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

Prints, Mono open - Peloton by Chris Flood

Prints, Mono landscape - Two trees on a golf course by Miles Thompson

Exhibition prints, Colour open - Pipes of a different hue by Angela Karney

Prints, Colour landscape - On Thursley Common by Chris Flood

Prints, colour nature - Elephants enjoying the dust by Mike Hall

Prints, Digital art - We plough the fields by Donna Gorin

Prints, Portrait - Street portrait by Pete Baldrey

Projected, Open - Abstracts in ice by Ann Smith

Projected, Landscape - Namibia with dune by Elizabeth Bulley

Projected, Nature - Four-spotted chasers mating in flight by Ann Smith

Projected, Digital art - The Sensation Of Speed by Tim Cheshire

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 March  - A presentation by Fred Barrington FRPS titled An opportunistic snapper in the UK. Although Fred is a very well travelled and enthusiastic photographer who has won various awards and given solo exhibitions this talk concentrated on his images from the UK - mostly London. His photography is basically what and how he sees an image using colour and smart use of angles etc.

Two images below (© Fred Barrington) are typical of what we saw on the night.

27 February  - Members brought along their images and completed entry forms for the club's Annual Exhibition which will be held on Saturday 29 March 2025 and judged by Steve Kingswell ARPS AFIAP. We have in excess of 340 pictures entered this year of which 250 are prints.

20 February  - The 4th round of our colour prints competition with the set subject Motion/Movement was judged by Graham Mansfield. He praised the high standard of the images on show and out of the 42 entries, 21 in the open section and 21 set subject, he held back a total of 11 images before awarding the maximum score of 10 to Julian Hall and Angela Karney in the open section and 10 to the images from Ann Smith and Chris Flood for the set subject.

The winning images are:

    
Open section: - Leopard stare by Julian Hall and Red amaryllis by Angela Karney

    
Set subject: - Splash by Chris Flood and To the woods by Ann Smith

13 February  - A presentation - Photographing landscapes whatever the weather by Tony Worobiec. For many years Tony 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 recently completed his sixteenth book Photographing Landscapes Whatever The Weather - the subject for this talk.

In landscape photography, you can’t change the weather, but you can change where you are to find good opportunities and at the outset the subject/location for your photography should be chosen to suit the prevailing weather conditions. This talk examined how landscapes have many forms like countryside, industrial, coastal, or urban and each place will have its optimum moment to shine. Taking great photos requires an understanding of how weather affects light and mood - the key parts of any landscape.

The four images below (© Tony Worobiec) are examples of how weather - rain, mist/fog, wind and storms, creates impact in photography.

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.

* 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

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