Our last meeting of the year was our trophy presentation evening.

The meeting brought to a close our 70th anniversary, which was celebrated by an excellent cake made by our competition secretary, Corinna Hardware.

​Thanks to everyone who entered the competition.

Congratulations to David Donati, in the adult section, and Oscar James in the under 18s, for their winning entries.

Oscar James - Fryern Woods
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Under 18s

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 Mark  Pain  is  a  multi-award  winning  sports photographer  with  over  25  years’  experience  and international recognition.

He has covered major events worldwide from the Olympic Games to the Ryder Cup, and  from  football  and  rugby  World  Cups  to  World Championship athletics. Mark has worked at the top of his profession  for  many  years.  He  was  Chief  Sports Photographer of the Mail On Sunday for over twenty years.

He captures Premier League football action, as well as taking portraits  and  features  of  the  biggest  and  best stars in the world of sport, working for both editorial and corporate clients.

Having  won  many  competitions  and  been  highly commended  on  numerous  occasions, including  as  a sports finalist in the World Press Photo 1998, Mark was named as the Sports Photographer of the Year in 2005 and 2011 at the British Press Awards.

He was named as the British Airways Olympic Photographer Of The Year 2012 at the prestigious UKGuild Of Picture Editors Awards.

In 2011 Mark successfully launched the first dedicated Sports Photography School  in  the  UK,  and  in  2013became a Nikon UK Ambassador.

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Slawek is a Polish-born photographer based in Brighton who specialises in landscape. His imagery has been published in numerous magazines and used in brochures, advertisements and websites.

He will present diverse examples of his work, comment extensively on the techniques used and hurdles he had to overcome to get specific photos, and talk us through the "creative process".

Tom is a professional fine art wildlife photographer based in the UK. He has received awards in various international  competitions  including  EuropeanWildlife Photographer Of The Year and the SonyWorld Photography Awards.He spends most of his time overseas focusing on large  mammals  around  the  world.  Tom’s  main passion is Africa where assignments have seen him focus on elephants and lions in Kenya and leopards in  Zambia  and  he  regularly  exhibits  his  work  in galleries and exhibitions.

Within this talk Tom goes into what it takes to be a  wildlife  photographer;  talking  about  the importance  of  light,  the  right  angles  and  the emphasis on trying to compose a saleable image when looking through the lens. Tom describes his adventures over the last few years, and how he has gone from working in a gym to now taking wildlife images around the world and exhibiting them all over the UK.

Born in East Yorkshire, Paul's interest in photography began at school. He then studied graphic design at art college and soon after began his design career in London working for many well known FMCG companies and brands. He now lives, and runs his own design consultancy, in Buckinghamshire and tries to devote most of his free time to photographing the landscape.

Paul has had numerous exhibitions in London and the South East and has had articles and images published in many photographic magazines. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and currently serves on the Fine Art Distinctions Panel, a member of the prestigious Arena group and a founder member of The Landscape Collective UK (LCUK). Paul is also a well respected photographic judge and lecturer.

Paul has also been successful in the prestigious Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, winning the Sunday Times Choice Award in 2013 and being the Urban Category winner in 2015. He has also had recent successes in the Outdoor Photographer of the Year and the International Garden Photographer of the Year.
Apart from his self-published book on pinhole photography, “Spirit of Light”, he has collaborated with four renowned photographers to publish “The Coast – a personal view of the English coastline”.