This Thursday will be our first print competition of the season with the subject being ‘Open’. Our judge for the evening will be Richard Atkinson. Richard is a member of Stroud Camera Club and a relatively new judge. He is very keen to judge our print competition. Here’s what he says about himself:

“I have been taking photographs since the age of 11, starting with my Dad’s Box Brownie. These days I’m primarily interested in capturing movement and my subjects are nature, motor sport, steam locomotives and airshows, in colour and monochrome. I use Lightroom almost exclusively and occasionally Photoshop and Topaz“

The images below scored 15 in last year’s Open print competition:

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We meet at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday our meeting will be held in the village hall and on Zoom, as our presenter, Kevin Pigney ARPS, DPAGB-ASINWP, lives in Burwell, Cambridgeshire.

Kevin is a keen photographer and his presentation title sums up what it’s all about. You can see some of his seascape and landscape images on his website https://kjpphotography.myportfolio.com/seascapes-and-landscapes, but he is also a talented wildlife photographer.

The details for the Zoom meeting are:

Topic: Trowbridge Camera Club Meeting 5th July – Speaker Kevin Pigney

Time: Nov 5, 2026 07:30 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84073437640?pwd=pNLKCEuc4KwLTHzekxiFEhXwOcTwRn.1

Join and take notes: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84073437640?pwd=pNLKCEuc4KwLTHzekxiFEhXwOcTwRn.1&mynotes=on

Meeting chat link: https://us06web.zoom.us/launch/jc/84073437640

Meeting ID: 840 7343 7640

Passcode: 478294

There will be a waiting room operating so you can join early and wait for the meeting to start.

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For this meeting you can come and meet us at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map) ) or view the presentation via Zoom (details above).

This Thursday we have another Members Evening. A hands-on evening on how to set up background, lighting and camera settings for a portrait shoot. Alistair Richie from Backwell Camera Club will be leading the session.

We will concentrate on setting up backdrops, lights and camera settings, using ourselves as temporary models to ensure everyone knows how to repeat the setup and can get the best camera settings and connect external studio flash for a portrait shoot.

This is all preparation for a model photo shoot next month, so bring along your camera gear, tripods etc. for the practice session.

Entries are due for our first Print competition – Open category

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We will be meeting at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday we have a change to the published programme. Rose Atkinson, A talk on Vintage lenses will be re-scheduled for later in the season. Instead, this week we have a talk by Sandy Cox on how to take better wildlife photos. Something I personally will be interested in – here’s one of mine that could do with improving.

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We will be meeting at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday will be our first DPI competition of the season in our new venue. The subject is ‘Open’ and our judge for the evening will be Jim LeFueve from Yeovil.

Jim says: “My enjoyment of photography is broad and includes almost any subject such as family, landscape, portrait, still life, theatre, events, gardens and our heritage.  The photographer’s art is fascinating; those choices made in representing the world.  So there is a lot of pleasure in viewing the work of others, be they famous names or enthusiastic club members.“

The images below were the highest scoring colour and mono images from our Open DPI competition last season.

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We will be meeting at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday we will be having a photo walk around Bath so there will be no meeting in the hall. We will be at the mercy of the weather, although at present it is looking OK, so fingers crossed.

We will meet up outside Bath Abbey at 7:00 pm, then split up into small groups or continue individually to spend the evening taking images of the city and people at night. Bring along your cameras, tripods etc.

There will be several cars going and lifts can be sorted out on the WhatsApp chat group in the week.

Non-members are welcome to come along and join us in Bath. Please make yourselves known to us (photographers loitering outside the Abbey).

There will be a members evening later in the season to show our images.

This Thursday will be the first meeting at our new venue, Southwick Village Hall, and it will be a members critique evening.

This is a chance for members to show and receive feedback on a selection of their images. Bring your prints or images on a memory stick (max 10 each).

It’s is not about showing your best work, although I’m sure we will see some excellent images. It is about having an opportunity to learn from constructive feedback from fellow photographers, in a friendly and fun environment.

If you have any images you’re not completely happy with, whether it’s from a technical point of view, or how it could be better edited, other members may be able to share their knowledge/experience and give you tips on how they could be improved.

Entries are due for the first DPI Competition (Open subject).

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. From 1^st October we will be meeting at Southwick Village Hall at 7:30 (see map).

Trowbridge Camera Club have now officially moved. From 1st October onwards we will be holding our meetings at Southwick Village Hall, Frome Rd, Southwick, Trowbridge BA14 9QN (see map)

We hope that this will perhaps attract new members from the area and that all of our existing members will remain with us.

If any of the existing members will have difficulty getting to meetings due to not driving, please contact one of the committee members and we can arrange lifts with members nearby.

Peter is a well-known exponent of street photography from Swindon. An associate of the RPS and a camera club judge He also lectures on street photography and is our first speaker for the 26/27 Season.  Link to his website  https://www.petercrane.co.uk/ where you can see his work and find out more about him.

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings.

This Thursday we have a presentation by our Programme Secretary Kevin Crosbie entitled “An introduction to digital photography”. The talk is aimed at new starters and the less experienced, as well as the old hands.

You don’t need to have an expensive mirrorless camera and a myriad of lenses, excellent images can be captured with almost anything with a camera on it – mobile phone, compact camera, rugged camera, Go-Pro, drone, old SLR film or DSLR.

Non-members are welcome to attend and can come along for up to 3 meetings before joining. We do ask that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We meet at St Thomas church hall, Trowbridge at 7:30pm (see map).