Lutterworth Photographic Society Co-op
Annual Programme up until March 2025
Revised 16/11/2024
If on Zoom a link will be sent to members a few days before each Club meeting
Final Entry Dates for Competitions - please email images to peter.sands1951@btinternet.com
Please note – all images must be submitted in advance
Hand in dates:-
27/11/2024 Night Time
15/01/2025 PDIOTY Heat 4
19/02/2025 Hand in for Conservation Trophy
Set subjects in 2025
"Patterns in Nature" (Selected for the Quartet trophy theme)
"Street" (Hand-in for this will be in April)
"Contre-jour"
"The Blue Hour"
For the Covid Risk assessment when at the Church Hall click here
The pdf download is here but note the programme may change at short notice.
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20/11/2024 Paul Fraser, Macro photographer & Buglife Ambassador (on ZOOM)
Tonight, Paul will be joining us from Callander, in Scotland. He is well known for getting up close and personal with tiny creatures. In his own words, “There’s always another insect that you haven’t seen that randomly appears. This is why I love macro-photography.” I happen to know he produces a really impressive calendar from some of his best images - you could well see some of them tonight.
https://www.facebook.com/paulfraserphoto/
27/11/2024 Heat 3 Judge for yourself – PDI of the year (on ZOOM)
Your votes will be used to promote some of our top images at the end of the year.
Hand-in for “Night-time"
04/12/2024 3rd Set-Subject PDI Comp, "Night-time" (on ZOOM)
An internal PDI competition (up to 3 entries per member) judged by ourselves.
11/12/2024 “Subject " A Year on the Road as a Nomadic Travel Photographer” with Julian Elliot (on ZOOM)
Julian is an award-winning professional freelance landscape and travel photographer (as well as an occasional writer) based both in the Loire Valley, France and also in Wiltshire, England. Julian showed us Tuscany & the Dolomites last year, and tonight we’ll see images from some of his more recent trips. www.julianelliottphotography.com
18/12/2024 Xmas Social.
No meetings – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
08/01/2025 “Tools Not Rules”, with Caroline Preece (on ZOOM)
Caroline made a great impression on us when she judged our “People” competition last year. So much so, we invited her to bring us one of her own talks. Her objective tonight is to introduce us to a different way of thinking about photography and composition. Whatever you do, DON’T miss it.
https://www.carolinepreecephotography.com/toolsnotrules
15/01/2025 Member’s Presentations, Holiday snaps, etc (on ZOOM)
Tonight is your opportunity to shine by entertaining the rest of us (for say 10 minutes). Share your screen and show us some of your favourite images, or some recent record shots, or whatever. We’ve two hours to fill, so don’t be shy - the more the merrier.
Hand-in Heat 4 of the annual PDI comp. (Any subject)
22/01/2025 “Awards for Photographic Merit (Vol 8 – 2024)”, a PAGB recorded lecture (on ZOOM)
Some of our members already have a PAGB award for photographic merit. For the benefit of those hopeful to join them, this recorded lecture will explain the process and show us the standard required to achieve success at the many different levels.
29/01/2025 Heat 4 Judge for yourself – PDI of the year (on ZOOM)
Your votes will be used to promote some of our top images at the end of the year. Members fortunate enough to have more than 3 images in the final, will have to choose which 3 they want to keep. (Please make your selections by the 12/02/24)
05/02/2025 “A little bit of Magic” - Before/After Show and Tell (on ZOOM)
Tonight we would like to see what improvements you can make to an original image. You can use some of your own originals or select from a shared pool. Your challenge is to share your screen and explain why you felt the original needed changing and how you went about doing it. (Pool images from the internet, will be shared at the start of 2025.)
12/02/2025 "Touching the Light", with Ken Scott, ARPS, APAGB, MBPsS (on ZOOM)
Ken’s photography is probably best known for his work with mountain landscape and light, which spans over forty years of walking and mountaineering in Britain, and overseas in Corsica, the Pyrenees, Alps and North America. (He’s an honary lifetime member of Steyning Camera Club in West Sussex) Whatever you do, DON’T miss it.
https://touchingthelight.co.uk
19/02/2025 PDIOTY Final, with John Haines (on ZOOM)
Over the course the last 12 months our PDI heats have identified tonight’s top images. Only a select few have made it through to the final. Tonight we will find out which will be chosen as our “PDI of the Year”.
Hand-in PDI’s for next week’s “Conservation Trophy”
26/02/2025 The Johnson Conservation Trophy, with Monica Doshi (on ZOOM)
LPSC has a strong cohort of natural history photographers and the Johnson Conservation Trophy is their most coveted prize. Our judge tonight has the unenviable task of selecting just one winner from what’s bound to be a strong field.
https://www.facebook.com/MonicaDoshiPhotography/
https://www.instagram.com/mdee_photos/
05/03/2025 2024 Rushden Open
Tonight we are back at the Church hall and will get to see and discuss some superb images from the award winners and accepted entries of the 2024 Rushden open.
12/03/2025 Home battle vs Dunchurch PS, judged by Malcolm Cook
The usual print and PDI match, but with matchless comments from Malcolm.
19/03/2025 President’s Evening
26/03/2025 AGM
It’s the appropriate time to make your input into the club’s future direction, plus thanking those members who’ve served the club over the last 12 months and to offer your support for the next 12.