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Last Updated - 29 April 2025
Nick Hodgson - Thursday 01 May 2025
We welcome Nick Hodgson to the club on Thursday 01 May to do his talk called Free Mines Coal Faces.
Nick (FRPS) is a British documentary landscape photographer based in London, with his talk about the documentary project on coal free mining in the Forest of Dean, which formed part of his photography MA, his successful FRPS panel submission, an award winning book and various exhibitions.
Nick is a member of the RPS Distinctions Panel for the Applied and Documentary Photography genres.
The first section of his talk, discusses mining photography that he researched to inform him about his own approach to the subject matter.
After the breakhe will go through a selection of images and how he shot them with as much technical detail as the audience wants, which is usually at a fairly high level, but he is happy to go into detailed specifics.
He will finish his talk with post production and printing, showing physical examples of his F panel whcih the audience can also view at the break.
Nick (FRPS) is a British documentary landscape photographer based in London, with his talk about the documentary project on coal free mining in the Forest of Dean, which formed part of his photography MA, his successful FRPS panel submission, an award winning book and various exhibitions.
Nick is a member of the RPS Distinctions Panel for the Applied and Documentary Photography genres.
The first section of his talk, discusses mining photography that he researched to inform him about his own approach to the subject matter.
After the breakhe will go through a selection of images and how he shot them with as much technical detail as the audience wants, which is usually at a fairly high level, but he is happy to go into detailed specifics.
He will finish his talk with post production and printing, showing physical examples of his F panel whcih the audience can also view at the break.
Image of the Year 2024/25
Thursday 08 May is the annual Image of the year competition and a chance to look at all the podium images from the previous 7-rounds of internal competitions.
The judge will choose a Print of the Year and a PDI of the year for 2024/25.
The judge will choose a Print of the Year and a PDI of the year for 2024/25.
Matching Battle Competition
A slight change to the syllabus means the Matching Battle Competition which was due to take place in March will now take place on Thursday 15 May.
The scheduled Zoom Annual General Meeting will now take place the week after on Thursday 22 May.
Following last year success we will defend the trophy on home soil, as three digital images are shown by each club as they battle it out to match their image (whether images match or not is at the decision of the judge, heckling is allowed).
The club with the highest score at the end of the evening wins.
Here is the way it works
All teams operate their own computer, projector and screen so that images can be selected then projected and viewed at the same time alongside each other.
Teams displayed their images alternately with the image put up by the first team requiring to be ‘matched’ by the second team
Thirty seconds is allowed to put up a matching, or attempt at a matching, image. One point is awarded to the team displaying the first image. If the team displaying the second image is judged to be displaying a matching image, then a point is awarded to them for successfully matching the image
An additional bonus point is awarded to the team judged to have the better image of the two but if there is no match this bonus point goes to the team which put up the first image.
The scheduled Zoom Annual General Meeting will now take place the week after on Thursday 22 May.
Following last year success we will defend the trophy on home soil, as three digital images are shown by each club as they battle it out to match their image (whether images match or not is at the decision of the judge, heckling is allowed).
The club with the highest score at the end of the evening wins.
Here is the way it works
All teams operate their own computer, projector and screen so that images can be selected then projected and viewed at the same time alongside each other.
Teams displayed their images alternately with the image put up by the first team requiring to be ‘matched’ by the second team
Thirty seconds is allowed to put up a matching, or attempt at a matching, image. One point is awarded to the team displaying the first image. If the team displaying the second image is judged to be displaying a matching image, then a point is awarded to them for successfully matching the image
An additional bonus point is awarded to the team judged to have the better image of the two but if there is no match this bonus point goes to the team which put up the first image.
The Annual General Meeting
To end the season we have our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Zoom which is now taking place on Thursday 22 May 2025.
Photo Walks
Steampunk Photowalk
Join us on Sunday 04 May for the Howarth steampunk Photowalk a must for avid portraiture and street photography.
We will meet at the Village Cafe on the main Street at 10am.
The address is Gas Street, Haworth, Keithley, BD22 8NQ or BD22 8BW is the Village Car Park.
We will meet at the Village Cafe on the main Street at 10am.
The address is Gas Street, Haworth, Keithley, BD22 8NQ or BD22 8BW is the Village Car Park.
The hire of Club Equipment
The club has the following equipment for 1 week hire:
If you would like to hire any of these items please get in touch with Lee Inskip-Clark on [email protected].
- Spyder monitor calibration tool - Free of charge
- Lightstick - Free of charge
- Rotalights - £20 per week (Thursday to Thursday)
If you would like to hire any of these items please get in touch with Lee Inskip-Clark on [email protected].