Cranleigh Camera Club

CCC is a small friendly club catering for people of all ages and photographic abilities and is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain through the Surrey Photographic Association.

If you enjoy photography and may be looking to improve your photographic skills, or wish to share your photographic experiences with other like minded people, then please come along to one of our meetings. The "About Us" tab above provides more information about the club and how to find us. You can also find us on the Cranleigh Camera Club Group Facebook page on the internet. (See "Useful Links" on this page to access our Facebook site.)

 

Roundup of recent club activities

(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)

21 March - Our 4th PDI + Mono prints competitions with the set subject Less is more was judged by Tim Morland ARPS. In the PDI competition he awarded maximum marks to Julian Hall in the open section and to Angela Karney in the set subject.
In the Mono print competition he awarded 10 to images from Chris Flood and Elizabeth Bulley in the open section and to images from Chris Flood and Mike Guy for the set subject as follows:

PDI Open section:

    
Egret with Lizard by Julian Hall

PDI Set subject section - Less is more


Pebble on the beach by Angela Karney

Mono print Open section:

    
Man with an Eccentric Hat by Chris Flood and The shelter by Elizabeth Bulley

Mono print Set subject section - Less is more

    
Three Cormorants on a Pole by Chris Flood and Early morning swimmer, Tilgate lake by Mike Guy

14 March - An excellent presentation by club member Chris Flood FIPF ARPS - Into the west: aspects of Ireland. He gave a brief geo political overview of Donegal, the most northern county in Ireland, re its population, economy, climate, etc. and illustrated his talk with numerous images showing the varied landscapes, seascapes and skyscapes taken at different times of year, as well as the fauna and flora of the region. He concluded with examples of interesting photogenic buildings, ruins, historic edifices and shrines that are emblamatic of the county. Some examples illustrating his talk are shown below.

  

      

 

7 March - Graeme Wales CPAGB judged our 4th colour print competition which included the Set subject: Less is more. He awarded images from Ron Boon and Norman Price a 10 in the open section and to Paul Jenks and Ron Boon for their images in the set subject section.

Open section:

    
Ladies day out by Ron Boon and The Rembrandt touch by Norman Price

Set subject section - Less is more


Crosby beach by Ron Boon

 

29 February  - Our annual Match-a-Print competition was judged by Ron Boon. Both teams each had 40 images from which they could chose a match and in a close fought competition the ladies team narrowly beat the gentlemen’s team by a mere 3 points (29 vs 26) having been 15-14 down at half time. The gentleman managed to match only 8 of the 20 ladies prints and where the ladies went first the ladies managed only 7 matches but as they had had more prints judged as the better image, 22 to the men's 18, they were the overall winners of the competition. All in all a good fun evening with much heckling and good humour!

22 February  - A meeting reserved simply for members to bring all their entries and completed entry forms for the club's Annual Exhibition which will be held on Saturday 23 March 2024.

15 February  - Our Reg Mullard wild flora and fauna competitonwas was judged by Roger Reynolds FRPS APAGB. There were 34 prints and 36 PDIs and, in what proved to be a strong competition, he judged Ann Smith's PDI of two drgonflies mating in flight as the overall winner, narrowly beating Tim Cheshire's winning print of Pintail ducks arriving.


Four-spotted chasers mating in flight by Ann Smith.


Pintail ducks arriving at evening sunlight by Tim Cheshire.

Those receiving awards in both print and PDI sections are shown in the table below.

  Print section   PDI section
  Photographer Title of print   Photographer Title of PDI
1st Tim Cheshire Pintail ducks arriving at evening sunlight 1st Ann Smith ** Four-spotted chasers mating in flight
2nd Paul Jenks Robin 2nd Miles Thompson Curlew
3rd Ron Boon Kingfisher 3rd Pete Bladrey Cotylorhiza tuberculata
HC Tim Cheshire Fritillary HC Donna Gorin Barn owl
HC Miles Thompson Barn owl HC Miles Thompson Dragonfly in flight
C Stefan Foryszewski Heron C Mike Hall Watchful Lioness with flies
C Ed Hull Ladybird grub C Angela Karney Red deer in long grass

** Overall winner in competition.     HC = Highly Commended;     C = Commended

8 February - A presentation Exploring the Italian Dolomites and Iceland with James Rushforth – an unexpected career in photography and guidebook writing.

In his talk James described his unexpected and fortuitous journey into outdoor and adventure photography and writing; from first picking up a camera in 2012 to his success at the British and International Photography awards just a decade later. James’ transient lifestyle, moving between the pale mountains of the Italian Dolomites to the wilds of Iceland, led to the creation of three photo-location guidebooks, showcasing his images and providing cultural and local information for visitors to his adopted regions. This presentation followed his natural progression from adventure to landscape photography, focusing on the logistics and creative nuances of both.

The pictures below, copyright of James Rushworth, are some examples from his talk.

JR Image 1   JR Image 2

1 February - Simon Street FRPS (10 awards) FIPF judged our 3rd PDI and Mono print competitions and gave a balanced critique of the 28 PDIs and 29 mono prints in both competitions, praising the club on the quality and diversity of all the images on show. In the PDI competition, after holding back 10 images, he awarded three images from Elizabeth Bulley, Donna Gorin and Mike Harrison the maximum score of 10 as shown below:

The winning PDIs were:

    
Keeping watch by Elizbeth Bulley and Plastic fantastic by Donna Gorin


Cock pheasant by Mike Harrison

In the Mono print competition, after holding back 9 images, he awarded the following images from Mike Hall, Chris Flood and Tim Cheshire 10 points:

    
Crowfoot glacier by Mike Hall and Peloton by Chris Flood


I spy with my little eye by Tim Cheshire

 

 

 

Latest News

 

CLUB MEETINGS

Doors open at 7:45pm for 8:00pm start

Unless stated otherwise all club meetings in 2023-24 will be held in the school room at the rear of the Baptist Church in St James's Place, Cranleigh.

Thursday 28 March and 4 April 2024

NO MEETINGS - EASTER BREAK

Thursday 11 April 2024

2-way PDI competition against Ludshott Camera Club which will be judged by Prof. Sheena Rogers. Note this will be a Zoom only meeting.

Thursday 18 April 2024

5th open Colour prints competition to be judged by David Smith LRPS CPAGB. The mounts of both prints must not exceed 500mm x 400mm in size.


The club programme for 2023-24 can be seen using the programme tab above.

 

OUTSIDE CLUB EVENTS

TBA.

There are no further outside club events planned at this point in time


 

Useful Links

Visit Cranleigh Camera Club Group on our Facebook page using the link below

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Other photography links:

SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.

Royal Photographic Society. SE

Photographic Alliance of Great Britain