Team battle judged by Bury Art Society
An informal competition between two teams . Two members of Bury Art Society will judge the competition.
Print Competition
Adrian Hendley CPAGB will judge Round 2 of our year long competition for prints.
Summer Walk
Meet at Burrs car park, Burrs Country Park, Woodhill Rd, Bury BL8 1DA to start walking at 7.30pm . 40 minute circuit or longer if we stop to take photographs.
Food is served at the Brown Cow (next to car park) 6-8pm so you could have a meal if you don’t want to walk. Or beforehand.
There is no meeting at Fishpool this week.
Hoylake International Exhibition, presented by Diana & Brian Magor
Some of our members had images accepted for this prestigious salon.
Harry Hagan "In Paddy's Footsteps" & "One of Life's Great Pleasures"
Harry is one of our own members and tonight he will entertain us with an evening of two halves.
Projected Image Competition
John Riley will judge Round 3 of our year long competition for digital images.
All the Annual entries and Presentation of Trophies by Keith Richardson L&CPU President
Including the digital images that we haven’t yet seen.
Dave Wilkinson smartphone photography
Dave is a former member of this club and is well known on Flickr and elsewhere for his smartphone images.
Dave has been a member at Bury PS for many years over two periods going back to the late 1970's to the mid 1980's, the second term was from the 2000's, when he held several positions on the committee, including President, Competition secretary, Exhibition secretary and running the website. During this time he entered many external competitions, gaining CPAGB, BPE2* and AFIAP. The last time he was a member was 2015, when he had had enough of all competitions and taking photos to please judges, that's when he started taking photos for himself, and started using his iPhone pretty much all the time. He carried on going to Lancashire Monochrome Club and is still a member, He shows prints there almost every month mainly taken using his iPhone.
Print Competition
Richard Nicholson CPAGB will judge Round 3 of our year long competition for prints.
Andy Phillips, “More Than Meets The Eye”
Andy Phillips is well-known as a professional Photographer, Teacher & Lecturer.
He specialises in Landscape and Smallscape photography and Adobe Photoshop.
He & his wife Nancy also have a Wedding & Commercial Photography company in Chorley, Lancashire.
Members of Bolton Camera Club will be joining us in Bury for this evening.
Projected Image Competition
Jeremy Roussak ARPS CPAGB BPE3* AFIAP will judge Round 4 of our year long competition for digital images.
Phil Durkin DPAGB BPE4 of Bolton CC “A Few Seconds Makes All The Difference”
Long exposure photography including elements of minimalism.
Phil says, “My seascape presentation for 2026, “A Few Seconds Makes All the Difference,” explores the art of seeing the world through the lens of long and extreme long exposure photography. The collection journeys mainly across the UK - from the North West Coast, down the North East Coast including Humberside, a small selection from the South Coast, then we head north to capture the beauty of North West Scotland and the tranquillity of the Inner and Outer Hebrides. The last leg is a small selection of overseas images from Europe. The presentation includes elements of minimalist photography and through this approach fleeting moments are transformed into images of stillness and surrealism. It features both colour and monochrome pictures.”
Print Competition
Barry Dickinson MPSA EFIAP DPAGB BPE5* GPU CR3 L.APS/g will judge Round 4 of our year long competition for prints.
Battle with Bolton, AT BOLTON
The AWAY leg of this regular fixture, judged by Graham Currey. THERE IS NO MEETING AT FISHPOOL THIS WEEK.
Projected Image Competition
Tillman Kleinhans ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPU will judge Round 5 of our year long competition for digital images.
Geoff Drake
Geoff Drake is a fine art photographer and author of the fotoVUE guidebook Explore & Discover Liverpool. His photo of the Liver Birds rising into the sunshine above the fog went viral and started his fine art career. His subsequent output is well up to this high standard.
Everest, The Hard Way
In 2025 David Nightingale curated an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of Chris Bonnington’s South West Face British Everest Expedition. He was granted access to Chris Bonington and Doug Scott’s photo libraries and to many artifacts and items from the climb. Tonight’s presentation is based on that exhibition. This is a rare chance and permission to use these assets for this talk took some time to be granted. The fee for this evening will be donated to Community Action Nepal (the charity founded by Doug Scott).
Print Competition
Keith Barber CPAGB LRPS FIScT will judge Round 5 of our year long competition for prints.
Practical Evening
Two model railway sections with lighting to be photographed. Please bring anything else you wish to photograph, lights backgrounds etc.
Also bring any questions or problems. And bring the relevant camera, laptop or whatever.
Please mention beforehand on the WhatsApp group anything you would like help with.
President's evening with Martin Henfield
Martin will present an evening with Joel Goodman, a freelance news and documentary photographer with experience of working for national and local papers as well as TV. One of his images went viral and got 5 million views. The basic theme will be the life of a working hard news photographer.
Projected Image Competition
Nick Hilton EFIAP DPAGB BPE5* will judge Round 2 of our year long competition for digital images.
