Princes Risborough Photographic Society
Photography Club Based in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire
Established 1964
News
News Flash!
We are open for new members!
Are you keen on taking Photos?
Why not take advantage of a taster session on offer at your local camera club – we are a friendly group so come and join us at one of our events.
Our new season 2025-26 starts in September and we meet generally every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month. Our Snappers Group – the more practical hands-on group, meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday morning of the month and run their program throughout the whole year.
Check-out our program below –
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You are welcome to come along to any of these event – just drop us a mail at (hello@prps.org.uk) so we can make sure we look out for you on arrival..
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02-July 25 – Snappers review their images from five earlier events.
A good number of members submitted their images from five events from the program we have completed so far this year. These ranged from A Practical Morning Photo-Session, Flower Photography, A visit to Brill Windmill and Church, The Ashridge Estates for Bluebells and...
04-June 25 – Snappers visit Waddesdon Manor, Grounds and Gardens
We arrived on a somewhat gloomy day with a forecast of rain later in the afternoon. So, it was straight into action – those that were able to walk through the grounds to the house got underway, whilst those less able, took to the bus. There were no set plans for...
21-May 25 – Snappers Group visit Small Dean Bank
Today the Snappers visited Small Dean Bank, a permanent grassland area rich in flora and fauna managed by the National Trust. This area is adjacent to the car park on Small Dean Lane Bradenham, and is known for the successful reintroduction of the Duke of...
19-May 25 – The Albert Rigby Memorial Competition
Last night was the final competition of the season – The Albert Rigby Memorial Competition. A total of 33 images were entered for review. These were made up of 12 Prints and 21 Projected Digital Images (PDI’s). Our judge for the evening was Peter Prosser...
7-May 25 – Snappers Group visit to Dockey Wood and Ashridge Estates
Every year we try and visit a location where bluebells are on display. This year we chose Dockey Wood part of the Ashridge Estates and we were not disappointed.Bluebells look their best in bright sunlight but at first the weather was dry but overcast and did not do...
16-April 25 – The Snappers Group visit Brill
A group of intrepid photographers arrived at the Brill Windmill on a sunny but cold and windy morning. We all realised very quickly why this spot was chosen to construct such a post mill – the wind was strong with a cold biting edge to it, but very soon the Snappers...
14-April 25 – Brian Harman Trophy and Aggregate Round 5 Competitions
This evening, we gave a warm welcome to Patrick Seehanach, a new CACC Judge, for his first visit to PRPS. His challenge this evening was to judge our Brian Harman “Action” Trophy competition which was in two parts – Prints and PDIs – and followed by the Aggregate...
2-April 25 – Portrait Workshop by Steven Parker
The aim of this talk was to give members an insight into the “does and don’ts” of portrait photography. Steven started the workshop with a presentation outlining the theory and techniques for portraiture and enhanced the points with his own personal experiences. He...
19-March 25 – Photoshop Layers – A presentation by John Culling
John started the presentation with an explanation on how a digital image is formed through the light falling on the sensor and being split into RGB at each of the sensor pixels and saved along with information on colour, bit depth and luminosity. In a series of...
10-March 25 – The History of Photography by Keith Appleby
Last night we had the pleasure of learning about the early years of photography. Keith Appleby, our speaker, explained the development of photography from its beginnings at the start of the 19th century to it becoming a major means of communication and its...
5-March 25 – A presentation on Adobe Portfolio by Alun Morgan
Today we had a presentation from fellow-member Alun Morgan on Portfolio software. This is Adobe’s online website platform where you can display your images in stunning galleries. One of its major benefits is that it links directly to Lightroom using the ‘Collection...
24-February 25 – Wainwright Natural History Trophy Competition
Monday evening was the Wainwright ‘Natural History’ competition and the fourth round of the Aggregate competition. The Trophy round was in two sections - Prints and PDIs with the Aggregate round being an Open category competition. Our judge, Peter Cox had kindly...
19-February 25 – Continuation of Peter Parrey’s talk on Flower Photography – The Practical side
Peter continued his talk on "His Flower Photography" this morning with 3 practical set ups for members to use. He started by explaining each set and the options and illustrated the possible results with images on his laptop. The set ups were a bunch of Daffodils and a...
10-February 25 – My Flower Photography a talk by Peter Parrey
Peter demonstrated his photographic flower journey by showing us his images of flowers starting from when he lived in the USA through to today showing the progression of understanding of the use of depth of field and composition. He did this with many anecdotes and...
27-January 25 – A talk by Paul Wilkinson on Portraiture
Last evening we were ROYALLY entertained, informed and privileged to share some wonderful portrait images by Paul Wilkinson from The Studio Haddenham.Paul is one of the country’s leading portrait and wedding photographers, with an incredible portfolio, which includes...
13-January 25 – Malcom Dodds ‘People’ and Aggregate Round 3 Competition
Monday night was the third trophy competition of the season and like the previous competition the number of overall entries was disappointing.Kathy Chantler, our CACC judge for the evening, gave us her friendly and concise critique of all the images, appraising each...
9-December 24 – It’s a ‘Knock-Out’ Competition
This evening was our annual fun internal competition in which members images are randomly displayed in pairs and members vote for their favourite. The winner goes forward to next round to compete again etc until eventually there is a winner.We had 75 images to view...
11-November 24 – John Judd ‘Creative’ and Aggregate Round 2 Competitions
This was the second trophy competitions of the season and it was disappointing to see so few images in the print and DPI section. Collectively we had just 12 images for the judge to review - 8 (PDI’s) and 4 prints. The Aggregate Round 2 competition was a little...
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