This Thursday we have a members evening entitled “The Whole of Wookey Hole”. Members recently had exclusive out of hours access to Wookey Hole caves and now have an opportunity to show some of the unique images that were taken during the visit.

Please bring along your images on a memory stick or send them to Kevin (chairman@trowbridgecc.co.uk) before Thursday 3pm.  Links to remote file store locations or file transfer are fine if they are too big to email.

Submissions due for Print Competition – “Open” (Any subject, any genre).

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday we have a presentation by Bob Bishop EFIAP/p, BPE5, LRPS entitled “Have Camera Will Travel”, which was postponed from 14th November.

This talk covers several genres including landscape, a trip to Burma, street, a model shoot and event photography. Bob also breaks down some of the images to show how they have been edited to achieve the final result.

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This week is our 3rd Projection Competition which is an Open topic. Our judge for the evening is Mike Hendon LRPS, who is a Member of Bath Photographic Society. Here are 3 images that scored 15 points in the last Open Projection competition.

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday we have another Members Evening, this time on the topic of “What’s in your Camera Bag?” By popular request an opportunity for members to show everyone their photographic gear, so bring along your gear and show and tell. As little or as much as you want to share. Everything from your favourite bag, best accessory or your camera and lenses of choice.

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday Club Member Lora will give us a presentation entitled “Frozen In Time – The eerie beauty of Chernobyl through the lens”, during which she will show us some of her remarkable images that document the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Submissions are due for DPI Competition – “Open” (Any subject, any genre).

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

Wendy Evans will give a presentation on “How to get your work published in magazines and books”. Wendy works for a magazine publisher and in that role selects and commissions readers to have their images published. Having judged competitions in London and had 13 books published, Wendy is well placed to talk about this different and intriguing aspect of photography.

As always non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This week it’s competition judging time again. We are pleased to welcome back Eddy Lane to judge our second print competition, subject Flora and Fauna. Eddy and his wife Pam are an accomplished wildlife photographers and previous presenter and judge for our competitions.

As always non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. For any new members that do join at this time in the season a pro rata discount will be applied to the membership fee. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday we are holding a Grand Auction Night! All of us have photographic gear lying around that we no longer need. This will be an opportunity to pass it onto your fellow club members. Not limited to cameras and lenses, items for auction can include small accessories e.g. mounts, books, camera bags, tripods etc. In fact anything photography related. There will also be an entirely optional opportunity to donate a % of any sale to club funds.

There will also be some items that the Club will be selling off – all of the proceeds from these items will go into Club funds.

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

This Thursday is the club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). We would encourage all members to attend to discuss the future of the club and vote on Committee Members.

Please consider if you would like to contribute to the club by offering to be a Committee Member and/or take on one of the key administrative roles. (Chair Person, Print Secretary, Programme Secretary etc.)

Submissions are due for Print Competition 2 – “Flora & Fauna”. We have revised rules to allow up to 4 colour entries rather than the normal 2 colour, 2 mono.

Non-members are welcome to come along for up to 3 taster meetings before joining. All we ask is that you pay the £2 entrance fee for those 3 evenings. We meet at St Thomas’ church hall at 7:30 (see map).

The club gained a highly commended in the WCPF Kingswood Salver competition 2024 for our panel “Designed by Nature”

Thankyou to all who submitted images and to Jane for selecting collating and submitting the panel.