St Ives have decided to run an online exhibition entitled “A Day in Lockdown” in lieu of their normal annual exhibition this year – to view the exhibition please Click Here

Suffolk professional photographer Gill Moon is organising an exhibition to celebrate 50 years since the creation of the Suffolk Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with local amateur photographers contributing 50 images of the area.  The exhibition was to have been held in November 2020 at the ArtSpace Gallery in Woodbridge, but due to Covid this has had to be postponed until July 2021.  However, the exhibition will be available online from 14th – 28th November 2020, with prints available to buy. Ely Photographic Club member Phil Lenney was one of the photographers invited to submit images, and the exhibition catalogue is available here.  Prints can be purchased online at £45/print. read more

On Tuesday 20 October 2020 Robert Prenton-Jones will be giving a presentation on the art of composite photography.  The evening will be a joint one between the Bottisham and Burwell and Ely clubs, and Peter’s presentation should make for a very interesting and enjoyable evening.

On Wednesday 7 October 2020 our first pdi competition of this years season was held via the Zoom app. The judge, Jonathan Vaines, critiqued a large entry of 74 images. Results of the competition are now available on our Competitions Page, or click here

Many people at the club were interested in how Sharon Powell had taken her frozen flower images for the recent critique evening. Sharon has kindly put together some notes on how to do this, and these are now available on the Help Page of the website, or Click Here

Andrew has recently circulated the programme for the forthcoming season. Thanks again to Nick for all his hard work compiling this in such a short timescale.

All events for the 2020 year have now been added to the Events page of this website, and those events for 2021 will be added in due course if the coronavirus situation doesn’t change significantly.

The Committee has worked hard to produce a schedule of events for the coming season, in these very difficult times, and have decided that the membership cost will remain at £50 for the 2020-21 season. We feel that, given the comprehensive programme, this represents good value for money with each session costing £1.25. Membership fees are now due, and details on how to pay these have been circulated by Andrew. We look forward to welcoming back as many members as possible for what should be an interesting and varied programme of events. read more

On 3 June 2020 we held our themed image panel competition online using the zoom app, and Clive Harward judged the competition for us. The competition results page is available here

Well done to all of the members who entered panels, and to the winners in particular! 

Following John Harvey’s excellent training evenings on processing images in Lightroom Classic, his comprehensive notes on this are now available at the bottom of the Help Page of this website. Notes on processing in Photoshop will follow once that training session on that has been held.

Many thanks to John for his hard work in producing these extremely useful guides.

On Wednesday 25 March 2020, the club held it’s first virtual meeting using Zoom, an online videoconferencing application. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently not holding our normal meetings, so this experiment was a useful one and definitely the way forward to keep club members in contact with one another. Training on how to use this form of communication, and the meeting itself, was organised by the Club Chair, Andrew Hunt, to whom we are very grateful for all of his hard work. On the night, the meeting was very successful, and we hope to arrange further meetings and events in this way for the time being.  This will mean that the club can continue to provide the best possible service to members in the current difficult circumstances.  read more