RDCC Programme For Session 2025 - 2026 (click to download)
2025 - 26 RDCC Programme
2025
COMPETITION INFORMATION
For Club Competitions, please see the CLUB CONSTITUTION & COMPETITION RULES BOOKLET from September 2023, which can also be found on the website www.rdcc.co.uk
Monday 17th November - Speaker: Alma Leaper
The story of her photography and work with the Big Cat Sanctuary Smarden
Monday 1st December - 3rd Club Competition
a) Gostrow Colour Print Trophy - Subject: ‘The Seasons’
b) PDI - Opern
c) PDI - Subject: ‘Where I live (inside, outside, around)’
Judge - June Sharp
Monday 15th December - Pre-Christmas Meeting
This will be a Club judged competition
Bring up to two PDIs or Prints (any size) representing the title of a book or film, or the words of a poem or song.
Judging will take place by everyone in the room and we hope you enjoy this fun creative challenge, which can be as literal or abstract as you like. Having this information early should give you time to find inspiration over the summer and the start of next season for your image Please bring RAFFLE Prizes
2026
Monday 5th January - Speaker & Tuition: Norman Ferguson ‘Landscapes and Wildlife from Here and There’
Plus editing tuition (possibly via YouTube) and discussion
Monday 19th January - 4th Club Competition
a) Print - Subject: ‘Light’
b) Roy Stubbs Monochrome Trophy - Print - Subject: Open
c) PDI - Subject: ‘Decay’
Judge - Cherry Larcombe
Monday 2nd February - Activity for All
Members are invited to present a Print or PDI and talk about their image, describing what they intended and what they like about it
Group discussions will following
Monday 16th February - 5th Club Competition
a) Print Panel (One Panel Per Member, please) - Subject: Open (3-6 Prints per Panel)
b) PDI - Subject: ‘Wildlife’
Judge - Paul Parkinson
Monday 2nd March - Activity lead by Helen Taylor
All members who wish to take part to edit a single RAW image at home in advance of the meeting (cropping, using different treatments etc.) Results will be projected as .Jpg images at the meeting. Helen Taylor to lead discussions and observations from all members.
Monday 16th March - 6th Club Competition
a) George Delamare Trophy - PDI Subject: ‘British Countryside & Coast’
b) Douglas Moss Trophy - PDI - Subject: Open - B Group Only
c) Small Print - Max size A4 - Subject: Open
Judge - Andy Smith
Monday 30th March Speaker: Stu Muswell Astrophotography basics with a camera
Monday 13th April - End of Year Club Competition
Please see the Club Constitution & Competition Rules Booklet from February 2023 which can also be found on the website
a) Print of the Year
b) PDI of the Year
c) Peter Chillingworth Shield - Subject: Open for an Unseen PDI
Judge - Steve Carroll
Monday 27th April - Annual General Meeting & Award Presentations
Awards presented by Chairperson of RDCC
Agenda items and proposals for Officers, duly seconded, should have been handed in to the Secretary in writing before the AGM.
The Hon. Treasurer reminds Members that Annual Subscriptions are due at this meeting.
JANE HOWARD,
HELEN TAYLOR
PAUL WHITEMAN
SUE MCDERMID
CAROL HALL
KEN HAYESMORE
TONY HAM
SAM and STU MUSWELL
JAMES KIRKHAM
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