Towcester Camera Club Programme

 
Towcester Camera Club meets on alternate Wednesday evenings at the St Michael’s Church Rooms in Silverstone from 19:30 ~ 10:00pm. We warmly welcome anybody who enjoys photography as a hobby.
 
Our members have a very wide range of photographic interests and ability and most find that they thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to share ideas and to learn techniques from each other and from visiting speakers, either before the formal session starts, during the midway break, or at the end of the session.
 
The Club updates its programme twice a year and aims to cater to a spread of interests, mixing external speakers with informal, participative member sssions.
 
We are always keen to hear from people keen to show their work or demonstrate new techniques.

Join our Facebook Group for the latest information

Programme of Events ~ 2019 - 2020

 

Wednesday 4th September

Print selection for the Terry Chapman competition. Each member to enter up to a maximum of 4 digital images, these will be critiqued by Chris Baldwin who will then select the 9 images to be printed and entered into the Terry Chapman competition at Rushden Camera Club on Saturday 16th November.

 

Wednesday 18th September

Members Evening T.B.C.

 

Wednesday 2nd October

A talk by Graham Heywood entitled  “Fresh Imaginations”  “Fresh Imaginations” is the latest club talk using images from the last few years. It is so fresh, it was completed in 2018. There is the usual eclectic mix of Sports, Creative and Travel photographs. Graham’s ideas and techniques should inspire amateur photographers to get out and use their cameras. Included in the presentation is a look at  self-publishing photographic books.

 

Wednesday 16th October

A talk by Nigel Spencer entitled “British Wildlife In Macro” Not all wildlife revolves around animals and bids, there are simply millions of smaller subjects to be found.  Many of these make great species to photograph, indeed to photograph many of them you don't need a long lens, or specialist macro equipment. 

 

Wednesday 23rd October - SPECIAL TICKETED EVENT

TCC presents Peter Cairns @ Towcester Rugby Club, Greens Norton Rd, Towcester. What Peter says about himself:-

The professional stuff... I've been a freelance nature and conservation photographer since 1998 and am a founding director of The Wild Media Foundation, the Social Enterprise behind projects such as Tooth & Claw, Highland Tiger and 2020VISION. I was a co-founder and Business Director of the pan-European photography initiative Wild Wonders of Europe and in 2015 I founded SCOTLAND: The Big Picture. As part of a dedicated team, we produce compelling visual media that amplifies the case for a wilder Scotland. In parallel with my work in conservation media, I have run a photographic tour company for 20 years and have long been an advocate for sustainable nature-based tourism as a mechanism for giving wild nature an economic value. I’m a serving Board Member of Scottish rewilding charity Trees for Life, and a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

The personal stuff... I’ve never considered myself a proper photographer, not really. Now don’t get me wrong, I love working in wild places and I love close encounters with wild animals, but photography itself - all the geeky stuff – it leaves me a bit cold. What I’m really passionate about is what photography can do. And what it can do is make you think and make you feel. It's that potential for informing and inspiring people about the role of wild nature in our lives, through visual storytelling, that gets me out of bed in the morning. I live in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands and am ably assisted by my lovely wife Amanda, kept in check by our son Sam and find perspective in our bumbling Labrador, Finn. Over the years I’ve travelled quite a bit but these days I work much closer to home - taking pictures, writing text, making films, delivering talks and running photographic retreats. A friend once told me: Work hard. Have fun. Do good. I try to do all three.

Tickets for this event are now on sale.

 

Wednesday 30th October

The annual Versatility Challenge, subjects this year are Reflections, Symmetrical, As Different as Chalk & Cheese, Shadows, A Great Picture with Everything out of Focus, Something Black Against a Black Background

 

Wednesday 13th November

Joint meeting with Northampton Natural History Society @ Silverstone.  This will be an evening of members from both clubs showing up to 5 images of their recent work in ether print or digital format.

 

Saturday 16th November

Terry Chapman Competition @ Irchester Village Hall. Doors open for viewing at 6 o’clock judging to start at 7 o’clock.

 

Wednesday 27th November

A talk by  Roland Puleston Jones from Daventry Camera Club about Under Water Photography.

 

Wednesday 11th December

An evening of reflection of the passed year and have some Christmas nibbles and drink.