporting events and he is also well known as an aviation and rock concert photographer.  This time we are treated to another of his passions - people...

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Tue 16 Sep 2025 - Zoom Advisory Night: Annual PDI and competition entry arrangements

7:30pm

An informal evening on Zoom ahead of the first competition of the new season. You are welcome to share images you are thinking of submitting for the Annual PDI competition, whether for constructive feedback or to help you choose which to submit... 

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Thu 11 Sep 2025 - Will Cheung FRPS - My Passion for Photography (an update)

7:00pm

A bit of a photographic legend, Will Cheung is a freelance photographer and imaging journalist. He has edited most photographic magazines that you might have heard of like Practical Photography, Digital Photo, Advanced Photographer and Photography News...

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Thu 4 Sep 2025 - Welcome Evening: free for all to attend

7:00pm

The new season kicks off with our Welcome Evening - all are invited to come along to meet us and find out more about the club. We meet at Swavesey Village College, and there is usually plenty of parking. We'll put up signs in the reception to direct you to the right meeting room on arrival... 

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