Don't miss our presentations by guest speakers during 2026-27
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.)
5 November 2026 - Presentation: Cityscapes, urban and creative
Tony North MPAGB ABPE is a photographer and educator based in Manchester. His talk included traditional cityscapes, night shots, light trails and street photography from locations in Manchester, London, Liverpool, Porto and Venice. Sharing some of his tips and techniques as well as anecdotes about the locations and experiences of shooting the scenes he also discussed some important themes in this genre of photography such as: composition, when to convert to mono, when to go with colour and when images may benefit from the presence of people.
The creative processes he employs often involve:
His main aim is to create photographs with visual impact and he ended his talk with a live demonstration showing how he created one of his urban images in post processing by combining several shots and blending them (while halving the opacity for each layer) in photoshop.
Here are a few examples, © of Tony North, from his presentation:
29 October 2026 - There were 32 PDIs and 30 mono prints entered in the 1st round of the club's open colour PDI and Mono print competitions, judged by Randal Tajar. He gave a fair critique of all the images and offered his opinion of how some of the images could be improved. In the PDI competition he held back 8 images before awarding amaximum score of 10 to two images from Julian Hall and Ron Boon. In the Mono print competition he held back 6 images and awarded top marks to the images from Mike Hall and Miles Thompson.
PDI Open section:
Egret having a bad hair day by Julian Hall and MotoGP Silverstone Wet Race by Ron Boon
Mono print section:
A Trio of Zebras by Mike Hall and Look Up by Miles Thompson
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
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.
Members to bring along up to 4 creative prints or PDI images that are a bit different from straight forward photos, ie; abstracts, minimalism, or experiments with filters using software. Any PDIs should be sent to Phil Copestick by the Tuesday before the meeting or brought along on a memory stick at the meeting.
2nd Colour prints competition - including set subject - Decay - anything old or rotting, ie; metal, wood, or stone, etc. The competition will be judged by Tim Morland ARPS DPAGB
One print can be open subject and one print must be set subject in order to qualify for the bonus points. The two mounted prints must not exceed 500mm x 400mm in size.
Please note that digital copies of the colour prints should also be sent to Phil and prefixed by "PO" in the file name for the Open section print and "PS" for the set subject print
ie PO (or PS)_Title_Photographer's name
Your images – show & discuss. An evening for members to share and dicuss their selecion of images with other members. Each member to bring along up to 4 images for discussion.
David Smith LARPS CPAGB BPE1 will judge our 2nd PDI + Mono prints competitions - set subjectt - Decay - eg anything old or rotting, ie; metal, wood, or stone, etc.
In the mono section one print can be open subject and one print must be set subject, likewise for the PDI section, in order to qualify for the bonus points. The two mounted mono prints must not exceed 500mm x 400mm in size.
Please note that digital copies of the mono prints are required, preferably Jpeg's, prefixed by "PO" in the file name for the Open section print and "PS" for the set subject print
ie PO (or PS)_Title_Photographer's name.
The mono jpegs and the two PDI entries should be sent to Phil Copestick at ccc.pdi.images@gmail.com
by Sunday 29 October 2026.
The full club programme for 2026-27 can be seen using the programme tab in the main menu bar above.
Outside club events will be announced at club meetings by the programme secretary and an email sent to all members confirming arrangements.
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Other photography links:
SPA - Surrey Photographic Assoc.
Photographic Alliance of Great Britain