We meet on Wednesdays at The Church Hall, Danesholme Community Centre, Motala Close, Corby NN18 9EJ at 8pm. Admission is £2.00 and includes a raffle ticket to help with the cost of the room. The Outdoor Meetings start at 6.45pm and there is no meeting charge. Visitors are welcome for 3 weeks free of charge before being invited to join.
APRIL 2023
5th APRIL 2023 Annual Print Competition Judge Dave Stewart
12th APRIL 2023 Annual PDI Competition
19th APRIL 2023 “Wats in Thailand and Much More Besides” Graham Neville (www.graham-neville.me.uk ) No, not a spelling mistake. Wats are Buddhist temples in Thailand. This Travelogue takes you around Bangkok looking at the city, temples and the Royal Palace before moving onto Phuket Island.
3rd MAY 2023 Presidents Evening Barry Knott Nostalgic evening with prints and stories
10th MAY 2023 Mobile Phone Shots Six images taken on a mobile phone on a single theme of your choice and up to 4 themes allowed.
17th MAY 2023 Interclub Print Battle CPC v Wellingborough & District Photographic Club 20 prints from each club only 3 from any one author
24th MAY 2023 “Portraits With Personality” John Lewis LRPS BA(Hons) Photography (www.johnalewis.co.uk) Showing the ‘personality’ of the sitter is now endemic in the photography media. This presentation looks at how you might go about showing a sitter’s personality in a portrait and how effective other artists and photographers have been over the years in achieving this. The presentation draws from the author’s own work, the art world and a selection of the photographic ‘masters’ both historical and contemporary.
5th JULY 2023 - Photographing Field Mice Location: Brigstock with Bob and Ann Surch There will be a charge for this event of TBA 12th JULY 2023 Outdoor Meeting 6.45pm Rockingham
26th JULY 2023 Club Monthly PDI Competition Subject "Open”
AUGUST 2023
2nd AUGUST 2023 Outdoor Meeting 6.45pm Seaton
9th AUGUST 2023 - Print Competition Subject: "Open" Judge:
16th AUGUST 2023 Outdoor Meeting 6.45pm Rushden Lakes
23rd AUGUST 2023 Ten on a Theme on a Mobile Phone Meet at Geddington Ten unedited, uncropped images to be taken on a mobile phone in one hour on any theme. Images will be shown at the club on 21st September. Only images that have not had the EXIF details removed and are completely unedited will be considered for a prize awarded for the best theme. Barry Knott 6.45pm
30th AUGUST 2023 Farming Life Judge Jonathan Vaines
SEPTEMBER 2023
6th SEPTEMBER 2023 - Members Evening The Showing of "Ten on a Theme on a Mobile Phone" Presenter: Barry Knott
11th OCTOBER 2023 - Quadrangle Competition Four Nations PDI Battle Corby, England v Wrexham, Wales v Hamilton, Scotland v ARDS, Ireland Judge:Margaret Salisbury FRPS APAGB MFIAP AWPF Due to the nature of this event and so each club can participate live it will only be held remotely on zoom. There will be no meeting at Danesholme.
18th OCTOBER 2023 - “My Photography” Speaker: David Gibbins “This is split into two parts. Part 1 looks at the pictures I like to take. I love looking for patterns and this is a theme throughout the talk. The first half looks at early work, trees, doors and windows, architecture. It includes a few audio visual sequences as that is another aspect of photography that I enjoy considerably. The second part shows some of the images that helped me progress from EFIAP to EFIAP/bronze. There are a number of before and after images.”
25th OCTOBER 2023 - Club Monthly DPI Competition Subject "Harvest Still Life Zoom Only Judge: Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE5
NOVEMBER 2023
1st NOVEMBER 2023 - "More of my Travels" Speaker: Colin Bloor
8th NOVEMBER 2023 - Macro Photography Speaker: Bob Brind-Surch (www.naturesphotos.co.uk) “This is a very practical talk and I demonstrate many of the techniques I describe and bring along a great deal of macro equipment to demonstrate and discuss. Lighting macro shots is always a problem, so I spend some time exploring options. I also discuss and demonstrate techniques of particular value to macro photographers such as focus stacking.”
15th NOVEMBER 2023 - Club Print Competition Subject "Open" Judge: Kenneth Page
22nd NOVEMBER 2023 - Lucky Dip
29th NOVEMBER 2023 - Club Monthly PDI Competition Subject "Open” Zoom Judge: Barby Lindsey MPAGB, FBPE, EFIAP/s AWPF
DECEMBER 2023
6th DECEMBER 2023 - Print Selection Critique Selecting our best 20 prints to enter in 2024 external competitions
13th DECEMBER 2023 - Christmas Dinner
20th DECEMBER 2023 - Club Monthly PDI Competition Subject "Naturally Framed" Judge: Richard Houghton
27th December - Christmas Break No Meeting
JANUARY 2024
3rd JANUARY 2024 - Ten Minutes of Fame
10th JANUARY 2024 - “Endless Skies” Speaker: Malcolm Cook
17th JANUARY 2024 - Club Print Competition Subject "Open" Judge: David Gibbins ARPS APAGB EFIAP/b BPE5* CPAGB/AV
14th FEBRUARY 2024 - Following The Inca Road in South America Speaker: Peter Crichton This talk arises from a section of our second circuit of the Planet, this time in the Southern Hemisphere. We always set an objective for each continent, and in the case of South America, we researched the ancient and historic route devised by the Inca civilisation to link their new-found nation from Southern Chile to Columbia (as they are today). The chosen route lies mostly through the upper regions of the Andes, and most importantly, much of it is still there. Google Earth was an enormous help in researching our route!
13th MARCH 2024 - "Compose Yourself" Speaker: Johnathan Vaines AFIAP CPAGB LRPS This is in introduction to what many people find a "black Art". We all know we have to compose our images but what is composition? This talk introduces you to the basic of composition and some more complex ways of structuring a photograph. The PowerPoint presented talk is supported by 35 high quality prints. All images are taken by either myself or my wife. The range of images span successful club images through to International medal and award winners.
20th MARCH 2024 - Club Monthly PDI Competition Subject "Open” Judge: Harry Emmett