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 »
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 »
Cumulative Scores 2022/23
Projected Open 1 L/S Mono Shadows People Open 2 Panel Rel B Nature Total Janice McInally 16 19.5 18.5 16.5 19 19 109 Ian Small 19.5 16.5 16 17 17… Read more »
Quiz 2023
In January for one of our more fun social evenings we held a photography related quiz, with questions ranging from the technical, to the scenic, to the frivolous. On the… Read more »
People and Portraits Competition – January 2023
Here are the scores and images from the People & Portraits competition held on 12 January 2023 and judged by Colin Southgate. PROJECTED NAME TITLE SCORE 1 Debra Wells Guitarist… Read more »
Bonus Competition January 2023
Here are the scores and digital images for the bonus competition held on 5 January 2023.The themes were “Farm Animals” & “Park Life and the images were judged by Andy… Read more »
Shadows Competition December 2022
Here are the scores and images for the Shadows competition held on 1 December 2022 and judged by Colin Strong. Projected Images Name Title Score 1 Mike O’Neill The Interrogation… Read more »
Monochrome Competition November 2022
Here are the scores and images from the Monochrome competition, held on 10 November 2022 and judged by Ben Pike. Projected Images Order Author Title Score 1 John Crouch Tawny… Read more »
Changing Competitions for 2023/2024
As you know every year to mix things up, we add 2 competitions into the programme with Changing subjects. In order to ensure that the committee members don’t get an… Read more »
Hitchin Calendar 2023 – On sale now!
Many of you will know that for the past few years I’ve been commissioned to shoot the Hitchin Calendar, well I’m pleased to announce that my 10th calendar, for 2023, is… Read more »
Landscape Competition – Oct 2022
Here are the scores and images from the Landscape competition held on 27 October 2022 and judged by Richard Burn. PROJECTED NAME TITLE SCORE 1 Dan Keighley Looking Out To… Read more »