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CCC is a small friendly club catering for people of all ages and photographic abilities and is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain through the Surrey Photographic Association.
If you enjoy photography and may be looking to improve your photographic skills, or wish to share your photographic experiences with other like minded people, then please come along to one of our meetings. The "About Us" tab above provides more information about the club and how to find us. You can also find us on the Cranleigh Camera Club Group Facebook page on the internet. (See "Useful Links" on this page to access our Facebook site.)
(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)
26 March - Our Reg Mullard wild flora and fauna competiton was judged by Rosemary Wilman Hon FRPS and in what proved to be a strong competition, she judged Mike Hall's PDI of Confrontation between jackals as the overall winner, narrowly beating Tim Cheshire's winning print of Pintail ducks mating.
The full list of those receiving awards in both print and PDI sections are shown in the table below.
| Print section | PDI section | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photographer | Title of print | Photographer | Title of PDI | ||
| 1st | Tim Cheshire | Pintail Ducks Mating | 1st ** | Mike Hall | Confrontation between Jackals |
| 2nd | Mike Hall | Watchful Cheetahs | 2nd | Tim Cheshire | Griffon Vulture Dispute |
| 3rd | Chris Flood | Brown Bear Chewing a Log | 3rd | Angela Karney | Male Orange-tip butterfly |
| HC | Chris Flood | Dalmatian Pelican in Breeding Plumage | HC | Pete Baldrey | Hoverfly |
| HC | Stefan Foryszewski | Eating Lunch | HC | Julian Hall | Wild Dog Puppy Stare |
| HC | Julian Hall | Egrets on a Log | HC | Mike Hall | Mother Elephant & calf with Mud & Dust |
** Overall winner in competition. HC = Highly Commended |
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Best PDI and overall winner of Reg Mullard Trophy - Confrontation between jackals by Mike Hall.
Griffon vulture dispute by Tim Cheshire and Male Orange-tip butterfly by Angela Karney.
Best print - Pintail ducks mating by Tim Cheshire.
Watchful cheetahs by Mike Hall and Brown bear chewing a log by Chris Flood.
19 March - Owing to a fairly late change in the club programme, members were asked to bring along any of their nature images, eg plants, animals, insects, reptiles, fungi, etc, taken within the Surrey or West Sussex border.
There was a good response resulting in many prints and PDIs being shown and discussed during the meeting. A small albeit representative selection of members' images are shown below.
12 March - Graham Kurn kindly judge our annual Match-a-Print competition between ladies and gentlemen knowing he would be heckled by many members for his judgements, such heckling being an encouraged part of this fun event. Both teams each had 40 images from which they could choose a match during each of the forty competiton rounds with 1 point for a match and 1 point for the best of the two competing images on display. In the end the points were evenly split between the ladies and gents. It was a well fought match of two halves with the gentlemen 8 points clear in the first half but the ladies stormed back in the second half, refreshed after the coffee break, and forced the draw.
All in all a good fun evening with much heckling of the judge's decisions taken in good humour in keeping with the spirit of the competition and if you are interested to see the rules for this competition they can be found at Match a print
5 March - Eddie Hyde FRPS judged the 28 PDIs and 26 mono prints in our 4th PDI and Mono print competitions which also included the Set subject: Dusk to dawn. He gave a good critique of all the images on display and made suggestions for how some of the images could be improved.
In the PDI competition he held back a total of 7 images (5 in the open section and 2 for the set subject) before awarding the amaximum score of 10 to three images in the open section from Ron Boon, Pete Baldrey and Elizabeth Bulley and to two set subject images from Stefan Foryszewski and Tim Cheshire.
In the Mono print competition he held back 9 images (5 open and 4 set subject) before awarding maximum marks to Mike Hall and Jonathan Harrison in the open section and Stefan Foryszewski and Tim Cheshire in the set subject.
PDI Open section:
A Different Liverpool by Elizabeth Bulley and Girl with the braids by Pete Baldrey
Becky by Ron Boon
PDI Set subject section - Dusk to dawn
Hove shore front on a miserable morning by Stefan Foryszewski
Sunset - Wildwood Lane by Tim Cheshire
Mono print Open section:
Mountains at Maligne Lake, Canada by Mike Hall and Oaks in the mist by Jonathan Harrison
Mono print Set subject section - Dusk to dawn
Medieval bridge at sunset by Tim Cheshire and Cranleigh fireworks by Stefan Foryszewski
Doors open at 7:45pm for 8:00pm start
Unless stated otherwise all club meetings will be held in the school room at the rear of the Baptist Church in St James's Place, Cranleigh.
Club is closed for the Easter break.
Cranleigh are hosting the 2-way PDI Competition against Ludshott which will be judged by David Smith LRPS CPAGB BPE1. This is a Zoom only event.
5th Open colour print competition to be judged by David Hughes DPAGB ARPS BPE2.
The mounts of the two colour prints must not exceed 500mm x 400mm in size.
Presentation: British wildlife by Tensi Ward. Note this is a Zoom only meeting. Non members are invited to join the meeting. To see more details regarding the presentation and information about registration for non-members use this link presentation TW
The full club programme for 2025-26 can be seen using the programme tab in the main menu bar above.
There are no further outside club events planned at this point in time
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Other photography links:
SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.
Photographic Alliance of Great Britain