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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17-April 24 – Snappers Group visit to Didcot Railway Centre
Five members of the Snappers Group made their way to Didcot in 2 cars. Despite roads being closed without warning and full car parks, they met up on time at the Multi-Storey car park and faced the challenge of paying the parking fee and longish walk to the Centre....
7-April 24 – Charity Motorcycle Ride
The Thame Motorcycle Club invited PRPS to photograph their club’s charity fund raiser on Sunday 7th April. They were raising money for the Thame Senior Friendship Centre. Dave Gibbs and Mike Ward responded and found themselves taking photographs of the assembly...
25-March 24 – Wainwright Natural History Competition
The annual Wainwright Natural History competition took place last night at the Club. We had a good level of entries in both the print and projected digital images (PDI) sections. Rojer Weightman, from Stoke Poges was our judge for the evening, and his critique...
11-March 24 – Aggregate Competition Round 3
Last night was the Aggregate Competition Round 3, the last in this season’s Aggregate competitions.The theme for this competition was ‘Dilapidation’ and we had 28 entries in all. The judge, Chris Sargeant, commented that all the authors had made an extraordinary...
26-February 24 – Malcolm Dodds ‘People’ Competition
Last night was the annual Malcolm Dodds ‘People’ competition and we were privileged to have Malcom Dodds attend the event in person. It was a pleasure for the members to meet one of our distinguished elders of the club, and especially one who has given his name to the...
21-February 24 – Snappers Group meeting at Orchard View Farm
Well, you can’t say we don’t have fun at the Snappers Group! On Wednesday morning this week we had Miners’ Lamps flying through the air, a number of members having hysterical tantrums and a chairman who looked as though he had just received the latest results from...
22-January 24 – Portfolio Competition
The Portfolio Competition is divided into Print and PDI. There were 4 Prints and 15 PDI entries which was fewer than normal but the Judge, Chris Forster, believed it worthwhile to continue. He explained that the three images in each triptych had to be technically...
11-December 23 – ‘It’s a Knock-Out Competition’
The last meeting of the Year was a fun competition "It's a Knock Out". The meeting was well supported despite some members unable to attend due to illness and circumstances and 84 Images were presented. The result was a win and Gold place for Lin...
11-December 23 – PRPS Celebrates 60 years and recognises one of its founder members.
The first meeting of PRPS was held on the 2nd of December 1963 in a little café, Granny’s Pantry, in the Market Square, Princes Risborough. It was attended by twenty people who had responded to newspaper- advertisements and public notices placed in local shop...
27-November 23 – Aggregate Round 2 Competition
The Aggregate Round 2 competition had the theme of Water. There were 20 entries judged by Kathy Chantler of ImageZ Camera Club. Kathy gave her usual thorough and helpful critiques for each image and after careful consideration judged the Winner to be "Rough Water -...
13-November 23 – The John Judd Creative Competition
The annual John Judd Creative Competition got underway on Monday evening and was judged by Lloyd Moore from Kings Langley.During the preparation for the competition the Society’s computer failed and John Culling, our internal competitions secretary, used his own...
16-October 23 – The Laurie Stevens Landscape Competitions
The first club Trophy competition of the season – ‘The Laurie Stevens Landscape competition’ got under way on Monday evening. We had twelve prints and thirty PDI images for the judge to view, critique and ultimately score.In the print section, Steven Clennell took...
4 – October 23 – Snappers Group meet at Orchard View Farm
Our first meeting at the Orchard View Farm went well with the meeting split into two parts. The first section was used to show the results of our ‘Alphabet Challenge in Nature’, where members images were projected onto a screen for comment. This challenge turned out...
29 – September 23 – Art in the Park
Happy to report that an image submitted by PRPS member John Culling LRPS to Risborough Town Council was selected as one of the 37 art works which are displayed in Wades Park. As John’s entry will be displayed for the next year it represents slightly more than...
18 – September 23 – The New Season of Competitions begins…
The first competition to kick-start the 2023-24 season was the Aggregate Round 1 PDI open category competition. The judge had a selection of 26 images in total to judge and made some interesting and valid comments about the images on view. The winner on the evening...
6 – September 23 – Snappers Group Landscape Workshop
The Snappers Group meeting today was a Landscape Workshop led by club member Steven Parker LRPS. The venue for this event was Ivinghoe Hill. It was not the best day for this type of photography –bright sunlight with no cloud cover or definition in the sky, and few...
16-August 23 – Snappers Group photo-tour of Bledlow village
This week the Snappers Group enjoyed a photo-walk of Bledlow – a typical English village. We couldn’t have chosen a better day to explore this lovely medieval village nestled in the Chiltern Hills. The name "Bledlow" is derived from Old English and...
2-August 23 – Snappers Group explore Chinnor Nature Reserve (BBOWT)
The morning started with heavy rain, but by the time we arrived at the Reserve the rain had stopped but blustery winds remained. Six hardy Snappers ventured around this patchwork of flowery grassland, scrub and woodland in the hope of capturing something of...
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