Weekly Whats App Challenge
In order to give everyone something to stretch their photographic muscles, while we’re in lock-down, our Chairman has been organising a series of weekly What’s App Challenges. Each Thursday we’ve… Read more »
Panel Competition
One of the great challenges for any photographer is to not just take a single image but to show a number of images together that explore a theme. So here,… Read more »
People and Portraits
The People and Portrait competition is (fairly obviously) all about taking pictures of people. These can be formal posed shots (like those shown below) or can be informal or candid… Read more »
Landscape
The Landscape competition has been a firm favourite in the Hitchin Camera Club Calendar for many years. The landscape competition is always fiercely contested with a mix of rolling countryside,… Read more »
Nature
Natural History is often a tricky subject to define and has been the subject of much debate. In May 2014, the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) agreed on definitions (on the RPS website)… Read more »
Open Competition
Open competitions are in some ways the easiest to enter, because literally anything is allowed. Your images can of course fall into one of the normal categories like landscape or… Read more »
Monochrome
The Monochrome competition is has been featured a number of times in the Hitchin Camera Club Calendar but has now become an annual fixture. MonochromeAn image of any subject presented in… Read more »
Scavenger Hunt images from 2023
As usual the Scavenger Hunt was a popular event with more than 20 members (and a couple of guests) turning up to meeting a St Mary’s. After a brief introduction… Read more »
Scavenger Hunt Subjects for 2023
Please find the 25 subjects for this year’s scavenger hunt. This year I’ve chosen the subjects to make you work hard! As always you need to shoot an image that… Read more »
Simon Maddison Exhibition
Simon has completed arrangements with North Herts Museum to hold an exhibition of his photographs of Hitchin Market. The exhibition will be in the Arches Gallery from the 5th of… Read more »
Nature Competition – April 2023
Here are the scores and images from the final competition of the 2022/23 season, which was held on April 13th 2023 and judged by Naomi Saul. Number Author Title Score… Read more »
Painting Backdrops
At one of our recent member’s evenings one of our new members took the guideline “photography related” and ran with it in a totally new and unexpected direction, giving us… Read more »
Muddy Mayhem
Muddy Mayhem was jointly run by the Garden House Hospice and the Isobel Hospice and returned to The Woodall Estate, Watton-at-Stone on Sunday. For those participants who enjoy a muddy… Read more »
Religious Buildings Competition
Here are the scores and images from the ‘Religious Buildings’ competition held on 16 March 2023 and judged by David Steel. Digital Images Author Title Score 1 John Crouch St… Read more »
Close-up Photographer of the Year
Over 9,000 pictures from 54 countries were entered in to this years competition, across eleven categories of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 (2022). The top 100 winners gallery… Read more »
Panel Competition: February 2023
Here are the scores and digital images from the “Panel” competition, held on February 23rd 2023 and judged by Linda Woodward. Author Title Score Janice McInally Beauty is in the… Read more »
Open Competition 2 – Feb 2023
Here are the scores and images from the 2nd Open competition of the season, held on 2 February 2023 and judged by Jonathan Vaines. Projected Author Title Score 1 Jane… Read more »