Winter Programme 2025-2026
Event Information:
-
Tue21Oct20258:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Lighting and Flash Photography - Jonathan Sayer
A guide and practical session for flash photography from our resident expert, Jonathan. Please bring a camera and memory card.
On this evening, committee will be on hand to help anyone wanting advice for the up-coming monthly competitions. If you are unsure of the rules, how to get the right sizing and format for PhotoEntry or have any other queries, there will be help available at this meeting.
Summer Events 2026
Coming Soon
Provisional Winter Programme 2026-2027
-
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).
-
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.
-
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).
-
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.
-
Tue29Sep2026
-
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!
-
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
-
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.
-
Tue27Oct2026
-
Tue03Nov20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
We are delighted to welcome Tom Peck to the club to talk about architectural photography
-
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
-
Tue17Nov20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
We are very pleased to welcome Duncan to the club to talk to us about his sports photography
-
Tue24Nov2026
-
Tue08Dec20268:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Full rules on Members' Section of the website
-
Tue15Dec2026
-
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
-
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!
-
Tue26Jan2027
-
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!
-
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.
-
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!
-
Tue23Feb2027
-
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!
-
Tue09Mar2027
-
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.
-
Tue23Mar2027
-
Tue30Mar2027
-
Tue06Apr20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
A chance for members to give a very short presentation on anything they wish
-
Tue13Apr2027
-
Tue20Apr20278:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
Rules in the members' section of the website
-
Tue27Apr2027