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• Bradford Abbas Shield 2024: "Trees" Well, we did our best, but still only made it to 4th place out of 5, and (if truth be told) a bit of a gap between us and 3rd place. Congratulations to the Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club who were the winners. Congratulations also go to Alan Williams and to Steve Cooper for their photos "Dank Wood" and "Bent Tree" respectively which were our joint top scorers with 18/20 points. (Click on any image in the slideshow to see it enlarged).
The theme for the 2025/6 competition will be decided in due course by this year's winners. Note that the competition night itself (previously in October each year) will be moved to later on in the season, that is to March. So our next chance to move back up the leaderboard will be in March 2026.Visitors are welcome to join us for in-person and/or for zoom meetings - please e-mail for further details. Meanwhile our Monthly Challenges continue to run on-line with the images also being shown at our 1st Wednesday club nights.
• We meet at the Blake Hall, South Petherton for our face-to-face meetings: it is located in the 'The Square' in the centre of the village, between The Brewers Arms and St Peter and St Paul's church. TA13 5BT for your sat-nav. There is usually plenty of parking in the streets close by. Please note that there is a significant staircase to negotiate from the main entrance - there is a chair lift, so please let us know if you need any assistance gaining access.
• October Challenge: "Old Technology"
See the 24 entries here.
See a summary of the results of voting on the challenge here:
as a video: ---> mp4 or as a pdf: ---> pdf
The winning entry was this nostalgic touch by Steve Cooper "1940s Desktop" - how easily has the word 'Desktop' taken on a rather different meaning from the literal top of a desk and what you keep on it. This particular desktop was the one belonging to computer scientist and cryptanalyst Dr Alan Turing at Bletchley Park. Well done, Steve; a clear winner.
• November 20th Zoom talk by Colin Jarvis: 'Mono Moods’
During this talk Colin will share a large selection of his monochrome work including long exposure coastal minimalism, architecture, landscape and infrared photography. Colin says: "I have worked as a photographer and educator for many years and my experience as a teacher brings together my passion, skills and love of photography with the ability to easily communicate and teach photography at every level. My work has been featured in books and magazines as well as exhibited in London, Liverpool and Manchester. I have appeared in the Landscape Photographer of the Year book and subsequent exhibition as well as in a number of photography journals."
Each month the club members are set a photo challenge to produce digital images on a set topic. The images are then reviewed at a subsequent club night and voted on to select the winner (who gets a round of applause and our heartfelt admiration).
• You can view entries from past 2017/18 challenges and earlier here
Click on the symbol below to see the entries
• July/August ‘24 ‐ Trees ..... see the entries here
• September ‘24 ‐ Reflections ..... see the entries here
• October ‘24 ‐ Old Technologies ..... see the entries here
• November ‘24 ‐ Long Exposure ..... entries by Sunday 24th Nov (on-line voting from Wed 27th Nov)
• December '24 ‐ Glass ..... entries by Sunday 29th Dec (on-line voting from Wed 1st Jan)
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• January '25 ‐ Board Games ..... entries by Sunday 26th Jan (on-line voting from Wed 29th Jan)
• February '25 ‐ Textiles ..... entries by Sunday 23rd Feb (on-line voting from Wed 26th Feb)
• March '25 ‐ Curves ..... entries by Sunday 23rd Mar (on-line voting from Wed 26th Mar)
• April '25 ‐ Raindrops ..... entries by Sunday 27th Apr (on-line voting from Wed 30th Apr)
• May '25 ‐ Something with 6 Or More Legs ..... entries by Sunday 25th May (on-line voting from Wed 28th May)
• June '25 ‐ Silhouette ..... entries by Sunday 22nd Jun (on-line voting from Wed 25th Jun)
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