Marlies Chell Minibeasts

For our November practical evening, we welcomed back Marlies Chell with a selection of her fantastic minibeasts for us to photograph. It was a busy and fruitful evening with everyone getting the opportunity to take pictures at the 6 stations that Marlies had set up for us. She was also on hand to help manage…

OPC September Club Slideshow

For the second part of our initial meeting of the 2025/26 season, we enjoyed a slideshow of images from the membership on the theme of Summer. As always, the images submitted were an eclectic mix giving an interesting take on each individuals interpretation of the subject. And as always, the standard of images provided was…

OPC Dorset Photobreak

We started our 2025/26 season off with a presentation at the club night of the photobreak to Dorset which took place earlier in the year. The presentation was put together by Kevin and presented, in his absence, by Martin. The images in the presentation were supplied by those members who attended the event. It was…

A Portrait Photography Evening

In early June a few of our members attended a portrait evening at Studio 3 by Severn hosted by David and Pamela Severn. Our model for the night was the brilliant Charlene Boam who not only worked tirelessly for the full session, but also was able to help six novice portrait photographers with angles and…

Peter Aitchison – Travel and Street

For our June club meeting we welcomed professional photographer Peter Aitchison for a talk on Travel and Street photography. Peter has been a professional photographer for a good number of years, probably more than he cares to admit. And during this impressive career, he has worked for different media and news organisations which gave him…

Ashley Franklin – Derwent Valley Mills

For our February meeting we welcomed local photographer Ashley Franklin who gave us a very informative and entertaining talk on his Derwent Valley Mills project. Ashley is a very well known photographer in the Derbyshire area and has worked for Radio Derby, undertaken photographic commissions for Derby County Council, Derbyshire Dales and the Arkwright Society…

January 2025 Club Meeting

After a super 2024 which ended on a high with the talk by Mark Littlejohn, we kicked off the new year with a look at members images submitted on the topic of Winter, which seemed to be appropriate. We had a great turnout on the club night and as usual, we had a good number…

An Evening with Mark Littlejohn

Well what a way to finish the year. We were most privileged to enjoy an exclusive talk to OPC by renowned photographer Mark Littlejohn on the topic of ‘The Romance of Landscape Photography’. Mark is undoubtedly one of the best landscape photographers in the UK and a winner of the UK Landscape Photographer of the…

Christmas Club Night

Once again we enjoyed a fantastic and very sociable pre-Christmas club night. This was the last full club meeting of the year and as become the tradition, we had a super evening with a quiz organised by Martin with some material provided by Gavin. A very festive spread supplied by Moy with some help I…

November Club Meeting

Well our November club meeting was really the final set of three, where we were looking at post processing and some of the techniques available to us with modern technology. We discussed why you may want to do it, what it consists of and the benefits and possible pitfalls you may come across. At this…