Winter Programme 2025-2026
Event Information:
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Tue04Nov20258:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Dare to Focus - Bob Brind-Surch
Smart Shooting part 3 - dare to focus
We are delighted to welcome Bob to St Ives for his talk "Dare to Focus".
Bob is a professional PhD zoologist, a qualified teacher, a highly experienced photographer, Fellow of the RPS and naturalist passionate about his work and sharing his observations of wildlife with others. He firmly believes it’s not good enough just to say “do this” but rather to say “this is how you do this”.
Bob is a wildlife photographer but his talk is equally applicable to of all other genres and is one of a series he was invited to develop to help people in their journey from the ordinary to the extraordinary and taking their photography to a new level. Each talk covers a particular area and this one covers the often-considered difficult area of auto focus. It covers fast moving subjects but also the principles and important development and approaches that will increase your success. Bob firmly believes that we too often consider autofocus has been solved especially on the latest mirrorless cameras but whilst there have been massive improvements its technique and an understanding of the principles, none of which are very complex, these are what is required to succeed and Bob will take us through them.
Bob has many years experience teaching all levels of photographers on many different cameras in workshops, 1-1’s and African Safaris. He promises us that we will leave this evening with a better understanding of what can be done, how to do it and fired up to take our cameras out and masted autofocus.
https://naturesphotos.co.uk/camera-club-talks/.
Summer Events 2026
Coming Soon
Provisional Winter Programme 2026-2027
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Tue01Sep20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
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).
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Tue08Sep20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Instead of our normal "Speaker", we are delighted to welcome Bob Dockrell to the club to show us how to capture perfect water droplet shots.
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Tue15Sep20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
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).
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Tue22Sep20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
A long-term member of the club, Mark will be showing us some of his old slides and prints. It is a while since we saw Mark's work, and this will be an interesting evening.
On this evening we will also introduce the Buddy's Scheme. Members will be paired with a buddy (or maybe two) to work on a project together for showing on 9th February.
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Tue29Sep2026
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Tue06Oct20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Our competition with Swavesey has recently become more of a fun competition, adopting a Mix and Match theme. We will be running our own internal version of this with Girls v Boys. Each team has a pool of photos to choose from. One team puts up an image and the second team has to match it in some way. A point is awarded for the best image, and an additional point if the judge deems it to be a match. Great fun!
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Tue13Oct20267:00 pmCambridge
As we are unable to get into the church due to the Michaelmass Fair, we have decided that instead of the usual wander around the fair with a camera, we will take our cameras to Cambridge for some night time shots. Exact meet up point and timings tbc
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Tue20Oct20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Following on from his last talk to the club in the 2025-6 winter programme, we are delighted to welcome Kevin back to talk to the club about his passion for wildlife. This promises to be an interesting and engaging evening.
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Tue27Oct2026
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Tue03Nov20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
We are delighted to welcome Tom Peck to the club to talk about architectural photography
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Tue10Nov20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Members will have been given an image to process, and this evening we will look at their edits and see what different ideas are presented
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Tue17Nov20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
We are very pleased to welcome Duncan to the club to talk to us about his sports photography
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Tue24Nov2026
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Tue08Dec20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Full rules on Members' Section of the website
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Tue15Dec2026