Club News

This page will contain details of events that are taking place within Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club.

Programme of Meetings - 2025/26 Season

The full programme of events for next season has now been published.  This can be found at Programme 2025/26

Updated on 2nd February 2025

Groups and Forums

Our Groups and Forums pages are a useful tool for all members to share experiences and to learn from others.  Please use this facility as you will find a wealth of very useful information is held within its group pages.

This is a great facility to share images with other club members and to gain some great positive critique. 

Future Presentations and Events

As part of our programme SBACC hosts evenings where we invite well known and recognised photographers to our hall to give us a presentation.  These evenings are always popular.  We open our doors up on these evenings to non-members who may wish to see the speaker.  Ticket prices are £7.50 per adult and £2.50 per child (Under 16).

Anyone wishing to buy a ticket should contact our Treasurer Mat Philips at sbacc.treasurer@gmail.com 

Postproduction Challenge

On 25th November SBACC members will be demonstrating their skills in post production.

This is always a fun evening where members are invited to take one of their out of camera images and post process it. This will give the member the opportunity to experiment and develop many avantgarde techniques perhaps turning the image into a drawing or cartoon, changing colours in light channels, creating a mono conversion, or perhaps even employing an Infrared technique. On the evening the before and after
digital images will be shared, and the techniques used discussed.

A Celebration Of The Year / My Favourite Images of 2025 - Followed by a Seasonal Social Evening

This year SBACC members will again be invited to submit two digital images that they consider to be their favourite image(s) taken over the past calendar year.  This is not a competition but will be a celebration of their favourite images from 2025 and is a fitting way to round off the year.

The second half of the evening will be dedicated to a social gathering to celebrate the festive season and if we are lucky cake will be provided

The “Shoot a Theme Competition”.  ‘Sign of the Times’.

On 13th January 2026 SBACC members will be showing images for the annual Shoot a Theme competition.  

Set by last years winner Mat Philips he has chosen this theme as he feels the images can be of anything, but must reflect something about life today.  Whether landscape, portrait, nature, street, industry, travel, architecture, environment, fashion… there should be an identifiable, or at least perceptual element of ‘these times’. 

Images should have been taken over the past year.

Members will be asked to choose their favourite image and the placed images will be the ones that collects the most votes.

Photoshoots

Wincanton Races

On Saturday 3rd January SBACC members have the opportunity to attend Wincanton Races as a group to capture images of the Saturday Savers Raceday.

Coming so soon after the New Years celebrations this is a great opportunity to start the year off with friends and to capture some amazing images of the racing and/or the crowds.  Members will be encouraged to practice their panning skills and even become a little creative with their shutter speeds.

Full details will be published nearer the date but this is an outing not to be missed.

For further details contact our programme secretary at 

Wells

On Wednesday 19th November members are invited to meet in Wells for a days photoshoot.  Wells is a great city to practice both street and architectural photography.

It will be the Christmas Market on this day so anyone wishing to engage in street photography should be split for choice.

It is suggested that we meet at the Bishops Table at 1030am for a Coffee.  Parking is available in the Waitrose multi story car park 

Thorncombe Woods

On Saturday 18th October members visited Thorncombe woods to capture images of the Autumn Colours.

The weather was extremely kind to the large group that attended, and many amazing images were captured.  These images can be viewed at https://www.sbacameraclub.co.uk/gallery 

Recent Club Meetings

The Keith Lane Lecture 2025

DAVID BOAG – THE WORLD OF A WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER

On 11th November SBACC welcomed local photographer David Boag to the Bradford Abbas Village Hall.

David is a wildlife photographer and author and photographer of 18 published books.  

This entertaining lecture spans 35 years of photography and takes us to 5 continents.  David explained how he began his journey as a wildlife photographer, the commissions he has undertaken and touched on the books he has had published.  This talk was intended to be an inspirational one aimed at photographers of every level.  He offered advice on capturing images of wildlife in unfamiliar surroundings as well as those more familiar to us.  The ethos of the talk was not to make wildlife photography a speciality but to make it available to anyone with enthusiasm and persistence.

The hall was packed with members and visitors who were all treated to a truly exceptional evening.

The Overton Cup

On 28th October SBACC held our annual black and white competition.  This competition will consist of a DPI and Print Section.

The Judge for this evening will be Norman Marsh.

This was yet another great evening with members demonstrating their skill in capturing a wide range of images which were displayed in both digital and print format.

The results for the evening can be found within Competitions

Images from the evening are displayed with the page  called Gallery

Club Meeting with Whittlesea Camera Club - Australia

On Saturday 25th October members of SBACC and Whittlesea Camera Club met online for their ongoing twice a year meeting to celebrate the art of photography.

The Theme for this meeting was set by Whittlesea Camera Club members and was 'An image you have taken that you like but that others don't.'

The next meeting is set for Spring 2026 when the theme will be set by SBACC members.

Critique Evening

On 14th October members had the opportunity to present up to three images for critique by local judge Penny Piddock.  Being a very experienced judge, Penny guided the group through a process of self critiquing before offering her expert opinions.

The evening was a great success with all members gaining an insight into how best to present their images - not for competitions, but more for personal enjoyment.

Workshops

Mastering Manual Settings

A workshop is planned on 29th November for all members interested in a basic introduction to camera settings.  Many members have requested an input that will give them confidence to switch off the auto settings and to start using the full functionality of their cameras through an understanding of the manual setting.

There is still limited availability to the day so should you wish to enquire about attending please make contact with David Brine

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