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.)

11 April - Cranleigh hosted the 2-way interclub competion with Ludshott which was judged by Sheena Rogers ARPS. Congratulations to Ludshott Camera Club winning both the Nature and Open sections with a very strong selection of images. The overall points awarded were:

Section	Cranleigh Camera Club	Ludshott Camera Club
Nature	88.5	91.5
Open	161.0	169.0
Total	249.5	260.5

Cranleigh club members can view the full table of results in the members area using this link Table of results.

28 March and 4 April 2024 - No meetings - The club's EASTER BREAK

23 March - The club held its annual exhibition at the Cranleigh Village Hall. We had 213 prints and 119 projected digital images on display in 12 categories and we received much praise from visitors for the high standard of prints on show. Rob Bonfield judged the exhibition entries and declared Elephants enjoying the dust as the overall winner and Best in Exhibition.

Chris Flood
Elephants enjoying the dust by Mike Hall

A full summary of the exhibition category winners is shown in the table below. (The full table of awards can be found in the members only section.)

Category	Image title	Photographer
1 - Monochrome Prints, Open Subject	Peloton	Chris Flood FIPF ARPS
2 - Monochrome Prints, Landscape	Two trees on a golf course	Miles Thompson
3 - Colour Prints, Open Subject	Pipes of a different hue	Angela Karney
4 - Colour Prints, Landscape	On Thursley Common	Chris Flood FIPF ARPS
5 - Colour Prints, Nature	Elephants enjoying the dust (BIE)	Mike Hall
6 - Prints, Digital Art	We plough the fields	Donna Gorin LRPS
7 - Prints, Portraits	Street portrait	Pete Baldrey
8 - Projected, Open Subject	Abstracts in ice	Ann Smith ARPS
9 - Projected, Landscape	Namibia with dune	Elizabeth Bulley
10 - Projected, Nature	Four-spotted chasers mating	Ann Smith ARPS
11 - Projected, Digital Art	The sensation of speed	Tim Cheshire
12 - PDI Panels	Bathroom Capers	Ann Smith ARPS

The exhibition venue and exhibits in the main hall - pictures by Donna Gorin

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 emblematic 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 competition 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 dragonflies 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 Baldrey	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 Elizabeth Bulley and Plastic fantastic by Donna Gorin