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Cranleigh Camera Club

CCC is a small friendly club catering for people of all ages and photographic abilities and is affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain through the Surrey Photographic Association.

If you enjoy photography and may be looking to improve your photographic skills, or wish to share your photographic experiences with other like minded people, then please come along to one of our meetings. The "About Us" tab above provides more information about the club and how to find us. You can also find us on the Cranleigh Camera Club Group Facebook page on the internet. (See "Useful Links" on this page to access our Facebook site.)

Roundup of recent club activities

(For a full summary of all previous club meetings go to Activities archive page and select the year.)

20 November - Our 2nd Colour prints competition also included an open and a set subject section which were judged by Keith Newton LRPS. The set subject being - Anything in water. In all 37 images were entered and, after Keith gave some feedback and advice for how each image could possibly be improved, he awarded the maximum score of 10 in the open section to Mike Hall and Ann Smith and to Mike Hall and Ann Smith for compliance with the set subject. Their winning images are shown below.

Open section

        
The leopard stare by Mike Hall and An impression of autumn by Ann Smith

Set subject - Anything in water

    
Hippos play fighting by Mike Hall and Stillness by Ann Smith

13 November - Photo art challenge. Ten club members brought along their own creative art, inspired by the work of Stan Farrow we saw during his presentation the previous week. Despite having such a limited time to prepare their submissions it was remarkable to see so many images and just how creative our members are in producing photo art, often a genre not commonly seen during club competitions outside of the digital art category at the club's annual exhibition. Each member described why and how they created their images which led to some discussion by those present. Most of the artwork submitted had been processed using software such as Photoshop in order to produce the final result in the few examples from Ann Smith and Angela Karney below.

6 November - Photo art - A talk by Stan Farrow. Stan describes himself as a creative digital photographer. When he took early retirement a few years ago, he returned to university to study Art History, to follow a strong interest in Modern Art. Nowadays he enjoys applying his interest in art to his photographic work which has been ongoing since childhood. In this Photo Art talk he showed the inspiration behind some of his creative photographic artwork, also describing how it was produced. He is always far more interested in turning his photography into art, rather than producing work for competition purposes, although often the two go hand-in hand. He greatly enjoys using Photoshop creatively to make his digital art, especially still-life work with layers of texture. Having said that much of his work is simple to create at home and involves few digital skills whatsoever.

Here are just a few examples of his work, © Stan Farrow, shown during his presentation:

 

30 October - There were 28 PDIs and 32 mono prints entered in the 1st round of the open colour PDI and Mono print competitions judged by Geoff Young. He gave a fair critique of the images on display and offered his opinion of how some of the images could be improved. In the PDI competition he held back 10 images before awarding amaximum score of 10 to two images from Ann Smith and Tim Cheshire. In the Mono print competition he held back 14 images and awarded maximum marks to the images from Angela Karney, Ron Boon and Mike Hall.

PDI Open section:

    
Cormorant on an rusty hulk by Tim Cheshire and After the road cleaner by Ann Smith

Mono print section:

    
Medicine Lake, Alberta Canada by Mike Hall and Meiji shrine Buddist contemplation by Ron Boon

Winter Clematis by Angela Karney

23 October - Maintenance work at the church hall required this meeting to be changed to a Zoom only event but this did not deter members from submitting a range of images as PDIs. The subject for the evening was Photo disasters and what the judge said and the objective was to allow members to air their views on why they may have liked their particular images and what they meant to the photographer even though the images may not have always been seen favourably by others. Overall a full and entertaining evening.

16 October - Our 1st open Colour prints competition of the season was judged by Tim Morland ARPS. 37 images were entered and during a well balanced critique he held back 11 images for further consideration before awarding Julian Hall (2 images) and Pete Baldrey the maximum score of 10 points for their images as seen below.

    
Egrets and Lion siblings by Julian Hall

Breaking the rules by Pete Baldrey

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