Olney Camera Club

Social Get Together - FAQs
2024-09-18 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
An indoor social session where you get to ask all the photography questions you are normally too embarrassed to.

Competition 2024: Round Three
2024-09-25 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Our third competition round of 2024.
Themes
Happy Holidays (DPI)
Open (DPI)
Wild Flowers (Print)
Judge: TBC
Please see here for competition information, rules and scoring.
Check our hall of fame for previous winners.
Please note, only fully paid up members can enter competition rounds.

AGM
2024-10-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
Annual AGM.
Come and vote on the important topics of the year and have your say on how the club is run.

You Tube Tutorial Session
2024-10-30 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Many of us have go to You Tube channels from which to learn photography tips and techniques are to gather inspiration.
On this evening, members will share their favourite channels and we will watch a selection of the videos together.

Social Get Together - New Member Night
2024-11-20 19:30 - 21:30 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
An indoor social session to welcome and encourage new members.

Club Lecture: TBC
2024-11-27 20:00 - 22:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom

Competition 2024: Round Four
2024-12-11 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Our third competition round of 2024.
Themes
Contre Jour (DPI)
Autumn Colours (DPI)
Open (Print)
Bonus Round
Monochrome Cup (Print)
Judge: Ben Pike
Please see here for competition information, rules and scoring.
Check our hall of fame for previous winners.
Please note, only fully paid up members can enter competition rounds.

Christmas Social
2024-12-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Beds

SOCIAL: Informal Catch Up & Chat
2025-01-15 19:30 - 21:30 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
Kick off the year with an informal catch up. Share your photography aspirations for the coming year, bring along any fabulous photos you took over Christmas and generally just catch up..

CLUB NIGHT: Aviation Photography - Mick Mansfield
2025-01-29 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Mick’s talk will thake us through the equipment he uses, then the different areas of Aviation photography: museum, inside & outside, re-enactors, airshows, close ups, nose & tail art, weather. He will also take us through the different airshows he goes to. & as well asFinally, we’ll see the good photos, and a selection of when it goes wrong!

SOCIAL: Intentional Camera Movement - A Discussion
2025-02-19 19:30 - 21:30 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
One of the themes of March’s competition is Intentional Camera Movement. We will have an informal chat about what this actually means, what the best techniques are, and look at good examples both our own and others. There will be one or more You Tube tutorials that we will watch on the subject.If anyone has photos on the theme that they would like to share, feel free to bring them along.

CLUB NIGHT: My Beautiful Light - Jane Goodall
2025-02-26 20:00 - 22:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
Jane Goodall is a cardiovascular research scientist but also a photographer and a judge for the East Anglian Federation of photographers. My Beautiful Light lecture reveals her approach to landscape photography. This talk will be delivered via Zoom.
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DAY TRIP: The Photography & Video Show
2025-03-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Excel London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL, United Kingdom
This is supposed to be a great exhibition for photography lovers with stands selling and demoing kits + lots of talks and seminars. This could be a day trip, or if anyone is interested, we can stay overnight and combine with a London walk on Sunday.
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SOCIAL: Towcester Selection Evening
2025-03-19 19:30 - 21:30 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
We look at member’s images from the previous year and select the best to put up against the Towcester Head to Head in May. It’s a quick fire critique round so quite fun for all members.

COMPETITION: Round One
2025-03-26 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Unusual Perspective (Print)
Intentional Camera Movement (DPI)
Open (DPI)

Judge: Paul Nickerson

HOW TO: After Dark - A Discussion
2025-04-16 19:30 - 22:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
One of the themes of June’s competition is After Dark. We will have an informal chat about what this actually means, what the best techniques are, and look at good examples both our own and others. There will be one or more You Tube tutorials that we will watch on the subject.

CLUB NIGHT: Long Exposure
2025-04-30 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
One of the themes of September’s competition is Long Exposure. We will have a practical evening to learn and practice the best techniques. We will kick off in the first half by watching one or more You Tube tutorials on the subject, and look at good examples both our own and others. And in the second half we will practice some of the techniques we have learnt.

