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Join us for an evening to try us out. Normally free or £5 if there is a guest speaker.

Find out how to visit or join us here and information on annual membership subscriptions here.

Events are normally at the Auditorium of The Old Court Windsor unless stated otherwise in the programme. The Old Court has an excellent licensed bar.

Occasionally meetings are held in the Basement at the The Old Court or at All Saints Church, Dedworth which is here.

View our programme of events here.

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Sunday 12 May 2024: Photowalk: Windsor Smartphone walk

You can find more information on this here.

Additional details of this walk will be emailed to club members nearer the date.

Monday 13/05/24 at 19:45 at the Auditorium at The Old Court, Windsor

An evening with Doug Seeburg.

Doug is a Windsor-based freelance photographer. He says:

I am a freelance photographer based in Windsor, Berkshire and I have over thirty years’ experience working for local and national newspapers.

I studied Photography at the Berkshire College of Art and Design before working as a staff photographer on The Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News titles. After 4 years on local papers I joined Southern News Service, a Surrey based news agency providing coverage of news, sport and features to the national and international press, magazines and TV. Not long after I was asked to do shifts at The Sun and soon left to freelance full time for the UK's biggest selling daily paper.

In 28 years working for the Sun I have travelled to over 60 countries and worked on major news stories at home and abroad.

You can see some great examples of the breadth and quality of Doug’s work here.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to hear first-hand from a great photographer with a wealth of experience.

Wednesday 15 May 2024: Photowalk: Architecture

Details of this walk will be emailed to club members nearer the date.

Monday 20/05/24 at 19:45 at the Auditorium at The Old Court, Windsor

Photographer Of the Year "Best of the Best" Competition

Tonight is the Photographer of the Year Best of the Best competition.

Entries are taken from the first, second and third placings together with all Highly Commended entries if not awarded a placing, of the six Photographer of the Year rounds of the season. Entries are judged separately by an external judge, and the judge will determine first, second and third placings for the printed and digital images separately.

Uploading of images is not required for this competition, the projected version of all images will be organised by the Internal Competition Secretary. The mounted prints need to be submitted by the relevant members on the night of the competition.

Trophies are awarded for both the print and PDI category winners at the end of the season.

The judge for the evening is Gladys Perrier of Bracknell Camera Club.

Gladys says:

When I was 7 years old my Dad gave me his box brownie and that whetted my appetite for photography. For Art ‘O’ Level I borrowed a school camera to create a project about ‘water in monochrome’ and learnt darkroom skills. I wanted to do so much more but I had to hand the camera back and it was not until I left home and had my first job, that I was able to afford to buy a camera of my own. On receipt of my first pay packet I purchased an Olympus 10. I found the camera a perfect companion with which to pursue my other love – nature and wildlife.

I had been brought up in rural Ireland in those days when children were able to run wild and free, in the open countryside, chasing each other through meadows, over streams and copses unafraid of anything. The days when banks were covered in carpets of primroses and marshes filled with a pink haze of ragged robin. Where willow warblers and corncrakes could be heard at dusk on a summers evening. Therefore my choice of photographic subject was obvious.

In the late 1980s I was presented with my first autofocus camera – a Canon EOS10. Having built up a kit bag with Canon lenses I have remained loyal. My focus of interest beyond the lens has varied over the years on account of circumstances. Wildlife photography is not viable when you have children in tow so instead I focused the camera on them and found a love for candid portraiture. Over the years I have taken photographs for the prospectus for a number of schools and photographed school productions, sports days and outward bound expeditions dabbling in AV for a while.

With my children grown up I have been able to return to my love of nature and landscape but my skills were all self taught from camera to digital darkroom. I was feeling that my skills had plateaued and I wanted to find a way to make my images really stand out. In 2018 I came across the Bracknell Camera Club exhibition and I recognised the club would give me what I was looking for without the expense of photography courses or tours.

I listened well to the judges and responded to constructive criticism. I immersed myself in the camera club community, taking every advantage of time to talk with members and learn from their experience and in no time worked my way up the leagues. I joined the special interest groups in the club which enabled me to expand my portfolio to include street photography, night photography and studio portraiture, With fabulous mentoring within the club I was able to submit a panel to the RPS and was awarded my first distinction.

I was aware that there is a lack of female judges in the SCPF and had it in the back of my mind that perhaps I might go down that route sometime in the future, however, the opportunity presented itself much sooner than I had planned and so I jumped at the chance and qualified as a Level 1 Judge in June 2022.

Training as a judge has taught me to not just to look at the technical aspects of a photograph but look for that sense of visual awareness and expressiveness that makes a photograph really special regardless of the genre.

Join us for a great evening and see if you agree with Gladys' selections.

WHAT'S NEW

HOME PAGE IMAGES - Photographer of the Year Round 6 - "Open"

The images currently displayed on our home page are those that were uploaded as entries for the sixth round of our Photographer of The Year competition by club members. The competition was held on 22 April 2024. The theme was "open" allowing all types and styles of images as entries.

You can view them as a full screen slideshow here .

Creative Challenges: The Creative Challenges page has some new documents that you can download with lots of information about Blinking Highlights. You can see them here.

You can see a slideshow of images produced by club members as part of the Blinking Highlights creative challenge here.

Photowalk: You can see some of the great images captured by club members at a recent photo-trip to Chobham Rugby Club here.

Monochrome , Portrait and Develop Your Photography Special Interest Groups

Find out about our Monochrome, Portrait and Develop Your Photography Special Interest Groups.

You can also watch a video illustrating some of the recent activities of the Portrait group by clicking here.

The groups are open to all members of Windsor Photographic Society. So take a look and discover what each group does and how you can get involved.

Some of Our Members

You can get to know a bit about some of our members here.

Please contact the webmaster if you are a club member and would like to appear on the page and share a little of yourself and your photographic background with the world.