Don't miss our presentations:
Tony Worobiec - Photographing landscapes, whatever the weather on 13 February 2025. Click here for more details
and
Fred Barrington FRPS - An opportunistic snapper in the UK on 6 March 2025 Click here for more details



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.)

 


2024 CCC Annual Exhibition Category Winners

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Prints, Mono open - Peloton by Chris Flood
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Prints, Mono landscape - Two trees on a golf course by Miles Thompson
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Exhibition prints, Colour open - Pipes of a different hue by Angela Karney
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Prints, Colour landscape - On Thursley Common by Chris Flood
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Prints, colour nature - Elephants enjoying the dust by Mike Hall
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Prints, Digital art - We plough the fields by Donna Gorin
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Prints, Portrait - Street portrait by Pete Baldrey
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Projected, Open - Abstracts in ice by Ann Smith
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Projected, Landscape - Namibia with dune by Elizabeth Bulley
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Projected, Nature - Four-spotted chasers mating in flight by Ann Smith
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Projected, Digital art - The Sensation Of Speed by Tim Cheshire
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Projected, Panel - Bathroom capers by Ann Smithh

 


Roundup of recent club activities

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

6 February  - Pete Baldrey kindly volunteered to judge our annual Match-a-Print competition between Ladies and Gentlemen. To even the team numbers from the start, three gentlemen transgendered for the evening and joined the ladies team. Both teams each had 40 images from which they could choose a match for each competiton round and in the end the ladies well and truly beat the gentlemen by a clear 7 points.

As we can deduce from the points scored in the table below, out of the 40 rounds, there were 22 matches and 18 no matches. All in all a good fun evening with much heckling of the judge's decisions which he took in good humour commensurate with the spirit of the competition.

Ladies (points) Gentlemen (points)
Matches  12  10
Best picture* 22.5 17.5
Total 34.5 27.5

* In one round 2 pictures tied for best image and awarded 0.5 marks each.

Further details regarding the rules for this competition can be found at Match a print

 

30 January 2025 - There were 28 PDIs and 32 mono prints entered in the 3rd round of the open PDI and Mono print competitions judged by Paul Graber ARPS. He gave a fair critique of the images on display and offered his opinion of how some of the images could be improved. In the PDI competition he awarded maximum score of 10 to two images from Tim Cheshire and one image from Julian Hall. In the Mono print competition he awarded maximum marks to the images from Ron Boon, Elizabeth Bulley and Pete Baldrey.

PDI Open section:

    
Love in a mist by Tim Cheshire and Tachinid fly feeding by Tim Cheshire


Elephant trail by Julian Hall

Mono open section:

    
Waiting - The Lanes Brighton by Ron Boon and Emerge from darkness by Pete Baldrey


Frozen by Elizabeth Bulley

23 January - Unfortunately our scheduled Zoom presentation by Ruth Grindrod was cancelled at the last minute when the presenter reported her internet connection was lost following workmen accidentally damaging the internet cables to her home in Scotland.

16 January - 36 images were entered in our 3rd open Colour prints competition judged by David Hughes CPAGB BPE2. There was a wide selection of pictures on display covering many genres of photography including still life, portrait, landscape, horticulture and wildlife. After holding back eight of the entries for a second viewing he awarded the maximum score of 10 to the images from Julian Hall and Norman Price and 9.5 to images from Pete Baldrey, Mike Harrison and Ann Smith. The two winning entries can be seen below.

    
Dragon flies mating by Julian Hall and Rosé by Norman Price.

9 January - Freezing weather meant the first meeting in the new year, a workshop/review, had to be held via Zoom to avoid travel difficulties. Thirteen members submitted a selection of their photographs (up to 4 PDIs) and gave a résumé for each stating:

Based on this information further discussion ensued with the other members proffering suggestions for possible improvements to the final images.

19 December, 26 December and 2 January 2025: - Club closed for the Christmas break.

12 December - Club members and partners celebrated Christmas 2024 with a dinner at the Bricklayers Arms in Shamley Green. During the course of the evening the chairman announced the Chairman's challenge for this year - for details see Club Announcements in the Latest news column on this page.