SOCIAL: Scavenger Hunt
2025-05-14 19:00 - 22:30 | Beds
Meet over at Emberton Village for a mobile phone based, ten image, scavenger hunt and visit to the Church Tower. Meet in The Bell & Bear after for a show and tell. 7pm start. We also have the next 30 days to exhibit our best print photos, so if anyone is available earlier, please come along to help construct the exhibition.

COMPETITION: Head to Head Towcester
2025-05-28 20:00 - 22:00 | Beds
We prepare to do battle once more with Towcester with 20 images from each club, judged by an independent judge. Last year we won by just one point – and we hope to retain our title! This year, Towcester host.

SOCIAL: Point of View
2025-06-18 19:30 - 22:00 | The Bell & Bear, High Stree, Emberton, MK46 5DH, United Kingdom
The Olney Market Place. Take photos of, or from Olney Market Place during the preceding June days. You must be either standing on the Market Place or the Market Place must feature in your image (Motorama is on the 14th June). Then coming along and share your best photos. Anyone available to take down our exhibition images before hand, is very welcome.

COMPETITION: Round Two
2025-06-25 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
After Dark (DPI)
My Happy Place (DPI)
Open (Print)
Judge: Penny Reeves

WALKABOUT: Kathy Brown's Garden & Stevington Windmill
2025-07-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Stevington, Park Road, Stevington, MK43 7QD, United Kingdom
Meet in Stevington. For those that enjoy flower photography, Kathy Brown’s Garden is a delight. There is a £10 entrance fee. For those less inclined to flora, the windmill in Stevington is another option. Either way, we will meet up at The Royal George later to share what we have taken. Kempston club are likely to join us for this walk.

CLUB NIGHT: Weather to Photograph and What - Anne Miles
2025-07-30 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Rain, snow and mist – first, this lecture shows images depicting Anne’s ‘perfect’ photographic weathers. But what do you do when the weather isn’t perfect for photography – some suggestions are made of subjects and techniques to employ when the light is dull or when the sun shines too brightly.
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DAY TRIP: Crossness Pumping Station
2025-08-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Crossness Pumping Station, The Old Works, Thames Water, S.T.W. Bazalgette Way, Abbey Wood, London, SE2 9AQ, United Kingdom
Crossness provides a wonderful environment for photography. Whether your interest is architectural, industrial or the abstract they provide an extraordinary venue. The photographic trip is limited to 20 people to ensure that the venue is too crowded for good photo opportunities. We need a minimum of 12 people. The visit last 4 hours and is private.
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SOCIAL: Olney Photographic Walk with Dan Evans
2025-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Olney Market Place, Olney Market Place, Olney, MK46 4AJ, United Kingdom
For all levels from enthusiasts with tripods to beginners with smartphones. Dan will escort us around some photographic highlights of Olney, with the focus on seeing and capturing impactful images. It is about aesthetics rather than technology and kit. Maximum 8.
For those that would like to, we will convene afterwards in The Bull.

CLUB NIGHT: August Break
2025-08-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Beds
There will be no meeting tonight.

SOCIAL: Open Mic Night
2025-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
Don’t worry – no music involved. But like an informal Open Mic night, come along and use your 15 minure slot for anything photography based. You can show a You Tube video, bring an image in for critique or advice, show a slide show from a recent trip of project, talk about a technique, photographer or style you live, set us a quiz – or indeed anything that takes your fancy.

DAY TRIP: MK Gallery Exhibition - Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look
2025-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA, United Kingdom
This first solo UK exhibition of Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (b. 1944) presents over 170 works in colour and black and white from the 1970s to the present day. Often working in series, her photographs include men and women in psychiatric institutions, Trans communities, sex workers, homeless people and the Kawésqar, an indigenous community under threat.
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COMPETITION: Round Three
2025-09-24 20:00 - 22:00 | The Olney Centre, High Street, Olney, MK46 4EF, United Kingdom
Long Exposure (Print)
Artist at Work (DPI)
Open (DPI)
Judge: Naomi Saul

SOCIAL: AGM
2025-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Swan Inn & Bistro, 12 High Street, Olney, MK46 4AA, United Kingdom
If you have ideas for next year’s programme, themes for the competition, how we do things, or are just nosy about our finances and processes, please do come along to the AGM.
