“Capturing a Sussex Estate through the Seasons” is our first talk of the 2024/ 2025 season.
Capturing a Sussex Estate
through the Seasons
Capturing a Sussex Estate
through the Seasons
Capturing a Sussex Estate
through the Seasons
Author: Tony Lord
Welcome
Welcome to Bognor Regis Camera Club. Our club exists to encourage members to develop their skills and interests in all aspects of photography through learning, sharing, showing, exhibiting and competing in a friendly environment. No level of skill is needed, just an interest in photography.
Meetings:
We have a regular programme of meetings on Tuesday evenings from September to June in St Mary’s Hall, Felpham . Our sessions are varied and include excellent external speakers, talks by members, internal and external club competitions and practical evenings.
Club extras:
In addition to our regular Tuesday meetings we have workshops and ‘explore’ sessions out and about, informal coffee meet-ups and summer walks. We have Flickr groups for sharing images, for monthly contests and to encourage members to share a photo a week. Our members’ private WhatsApp group is for more casual photo sharing and up to the minute tips and information.
Cameras:
There is no need to have an expensive camera: our members use a variety of devices to take their photos: from smartphones, digital DSLR and mirrorless cameras, to large format film, and we share in digital and print media. We have interests in different styles and genres of photography and we are always happy to share our passions. It is much more about the content of the result than the equipment.
Competitions:
Though the season we have a series of internal competitions using an external adjudicator to appraise our images and choose their favourite picture (we don’t use a scoring system) and these are both in mounted print and projected digital format, and in both open subject and in themed categories. All members are encouraged to participate.What now?
To find our more about our club and meet us either contact Jacqui using our easy Contact form or turn up to a meeting on a Tuesday 7.15 for 7.30 and introduce yourself. For our upcoming programme click here.
You can find out about our meetings on our Facebook page.: https://www.facebook.com/groups/175472179169233/
Flickr is another platform we enjoy, for a monthly competition, just sharing and, we also have a group tackling the challenge of taking a picture a week for a year!!
You may also chat with us at Felpham Conservation Society fete and come to our free Annual Showcase exhibition in The Music School, Sudley Road, Bognor held the first week in August each year.
2023-2024 Prizewinners
2023-2024 Prizewinners
On the 16 May we held our ‘End of Season Prizegiving and Party’. The above image shows some of the award winners for top position in the many competitions run by the club.
But, despite this being the end-of-sesaon event there are many outings, social meetings and workshops over the summer. Watch the calendar on this site and Snapshots, our weekly magazine emailed to members on Mondays.2024 – 2025 programme
2024 – 2025 programme
The programme for this year is now fully organised and is now available using the Calendar links on this website.
Especially see our Explore/ Workshops page, the list of talented and entertaining speakers in our programme for the coming period and watch out for notices of additional events as they arise.
If you like the idea of a friendly club with photography as its common interest or wish to join a club to progress your interest in photography then Bognor Regis Camera Club can certainly meet your needs.
Use the Contact Us form or just come to one of our meetings or workshops.
Old Bosham Walk 240709
Meet at 6.00pm in the car park located at PO18 8HT (car park free after 6.0pm)
Paul Tucker will be your leader for the evening.
Drinks at the Anchor Bleu after the walk if you wish.
Low tide is at 8.09pm
No need book just turn up
Summer Walks in company 2024
The first of our Summer Walks will be in Chichester on Tuesday June 18th at 18:00.
Please see the Calendar for details.
Bring your camera and your sunnies.
Season Close meeting and celebration 2024
On Tuesday , May 7th, we held our final indoor meeting of the 2023/24 season. It was both a very happy and a very sad occasion as we honoured the prizewinners and said farewell to our President, Rob de Ruiter, and to our Chairman, Carolyn de Ruiter, who are moving away into the Wilds of Wiltshire. We wish them well in their new home and their new, exciting surroundings and thank them sincerely for their enormous contribution to Bognor Regis Camera Club over many years. Fortunately, as they have family commitments nearby, we hope to see them again during the new season.
As Carolyn pointed out in her address during the presentation prizes, this final indoor meeting of the season does not mean the end of camera club activities over the summer. There will be, from time to time, other activities such as the planned visit to West Dean Gardens that is coming up shortly, summer walks in company and our annual exhibition, which opens on the 29th of July.
For the presentation of prizes, our retiring chairman took top spot with five trophies. Very many congratulations to Carolyn.
Left to right:
David Hastings
Jan Derrett
Tony Lord
Paul Tucker
Carolyn de Ruiter
Martin Tomes
Other winners not present are: Celia Henderson, Tony Arromba and Jim Wakefield
As Carolyn pointed out in her address during the presentation prizes, this final indoor meeting of the season does not mean the end of camera club activities over the summer. There will be, from time to time, other activities such as the planned visit to West Dean Gardens that is coming up shortly and our annual exhibition, which opens on the 29th of July. And, of course, the monthly Clickers coffee morning.
Our 2024 to 2025 season we’ll start with the Opening Evening. on the 10th of September at 7:30 PM in our usual meeting place of St Mary’s Centre in Felpham. At that meeting, members will be given the details of the 36 events which are planned to run through forthcoming season.
