Category: Assignments

Please use tag miss-2026-05 . Please try to get your submissions in as early as possible this month, the deadline is Wednesday 6th May.

•Subject is ‘decay’ in all its’ forms

•Think laterally, decay can be, buildings & industrial, objects, wood, metal and natural & organic subjects

•Consider using monochrome, macro and think about textures and contrasts

•Photo review at our May meeting, 2 photos per member using tag ass-2026-05

Please put your photos in our Flickr group by Wednesday 6th May.

To capture photographs of weather, its effects and consequences.

Not just pictures or clouds, rain, sunshine and snow but think laterally about how you can represent ‘weather’ in your photos.

Pictures to be taken between now and the submission date of 4th February.

2 photos per member. Use Flickr tag ass-2026-02 .

Our December assignment is Patterns and Symmetry. A full description with helpful hints can be found in the Members area of the website.

Two photos per member with tag ass-2025-12 .

Our summer assignment is entitled ‘Summer in the Sun’ so hopefully lots of scope to find interesting subjects on this theme.

Use Flickr Tag ass-2025-10 (Summer assignment – 2 photos per member)

Our first meeting of the new season is on the 8th October. Entries for this assignment are now closed.

The subject for our May assignment is Metals and Alloys. Mick Day announced this assignment at our March meeting. It will be reviewed at our May meeting.

•The challenge is to experiment with photos that showcase the qualities and characteristics of  metal.

•Look for textures eg; smooth engineered metal, rusty old metal, drilled metal, welds, coins, etc

•Look for uses eg; structural, ornamental, industrial, tools etc

•Try different angles and lighting (eg; flash, soft lighting, hard lighting etc) look for reflections, textures, lustre and sheen, macro might be an option

•Consider depth of field

See our March Notices in the signed in area for some examples.

Just 2 photos per member please. Submission by 7th May. Tag is ass-2025-05.

February 2025 assignment –‘wood’
•Use your imagination to capture creative photographs of ‘wood’ in the widest possible interpretation
•Try different lighting eg; natural light/artificial light etc.
•Experiment with different positions and angles, macro, monochrome, shadow and shade effects etc
•Look for textures and patterns
•Experiment with depth of field
•Look for different types and use of wood

(note; photographs should be taken for the assignment –not from ‘stock’)

Use the Flickr tag ass-2025-02. Please submit 2 photos by 5th February 2025.

Photos that portray the “laid back chilled out” days of summer.

Two photos per member. Use Flickr Tag ass-2024-10