Welcome to the Chesterfield Photographic Society Website.

This Set of Snowy Owl Photographs was taken by Steve Williams and the somewhat more dramatic A3 prints won our November Competition Set Subject of Three on a Theme

The site was updated on 19th April with some pictures of our Pie & Pea Supper - it was a great evening and thanks to Jim Dunn for putting on the quiz

Recent updates include changes to the programme, inclusion of the Summer Programme. a new page for Members' NEMPF Successes and updates to Ken Davis'; Brian Davis'; Sheila Curzon's and Paul Tilley's Pages; photographs of the Concours Regionaux Exhibition in Troyes showing some of Union Photographique Champenoise and Chesterfield Photographic Prints.  There is also a photo from Roger & Iris Barnes's wedding (see the News Page)

Changes to the Digital Group page and some links in people's pages, upcoming events and the New Pages.

A New Gallery has been added for George Tagg & Clive Rowland with changes to David & Joyce Hart's; Chris Mellows' Elin Smith's, Ken Davis's, Martina and Bill Calladine's Galleries and there are photos of our Annual Exhibition. 

It is the Society's 70th Year in 2008 and we are putting on an exhibition in Chesterfield Museum from 4th October 2008 to 30th December all about popular photography in the last 70 years and including a brief history of the Society.  It's called 'Say Cheese'.

If anyone has anything that could feature in the Exhibition or wants to help please see David Hart.

Please see  Upcoming Events for details of upcoming outings

At the Annual NEMPF Exhibition a number of our members did well.  Sheila Curzon got all six of her slides accepted, Steve Williams, Brian Davis, Geoff Hicks and Shirley Davis also had work accepted and exhibited

Congratulations to Vaughan Williams who was awarded a Selector's Favourite for his Misty Morning

The site also shows the Darmstadt Exhibition that the Society's members were asked to mount in the White Tower in the City Centre.  Eight members visited Darmstadt for the opening and the photo below shows the opening with  our President, Stuart Hall.  The exhibition looks great, so congratulations to all Chesterfield Members who contributed work and well done Jerry Daniel for masterminding it.

On Friday 21st September Darmstadt held the "Lange Nacht der Musen" when places linked to the cultural life open their
doors for a long night of events all over the city. There is music, theatre, readings and so on. The White Tower was open for this
and about 800 people took the chance to see the exhibition - more than at normal opening hours over the whole year.
 

Darmstadt Fotoclub members were wonderful hosts and showed us the artistic and cultural centres of Darmstadt as well as taking us to Frankfurt.  We would like to thank Darmstadt for their excellent hospitality Also updates to this page and to Brian & Shirley Davis' Galleries.

See the News Page

Other recent updates include pictures of our summer party, our great trips to Harlow Carr and Bole Hill and a schedule of subjects for the B&W Group

Look at the News Page, Upcoming Events and B&W Page

If you have any interest in photography, whatever it may be why not join us at one of our meetings,  you will be very welcome on any of our Thursday evening meetings.  We have lots of new members who have started or restarted an interest in Photography because of Digital and we can help you in this. 

You do not have to be an expert.  We hope the photographs you see here inspire you but do not worry about not being an expert.  If you want any advice on any aspect of Photography we are here to help and if you are an expert then your experience will be very welcome!

The Summer Programme is now over and we are into the 2007/8 Programme

Go to the Programme page. 

Chris Mellows took this stunning shot 'Dawn at Sweetwater'

We have created a page for Chris in the Member's Gallery - please visit this for more photos

in the meantime here's a great shot from Geoff Hicks

Geoff Hicks - Remembrance Day

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Members have given a number of picture to the Royal Hospital in Chesterfield and the hospital have framed these and you can see them at various places around the hospital

We were invited to go to view the photographs - go to the News Page to see these.

Members are sharing more and more work and we are using an online Critique using the Photo Website:

CPS flickr pictures

You will need to go through the sign on procedure and get yourself an account.

We will explain more about this at our Digital Group Meetings

  Some More Pictures

Please visit our Member's Gallery

Everyone is welcome to come to our meetings 

Our aim is to make photography an enjoyable and creative hobby for anyone.

Sometimes visitors to the site may think we just concentrate on competitions, actually we are not a competitive society and we show the pictures here just because we think they are good.  Don't be put off by the reference to competitions. We aim to provide an entertaining general Society programme on Thursday nights and we will also try to help any visitors with any queries they have.

We have number of critique evenings where no marks are awarded but a judge comments on submitted work.