Thu 2 Oct 2025 - Welcome Back (AEI and Zoom)
Welcome back to our Winter Photography Programme 25/26
Our new chairlady will open up our first meeting. Lots to dicuss including
Welcome new members
Overview for our aims and objectives
The new winter programme; competitions and guest speakers are back. Introducing members workshop evenings, and more members guest speakers.
Feedback from the summer fund raising events
Everyones photographic updates over the summer months
And more
Thu 9 Oct 2025 - Part 1: Resizing Images and How To Update Your Portfolio (AEI and Zoom)
Part 1
At the request of members, this will be a talk and demonstration from our member Rob.
He will take you through how to resize your images for the club’s website so that you can enter PDI competitions.
In additional, he will also be demonstrating how to showcase your work, and upload images for your own portfolio.
Important: There will be a PDI themed competition which will require a square format!
Thu 9 Oct 2025 - Part 2 How To Make Money From Your Photography (AEI and Zoom)
Part 2.
At the request of members, this will be a talk and demonstration from our member Katie.
She will talk about how to make money from your photography work, which websites are useful and a demo.
Tue 14 Oct 2025 - Submit your PDI Competition 1 Entries
Enter up to 6 PDI images for the first competition.
Thu 16 Oct 2025 - Gerry's Back - Editing Workshop (AEI Only)
Part 1 Bring in some of your RAW images on the night and Gerry will show you how to edit these.
Part 2 Continuing from the AI evening, Gerry will get you in the "hot seat" to create your own AI images.
Contact: Yvonne
Thu 30 Oct 2025 - Wedding and Portraiture (AEI Only)
Member Yvonne has arranged for her friend and professional photographer to give a talk on wedding and portrait photography
Thu 6 Nov 2025 - Show and Tell from Club Summer Trips (AEI Only)
This is your time to bring your images for show and tell from our Summer Programme; Jenny's Point, Holker Hall, Badger Watch, Abstract Arnside and more.
Be prepared to be in the "Hot Seat" to demonstrate your processing skills.
Thu 13 Nov 2025 - New - Phone Competition (AEI and Zoom)
Send in 6 images each to the secretary from your camera phone
This is an open competition
Judge by the members
Thu 27 Nov 2025 - An inspiration talk on the climb to Everest (AEI Only)
Yvonne has arranged for one of her best friends for over 20 years to come and give a talk on his journey to climb to the top of the world.
Steve will talk about his journey including training, preparation, teamwork, charities that benefited, personal drive and ambition, the highs, and lows.
He will provide us with a collection of his images.
Contact: Yvonne
Contact: Yvonne
Thu 4 Dec 2025 - New - Open Members Night (AEI Only)
At the request of members this is our first Open Members Night.
Over to you......
This workshop will be ran by members in smaller groups; examples may include.
Photoshops hints and tips
Lightroom hints and tips
How exposure works
Composition rules
Learn flash through TTL
How to process HDR images
What do all those buttons mean on your camera?
How to process a black and white image
...
Thu 11 Dec 2025 - 1st Open Print Competition (AEI Only) NB Bring your prints on the night
Provide 6 images on the night
Provide Name, Title and Catogory
We start the competition at 7.30 pm prompt
Judge: Ade Tippins
Contact:adrian_tippins@hotmail.com
Thu 18 Dec 2025 - End of year Club Christmas Party (AEI Only)
Christmas Fun at the Photography Club
Dress up for the greatest show in Arnside!
Including a buffet
Christmas Quiz
Thu 8 Jan 2026 - Three Image Editing Workshop (AEI and Zoom)
Welcome return hosted by Gavin
Three JPEG images to be supplied to all members.
The task for all members is to edit these images using the software of your choice before hand.
This year has be enhanced at members request to not only show your image but how you edited 1 of them.
So be prepared to be in the "hot seat"
The wnner will be judged by the group
Thu 15 Jan 2026 - 2nd Open Print Competition (AEI Only) NB Bring your prints on the night
Provide 6 images on the night
Provide Name, Title and Catogory
We start the competition at 7.30 pm prompt
Judge: Jonny Gios
Contact: jgios@me.com
Thu 22 Jan 2026 - A Journey to an MA in Photography (AEI Only)
Guest Speaker Colin Jarvis will be in person to give a talk
This talk is probably slightly different to other camera club lectures as the first section is devoted to the work of other practitioners of the art that were very influential in the development of photographic practice. It covers in particular a group of photographers called the New Topographics. The focus of the work is the everyday, banal, urbanisation of the natural environment. Not a topic you would immediately find aesthetically pleasing but there is a certain beauty to it. It was this beauty that I...
Thu 5 Feb 2026 - Printing Paper and Printing (AEI Only)
Talk from Ade on different effects that you can have on different photography paper
He will also provide samples of the paper and provide best options for printing
Contact: Ade
Thu 19 Feb 2026 - Submit your PDI Competition 2 Entries
Enter up to 6 PDI images for the second themed competition
Thu 19 Feb 2026 - Part 1 - Images! (AEI and Zoom)
At the request of members, this will be a talk from our member Andrew.
"Images I should not have taken, images I should have taken more of and images we should all take fewer of".
Thu 19 Feb 2026 - Part 2 Presentation on wildlife camera traps (AEI and Zoom)
At the request of members, this will be a talk from our member Anne.
Thu 26 Feb 2026 - New - Open Members Night (AEI Only)
At the request of members this is our Second Open Members Night.
Over to you......
This workshop will be ran by members in smaller groups; examples may include.
Photoshops hints and tips
Lightroom hints and tips
How exposure works
Composition rules
Learn flash through TTL
How to process HDR images
What do all those buttons mean on your camera?
How to process a black and white image
Best lens for each genre
What is infra red
How to shoot ICM
How to use a tripod
Personal safety when you are on...
Thu 5 Mar 2026 - PDI Competition No 2 - THEMED! (AEI and Zoom)
Our first PDI Competition is themed.
Think of the good old days of vinyl, singles and placing your record on the record player. The theme is to create a single music cover in a square format. Examples include.
Eye Of The Tiger - Foreigner
Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
Clocks – Coldplay
You can have 6 entries.
Judge: Jonny Gios
Contact: jgios@me.com
Thu 19 Mar 2026 - Introduction to Studio Lighting (AEI Only)
Member Yvonne has arranged for her friend and professional photographer Keith to set up a studio lighting workshop.
This will include 1, 2 and 3 way lighting set up
Use of light meter, correct position of lights, gels, backgrounds, camera settings
Members will take it in turn to be the model
Contact: Yvonne
Thu 9 Apr 2026 - My Wildlife Journey 2025 (AEI and Zoom)
At the request of members, this will be a talk from our member Mark.
Thu 23 Apr 2026 - AI in Photography (AEI Only)
Gerry Gentry is back on updates from the AI Photography world.
The aim of the lecture is to demonstrate the benefits of using AI in art and photography, and the creativity which AI has introduced into today’s society. This will be at the AEI only, there will be no zoom or recording.
Contact: Yvonne