2024-2025 PRogramme Information
The club meets every Monday from September to June (except public holidays).
During July and August some members also meet up for outdoor outings.
Please keep an eye on the programme as there may be a few updates.
March 25th 2025 - Split Evening: N&EMPF and Dean Packer
N&EMPF Exhibition: An AV with full commentary by Ashley Franklin - featuring all the accepted images along with the medal winners. This evening we will watch the second part of the AV.
http://www.nempf.org/
The second half of the evening will be a presentation by club member Dean Packer. He will show images from his January 2025 photo trip to Tokyo.
Reminder - Target date for Lissie's Poems
Lissie's Poems: On 31st March we will be visited by poet Lis Bull. Lis gets a lot of the inspiration for her poems from photographs taken by other people. As well as reading some her poems and talking about her inspiration, Lis would like to see some of our images which she might find inspirational. Lis tends to be inspired by photographs of "animals, textures, images seen from an unusual angle and nature or places that create emotions."
We don't expect this to be a critique evening as such, but it would be good to show her a sample of our work. Please send a few images meeting this brief as "club competition size (i.e. up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) digital images to [email protected].
N&EMPF Exhibition: An AV with full commentary by Ashley Franklin - featuring all the accepted images along with the medal winners. This evening we will watch the second part of the AV.
http://www.nempf.org/
The second half of the evening will be a presentation by club member Dean Packer. He will show images from his January 2025 photo trip to Tokyo.
Reminder - Target date for Lissie's Poems
Lissie's Poems: On 31st March we will be visited by poet Lis Bull. Lis gets a lot of the inspiration for her poems from photographs taken by other people. As well as reading some her poems and talking about her inspiration, Lis would like to see some of our images which she might find inspirational. Lis tends to be inspired by photographs of "animals, textures, images seen from an unusual angle and nature or places that create emotions."
We don't expect this to be a critique evening as such, but it would be good to show her a sample of our work. Please send a few images meeting this brief as "club competition size (i.e. up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) digital images to [email protected].
2024/2025 Programme - Printable Version.
The programme correct on 25th October 2024. For further updates see the online programme above.
The programme correct on 25th October 2024. For further updates see the online programme above.
How to Use the Calendar
- Use the interactive calendar on this page - click on an entry to get more information on the event or use the scroll bar to change date. (Please note that landscape mode is better if you're accessing from a smartphone.)
- Link the Club calendar to your personal calendar (only possible if you use Google Calendar and have access to a computer). See below for instructions.
- Alternatively, you can import all the information into your calendar application. Please contact [email protected] for instructions and latest version
Link to the Club Calendar
If you use Google Calendar then you can link to the club programme from your own calendar. Using this method you will automatically see changes as they are made. Instructions on how to link to a Public Calendar can be found here: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=1. Make sure that you scroll down to the section on 'Use a link to add a Public Calendar' - on the Computer tab.
The URL to copy/paste is:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/92sl287qkbkdojtjkdmg12a51o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Types of Event
External speaker: A speaker brought in from outside the club. Often but not always from the lists of speakers provided by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) or Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCFP). Topics vary a great deal from discussions of photographic techniques or genres to travelogues or how the speaker prepared submissions for awards, exhibitions or salons.
Internal Speaker: An equally varied range of subjects as for "External Speakers" but with the presentation given by a member of the club. He or she could be an experienced presenter or a novice.
Competition: We have five or six internal photographic competitions in a season, with images commented on and placed by an external judge, usually from lists provided by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) or Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCFP). We also enter several external competitions each year. Some of these competitions are regional or national but there are two local ones: the Three Way Battle, a fun match between ourselves, Sodbury and Yate Camera Club and Crossbow Camera Club; and the Tom Crowe Challlenge, named after a former Chairman of Thornbury Camera Club which sees around ten clubs compete for a trophy.
Magazine Evening: A number of club members give short presentations on a variety of topics.
Photo Clinic: An opportunity for individual members to ask other members for specific types of feedback on their images.
AV: A show of still or moving images with a soundtrack or commentary, often an exhibition held by an external organisation such as the N&EMPF Exhibition.
Flexible Evening: The intention is to leave some breathing space in the programme where we can introduce topics or meeting formats to address the needs or interests of members that arise during the season rather than having to delay them until the next year. We already have some ideas about how these might be filled, but we are always listening to your ideas and requirements.
Outing: We meet elsewhere to the club's usual venue, primarily in the summer between the end of one club season and the start of the next, but it could be at any time of the year, either on a club night (Monday) or at any other time, usually for the joint purposes of photography and social meet-up.
Internal Speaker: An equally varied range of subjects as for "External Speakers" but with the presentation given by a member of the club. He or she could be an experienced presenter or a novice.
Competition: We have five or six internal photographic competitions in a season, with images commented on and placed by an external judge, usually from lists provided by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) or Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCFP). We also enter several external competitions each year. Some of these competitions are regional or national but there are two local ones: the Three Way Battle, a fun match between ourselves, Sodbury and Yate Camera Club and Crossbow Camera Club; and the Tom Crowe Challlenge, named after a former Chairman of Thornbury Camera Club which sees around ten clubs compete for a trophy.
Magazine Evening: A number of club members give short presentations on a variety of topics.
Photo Clinic: An opportunity for individual members to ask other members for specific types of feedback on their images.
AV: A show of still or moving images with a soundtrack or commentary, often an exhibition held by an external organisation such as the N&EMPF Exhibition.
Flexible Evening: The intention is to leave some breathing space in the programme where we can introduce topics or meeting formats to address the needs or interests of members that arise during the season rather than having to delay them until the next year. We already have some ideas about how these might be filled, but we are always listening to your ideas and requirements.
Outing: We meet elsewhere to the club's usual venue, primarily in the summer between the end of one club season and the start of the next, but it could be at any time of the year, either on a club night (Monday) or at any other time, usually for the joint purposes of photography and social meet-up.