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).

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.

•  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.

•  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.

Check out Jeanette's website, here: https://www.jetblacksquares.com

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 2023/24 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).