Our annual Ken Hitch Trophy competition was held on 26 January 2022 and judged by Nick Akers. There were 35 entries in the colour section with an “Autumn” theme, and a similar number in the mono section which had an “Abstract” theme. Congratulations to Roger Newark for coming first with a brilliant score of 77 out of a possible 80 points.

For more information and to view some of the winning images, please click here.

To view all of the entries and for a full list of scores, please log in to the PhotoEntry page as usual. read more

Further to the earlier post about the BBC posting an article online regarding our relationship with Tom Clarke at Green Farm, Ely Photographic Club will now be featured in the BBC Look East programme on 12 January 2022. Green Farm is part of the Ely Nature-Friendly Farming Zone, and the club are allowed onto the farm to take images of the wildlife that is flourishing there. 

BBC News has published an article on Green Farm and the relationship that Tom Clarke has with Ely Photographic Club – please see the article here

Well done to all of the club members who contributed images, this was great media coverage for us!

Ely Photographic Club wishes all of its members and friends a very Happy New Year, and we look forward to seeing everyone back on 5 January for our first meeting of 2022, which is a presentation by Cumbria-based photographer Dr Keith Snell called “My Restless Lens”. See you there!

Ely Photographic Club would like to wish all of its members and friends a very peaceful and enjoyable Christmas. Stay safe, and we will see you all in the New Year!

On 15 December 2021, we held our pdi panel competition, and a very strong entry of 15 panels were judged by Sarah Kelman.

Congratulations to Kevin Pigney for coming first against such strong competition, and to Hedley Wright and Ryan Bailey for coming second and third respectively.

For the full results, please Click Here

On Monday 13 December 2021 we competed in our annual Inter-Club battle against Kings Lynn, and each club submitted 25 images that were judged by Nick Akers. Ely scored 426 points against 396 for Kings Lynn.  This is the third straight win for Ely in recent Inter-Club competitions, so well done to everyone for a great result!  Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the detailed and useful critique of some great images by both clubs, and we are all looking forward to next year’s event!

The individual results for the entries can be viewed here  read more

On 8 December 2021 Ely hosted a 4-way battle between ourselves, St. Ives, St. Neots and March camera clubs.  Each club entered 12 images, and the competition was judged by Ben Pike.

The results were that Ely won with 204 points, very closely followed by St. Neots with 203 points. St. Ives scored 199 points and March scored 193 points.

Well done to everyone who had an image in the competition, and we are looking forward to next year’s competition already!

Please note that all of the training notes from John Harvey’s APG meetings have been removed for the Help page, and have been relocated to the new dedicated Tutorials page which is accessible from the main menu at the top of this website. 

Tonight’s meeting will be run jointly between Kevin and John.  For more details, please Click Here