First round of the print league for this season resulted in first and second places going to Derek Nash with Georgia in pensive mood and Autumn contemplation respectively. Third place was grbed by Chris Williams with Three Flowers.

First round of PI competition held Tues 15^th Oct and the bar has been set high with some excellent images. Taking the overall honours with first place is Dan Van Leempoel with his image Belvedere House. In second place Puffin in Flight by Emma Mapletoft and third is Chris Bennett with Spotlight on a food thief.

The club started the 2024/25 lecture season with a bang, with Warren Alani’s excellent Talk Sport.

Warren covered all aspects of sports photography, including technique, composition, moving around at the event, tips and tricks - all backed up by captivating example shots.

First place in the Triptych was grabbed by Colin McInnes with Thames at Night, second and third places taken by Graham Adamson with Birds of Costa Rica and Sunrise copy respectively

Most favoured by club members vote for this season is Norwegian Church by Steven Else, closely followed by Lake Bled and Artic Bear both by Graham Anderson. The images members voted on were all of a high standard having scored 19 or 20 in projected image competitions throughout the year (excluding Triptych due to its different format).

Graham Adamson does it again taking first slot with Dark Rider. Second place taken be Steven Else with Perched Little Egryt and third was Colin McInnes with The Village at Night.

The Steve Ransom trophy and Portfolio composition were combined this season. The subject being landscape (loosely interpreted) to represent a location. Geoff Clinton took the honours and retains the Steve Ransom trophy with his excellent landscapes from Tromso, Norway. Coming second Mark Porter showing imaginative images of Seville.

Four hardy souls visited the local adventure playground after dark on Tuesday. Under the 'guidance?' of Richard, several tools and techniques were tried with varying degrees of success. The lovely orange yellow flowing image above was done using some 'proper' light painting tubes, but the other images were very much 'budget' tools.  The set of circles was created using just some cheap ice sticks from Morrisons, The 'spirograph' like image was a strip of LEDs stuck on a long piece of wood, and the globe was a set of Halloween fairy lights (and plentiful duck tape!). The final image demonstrates that although fundamentally straightforward, there is some practice required to achieve the best results!

This round of the print league had a very healthy 54 entries at a very good standard. First place with appropriately titled Winner takes all was by Geoff Clinton who had a total of 3 prints held back. Second place taken by Anglia McClean with portrait of Octavia and third was Graham Adamson with Bill Toucan.