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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.)

4 December - Graham Mansfield judged our 2nd PDI and Mono print competitions which included the Set subject: Anything in water. After holding back 5 images in the Mono print open section and 4 in the set subject he awarded the maximum score to images from Angela Karney and Mike Hall respectively.
In the PDI competition he held back 4 images in the open section and 2 in the set subject before awarding maximum marks to Julian Hall in the open and to Ron Boon in the set subject. as follows:

Mono print Open section:

Falling tulip by Angela Karney

Mono print Set subject section - Anything in water

Zebras in the waterhole by Mike Hall

PDI Open section:

Baby Elephant having a rest by Julian Hall

PDI Set subject section - Anything in water

Waiting by Ron Boon

27 November - The evening commenced with a presentations by fellow member Ron Boon: People whilst traveling - Street and candid photography. Ron showed a number of his images, some taken years previously on film and digitally scanned, most of which related to his travels overseas including the USA and Cuba. Ron explained why he had taken each image and how he approaches people in order to gain their consent to be photographed. He emphasised how important it was to greet people with a smile and in many cases where there are language difficulties to gesture with his hands to indicate he would like to photograph them. In the majority of cases this always works. Ron generally uses small cameras with reasonably short focal length lenses, a 50mm standard being one of his favourites, enabling him to be less conspicuous and less threatening as well as not advertising expensive camera equipment.

For the second half of the evening Miles Thompson's talk covered: Spanish architecture and Scottish landscapes. Miles has a love for landscape photography and architecture, historic buildings such as castles, palaces and churches in particular. He took us on a brief tour of Andalusia in Spain visiting the architectural wonders of Seville, Cordoba and Granada namely: the largest gothic cathedral in the world - Santa María de la Sede and the Royal Alcázar of Seville, the amazing intricate Moorish architecture of the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and the Mezquita in Cordoba as well as the Alhambra in Granada before ending the Spanish element of his talk with images of Gaudy's gothic architectural masterpiece the Basilica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

Some of the images from their talks are shown below:

        
New Orleans street kids and Cuban lady at home by Ron Boon

        
Seville Cathedral and On the path to Kilchurn castle on Loch Awe by Miles Thompson

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.

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