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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.
• May Challenge: "Something with Six (or more) Legs"
See the 33 entries here.
See a summary of the results of voting on the challenge here:
as a video: ---> mp4 or as a pdf: ---> pdf
The 'Something with Six or More Legs' challenge produced 33 entries featuring (of course) lots of photos of insects various and some much more imaginitive interpretations, such as a line of conga dancers, stacks of chairs, some cherubs and Clevedon Pier. Our winning entries (there were two joint winners) were both on the insect theme. The first of these is a bee in flight by Simon Cubbage; how many of us have had a go at that difficult shot and come up with somthing far less successful? The second joint winner is a particularly colourful beetle taken by Pam Goodey.
• July 2nd Members' photo-shoot evening in Langport.
7:15-7:30pm Park in the main town carpark, near the river, next to The Shopping Parade, Langport TA10 9PG ...... Have a wander around in groups of 2 or3, or alone if you wish, and seek out some photo opportunities ......
When you have had enough, or after 8.30pm meet in the Black Swan beer garden ...... If you have any great shots to share load them up to the South Petherton Photographers Facebook page.
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
Hot News : Click here for the list of challenges for the 2025/6 season.
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 ..... see the entries here
• June '25 ‐ Silhouette ..... entries by Sunday 22nd Jun (on-line voting from Wed 25th Jun)
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