Summary of 2025-26 club activities
9 October - An informal club meeting where many members shared some of their favourite images or those that they simply liked and which, on occasion, may not always have been appreciated by external judges in competitions. The range of photographs was wide in terms of when the image was taken and subject matter - portraits, street photography, landscapes, wildlife, flowers and abstracts. Members gave their reasons for wishing to share their image, what it meant to them and the why and how they may have taken the shot. A full and very enjoyable meeting with many interesting stories behind each of the photographs, information that often we don't get to hear during events such as club competitions etc.
2 October - A Cranleigh Camera Club meeting where members shared some of their photographs taken during the summer as part of the summer challenge The Joys of Summer. It included any subject that reflected joyful summer experiences. In total nearly forty photographs were shared stimulating excellent conversation and feedback and whilst there were typical images of summer others were less so, including an outstanding photograph of a badger.
Here are just a few of the images shown during the evening.
25 September - Making sense of the landscape - A talk by Eddie Hyde in person at the Baptist church hall.
The talk was Eddie Hyde's personal take on how to meet the challenges of landscape photography.
The main themes were:
- Composition (How much of what can be seen should be included in an image)
- Lighting and weather and options for variations (Right Place at the Right Time)
Quoting Ansell Adams “Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer and often the supreme disappointment”, Eddie regarded this as extremely apposite. While we can travel to a destination that holds the potential to deliver great images if the lighting and weather are not “right” then maybe we will not obtain any images
That said, his talk went on to explore what makes satisfying and artistic landscape images. How to find compositions in less obvious places but where also there is more chance of getting an image that has not already been photographed a thousand times ie an image that is truly our own, together with understanding what are the best lighting conditions and what options are available for when the conditions are not “ideal”.
Here are a few sample images, copyright of Eddie Hyde, discussed during the evening:
18 September - Our first club meeting after the summer break was an informal event hosted by the new club chairman Mike Guy and it was an opportunity to welcome and introduce new members to the club. Phil Copestick had put together a slide show showing a number of images created by various members on their mobile phones, which was a mini project, held by a small group of members during the summer break in order to explore various camera phone modes and settings including techniques such as using the camera upside down. This generated much discussion before we eventually broke for refreshments and socialising for the remainder of the evening.
A few examples of the mobile phone pictures, extracted from the slide show, are shown below.
