Meetings 2023-2024

Lisa Randall - Dare To Be Different (19:30)

Lisa will be doing a presentation on ICM, double exposure and Digital Creative Art photography.

Animation for AV - Andrew would like to show you a variety of simple animation techniques for use in PicturesToExe. We’ll follow that up with some examples of his work

Please note that this presentation is on Zoom at home. A joining link will be sent.

Please bring your camera!

Whether you use a point and shoot for snaps or a bridge camera for this practical evening it’s all about taking photographs and learning something new.

William is from our twinned club in the US. 

Note: this presentation is on Zoom, but will not be at the hall

A further selection of images continuing on the same theme as our first talk. showing a selection of our images - ranging from FIAP gold medal awarded images all the way to pictures that we do not enter into competitions – but they are all simply 'Wot we Like'.

Tonight we will be joined by award winning visual artist, Graeme Purdy, via Zoom.   Graeme will be showcasing his fine art wildlife images as he takes us on a photographic journey featuring incredible animals in lands afar. See more at https://purdy.photography/prints/wildlife

Judge:- Peter Weaver LRPS APAGB CPAGB

This year we are hosting this annual battle at Holy Apostles

Judge:- Eddy Lane ARPS DPAGB EFIAP

Please hand-in entries by 11th January 2024

Club favourite Peter Siviter returns with his unique style and look at the world.

Paul Gallagher is a outstanding landscape photographer and sits on the RPS Fellowship Advisory Panel.  His talk tonight will be delivered by Zoom into our homes. 

He has spent much of the last seven years exploring the abandoned landscapes of America, the bitter cold elemental landscapes of winter in Hokkaido, Japan, and the vastness and grandeur of the granite spires of Yellow Mountain in China. He says the three environments ‘Could not be more different, but as a photographer, they left me spellbound.’

Christmas Party - This year will be held at The Brown Jug in Bath Road, Cheltenham (on the LHS just before the roundabout and Norwood).

Presentation by our own Martin Fry  FRPS APAGB EFIAP/g AV-EFIAP

More detail to follow.

Scott Hurd is a professional photographer based in Namibia. He comes to us live and exclusively by Zoom into Holy Apostles Hall.

Scott will share a wealth of photographic, stalking and editing techniques and look at the joys, problems and ethics of shooting in his extreme African environment.   He peppers the evening with glimpses of fascinating animal behaviour, all of which help him to dig deeper and find shots that most don't even consider.  A great evening is guaranteed!

Judge:- Peter Gennard R MFIAP EFIAP/p 

Please hand-in entries by Thursday 26th October

Please upload entries for the Harry Sedgwick Competition on 23rd Nov (Architecture)

My presentation takes you on a journey from my early days with digital photography to achieving my F.R.P.S in 2014.

My early work is dreadful....I took anything & everything and then threw the Photoshop kitchen sink at them to add impact. I quickly got through this phase and began to produce images that won club competitions and gained entry to International Salons. This was my Wonderful...ish period but then I moved on to specializing in creative composite images, which some may find weird, but became the subject of my successful F.R.P.S. panel. There should be...

Presentations on variety of different genres including- Environmental Portraits, Street Photography, Abstract Documentary, Monochrome Infrared

Judge : Bob Moore  HonFRPS MPAGB HonPAGB 

Please hand-in entries by Sept 14th

A celebration of the great images accepted in our very own international exhibition…The Cheltenham International Salon of Photography.

Please upload entries for PDI Aggregate Round 1 Open (on 28th Sept)

From iPhotography to Fellowship: My continuing Journey

Vivica  - is a self taught photographer, with a special fascination for small details, for lost, abandoned, poignant and generally broken objects, and also for darkness contrasting with light, both in a physical and emotional sense.

https://vivecakohphotography.photoshelter.com/index