Winter Programme 2025-2026
Event Information:
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Tue21Apr20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
ANNUAL PRINT COMPETITION AND MONOCHROME COMPETITION - JUDGE NAOMI SAUL
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.
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