Club Notices

Our Exhibition of Members photos is now on display in the Dophin Centre

10am - 4pm until 13th October

 Well worth a visit

 

If you would like to support our Club please consider buying a lottery ticket from the BH Coastal Lottery and designate the Club as your cause to support. Not only does the Club benefit but also the local community.

 Support Parkstone Camera Club when you play BH Coastal Lottery - BH Coastal Lottery 

*If you would like to join our meetings please contact us at chair@parkstonecameraclub.org.uk. to register your interest.

If you would like to join Parkstone Camera Club then please use the following link to our membership form.

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Please visit the site regularly to keep in touch with the Status of the club's meeting programme.


 

 Our season starts on the 4th September 2024 and our new programme is shown below. All events may be  subject to change

 

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Meetings are either in the HALL, on ZOOM, OUT or as shown at a location.  

 

When attending an event please observe any current social distancing rules and wear a mask at your own discretion.

PDI entries to be sumitted one week before the competition date.

Print Titles to be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ONE WEEK before the competition, prints need to be in the hall on the night by 7.10 pm. Please ensure you have the correct Label with the Date, Title, Number and your Name on the back of the print.

At the moment refreshments will not be available so please bring your own for the moment.

 

 

September 2024

4th. HALL - Welcome Evening - Show Images from Workshops & Fun Competitions + Nibbles.Plus Program for the year+ David Law 10 Minutes of Fame. Please bring Prints & PDIs for the Exhibition

11th HALL - Talk & Workshop "The Art of Composition & Critiquing"

18th HALL - Talk "Portraiture & Fashion Photography" with Mike Gardner

Fri 20th - Brownsea Island Trip - Meet by the Shop on Brownsea at 11am. Go from from Poole

25th HALL Open League Print & PDI Competitions - Judge Malcolm MacNaughton

October 2024

2nd ZOOM - Speaker Talk/Workshop "Take one for yourself and one for the Competition" with Andrew Mills

 6th -13th Exhibition at the Dolphin Centre - Helpers will be required please

9th HALL - Talk/Workshop - "Place, Process, Print" - Huw Alban

16th ZOOM- Speaker - "My Month in the Falklands" with Tracey Lund

23rd HALL - Open League Competitions for Prints and PDIs - Judge : Eric Kennedy

 30th HALL Workshop - Mounting/Lightroom & Alternative Software/Neo with Mike, Carl & others

November 2024

Friday 1st - Fungi Hunt and Pub Lunch - TBA

6th HALL Talk  "Life with the Camera" with Harry Tabeart

13th HALL - Inter Club Competition with Kinson Photo Club - Judge Dave Peckham. Tea & Cake - Mike & Berenice  

20th ZOOM Speaker -"Lost in Cappadocia"with James Kerwin 

27th HALL League Competitions for Prints and PDis - Open. Judge Kevin Sandall

December 2024

4th ZOOM Speaker - "It's a Small World" with Barbie Lindsay

11th HALL  Talk - "Scottish Wildlife Encounters" with Brian Pettit

18th HALL  League Competitions for Prints & PdIs - Open. Judge Harry Tabeart

25th Christmas Break

  

January 2025

8th HALL Fish & Chips + Quiz Plus Enprint Panel Competition - Members to Judge

15th HALL Workshop/Talk "Royal & Semi State Event Photography in London from concept to conclusion"- Andrew Barnett + Equipment Sale

22nd ZOOM Speaker - "Road to Romania" with Dapper & Jude

29th HALL League Competitions Prints and DPIs Open. Judge Sue Sibley

 Friday 31st New Year Dinner at Bates inCharminster -7pm for 7.30pm

 

February 2025

5th HALL Workshop/Talk "Aviation Photography" with Keith Abnett + High Synch Photography with Carl Jacolette

12th ZOOM Speaker Presentation 1- Landscape - Sarah Howard

19th HALL - Workshop/Talk - "Get Creative with Sheila" with Sheila McCabe + PDI Competition to illustrate a Film - One Image each

26th HALL League Competition No,6 for Prints And PDIs - Set Subject - "MINIMALISM" - Judge Maria Leakblade 

 

March 2025

 5th Zoom Speaker "Creative Fungi Photography" with Guy Edwards

Monday 10th Inter Club Competition with Kinson Photo Club at Bearwood Community Centre 

 12th Workshop/Talk with Derek Bell + What's in my Camera Bag??

19th ZOOM Speaker "Invisible Light" with Gerald Chamberlin

26th HALL Open League Competion No 7 for Prints and PDIs - Judge Jon Mitchell

 

 April 2025

2nd HALL Talk "Costa Rica" with Eric Kennedy 

 9th HALL FUN Print & PDI Knockout Competition - Two entries for each - Judged by Members

 16th ZOOM Speaker "The Art of Metamorphosis" with Andrea Hargreaves

 23rd HALL Triptych/3 Way Split Competition - Judge Andrew Mills

 30th HALL Workshop - An Evening with Lyn & Malcolm - Creative Techniques & Black & White Pep Ventosa technique

 

 May 2025

Thursday 1st OUT - Sunset Shoot???  TBA  

 7th OUT Out & About One hour out for phtos the return to Hall to compare images. If wet then in Hall - bits & piecesshow tutotials plus AVs

 14th HALL Best of Year Competition for Prints &PDIs - Judge John Tilsley

 21st ZOOM Speaker "Tools not Rules" with Caroline Preece

28th HALL AGM + Awards Evening Final Meeting for this Season

 

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 If anyone has any ideas for Workshops or Outings please let us know

Please remember to bring your own refreshments for the break

The Programme could change at short notice so keep an eye on the Website, Facebook and your emails 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 March 2024

 6th HALL Workshop - Composite Photography with Sue Sibley

13th ZOOM Speaker David Jenner "Night & Day Panoramas"

20th HALL - Open Print & PDI Competition No 7 - Judge:- Jon Mitchell

27th HALL Workshop - Macro Plus evening with Carl & Others

 

April 2024

 

 3rd HALL Talk John & Di Tilsley "Canada Revisited"

10th HALL Triptych / 3 Way Split + Image Manipulation Fun Competition. Judge:- Maria Leekblade

17th OUT Sunset Shoot !! TBA

24th ZOOM Speaker Julian Elliott "Breathless in Nepal"

MAY 2024

1st HALL Talk Jon Mitchell "Bulgaria"

Thurs 2nd OUT Mermaid Shoot.   Details to be Confirmed- POSTPONED

8th HALL Best of Year Competition Print & PDI Judge:- John Tilsley

15th HALL Workshop "What I do, Why & How + post-processing" with Ian Clark

22nd OUT Mermaid Shoot-Meet at Sandbanks main car park 6.30pm EVENT CANCELLED - Meet in Church Hall at 7.30pm instead - Bring Images for Critique

29th HALL AGM & Awards Evening

 

 

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 The programme could change at short notice so please keep an eye on the website

 

The New Year Dinner was very successful so we will have another one in January

 

 

 

 

 Summer Outings 2023

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