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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Tue05Jan20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Do you have any images that you would like to show, without any judge seeing them? Members are invited to chat about their images in an informal setting
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Tue12Jan20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Subject tba. Gary is a long-standing member of the club and accustomed to talking about his wonderful nature trips. Always enjoyable, and we look forward to this one!
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Tue26Jan2027
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Tue02Feb20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Tom had planned to deliver this talk in the 2025-6 season, but was unable to do so. We are therefore excited that he is coming to deliver the talk this season instead!
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Tue09Feb20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
The Buddies will show the images they have been working on together. This is a scheme which encourages members to share skills and to work together in both the initial capture of the photographs and the post production.
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Tue16Feb20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Members bring images for critique, and have a time allocated to chat to another member about the images before moving on. They will also critique the images shown to them by other members. A fun evening under the control of a whistle!
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Tue23Feb2027
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Tue02Mar20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
A long-standing member of St Ives Photographic Club, Tom is known for his wonderful monochrome images, his creativity and his sense of humour! Assured to be a great evening!
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Tue09Mar2027
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Tue16Mar20278:00 pmSt Ives Free ChurchNick Hodgson FRPS is a British documentary landscape photographer based in London. His talk, Free Mines Coal Faces, is about his documentary project on coal free mining in the Forest of Dean, which formed part of his Photography MA, his successful FRPS panel submission, an award-winning book and various exhibitions. Nick has also been a member of the RPS Distinctions Panel for the Applied and Documentary photography genres.
In the first section of his talk, Nick discusses mining photography that he researched to inform him about his own approach to the project. He also explains what free mining is and how he published a book of his work (there should be a few copies still available to purchase at the talk). After the break he will go through a number of his images, how he shot them and the challenges he faced. He finishes by talking about postproduction and printing, showing physical examples from his F panel which the audience is also encouraged to look at throughout the evening.
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Tue23Mar2027
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Tue30Mar2027
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Tue06Apr20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
A chance for members to give a very short presentation on anything they wish
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Tue13Apr2027
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Tue20Apr20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Rules in the members' section of the website
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Tue27Apr2027