RDCC PROGRAMME 2024 - 2025 (click to download)
2023 – 24 RDCC Programme
2024
COMPETITION INFORMATION
For Club Competitions, please see the CLUB CONSTITUTION & COMPETITION RULES BOOKLET from September 2023, which can also be found on the website www.rdcc.co.uk
Monday 9th September 2024
Chairman’s Welcome Evening
R&DCC Exhibition Information
Who are KCPA and what does that mean for our club?
What other exhibitions is our club involved with?
Bring your diaries to put relevant dates for the year and find out when your prints and PDIs may be needed by the Selection Committees.
RDCC ANNUAL CLUB PRINT EXHIBITION
Saturday 14th September and Sunday 15th September
10.00am – 5.00pm
Monday 23rd September 2024
Speaker – COLIN PAGE
Colin is a longstanding and valued member of our club, an expert photographer, with a huge knowledge of natural history, particularly of the local area.
Monday 7th October 2024
1st Club Competitions
Judge – Dave Silk
PRINT - Judging towards Gostrow Colour Print Subject – OPEN
SMALL PRINT – max size of print A4 Subject – MACRO/CLOSE UP
PDI – OPEN
Monday 21st October 2024
Practical Evening and Speaker
Led by Norman Ferguson, Helen Taylor
Norman – Landscapes and Wildlife from here and there. Norman is a valued and experienced photographer and member of R&DCC. He has achieved BPE 3 Award
Helen’s - practical evening learning how to mount prints to a high standard and how size, colour and placement of the mount aids presentation of your images.
This will be a hands–on evening, so bring along any prints you have questions over the best way to display them and you may well end up with them mounted, by yourself with guidance.
Monday 4th November 2024
2nd Club Competitions
Judge – June Sharpe
PDI Subject – LANDSCAPE This competition is for ‘B’ Group Members only and is towards The Douglas Moss Trophy
PDI – OPEN For all Members
PRINT MONOCHROME – Towards The Roy Stubbs Monochrome Trophy Subject – STREET SCENE
Monday 18th November 2024
Speaker – RAY BRIDGES
‘Photography with an Olympus and a bit of drone!’
Ray is a well-respected and award-winning member of Maidstone and Tenterden Camera Clubs. Although he has now retired from the judging and lecturing circuit, he is kindly supporting our programme tonight by sharing some of his vast knowledge.
Monday 2nd December 2024
3rd Club Competition
Judge – Zoe Garnham-Archer
PRINT – Towards the Gostrow Colour Print Trophy Subject - VEHICLES
PDI - OPEN
PDI – Subject - TREES
Monday 16th December 2024
Pre-Christmas Meeting
This will be a Club judged competition.
Bring PDI or Print based on one of the following iconic photographs below;
Jean Shrimpton by David Bailey
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper by Charles Ebbets
VJ Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Flag Raising at Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal
Albert Einstein by Arthur Sasse
Marilyn Munroe by Sam Shaw
Abbey Road by Ian Macmillan
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
Kiss by Hotel De Ville by Robert Doisneau
Judging will take place by everyone in the room and we hope you enjoy the fun of the challenge! Having this information early, should enabled you to have some photography fun over the summer and right up to Decemeber.
2024
Monday 6th January 2025
Speaker – ROBERT CANIS
Robert is a professional, award-winning landscape and wildlife photographer living in Kent. We have the benefit of his vast experience and skill, visiting us in person at Rye.
Monday 20th January 2025
4th Club Competition
Judge – Alan Lomakin
PRINT - Subject – AFTER DARK
PRINT MONOCHROME – Towards the Roy Stubbs Monochrome Trophy Subject - OPEN
PDI – SHADES OF RED
Monday 3rd February 2025
Speaker – DAVID JENNER
‘Landscapes – Making The Effort’
Have a look at David’s beautiful work at davidjenner.co.uk
Monday 17th February 2025
5th Club Competition
Judge – Edward Sturgeon
PRINT PANEL (ONE PANEL PER MEMBER, PLEASE) – Subject – OPEN (3 – 6 Prints per panel)
PDI – Subject – PHOTOGRAPHIC ART & DIGITAL MANIPULATION
Monday 3rd March 2025
Speaker – PAT COUDER
‘Pat’s Photography in Prints’
Pat Couder Photography can be found at patcouder.com for you to enjoy before her talk.
Monday 17th March 2025
6th Club Competition
Judge – Nick Ryan
a) PDI – Subject – BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE – For the George Delamare Trophy
b) PDI OPEN – This competition is for ‘B’ Group Members only and is towards The Douglas Moss Trophy
SMALL PRINT – OPEN Max size of print is A4
Monday 31st March 2025
Practical Evening
An evening in Rye taking photographs.
More information will be shared closer to the date.
Monday 14th April 2025
End of Year Club Competition
Please see Competition Rules Booklet from September 2023, which can also be found on the website www.rdcc.co.uk
Judge – Cherry Larcombe
PRINT of the YEAR
PDI of the YEAR
PETER CHILLINGWORTH SHIELD – Subject – OPEN for an UNSEEN PDI
Monday 28th April 2025
Annual General Meeting & Award Presentations
Awards Presented by Chairperson of RDCC
Agenda items and proposals for Officers, duly seconded, should have been handed in to the Secretary in writing before the AGM.
The Hon. Treasurer reminds Members that Annual Subscriptions are due at this meeting.
HELEN TAYLOR
JANE HOWARD, KEN HAYESMORE
PAUL WHITEMAN
VERYAN POLLARD
NORMAN FERGUSON
KEN HAYESMORE
TONY HAM
JANE HOWARD, TERRY GEORGE
JAMES KIRKHAM
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