If you are new to our camera club, you can find out more about us (where we meet, how much it costs, etc) by clicking here. Visitors to our club evenings are always welcome: the programme for the next few meetings is outlined below - just come. Club evenings start at 7:30pm.

•  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.

•  Club Meetings:   meetings have resumed with in-person sessions at the Blake Hall on the first Wednesday of the month and Zoom meetings on the third Wednesdays from October to March. One of the unexpected lessons of the last year has been that we can get some very good speakers from more distant places on a greater range of topics by going on-line. You can see the full programme using the link below.

Bradford Abbas images 2024 - 'Trees'

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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.

•  November Challenge: "Long Exposure"   See the 26 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 well-judged photo "Waterwheel" by Carolyn Edwards. There are some flowing water images that look frozen, and some in which the water resembles cotton wool or white candyfloss , but Carolyn has got this just right - enough flow to convey movement and patterns in the water while still making it look like water, both driving the wheel and running over the stones below.

•  January 8th   A talk by renown landscape and steam train photographer, Don Bishop. Don is a long-standing friend of the club. This time he gives us his presentation: 'Visions of the Landscape’. Drawing on a massive portfolio, Don brings us beautiful, atmospheric images from around our Somerset/Dorset locality and beyond. This is one not be missed!

Check out Don's fabulous photographs here: https://www.donbishop.co.uk/

Programme 2024-5   --- >   (in brief) here   <---     or     --- >   (presentation) here   <---

Visit the South Petherton Photographers Facebook page   --->   here   <---

The SPPS South Petherton Calendar has become something of an institution over the years, and very well supported by sales it is too. Many thanks to the photographers who provided images this year of South Petherton and the area around: Steve Cooper, Carolyn Edwards, James McInnes, John Nicholson, Dave Simpson, Jenny Wade, Alan Williams and Robert Williams - and to the image selection panel, and the editor, James McInnes.

2026 Calendar We are always looking for fresh images to include in the next edition of the calendar. As you take them throughout the year, please send your South Petherton and locality images for collation and possible selection to .

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 2017/18 challenges and earlier here

Challenge topics and deadlines 2024/25      You can view all of the past challenge entries here.

Entries: (please make no smaller than 1Mb and no larger than 2Mb - as a guide, about 1200 pixels along the longest edge is plenty big enough for your image to be projected with good quality) can be e-mailed to .
Click here for the rules of the Monthly Challenge competition.

On-line voting: members can vote for their favourite challenge images (up to 2) each month - log into the Members' Area and follow the 'Monthly Challenges' link. The results of the vote will be announced at the following in-person club meeting (and shortly after on the club website).