Winter Programme 2025-2026
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Tue07Apr20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Louisa is well known for her textured images which are artworks taken from various elements of her photography. In this session she will talk us through how to work with textures in order to create effects to elevate your photography.
Please bring a camera!
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Tue14Apr20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
DPI Images should be entered in 4 out of 6 categories of the entrant’s choice.
The 2025-2026 season categories are:
Creative – defined as Altered Reality. There must be a change to an original image, although the main content should still be identifiable. Artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be included as part of the image. The image cannot have been constructed by computer.
Landscape - Images of inland, coastal or maritime scenes.
Natural History – Images conforming to the definition of Nature, which is as follows:
▪ May depict landscape, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant
organisms as the main subject matter.
▪ This includes subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical
gardens, aquariums or enclosures.
▪ Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
▪ Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour
correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and
sharpening, is allowed.
▪ Cloning of image defects and minor distractions, including overlapping elements, are
permitted.
▪ Photographs of anthropology or archaeology, human created hybrid plants, cultivated
plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is
any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.Architecture - An Architectural image must have the primary emphasis on either the interior or exterior of a building or architectural structure.
Macro - A macro image must portray either a small subject (such as an insect) or a small part of a larger object (such as a leaf on a tree) in great detail. The subject is not limited to the natural world.
Street - Informal, candid portraits of people and incidents in public places.
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Tue21Apr20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Prints should be entered in 4 out of 6 categories of the entrant’s choice.
The 2025-2026 season categories are:
Creative – defined as Altered Reality. There must be a change to an original image, although the main content should still be identifiable. Artwork or computer graphics generated by the entrant may be included as part of the image. The image cannot have been constructed by computer.
Landscape - Images of inland, coastal or maritime scenes.
Natural History – Images conforming to the definition of Nature, which is as follows:
▪ May depict landscape, geologic formations, weather phenomena, and extant
organisms as the main subject matter.
▪ This includes subjects in controlled conditions, such as zoos, game farms, botanical
gardens, aquariums or enclosures.
▪ Scientific bands, scientific tags or radio collars on wild animals are permissible.
▪ Processing of the captured image, by cropping, exposure adjustment, colour
correction, noise minimisation, dodging/burning, HDR, focus stacking and
sharpening, is allowed.
▪ Cloning of image defects and minor distractions, including overlapping elements, are
permitted.
▪ Photographs of anthropology or archaeology, human created hybrid plants, cultivated
plants, feral animals, domestic animals, or mounted specimens are ineligible, as is
any form of manipulation that alters the truth of the photographic statement.Architecture - An Architectural image must have the primary emphasis on either the interior or exterior of a building or architectural structure.
Macro - A macro image must portray either a small subject (such as an insect) or a small part of a larger object (such as a leaf on a tree) in great detail. The subject is not limited to the natural world.
Street - Informal, candid portraits of people and incidents in public places.
Monochrome Competition
Any monochrome image entered in either class of the monthly competitions or in either class of the annual competitions, scoring 9 or over, shall also be eligible for the monochrome trophy.
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Tue28Apr2026
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Fri01May2026
Summer Events 2026
Coming Soon
Provisional Winter Programme 2026-2027
Event Information:
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Tue01Sep20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
SIPC Millennium Photo Show + Introduction of Edit Challenge
We will be looking at the images taken by our members for the Millennium. It will be interesting to see how much change there has been in the last 26 years!
We will also be introducing the Edit Challenge. Members will be given an image, which we will all go away and edit it with our own ideas. We will look at the results on 10th November. To help with this, on 15th September there will be a post processing night - stations around the room will help with Photoshop, Lightroom and BeFunky editing - and possibly Affinity (tuition will depend on the specific expertise of members who are willing to share their knowledge).