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.)

1 May - There were 26 PDIs and 26 mono prints entered in the 5th round of the open PDI and Mono print competitions judged by Graeme Wales ARPS, CPAGB, BPE2. In the PDI competition he scored three images from Pete Baldrey, Julian Hall and Mike Harrison the maximum 10 points. In the Mono print competition he awarded 10 to the images from Ron Boon and Stefan Foryszewski .

PDI Open section:

    
To the side by Pete Baldrey and African sunrise by Julian Hall


Peace lilly by Mike Harrison

Mono open section:

    
Shoreham on Sea by Ron Boon and Wargraves by Stefan Foryszewski

24 April - Anything goes! - 5 club members gave a short talk on a photographic subject of their choice as follows:

17 April - No meeting - our Easter break

10 April - This was our 5th and final colour print competition of the season and judged by Roy Williamson. After holding back 12 of the 36 entries the judge awarded 10 to the images from Phil Copestick, Stefan Foryszewski and Ken Lillywhite.

The winning images were:

    
Damselfly by Phil Copestick and Take off by Stefan Foryszewski


Tulip by Ken Lillywhite.

3 April - Ludshott hosted the 2-way interclub competion which was judged by Ann Healey FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/g BPE5. Congratulations to Ludshott Camera Club who were the overall winners of the competition with a strong selection of images. Although they won the Nature section convincingly

Cranleigh narrowly beat them in the Open section. The overall points awarded were:

Section Cranleigh Camera Club Ludshott Camera Club
Nature   66   75.5
Open 134 133.5
Total 200 209

27 March  - Our Reg Mullard wild flora and fauna competiton was judged by Roger Mendham LRPS. There were 28 prints and 23 PDIs and, in what proved to be a strong competition, he judged Julian Hall's print of two dragonflies mating as the overall winner, narrowly beating Ann Smith's winning PDI of Pelican preening.

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  Julian Hall ** Mating dragonflies 1st  Ann Smith  Pelican preening
2nd Tim Cheshire Love in a Mist - Nigella damascera 2nd Angela Karney  Slimy beech tuft
3rd Julian Hall Pheasant in the field 3rd Chris Flood  Portrait of a Desert Gecko, Nevada
HC Tony Brookes Silver birch HC Chris Flood  Beached jellyfish, Donegal
HC Anne Ingram Poppy HC Ron Boon  Osprey in the wild Rutland
HC Ann Smith  Bittern fishing by stealth HC Elizabeth Bulley  Lizard

** Overall winner in competition.     HC = Highly Commended

    
PRINT - Dragon flies mating by Julian Hall     and     PDI - Pelican preening by Ann Smith

 

Latest News

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 8 May 2025

Club member Pete Baldrey will give a demonstration on using Lightroom and Photoshop for post processing images.

 

Thursday 15 May 2025

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

  1. you can enter upto a maximum of 4 PDI images but they 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.

Your PDI entries should be sent to Phil Copestick at ccc.pdi.images@gmail.com by Sunday 11 May 2025

 

Thursday 22 May 2025

The best print and PDI of the year competition which this year will be judged by Rob Bonfield. Eligible images include:

Any member who may not have achieved the automatic qualifying scores may also submit one of their own highest scoring images shown in club competitions this year.

See the competition rules for more details using this link
Competition rules.

 

Thursday 29 May 2025

Colour versus monochrome assignment. More details to follow shortly.


The full club programme for 2024-25 can be seen using the programme tab in the main menu bar 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


 

 

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