2025/26 Winter Programme
The winter programme consists of weekly meetings from October to March.
In addition to a monthly competition, the meeting cover a wide range of photographic areas and include both technical and general subjects for a wide variety of experiences..
Unless otherwise stated, all meetings take place in Heysham Library, starting at 7:15 pm.
October
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02 |
First meet of the new season Annual General Meeting Presentation of certificates from 2024/25 season |
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09 |
Outdoor Meeting - Morecambe Prom at twilight/after dark Meet at the Eric Morecambe Stattue at 7:00. Bring a tripod if you have one. |
| 16 |
Review of images taken on the 9th. Members present up to six images taken on the Morecambe Prom shoot. Email to competition secretary in advance or bring along on a memory stick. competitions.mmc@gmail.com |
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23 Main Library |
Monthly Competition - Judge Jonny Gios This month's theme for the special category - Leading Lines. For this month only, images for the Open category should be "As Shot", that is straight from the camera with no use of filters or post processing, including in camera, applied to the image. Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 12th October. competitions.mmc@gmail.com This meeting will include a raffle. |
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30
Main Library |
Practical Evening. Post processing with Microsoft Applications. An introduction to post processing digital images, particularly cropping and resizing, using the Microsoft Photos Application included in the Windows system. Please bring your own laptop if possible. Demo images for tablet Demo images for PC |
November
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06 |
Outdoor meeting - venue to be confirmed. Possible venues are the 'Light Up Lancaster' event or a local firework display. |
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13 Meeting Room |
Members' Evening Looking at images taken at Light Up Lancaster and building galleries on the club website. |
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20
Main Library |
Monthly Competition - Judge Adrian Hendley CPAGB This month's theme for the special category - Work/Industry. Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 10th November. competitions.mmc@gmail.com |
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27 Meeting Room
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Practical workshop - Print Mounting. |
December
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04 |
Christmas get together. Midland Hotel, Morecambe |
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11 Main Library |
Monthly Competition - Judge: Harry Emmett CPAGB This month's theme for the special category - Water Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 30th November. competitions.mmc@gmail.com This meeting will include a raffle. |
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18 Meeting Room |
Picture Quiz. Members should submit up to 6 images in advance, these should be "puzzling", that is images of familiar objects or places taken from unusual angles or showing very close up detail. |
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25 |
Christmas Holiday - No meeting. |
January
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01 |
New Year Holiday - No meeting. |
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08 Main Library |
Print Exhibition Opening. Details to be confirmed. |
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15 Meeting Room |
Workshop Evening Creating a Triptych using a variety of software. |
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22 Main Library |
Monthly Competition - Judge: John Smith APAGB, CPAGB, Hon LCPU This month's theme for the special category - Three Colours Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 30th December 2025. competitions.mmc@gmail.com This meeting will include a raffle. |
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29
Main Library |
Practical Evening - Table-top photography with an emphasis on lighting. Workshop Evening Creating a Triptych using a variety of software. |
February
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05 |
Members' Evening - Dan Johnson. A photographic oddity, images from Land's End to John O' Groats. |
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12 Main Library |
Four Way "Battle" - Judge: James Hardy CPAGB, LRPS, DPAGB, AFIAP, LRPS We will be competing against Lancaster, Arnside & Silverdale and Garstang clubs. This meeting will include a raffle. |
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19 |
Monthly Competition - Judge: Barry Dickinson EFIAP, DPAGB, LRPS This month's theme for the special category - Creative use of shutter speed to control movement. Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 8th February. competitions.mmc@gmail.com |
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26 |
How I Did That. Members explain how they created some of their recent images (camera settings, lighting, post-processing). |
March
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05 |
Members' Evening - Steve Bird. Details to be confirmed. |
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12 |
Triptych Competition - Judge: David Goodier LSWPP, LRPS, QGWP Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 1st March. competitions.mmc@gmail.com |
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19 |
My Way with AV - David Bibby EFIQAP, CPAGB, BPE4 In this visit David will be demonstrating how he puts together the type of audio-visual sequences we've seen in previous visits. |
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26 |
Annual Competition - Judge: Keith Richardson CPAGB, Hon President of LCPU There is no special theme for this competition, members should submit up to four images in the Open or Nature categories. Images should be sent to the Competition Secretary by Sunday 15th March. competitions.mmc@gmail.com This meeting will include a raffle. |
April
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02 |
Easter Social Evening Details to be confirmed |