Information for the 2024 - 2025 Season

© Angela Danby

Chairman’s Notes

Welcome to Gloucester Camera Club for the 2024-2025 season and the club’s 81st year.

Thanks to the efforts of Jay, we can look forward to another interesting season of meetings with guest presenters, competition evenings, ‘photo critique’ evenings and ‘club nights’.

Guest presentations, competition judging evenings and other club events are held in person at our meetings in the village hall, whenever this is practical. We value the social aspects of the club, meeting friends to discuss our latest projects or perhaps to simply meet other people with a shared interest.

At Gloucester Camera Club, we believe that although meeting ‘on-line’ risks being too impersonal, it can also have certain advantages, such as allowing us to invite guest presenters for whom it would not be practical to visit us in person. We have two special challenges each year and on the 1st October and the 14th of January we have two speakers in Support of our ‘Gloucester Cup’ challenge which this year is ‘Architecture’. There will be Zoom presentations this year on a couple of occasions. We will also be doing two special evenings where we will be going out with our camera’s into Gloucester in support of the ‘Chairman’s Challenge’ which is ‘Gloucester’

The ‘Photo Critique’ evenings are an opportunity for club members to present images for discussion and comment by a guest photographer or club members. These usually result in a wealth of hints and tips concerning image composition, lighting and photographic techniques.

On ‘Club Nights’, members are invited to talk about about their interest in a specific photographic subject or technique.

We may, additionally, meet for an extra ‘Technical Evening’, where a club member or guest will give a short presentation or practical demonstration.

If anyone would like to volunteer to organize an event, such as a photographic outing or to present a topic on a Technical Evening, please let us know.

If you intend to enter any of our club competitions, please read the rules carefully (see below) and ask if anything is unclear. Any Committee member will be happy to explain. The rules document also contains general information about the various competitions and the workings of the club. To ensure that our club remains inclusive for all levels of members’ experience and budgets, we accept images taken on any kind of photographic device, such as a camera, phone, drone, action or trail cam or home-made device, in fact anything that will produce a pleasing image using electronic sensors or even film. Images may be in colour or black and white (monochrome), according to the rules for the specific competition or event. Where entries in colour are allowed, it is also possible to apply colour or mono to different elements in a single image, if desired.

We welcome all comments, suggestions and ideas for future meetings. Please contact us.

Dave W

Competition Rules

The Club’s Constitution and Competition rules may be found here: - Competition Rules

The native (or basic) resolution of our projector is 1920 x 1200 pixels and therefore Projected Digital Image (PDI) competition entries should not exceed this maximum resolution. Files must be in JPG format.

A guide to saving and re-sizing PDI files is available on the Membership Information page.


Deadlines for submitting photos for Gloucester Camera Club Competitions (members only)

These are the final submission deadlines for competition images.

Annual Competition

  • Round 1 - 24th September 2024

  • Round 2 - 22nd October 2024

  • Round 3 - 26th November 2024

  • Round 4 - 14th January 2025

  • Round 5 - 11th February 2025

  • Round 6 - 25th March 2025

Panels Competition

  • Hand in for the Panels Competition - 19th November 2024

Gloucester Cup (Theme ‘Architectural Photography’)

  • Hand in for the Gloucester Cup - 11th March 2025

Chairman’s Challenge (Theme ‘Gloucester’) and the AV (audio-visual) Competitions

  • Hand in for the Chairman’s Challenge and the AV competitions - 8th April 2025

Technical Nights and Photo Critique Evenings

Details of these and other forthcoming events are contained in the Club Programme and will be posted on this website.