St Ives Photographic Club: 2022-2023 News Archive and Season Updates

As the summer events come to an end, the new season is rapidly approaching. Starting on Tuesday 5th September, Our President and Vice-President, Brian and Graham will kick off the new season with a review of the summer programme and award certificates for the best summer images. All our meetings are planned to be in the Free Church for the new season. The programme can be found now on the programme page. Please join or renew your membership before 30th September by completing the membership form on the website: https://stives-photoclub.org.uk/membership-form and pay your subscription to the club bank account.

Club Achievements and Competition Success

The winners of the Cambridge Independent Photography awards were announced last week and SIPC were runners up in the Cambridge Independent Photography awards in the Camera Club of the year section! Our winter season came to an end as we came together to celebrate our success at our annual Dinner and Awards night. A great evening was had by all – congratulations to all our winners!

In external competitions, we have seen various results: In our annual entry in the “A45” competition at Bury St. Edmunds, we placed 5th out of 9 clubs. Additionally, in this year’s Peterborough Brotherhood competition we end up in 8th place.

Competition Winners for the 2022-2023 Season

Below is a summary of the monthly competition winners and trophy holders:

• September Monthly DPI and Print Competition: Elizabeth Watson was the overall winner of our first monthly DPI competition and Gary Dean was the overall winner in the Print competition.
• October Monthly DPI and Print Competition: Louisa Christie and Gary Dean were joint overall winners of the October DPI competition and Lynne Cole and Gary Dean were joint overall winners of the October Print competition.
• November Monthly DPI and Print Competition: Louisa Christie and Elizabeth Watson were joint overall winners of the November DPI competition and Lynne Cole was the overall winner of the November Print competition.
• George Dellar Cup: Congratulations to Graham Shirra for the overall winning image ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’.
• President’s Trophy Competition: Congratulations to Louisa Christie for the overall winning image ’20 Fenchurch Street’ (Theme was LINES).

Exhibitions and Community Events

Yesterday saw the welcome return of Interprint to St Ives with a successful exhibition of prints from the 20 entering clubs and a close competition judged by Chris Palmer. Earlier in the year, our annual Interprint Competition was back in the Free Church, St Ives on Saturday 25th February; the exhibition opened at 10am and was open to the general public, featuring some great photography images not to be missed!

We’re please to announce our Pop-Up Exhibition is now open in the windows of the old Just Sharing shop in Free Church Passage. Many thanks to our friends at the Free Church for allowing us to use this space. Our Annual Exhibition was also held over the weekend of 11th and 12th November, with many members of the public attending the exhibition at St Ives Free Church and voting for their favourite image of the exhibition. The club member with the most public votes was Steve Laws with his image ‘Abandoned Boats’.

Furthermore, club members acted as official photographers for the MAGPAS Obstacle Dash event at Abbots Ripton. We took a few thousand photos, and provided many of them to MAGPAS for their social media and publicity purposes. Action shots were provided courtesy of Graham Shirra and Gary Dean.

Interprint 2023 Update

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 inter-club print competition took place on Saturday 25th February 2023, where entry was by invitation only. Full results can be found on our Interprint Page. Congratulations to the winners, and we look forward to welcoming you all back to St Ives again next year!