05 December - Tim Morland ARPS expertly judged our 2nd PDI and Mono print competitions which included the Set subject: Textures. In the PDI competition he awarded maximum marks to Ron Boon in the open section and to Ron Boon and Julian Hall in the set subject.
In the Mono print competition he awarded a score of 10 to images from Elizabeth Bulley and Chris Flood in the open section and to images from Angela Karney and Chris Flood for the set subject as follows:

PDI Open section:


Friends Chatting, Taj Mahal by Ron Boon

PDI Set subject section - Textures

    
Mushrooms by Ron Boon and Textures of elephant's trunk by Julian Hall

Mono print Open section:

    
Waterfall in the Rockies by Chris Flood and The lamp by Elizabeth Bulley

Mono print Set subject section - Textures

    
Limestone shelf, Kimmeridge by Angela Karney and Eurasian Wolf in Winter Coat by Chris Flood

 

Latest News

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT

Chairman's challenge 2025 - there will be no set subject, genre or style set for the challenge and it will be an open style competition with the following caveats:

  1. all images must be recent and taken between December 2024 and May 2025
  2. there must be a distinct creative element in the shot eg it could, but not exclusively, encompass aspects such as the artistic use of blur, composition, colour, lighting, lens zoom, double exposure or use of art filters in camera etc. The choice of subject and technique used for creative effect is left to each member's discretion.

 

CLUB MEETINGS

Doors open at 7:45pm for 8:00pm start

Unless stated otherwise all club meetings in 2024-25 will be held in the school room at the rear of the Baptist Church in St James's Place, Cranleigh.

 

Thursday 13 February 2025

A presentation by Tony Worobiec titled Photographing Landscapes, whatever the weather. This will be a Zoom only event and more details can be found using this quick link. Please click here for more details

 

Thursday 20 February 2025

4th round of the colour prints competition with the set subject Motion/Movement which will be judged by Graham Mansfield. One print can be open subject and one print must be set subject to qualify for the bonus points.
The two mounted colour prints must not exceed 500mm x 400mm in size.

 

Thursday 27 February 2025

Submission of Annual Exhibition entries and payment of fees. You can download the entry forms from the members area and by scrolling down the list until you see the files for download.

 

Thursday 6 March 2025

Presentation - Presentation by Fred Barrington FRPS titled An opportunistic snapper in the UK. This will be a Zoom only event and more details can be found using this quick link. Please click here for more details

 


The full club programme for 2024-25 can be seen using the programme tab above.

 

OUTSIDE CLUB EVENTS

TBA.

There are no further outside club events planned at this point in time


 

Useful Links

Visit Cranleigh Camera Club Group on our Facebook page using the link below

facebook link

Other photography links:

SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.

Royal Photographic Society

Photographic Alliance of Great Britain



A presentation - Photographing landscapes whatever the weather by Tony Worobiec on 13 February 2025

For many years Tony Worobiec was a highly successful teacher of art and photography, however in 2002 he made the decision to leave teaching in order to become a full-time writer and photographer and he regularly writes for photographic magazines both here in the UK and in America. He has recently completed his sixteenth book Photographing Landscapes Whatever The Weather - the subject of this talk.

In landscape photography, you can’t change the weather, but you can change where you are to find good opportunities. This talk examines how landscapes come in many forms like countryside, industrial, coastal, or urban and each place has its best moment to shine. Taking great photos requires an understanding of how weather affects light and mood - the key parts of any landscape.

Four images below (© Tony Worobiec) are a preview of what we might expect on the night.

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B01     B12b

Visitors welcome - Zoom meeting commences 7:45 for 8:00 pm start.

Registration fee for non-members £6.

Please register to join the on-line meeting using this email link.  Register for Meeting.

Please state on you request: "Tony Worobiec presentation" as well as your own contact details.

After registering and prior to the presentation you will be sent an email link enabling you to join.

For more information about our speaker see alsoTony's website at: www.tonyworobiec.com

 


A presentation - An opportunistic snapper in the UK by Fred Barrington FRPS on 6 March 2025

Fred is a very well travelled and enthusiastic photographer who has won various awards and given solo exhibitions.

His photography is basically what and how he sees and concentrates on his images from the UK - mostly London.

Two images below (© Fred Barrington) are a preview of what we can expect on the night.

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Visitors welcome - Zoom meeting commences 7:45 for 8:00 pm start.

Registration fee for non-members £5.

Please register to join the on-line meeting using this email link.  Register for Meeting.

Please state on you request: "Fred Barrington presentation" as well as your own contact details.

After registering and prior to the presentation you will be sent an email link enabling you to join.

For more information about our speaker see also Fred's website at: www.fredbarrington.com

 

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