Welcome to Bedford Camera Club

I would like to welcome you to the 111th season of the premier photographic club in Bedfordshire, The Bedford Camera Club.  Our members are all keen amateur photographers and we welcome new members to our ranks.  We have, over the course of our winter season, well known lecturers talk to us about all aspects of photography, and we all learn so much from these experts.  We also have a number of internal competitions which, if you're good enough, can win you one of the coveted cups at the end of the season!
In addition to this we have external competitions where we pit our skills against other clubs in the East Anglia region.  This season will be exceptionally good as we have booked some brilliant speakers and the members evenings look to be very helpful to all members.  I hope that you all have an enjoyable time this coming 2016/17 season and I look forward to greeting both old and new members.
Cliff Harvey, Club President

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Important: From October 2017 the JPGs for all competition PDIs will need to be 1600px x 1200px (previously they were 1400 x 1050)  and a max 2Mb file size. All other requirements are unchanged, e.g. in sRGB and fill to 1600 x 1200 with black borders. It should be rare for an image to be more than 2Mb, but if your final JPG image file size does exceed 2Mb reduce the quality setting a tad and save it as JPG again, repeat until you get it small enough. More Info here.

The hunt is on for this year's Summer Events. Join the Summer Group now (members and non-members welcome) to be part of the summer events. Email Cliif and Ian at Click for Summer 2017 gallery

Competitions

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 Win awards. Critiques from external, qualified judges. Internal competitions include 5 opens, Points of View (6 images), Audio visual, Architects Trophy, Philip Lepper and Stan Searle (people). Other competitions include inter-club battles and wider area external competitions

Event Gallery

See members' own selection of images from this year's summer events
Summer 2017 Image Gallery

 

 

Season 2016-17

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The new 2016-17 season started on Tuesday October 4th. See our exciting new programme of competitions, events and lectures for the rest of this club year (May 2017). All new and existing members welcome.

Joining now at half price will take your membership through to September 2017, including our 2017 summer events.

Explore Our Web Site

 

Talks

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Interesting talks given throughout the year by visiting photographers. These cover a variety of topics including techniques, projects, practicals, design and software. 

See our fabulous 2016-17 programme

On the Move

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From October 2016  we will be meeting, 7.30pm on Tuesday evenings, at the Scott Lower School, Hawk Drive, Bedford MK41 7JA (map).

This affords several advantages including a larger room, easy parking and state-of-the art projection/audio facilities. We look forward to seeing you there.

 

 

Upcoming Events

Aug
8
Tue
6:00 pm Box End Watersports @ Box End
Box End Watersports @ Box End
Aug 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Details from Steve Newman at  Meet at the waterside from 6pm onwards. There’s a bar onsite so we can sit and have a beer afterwards. They have asked if we could share some of our images with them following the visit.
Sep
19
Tue
7:30 pm Photoshop Q&A @ Scott Lower School
Photoshop Q&A @ Scott Lower School
Sep 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm
An evening with John Pegram who will answer your Photoshop questions (please email them to John well in advance) and demonstrate techniques There will be small charge on the day to share the room hire More info available from John *protected email*
Sep
20
Wed
all-day Orford Summer Event @ Orford,
Orford Summer Event @ Orford,
Sep 20 all-day
Orford Summer Event @ Orford, | Orford | England | United Kingdom
Clive is arranging a brilliant members’ photographic day out to Orford, Suffolk, a few miles from Ipswich. Orford is steeped in history. The village grew in importance in the 12th century when Henry II commissioned the Castle to be built. The Church and the Quay were built by the Normans and, at one time, Orford[...]
Sep
26
Tue
7:30 pm Summer PDI Battle
Summer PDI Battle
Sep 26 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
An evening arranged by Mike Clifton, , for a fun evening PDI battle and some food This will probably be held at Scott Lower School, TBC Submit up to three PDIS which must have been taken at one of the listed summer events. These must be emailed, as attachments, to the usual competition email address[...]

Major Exhibition Sponsors

The Bedford Camera Club would like to thank and fully appreciated the assistance from the following companies for our very successful November 2016 exhibition.
Click here for more of our Sponsors and Friends of the BCC 

Michael R. Peters

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Michael R. Peters have once again kindly loaned the club the AV screens for the projected images

Eagle Travel, Bedford

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Eagle Travel, 11 Goldington Road, Bedford MK40 3JY

 

The Picture Gallery

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The Picture Gallery have kindly printed our promotional boards

Wallace Brownwallacebrown300Picture Framing, 10A Duke Street, Bedford
01234 360237

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