Club News

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

Programme of Meetings

The full programme of events for season can be found at Programme 2025/26

We have also now published our programme for the next season.  This can be found at Programme 2026/27

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 

SBACC Challenge

On 14th April we will hold the annual SBACC challenge.  This years category has been designated to be NATURE

Two categories of entries will be judged.

• Digital Images 
• Print Images

The definition of Nature can be found on the competitions page Competition Rules

Our Judge for the evening will be Carolyn Moore. 

Stephen and Helen Jones - Life In Prints

On 28th April SBACC will host a presentation by Stephen and Helen Jones entitled Life In Prints

Stephen and Helen are two active local photographers and are members of Dorchester Camera Club.

During the evening they will show many prints of their event and street photography. All images will be put on display for members to take a close look at.

This is a very good opportunity to appreciate the value of printing in what has become a very digitally based pastime.

SBACC Annual Open Competition

On 12th May we will be hosting our Annual Open Competition.  This is always a great evening with our members being able to enter images of any subject that they have taken over the past 12 months.  

There will be two categories to be judged.

• Best Digital Image
• Best Print (Mono and Coloured Combined This Year

This competition will be judged by Janet Miles.

End of Year - Print Exhibition

To round the season off SBACC will once again invite all members to bring a few of their prints to the hall for display to other members. These will be displayed around the hall on tables which will allow members to socialise and view the images throughout the evening.

There is no theme, and there are no restrictions regarding size and / or framing.  

This is an ideal opportunity to discuss printing techniques with those club members who are very proficient in this art. 

Photoshoots

A full programme of photoshoots throughout the year is currently being organised.  A full copy of the years programme of photoshoots can be found at Photoshoots 2026

Recent Club Meetings

Bradford Abbas Shield

On 24th March we welcomed members of Shaftesbury, South Petherton, Wincanton and Yeovil Camera Club to our hall for the last ever Bradford Abbas Shield.  This competition has run since 1984 during which all clubs have battled each year for the Shield.

As last year winners SBACC chose the theme FARMERS AND FARMING – (THIS THEME IS TO INCLUDE THE ACTIVITY OR BUSINESS OF GROWING CROPS AND RAISING LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY).

Each club submitted 5 Digital Images and 5 Print images for assessment and scoring by our judge Norman Marsh.  His job was made extremely hard as the standard of images was so high.

The winning club was once again Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club (174), with South Petherton 2nd, (165), Yeovil 3rd (164) , and Wincanton and Shaftesbury joint 4th (162).

Huw Alban - Place - Process - Print

On 10th March we welcomed Huw Alban to our club to present his talk Place - Process - Print.

Huw Alban is an artist using Photography based in Dorset and specialising in the creation of images that capture true nature – whatever the subject.

The members were treated to an excellent evening during which Huw explained his thought processes when taking an image - camera placement, to shutter speed selection, to aspect and then finally how he edited the image to depict the image as he remembered it.

The Smartphone Challenge 2026

On February 24th SBACC held the annual Smartphone Challenge.

With the theme being 'Reflections' 43 images were shown on the evening which demonstrated not only the skill of our members, but also how far smartphone photography has progressed over the recent years.

Congratulations go to Paul Norman for his image Polished Performance which was chosen by the members as their winning image.

A selection of awarded images can be found in the Gallery

Workshops

Periodically we will run workshops for the development of our members.

At this time we do not have anything planned as we are concentrating on skills in the field through our programme of photoshoots.

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