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Cranleigh Camera Club

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.)

Roundup of recent club activities

(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)

22 October 2026 - An informal club meeting where members brought along their fun and/or humorous images that could bring a smile to audience faces. There was a wide selection of images including: people, animals, places and objects with some pictures reflecting personal and joyous happenings/events during the photographer's life or which simply had particular meaning for them. All in all an enjoyable and light hearted evening where we all went home after the meeting with a smile still on the face.

15 October - Our 1st open Colour prints competition of the season was judged by Bogdan Schiteanu. 36 images were entered and during a well balanced critique Bogdan held back 10 images for further consideration before awarding the maximum score of 10 points to the images from Ann Smith ARPS, Elizabeth Bulley, Julian Hall, Ken Lillywhite and Tim Cheshire. Their images are shown below.

    
Goatsbeard seed head triptych by Ann Smith and Hotline to God by Elizabeth Bulley

    
Impala in the morning light by Julian Hall and Inner fire by Ken Lillywhite

Kestrel On The Lookout by Tim Cheshire

8 October - A presentation by Andrew Webster titled: "See, Take, Process, Present". Using photographs taken during a day he spent in Croyde, Devon, as the subject for his talk he explained his workflow from image capture to the finished article. He starts where possible by walking around the location without a camera in order to discover the possibilities for taking the type of photographs he has in mind. Often colour is a big factor in his photography and he emphasised that seeing beneath the surface and identifying the essence of a scene is very important in a photograph's ability to tell a story. Andrew will often employ creative techniques in camera such as intentional camera movement, multiple exposure, graduated filters etc and to support the creative process he post processes his images in Photoshop or Snapseed using some basic adjustment techniques. He prefers to present his final images as a group, rather than individually, by selecting, arranging and presenting them to tell a story thereby covering many aspects of the subject or highlight abstraction and composition.

1 October - A review of the summer challenges. During the club's 10 week summer break several club members got together on five occasions via Zoom and set themselves various challenges to produce images using techniques either in camera and/or post processing software. The idea was simply to have fun and not be concerned with producing images solely of competition/exhibition standard.
The subjects chosen for the five challenges included: walls, walks, triptychs, inversions and glass.

• The walls challenge was to produce abstract images of a simple wall.
• The walks challenge included going to a location and taking at least 3 different photos from any angle of view or focussing on specific aspects of the chosen subject etc.
• The triptychs challenge was to put three related images side by side and displayed as a single image.
• Inversion involved using filters and/or post processing software to invert an image in an interesting way eg invert colours etc.
• The final challenge was to produce images using glass.

In total 116 photographs were shown during the course of the evening and a random selection of them, one image from each challenge, are shown below giving a flavour the kind of work produced.

    
Left image - Walls challenge and Right image - inversion challenge

    
Left image - Walks challenge and Right image - Triptych challenge

Image - Glass challenge

24 September - Our first club meeting after the summer break was an informal event hosted by our club chairman Mike Guy. After welcoming all present, exising and potential new members, Mike spoke about the recent change to the Reg Mullard competition rules and also restated the club's stance on AI which will follow SPA guidelines.
Following Mike's introduction the attention turned to images taken by various members during the summer break and brought along to the meeting for discussion, see images randomly placed on the club's print easels below. The meeting ended with refreshments and time for socialising.

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