The 'Challenges' are a very informal monthly competition for club members to take part in if they wish.

Each month's challenge has a set theme, the idea being:
    •  to encourage members to get out with their cameras, maybe to try some new technique; or
    •  perhaps to re-visit some previously taken images with a view to making the most of them; and
    •  to show your photographs to others - after all, what is the point of a photograph nobody ever sees?
Members vote on-line for their favourite images from those submitted and the result is announced at the next face-to-face club meeting (and shortly after on this website). There are no prizes - the winner gets a round of applause and our sincere admiration.

You can view all of the past challenge entries here

1. Entry is free to Club members.

2. All images entered in the Challenges must originate from a camera. You can use post-processing to improve your images but 100% computer-generated images are not eligible.

3. Images entered should:-
    •  be in digital jpg or png format - no prints or slides;
    •  be of a suitable file size (eg 1.5 to 2Mb / 1200px by 900px) for display on a digital projector;
    •  have been taken in the last five years;
    •  be your own work: ie taken by you and you own the copyright*;

    •  be received by the Challenge organiser by the published deadline date.

4. Up to 3 entries per member can be accepted.

5. Needless to say, the club cannot accept derogatory or obscene images.

6. Please ensure you have appropriate permissions before submitting images of a child/children - ie anyone under the age of 18.

[* After the competition, entries will posted on our website; in submitting your entry, you are agreeing for your images to be used in this way.]

Please e-mail your entries to - this is preferred to using the organiser's personal e-mail address as whenever he is away your entries will still be forwarded automatically to the right person. Please make your images 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).

Challenge topics and deadlines 2026-27      

•  August '26 ‐ Backlit ..... see the entries here    

•  September '26 ‐ Circles ..... see the entries here    

•  October '26 ‐ Fruit ..... entries by Sunday 25th Oct (for the meeting on Wed 4th Nov)

•  November '26 ‐ Two ..... entries by Sunday 22nd Nov (for the meeting on Wed 2nd Dec)

•  December '26 ‐ Stormy ..... entries by Sunday 27th Dec (for the meeting on Wed 6th Jan)

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•  January '27 ‐ Ornament ..... entries by Sunday 24th Jan (for the meeting on Wed 3rd Feb)

•  February '27 ‐ Reflections ..... entries by Sunday 21st Feb (for the meeting on Wed 3rd Mar)

•  March '27 ‐ Historic Building or Monument ..... entries by Sunday 28th Mar (for mtg on Wed 7th Apr)

•  April '27 ‐ Spring ..... entries by Sunday 25th April (for the meeting on Wed 5th May)

•  May '27 ‐ Opposites ..... entries by Sunday 23rd May (for the meeting on Wed 2nd Jun)

•  June '27 ‐ A Garden ..... entries by Sunday 27th Jun (on-line only)