Winter Programme 2025-2026
Event Information:
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Tue14Apr20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
ANNUAL DPI COMPETITION - JUDGE NAOMI SAUL
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.
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