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Welcome

Tony Lord

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

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

Tony Lord

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

Tony Lord

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

Tony Lord

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!

Keynote Speaker Feb 2024

Tony Lord

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.