2025 PROGRAMME

JANUARY 2025
6th - Enrolment / Chairman’s evening / EAF 2024 Portfolio
13th - Presentation – “Tantalising Asian Travels” with Liz Croxson
20th - Presentation – “A Sports Photographers Guide to Safaris” with Ray Lawrence 
27th - Competition – Open DPI. Judge: Bob Good
 
FEBRUARY 2025
3rd - Presentation – “An East Anglian Wildlife Photographer's Year” with Kevin Sawford
10th - Presentation – “Portraiture” with Roy Essery
17th - Competition – Open Print. Judges: Lynn Davidson & James Green
24th - Quiz Night with Mark Riley
27th - Away Battle (5+5) at Maldon CC
 
MARCH 2025
3rd - Members Evening – “Famous Photographers”
10th - Practical – “Describe your artistic process” with Club members
17th - Competition – Moulsham Shield. Judge: David Steel
24th - Presentation – “Close up and macro Nature photography” with Daniel Bridge
31st - Competition – Open DPI & Print. Judge: Pauline Martindale
 
APRIL 2025
7th - Presentation – “Wildlife on Holiday” with Neil Phillips 
8th - Away Battle – Upminster Hexagon
14th - Competition – Open DPI & Print. Judge: Caroline Preece
21st - No Meeting
28th - Practical – “3 in 30” with Club members
 
MAY 2025
5th - No Meeting
12th - Competition – Open DPI & Print. Judge: Tony Bramley FRPS
19th - Speakeasy with Club members
26th - No Meeting
 
JUNE  :  JULY  :  AUGUST 2025
NO MEETINGS: See summer Programme

SUMMER PROGRAMME

• Thursday 19th June, 6pm until late: RHS Garden Hyde Hall
• Thursday 3rd July, 6:15pm - 9pm: Chelmsford Waterways Walk (meet at bottom end of First Avenue, CM1 1RX)
• Monday 7th July, 7pm - 9pm: Post Production tutorial (meet at the Copper Pot, MLCT, 99 Gloucester Avenue, CM2 9DS)
• Monday 14th July, 7pm - 9pm: Post Production tutorial (meet at the Copper Pot, MLCT, 99 Gloucester Avenue, CM2 9DS)
• Thursday 17th July, 3pm until late: Westfields (meet at Chelmsford station, 3pm)
• Monday 28th July, 6pm - 9:30pm: Springfield Basin and Beyond (meet at Costa Coffee Chelmer Valley Retail Park)
• Friday 1st August, all day: Brands Hatch, Camera World Event
• Monday 11th August, 6pm - 9pm: Galleywood Common (meet at the car park)
• Saturday 30th August, 2pm - 9pm: Dovercourt (meet at Beach Café)

SEPTEMBER 2025
1st - Presentation – “Flower Photography” with Ken Payne
8th - Bring and Buy by Trevor Barnard with Club members
15th - Competition – Open DPI & Print with Ian Ryall
22nd - Practical – “It’s a knockout” by Chris Payne with Club members
29th - Presentation – “Creating impact and mood” with Steve Hedges
 
OCTOBER 2025
6th - Competition – “Taken in Essex” by Chris Payne with Club members
13th - Presentation – "YouTube evening” by Andrew Smith
20th - Competition – Portrait of the Year DPI & Print. Judge: Pauline Martindale 
27th - Presentation – "Cave/mine photography" by Dave Watts
 
NOVEMBER 2025
3rd - Practical – Painting with light with Club members
10th - Competition – DPI of the Year. Judge: Alison Jenkins ARPS DPAGB CPAGB/AV BPE1
17th - Presentation – “Smartphone photography” byJeanette Lendon
24th - Practical – “Bring your cake then eat it” by Liz Croxson with Club members
 
DECEMBER 2025
1st - Competition – Print of the Year. Judge: Naomi Saul ARPS DPAGB ASINWP MFIAB​
8th - MLCC AGM
15th - Tinsel and Trophies/Prize Presentation

City Blues by Nicola Riley

Admiral On Inula Magnifica by Phil White

Power To The People by Ron Adams

City Never Stops Building by Simon Polley

European Brown Bear by Lynn Rix

The Railway Children by Lynn Davidson