The meeting closed with a short presentation by Tony Lord about his 2023 ‘Selfies’ project and his prizewinning photo book.
Have a great summer and. enjoy your photography!
“PLANTS & PLACES” WITH MARTIN EMMETT
Visiting Speaker Event Tuesday 5 March
Martin Emmett is a professional horticulturist and photographer based in West Sussex. He is a lecturer for the Royal
Horticultural Society (Wisley) and the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew).
Martin’s talk will include examples of both his professional and personal photographs from the many locations around the
world that his horticultural profession has led him to visit, including Borneo, Japan, North Sikkim and the Falkland Islands.
Join us at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.
See Calendar for location information.
Keynote Speaker 20th Feb 2024 @ 7pm for 7:30
Jo Teasdale – My Adopted Family; a long term project
Jo Teasdale is a fine art and documentary photographer based in Brighton. She is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and, in 2013, was a category winner of the Landscape Photography of the Year competition.
Jo will talk about “My Adopted Family”, a long term project in which she explores concepts of memory, inheritance and identity.
The talk will be at St Mary’s Centre, Felpham.
Keynote Speaker Feb 2024
David Collyer – All in a Day’s Work
This event is being shared to club members by Zoom for you to join in from home. You will find the link in the latest ‘Snapshots’. Do not go to the hall, you will be cold & lonely!
David is a photographer based in South Wales
⚫ He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and won the Documentary Photographer of the Year competition in 2021
⚫ David works primarily using film
⚫ His work has been widely published, including on the front page of The Guardian newspaper
David is a photographer based in South Wales
⚫ He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and won the Documentary Photographer of the Year competition in 2021
⚫ David works primarily using film
⚫ His work has been widely published, including on the front page of The Guardian newspaper
David Collyer FRPS is a South Wales based photographer. He discovered a passion for telling a story through images as a teenager, spending time with the press photographers and journalists on a local paper in Surrey edited by his father.
As a documentary photographer who works predominantly on long term projects, he returned to shooting film a few years ago, preferring a sixty-year-old Leica and the anticipation of what he’s captured, to modern digital cameras.
His work has been published internationally, and has appeared in magazines and newspapers, as well as the book All in a Day’s Work, documenting hospital staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book is in the collection of the British Library and The National Museum of Wales.
His photo of a shattered theatre practitioner appeared on the front page of The Guardian and was one of Amateur Photographer magazine’s photos of the year in 2020. He is currently working on a further two books, and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, as well as being named Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021. David is a member of the F/8 Documentary group of photographers.
Keynote Speaker Jan 2024
Bognor Regis Camera Club is proud to present on Tuesday 9th January 2024
Ken Scott
for his talk: Summits and Secrets
Ken is a photographer, adventurer, speaker and coach from West Sussex, England. He is an Associate
of the RPS and an experienced camera club judge. Ken also leads appraisal training for the Southern
Counties Photographic Federation.
Ken describes his talk: “My photography grew up in the mountains where, for thirty years or so I simply
went for walks –sometimes very long walks – and climbs with a camera. None of my photographs
was preconceived; each was made in the moment, as a direct response to light and to the mountain
experience. I took this approach on all our travels, not exotic but intimate, personal journeys to places
that are very special in our hearts. This presentation is a celebration of my experiences with a camera
over a lifetime, with a few people most special to me, using photography to paint an authentic picture
of who we are and to tell the stories of Summits and Secrets.”
St.Mary’s Centre, Grassmere Close, Felpham. PO22 7NU
Non-members welcome (£5)
7.15 for a 7.30 start
https://bognorregiscameraclub.org/
BRCC Speaker Programme 2023-4 Season
Our programme of speakers this season comprises 12 excellent speakers covering a wide range of photographic topics. Full details of times etc. are in our club calendar and, to read more about the individual speakers and their talks click here.
They have been selected as experts in their genre and most of them will be speaking live at our base in St. Mary’s Centre, Felpham. Come and meet them and ask your questions face to face. Visitors welcome; a small charge will be made for your visit.
We also take advantage of the facilities of Zoom so that we can hear from experts who may not be local to Felpham. Attendance at the Zoom events are for BRCC members only, come and join us!
This Season’s Speakers
2023
Jim Pascoe – A Winchester Year (3rd October)
Brian Pettit – Zimbabwe off the Beaten Track (24th October)
Vivica Koh – A Collection of Moments (7th November)
Allan Grainger – A Pathway to Landscape Photography (21st November)
Brian Pettit – Zimbabwe off the Beaten Track (24th October)
2024
Ken Scott – Summits and Secrets (9th January)
David Collyer – All in a Day’s Work (23rd January, via Zoom)
Jo Teasdale – My Adopted Family (20th February)
Martin Emmett – Plants and Places (5th March)
Vanda Ralevska – Wish You Were Here (19th March)
Roger Crocombe – The Sea and Me (9th April)
Jo Bradford – Darkrooms and Smartphones (7th May by Zoom)