Forthcoming Events

Our second competition of the year is the ever popular and competitive Landscape competition. As with the other competitions this year we will be asking you for up to 2 digital images and 2 prints.

Our judge on the night is Sarah Kelman who’s been a regular visitor to our club over the last few years and always has some great feedback for all of our photographers.

Details about the landscape competition can be found here https://www.hitchincameraclub.org/2016/06/19/landscape/, however why not check out previous year’s entries here to get a feel for the type of images to consider https://www.hitchincameraclub.org/2019/10/17/landscape-competition-2019/.

As with all competitions your digital entries need to be in no later than midnight on the Sunday before the competition, and prints need to be in 1 week before.

For our final competition before Christmas we have the first of our changing subjects “Lines”. This year we'll be asking you to submit up to 2 digital and 2 print images

Our judge on the night with be Thomas Peck.

Here’s the definition of Abstract we’re going to be using for this competition.

Lines
Leading lines, pattern lines, bus lines even theatrical lines. How will you choose to address the subject of lines?

As with all competitions your digital entries need to be in no later than midnight on the Sunday before the competition and your prints the week before.

You can learn more about the changing competitions here Changing Competitions 2021-22 – Hitchin Camera Club

On the 3rd of February we'll be welcoming a new judge, Richard Burn, to the club to judge our second Open competition of the year.

As always with the open competitions, and subject and any style is allowed, and the points earned will go to the overall championship titles.

As normal with the Open Competition we'll be looking for up to 2 digitals and 2 prints, which must be in by the Sunday before, and the week before the competition night respectively.

If you´ve been holding off on entering a competition, the Open is great place to start. You´ll find some hints and tips here How to Submit Competition Entries – Hitchin Camera Club

For this competition we’ll be welcoming back on of our most familiar judges Naomi Saul.

For the Panel competition we’ll be asking you to combine 3 separate photographs into single image, and we’ll allow each member to enter 2 sets of 3 images. What your images are and how you combine them is entirely up to you, however the images should have a common theme and make a cohesive set. The panel competition is Digital only.

You can find information about the Panel competition here. Don’t forget of course you can look back through previous competition entries in either the “What’s New” pages, or within the competition menu.

As with all competitions your digital entries need to be in no later than midnight on the Sunday before the competition.

We'll also be announcing the 2 subjects for Assignment Night 3 on the 7th April.

Paired with our "Lines" competition Lines competition – Thomas Peck – Hitchin Camera Club , we'll be asking one of our newer Judges Alison Jenkins to return to judge our "Shooting Wide" competition.

Shooting Wide
Here we’ll be asking you to demonstrate your skill whilst shooting with a wide angle lens.

You can find more about the changing competitions here Changing Competitions 2021-22 – Hitchin Camera Club

We are pleased to announce our final competition of the season will be “Natural History”, and we'll be introducing a new Judge to us Dave Hipperson.

As always the Natural history competition is Digital only, therefore you’re allowed up to 3 entries, and you’ll be competing for the Evelyn Bromfield trophy as well as the final points for the season.

Remember in HCC we use the more open “nature” definition. You can find out more about the Nature competition here https://www.hitchincameraclub.org/2016/06/19/nature/