Programme

A club night for new and old members of how to mount print images, what paper to use, sizing, and recommendations of where to get images printed. 

Our very own Chairman Chris Thurston will tonight do a talk on studio lighting to get the best photos

**REMINDER**

Please upload images to the website for the PDI round one competition by Midnight Wednesday 1st October 2025

The brilliant Peter Benson will present his lecture Photography on the Dark Side of London to the Stevenage Photographic Society via Zoom.

**NOTE**

This lecture will be online and not at the community centre tonight. Members will be given the log in details. 

We welcome judge Ben Pike to the club to judge the 4 way battle between Stevenage, Letchworth, Welwyn Garden City and H2

**REMINDER**

Please bring prints for the first Print competition of the year to hand in tonight and upload PDI's to the website by 10pm tonight

Tonight we welcome Robert Snary who will give a lecture on photographing India, including tigers!

**REMINDER**

Please upload images to the website for the PDI Nature Image of the Year competition by Midnight Wednesday 12th Nov.

Tonight we welcome Pete Milsom to the club to talk about his sports photography journey all the way to photographing the Paralympics.

**REMINDER**

Please bring prints for the second Print competition, with a 'Monochrome' theme, to hand in tonight and upload PDI's to the website by 10pm tonight

A fun evening on the build up to the Festive Season, enjoy a Fish & Chip supper, followed by the now infamous Barry's Christmas Quiz!

No meeting tonight

A look at some of the inspiring images from the 2025 EAF Annual Exhibition.

**REMINDER**

Please upload images to the website for the PDI round 2 competition by Midnight Wednesday 7th January 2026

Our second Studio night of the season.

Still Life - TBC

An evening of mini talks from several club members, covering a variety of subjects.

**REMINDER**

Please bring prints to hand in for the third Print competition of the season and upload PDI's to the website by 10pm tonight.

An evening of short talks from some of our members achieving a score of 20 in this season's competitions.

They will give a short description on how/where they took the image and how it was processed.

This is our final monthly PDI competition, entering 1 image for each of 3 themes: Motion / Circles / Three.

We welcome our judge Ian Ryall for his first visit to our club.

Our third studio night of the season.

This will be a chance to use the studio lights and get experience of photographing a model.

**REMINDER**

Next week is the Print Panel competition - please upload PDI's to the website by 10pm tonight but bring prints on the competition night.

A workshop night, which may be an outing - TBC nearer the time.

We have two competitions tonight:

Portrait Photographer of the Year ( 4 x PDIs) and

Chris Pike Memorial Trophy (this year is Composite images, Prints)

We welcome Naomi Saul as our judge.

Annual PDI of the Year competition.

We welcome Peter Prosser as our judge.

The final competition of the year:

Photographer of the Year (portfolio of 6 prints) and

Jim Lucas Trophy award for the best image.

We welcome our judge Martin Patten.

No meeting tonight as it is the Spring Bank Holiday.