Backbone of the Club

Club Nights

Pudsey Camera Club meets 7:30pm every Thursday from September to April at Pudsey Community Hub.

These meeting are the backbone of Pudsey Camera Club. At club nights we aim to bring our member a wide variety of external speakers interspaced with our regular competition nights and Practical evenings. Pudsey Camera Club nights are held on a Thursday evening at Pudsey Community Hub at 7:30pm (September to April)

2026/2027 Programme

September 2026

10th Speaker – Alistair How – Tools, Tips and Techniques to improve your landscape photography

17th Speaker – Stuart Allen – Urban Soundbites

24th What We Did On Our Holidays & Review of our YPU Results  

Hand in date for Butchers’ Arms competition

October 2026

1st Butchers’ Arms Competition – see below for Subjects / Themes

8th Vale of Evesham Salon Images

Wednesday 14th Interclub Round 1 at Cookridge CC

15th Speaker – John Gill – After The Coal Dust

22nd Speaker – Richard Egan FRPS – Blokes, Ballerinas and Bare Ladies

29th Kathy Harcom FRPS – Light Sensitive, A Visual Essay Recorded Lecture with Commentary by Leigh Preston

Hand in: R1 Open Print and Digital competition

November 2026

5th Interclub Images from 2025/26

12th Print and Digital Competition – Round 1 – Judge Graham Gage

19th Speaker – Thomas Peck via Zoom – Architectural Photography

Tuesday 24th – Interclub Round 2 at Leeds PS                 

26th PDIs from the 2026 YPU Exhibition                                       

Hand in: R2 Open Print and Digital competition

December 2026

3rd Speaker via Zoom – David Gilliver – The Art of Light Painting – (joining in with Otley CC)

10th Print and Digital Competition – Round 2 – Judge Tony Sheeky

17th Prints from the 2026 YPU Exhibition

Hand in: Smartphone Images Competition (up 4 images, any subject)

24th and 31st No meeting – Christmas Break

January 2027

7th Speaker via Zoom – Jet Lendon – Smartphone Photography (joining in with Otley CC)

14th Smartphone Images Competition – Judge Ray Bramall

21st London Salon Images

Hand in: R3 Open Print and Digital competition

28th Speakers – Larry Walker and Paul Murphy – Venice Revisited 

February 2027

4th Print and Digital Competition – Round 3 – Judge Erica Oram

11th Salon de Refuse Prints – prints entered into the “Masters of Print” competition

18th Speaker – Alan Stopher – Presentation by Alan Stopher

25th Speaker Kevin Pigney via Zoom – My Top 30

March 2027

4th Speaker – Richard Sells – Miniature World

Hand in: Michael Diffley Digital competition 

11th Speaker via Zoom – Mary McIntyre – Astro Without A Telescope                                                                                              

18th Michael Diffley Competition – 4 digital images on four different themes – Judge Sally Sallett

Monday 22nd Interclub Round 3 at Bingley CC

25th Speaker – Richard Sells – Miniature World Follow-up

April 2026

1st Pub Night – Crossed Shuttle in Pudsey – A Social Evening

8th Speaker via Zoom – Nigel Thomas – The Five Pillars of Landscape Photography

Wednesday 14th: Interclub Round 4 at Huddersfield CC

15th Speaker – Harry Kingman – Tigers of India Landscape Photography

22nd Brief AGM and Season Close – Pictures of the Year

Interclub / Butchers’ Arms Subjects and Themes

Subjects:

Themes

R1 Illusion of A Scape

R1 Portrait People & Figure Studies

R2 Towards Infinity

R2 Travel

R3 Music

R3 Creative

R4 Night Scene

R4 Monochrome

Pudsey Camera Club

7:30pm Thursdays (September to April)

Pudsey Community Hub

Church Lane

Pudsey, Leeds

LS28 7TY

 

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