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and the winner was…………
30 April 2025

………Simon Martindale. During the two weeks of our 2025 Annual Exhibition over 300 votes were cast by member of the public for our pictures.  24…

Let the show begin!
13 April 2025

Potters Bar and District Photographic Society (the society) now has its 76th Annual Exhibition in place at The Galleria shopping centre in Hatfield. 92 pictures…

Females feature in photographic final
03 April 2025

It was an evening of females to the fore on 31st March. The Society’s first stand-alone competition of the year, The Oakmere Cup (named for…

A judge tells how to judge
25 March 2025

On 17th March we hosted professional photographer, photo judge and speaker Cat Humphries (cathumphries.wordpress.com) for a fascinating view on what judges look for when assessing…

Not all water goes under the bridge
14 February 2025

From the Gironde estuary to Scotland by way of Bristol and many other stretches of water our latest presentation, by Jonathan Génevaux was a tour…

Projecting the right image
07 February 2025

Last Monday was the turn of the projected image workers to have the first round of their 2025 competition. In the General Class there were…

War, white and walk-about
28 January 2025

A wide range of subjects was covered last Monday, and all from the cameras of our own members. The meeting started with an audio visual…

Potters Bar’s Ice Age
25 January 2025

During the most recent “Member evening” four of our members gave presentations that covered both “ends” of the globe. Fiona and Graham discussed their photo…

The competition has started
15 January 2025

13 Jan 25 saw the first round of our 2025 print competition.  External judge, Ken Payne, really had his work cut out as he had…

2025’s programme is under way!
08 January 2025

An advantage of on-line meetings is that The Society can call on speakers from outside our immediate area, such as was the case with Neil…

2024’s Awards Night
12 December 2024

Our year is over and the trophies have been presented. The 9th of December saw our final meeting of 2024 which was a combined social…

Projected Images of 2024
08 December 2024

After the Prints of the Year it has now been the time to find who made the “best” Projected Images in 2024. As with the…

2024’s winning prints
26 November 2024

Our Prints of the Year are now known. On Monday 25th November we completed 2024’s print competition with the “Print of the Year” evening. Before…

………and the winners are
20 November 2024

The results are in for 2024’s cumulative competitions. Whoever gains the highest cumulative score across the five heats of both projected image and print competitions…

Making an exhibition of ourselves
03 November 2024

Potters Bar has a new photography exhibition. Twelve pictures from 12 of our members are now on show at Wyllyotts Theatre in Darkes Lane, Potters…

A close-run night of competition
08 October 2024

The Ron Harvey Trophy is an inter-club landscape print competition.  It is named for our one-time President who was an avid landscape photographer. We invite…

Members’ evening
01 October 2024

This evening’s presentation was a complete contrast in styles as well as subjects. Trevor Leach spoke about a recent visit to Borneo.  It was basically…

We’re back!
25 September 2024

We have re-started meetings following our summer pause.  The break gave some members time to undertake personal projects or prepare for our next round of…

Keeping it simple
28 July 2024

For our last meeting before the Summer break, we held a competition for printed images on the theme of “Simplicity”. It is very easy to…

Twelve of the best
04 July 2024

Twelve prints from 12  photographers gives us our July exhibition on the Art Wall at Wyllyotts Theatre in Darkes Lane, Potters Bar. The range of…

Three IS company
24 June 2024

A triptych is a group of three pictures originally of a religious nature.  In the photographic age the format is widely seen in a variety…

Potters Bar Trophy 2024
04 June 2024

On Monday night Potters Bar held their annual interclub projected image competition. Six clubs participated in the evening, Our Judge for the night was Chris…

Oakmere Cup
18 May 2024

A few times a year we hold “stand-alone” competitions (ones that do not count towards the year-long cumulative awards). One of these is The Oakmere…

Jubilee Cup winners….again!
12 May 2024

It’s now three wins in a row for us at Barnet & Finchley Photographic Society’s Jubilee Cup competition.  The Jubilee Cup is unusual in that it…

Annual quiz night
03 May 2024

Every year The Society organises a fund-raising quiz night.  2024’s iteration was held on 27 April.  Nearly 90 Society members and their guests enjoyed a wonderful…

Variety on show
19 April 2024

There was quite a mix of skills and styles at a recent presentation by Society members. Graham Coldrick explained the finer points of the newly…

74th Annual Exhibition
13 April 2024

Our Galleria Exhibition was taken down last Sunday and the results are in ! 22 members exhibited 105 prints with our new Exhibition Secretary Richard…

Seeing what some of our members do
31 March 2024

Our meeting on 25th March allowed two of our members to present examples of their work. Mark Heineman showed what can be done when you…

Phocussing on Phone photography
19 March 2024

An eye-opening evening on 18 March.  Jeanette (Jet) Lendon from Jet Black Squares photography (Jet Black Squares) gave us a fascinating presentation on how to…

Society keeps up with The Times
14 February 2024

We had a terrific speaker on Monday 12 February.  Marc Aspland Hon FRPS is the Chief Staff Sports Photographer for The Times newspaper and he…

Light Painting Practical Evening
21 November 2023

 Robert Snary from Enfield Camera Club came to the club last Monday to give us a light painting workshop. Members bought along their tripods and…

Club Quiz Night
01 May 2023

Potters Bar held their fund raising quiz on Saturday night at St Mary’s Church. The Quiz was run by Gwen Hall and assisted by Theresa…

Seeing The Light (s)
28 February 2023

The Society’s 2023 activities programme started on Thursday with a visit to The Light Festival at Battersea Power Station.  This regular event, now in its…

AGM & Trophy Presentation

Our Annual AGM was held on Monday the 13th of February. The evening went smoothly with a change of guard in four posts. Fiona Adamson…

Discount at Paper Spectrum
05 February 2023

After Jonathan Vaines inspiring and creative lecture last Monday, he has kindly given us a lecturers code giving 10% discount on Pinnacle paper and Mount…

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