Event Information:

• Tue

  21

  Apr

  2026

  ANNUAL PRINT COMPETITION AND MONOCHROME COMPETITION - JUDGE NAOMI SAUL

  8:00 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.

• Tue

  05

  Jan

  2027

  Members' Show and Tell evening

  8:00 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

• Tue

  12

  Jan

  2027

  Member's Talk - Gary Dean

  8:00 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!

• Tue

  26

  Jan

  2027

  Monthly Competition - Judge tba

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
• Tue

  02

  Feb

  2027

  Mobile Phone Photography - Tom Peck

  8:00 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!

• Tue

  09

  Feb

  2027

  Buddy Presentation Night

  8:00 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.

• Tue

  16

  Feb

  2027

  "Speed Dating" critique night

  8:00 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!

• Tue

  23

  Feb

  2027

  Monthly Competition - Judge Nick Akres

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
• Tue

  02

  Mar

  2027

  Member's Talk - Tom Lane

  8:00 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!

• Tue

  09

  Mar

  2027

  Round Town Practical - TBA

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

  No access to the church due to Youth Theatre

• Tue

  16

  Mar

  2027

  Free Mines Coal Faces - Nick Hodgson

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

  Nick 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.

• Tue

  23

  Mar

  2027

  Practical Night - tba

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
• Tue

  30

  Mar

  2027

  Monthly Competition - Judge Naomi Saul

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
• Tue

  06

  Apr

  2027

  Members' 15 minute talks

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

  A chance for members to give a very short presentation on anything they wish

• Tue

  13

  Apr

  2027

  Annual DPI - Judge Colin Mill

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

  Rules in the members' section of the website

• Tue

  20

  Apr

  2027

  Annual Print / Monochrome competition - Judge Richard Houghton

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

  Rules in the members' section of the website

• Tue

  27

  Apr

  2027

  AGM

  8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church