Horsham Photographic Society will not meet physically until 2021. We have however developed and online programme with presentations and competitions being presented using Zoom. 
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Horsham Photographic Society invites you to attend the following on-line meetings. Please email HorshamPStreasurer@gmail.com the Treasurer will send you the payment details.

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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Full Results -
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Under 18s

Adult

 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.