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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).
After great discussion and deliberation the Sherborne Bradford Abbas CC has chosen the following theme for 2025/26 Bradford Abbas Shield as: "Farmers and Farming". This is a wide-ranging theme which should challenge us - and stimulate opportunities for us all! By way of some guidance this theme is intended to "include the activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock and poultry". The competition will take place on 24th 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.
• April Challenge: "Raindrops"
See the 27 entries here.
See a summary of the results of voting on the challenge here:
as a video: ---> mp4 or as a pdf: ---> pdf
The 'Raindrops' challenge is a lot more difficult than it seems at first sight - not least because it is really hard to make a compelling image of the rain actually dropping. Mostly, this month's entries landed on what you get after the raindrops have dropped. And that, naturally, left plenty of scope for some very interesting photos. Our winning entry is a very well observed photo "Wet Web" by Pam Goodey. The spider, it seems, was very sensibly sheltering somewhere else.
• June 4th Jeanette Lendon, founder and creative director of 'Jet Black Squares' has a simple starting point: "We used to have phones that took photos. We now have cameras that make phone calls". From that viewpoint she has built her UK company (increasingly becoming an international company) aiming to get us smartphone owners to utilise our smartphone cameras better, and to release their full potential. Her "Smartphone Photography" talk is packed with great tips, creative ideas, and - of course - terrific photos.
The area included as 'South Petherton and its locality' can be displayed below: click on [Open Map] below to reveal the map.
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 2023/24 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 ..... see the entries here
• December '24 ‐ Glass ..... see the entries here
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• January '25 ‐ Board Games ..... see the entries here
• February '25 ‐ Textiles ..... see the entries here
• March '25 ‐ Curves ..... see the entries here
• April '25 ‐ Raindrops ..... see the entries here
• 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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