Wed 12 Nov 2025 - CLUB NIGHT
An Evening of Excellence
A review of last season's 10s with author's comments
Tue 11 Nov 2025 - Focus
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aOk0SijpTzOUmuTQEKvs9w
Upload your images here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iTN1TANY5RhQbMAIqvjoId2EPaOn_fv2...
Wed 5 Nov 2025 - COMPETITION - PDI 2
PDI 2
Judged by Andrew Webster
PDIs to be submitted by midnight on Saturday 1st November
Wed 29 Oct 2025 - CLUB NIGHT
Members' evening with Steve Fox - Photographing the Night sky
Sat 25 Oct 2025 - SPA Individual Print and PDI Championship
Submissions must be uploaded by Saturday 4th October
The full rules are here:
Wed 22 Oct 2025 - Spectrum & Heywood Competition at YCC
Judged by Graham Mansfield (Unfortunately Micki Aston has fractured her ankle and is unable to judge the competition so Graham has kindly stepped in at short notice)
Spectrum - Theme PDI - Macro & Micro
Heywood - Open PDI
Members may enter one PDI in the Heywood Trophy and one PDI in the Spectrum Trophy.
Entries for YCC members is via the competition page on the website
Entries for Farnborough and AFCC members is by email as below.
Entries should have filenames with the following specifications:
Spectrum,Club Name-Title-...
Wed 15 Oct 2025 - Speaker -Margaret Martin - ICM & Multiple Exposure
Many of us are familiar with Margaret's work and she's going to show us how she creates her masterpieces.
This talk came about because of the often asked question ‘ How did you do that’. Margaret will talk about why she moved to more creative photography and how she uses multiple exposure and ICM to create her images. She will try to give you some ideas for using these techniques in your own
Thu 9 Oct 2025 - Focus
Please note a change from the usual Tuesday Focus!
THURSDAY 9th October
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XA76jhUcQ82__PsxZf2_WQ
Upload your images here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15VZLaVZXfywPGM4hbJhIi_HFFLJPc7wG...
Wed 8 Oct 2025 - COMPETITION - Print 1
Print 1
Judge Paul Graber
PDIs to be submitted by midnight on Saturday 4th October
Wed 1 Oct 2025 - CLUB NIGHT
Part 1 - AI in Post Processing - What should YCC allow?
Part 2 -What I did off Season (summer) - show us your photos
So obviously we all did something, some of us a lot of things, so now's your chance to share your off season photos.
Steve Banks will come up with a system for you to submit / upload your photos.
Fear not if you're not comfortable in presenting your images then you don't have to we'll just show them and maybe ask you where and when you took them in a light hearted relaxed style in a non judgemental way.
Also before hand we'll have a discussion...
Wed 24 Sep 2025 - Speaker - Auto/Portrait/Life - David Rutter
David Rutter is a Creative Fine art photographer. His work encompasses still life, art, abstract, animals, bugs and birds and portrais to name a few.
His presentation is The Work of David Rutter FRPS
Wed 17 Sep 2025 - COMPETITION - PDI 1
PDI1
Eddie Hyde is the judge.
All entries to be submitted by midnight on Saturday 13th September
Wed 10 Sep 2025 - Speaker - Flower Portraits -Molly Hollman (Zoom)
A talk by Molly Hollman
Molly specialises in creative flower, plant and garden photography and other fields too.
Member of the Professional Garden Photographers Association, The Guild of Photographers and the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers.
Wed 3 Sep 2025 - Chairman's Evening
SGM to consider Themes
Presentation of Trophies
Our New Website
SPA Views on AI