Mark Gilligan - Landscape Photographer AT BOLTON
Tonight we visit Bolton for a joint meeting.
Mark Gilligan is regularly published in National and Regional magazines, He covers all areas of the Lake District and Snowdonia (Eryri) not just on his Landscape Photography courses and workshops but for his own projects too. He has favourite locations around Eskdale and Wast Water up north and the Ogwen Valley and Dinorwig Quarries in Eryri (Snowdonia).
Battle with Bolton
The home leg of our traditional inter-club competition, judged by Susie Freeman
Eb Swarbrick "A bit of all sorts"
Eb is a longstanding BPS member and is known for the high quality of his images and his adventures into new ways of taking photographs.
Members' photos
Members' photos. Multiple images that go together, in panels or linear sequences that tell a story or just fit together.
Print Competition
Robert Millin MFIAP, FBPE, EFIAP/d3, MPSA, DPAGB, SPSA, GPU Zeus, AWPF, LRPS will judge Round 1 of our year long competition for printed images.
Mike McMahon
Mike is a professional photographer specialising in drone and ground based landscapes with a particular focus on the landscapes around Manchester, the Peak District, Scotland, and Wales.
Annual Print Judging
Our judge is Christine Widdall FBPE MPAGB EFIAP APAGB Hon LCPU
This is a Sunday daytime event. Please help to set up from 10am, we will be started by 10.30am There will be a break for lunch and the day is usually finished by about 4pm.
Sheila Giles, images from her BPE 2 Crown award and award winning AVs
Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP BPE2* recently judged our annual DPI competition. Tonight she will show us images from her BPE 2 Crown award and some award winning AVs.
Irene Amiet, Wildlife and Habitat
Irene will be showing us wildlife and habitats from Africa, the Arctic as well as local wildlife. Bring cash or card to buy the book for Irene’s charity, Wilder Britain (a collaboration of over 60 UK wildlife photographers).
The photography of Irene Amiet and Duncan Phillips can be seen at Knowle Top Studios, a fine art gallery located in Clitheroe.
Projected Image Competition
Miles Turnbull CPAGB, BPE1 will judge Round 1 of our year long competition for digital images.
Bury Art Society, their work from our photos
This is a MONDAY at 6.45pm at the Blackburne Hall, 5 The Wylde, Bury BL9 0LA behind Bury Parish Church.
Bury Art Society have produced artworks based on a selection of photographs from our team “battle” that they judged for us last year.
Come and see how some of our images look through the eyes of different artists.
Annual Digital Projected Image Competition
Judged by Sheila Giles DPAGB AV-AFIAP BPE2*
Sheila will have judged the images beforehand and tonight she will give us her comments on the images that merit Commendation, High Commendation, Very High Commendation and one Winner in each section.
Image Appraisal Evening
We all have photographs that are interesting but not planned as competition entries. Tonight is a chance to see some images that we may not otherwise see. Including some from our recent practical evening.
And who knows? Maybe they will end up in a future competition after all.
Bruce Kendrick ARPS "From a nature writer to a nature photographer."
Bruce is a life long wildlife enthusiast and more recently a published author and photographer. Last year he became the editor of the journal of the Nature Group of the Royal Photographic Society.
Paul Grogan
Paul is a professional photographer based in Whitefield.
His images of Manchester, Peak District, Lake District, Yorkshire and beyond are shaped by his experience in graphic design.
Read about him here https://www.paulgroganphotography.com/about/ and read about his recent appearance as an interviewee in Outdoor Photography magazine here https://www.paulgroganphotography.com/photography-blog/reflections-on-my-outdoor-photography-magazine-interview/
Tony North, Abstract Photography
Tony’s excellent images appear in many places and he is also an excellent speaker. Tonight his subject will be Abstraction.
David Crabtree, “About 50 prints”
David is one of our own members. Tonight he will show us about fifty prints and tell us about their stories.
Annual Hand In Night
Bring your prints and entry forms. Digital images can be sent beforehand or brought tonight on a USB stick.
Stay on to socialise, or have an early night.
Practical evening
Continuous lighting, small varied objects. Bring lights, objects (smooth-rough, matt-shiny) and some means to modify the light.
We can also have small groups around laptops if anyone has any questions about editing.
Or just come for the craic.
Some evenings in January and February may be swapped around or changed depending on the availability of some internal and external speakers.
Tonight’s meeting is cancelled
Bruce was unable to be with us tonight and as heavy snow is forecast this evening we have cancelled the meeting.
Ellie Cooper + Phil Hill
An evening with our own members Ellie Cooper + Phil Hill, hosted by Martin Henfield
Print Competition
Graham Currey will judge Round 5 of our year long competition for prints.
Members’ photos
A change from the previous plan. Several members have contributed groups of photos. Locations from just around the corner at Gigg Lane via Ramsbottom and Radcliffe to Egypt and the USA.. Not necessarily in that order.
Nick Snape "Kenya, Namibia & Botswana. Safari & a little bit more"
Nick is one of our members. He is well known for the quality of his nature photography. This is not to be missed.