Outdoor visit
2025-04-03 19:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
A group visit to a near by location to take some images and work on new on techniques.

Paul Bingham ‘Namibia’.
2025-04-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
Although mostly desert, the variety of landscapes and wildlife makes this one of Africa’s most impressive countries. A 3,500km drive visits deserts, the world’s highest sand dunes ( 350m high), the spectacular Skeleton coast before returning inland through rugged landscapes to Etosha, one of Africa’s most famous national parks rich in mammals and birds.

The Annual open competition
2025-04-17 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
The end of year competition, any subject, prints and projected. You can enter up to three prints and three PDIs

AGM
2025-04-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
Final ceremonial end to the year, the reporting of what we have done and the election of the new committee going forward.

Annual dinner and awards
2025-05-01 08:00 - 17:00
Venue TBC

Mike Bennett. Capture the Moment.
2025-10-02 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
This talk by Mike Bennett,takes a look at his photography and approach to various subjects from documentary, portrait/studio, travel, nature, sport and creative etc.
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Alternative printing processes. Simon Pearce.
2025-10-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomas Cook Hall, 84 High St, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GJ
Thursday 9th October Simon Pearce will be giving a talk on alternative printing processes looking at cyanotypes and wet transfers. The talk will give a brief history of the processes and then go onto his use of the techniques and a look at some of the images he’s made. We will hopefully have a hands on session with members using the techniques.

A presentation of photos taken by US!
2025-10-16 08:00 - 17:00
A Short presentation featuring images from members collections.

Derek Doar Shared Moments
2025-10-23 19:30 - 22:00
Derek will be our speaker on the 23rd October meeting. Mainly landscapes of the UK and Outer Hebrides, mostly colour but with some Black & White and Infra-Red images and also contains some natural history images.

Roger Fountain. My world of monochrome, with a Dash of Colour
2025-10-30 19:30 - 22:00
Roger Fountain.
My World of Monochrome with a Dash of Colour.
A print talk by a Derby based photographer. Roger takes us on a journey with his ‘World of Monochrome’. He finishes with his acclaimed Fine Art Architectural images and demonstrates his processing technique with some before and after images.

Martin Vaughn. Costa Rica.
2025-11-06 19:30 - 22:00
Martin Vaughn
Martin will combine images from both a photographic trip and a family holiday to show something of the wildlife and the countryside of one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. He will explain the photographic techniques he learnt and show how he has since used them in his local wildlife projects.

Technique Night
2025-11-13 19:30 - 22:00
Tony Pedley
Technique night. For the Panel of Four club competition.
Instruction on photo processing and how to create the fifth and final image for the Panel of Four.
This competition comprises 4 related images and one final image that will bring them together.
The link takes visitors to a video explaining the process.

Two sides of China
2025-11-27 19:30 - 22:00
Alan Harris
The talk will cover some well known tourist sites of China; The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, The Terracotta Warriors, etc. In addition, it will look at rural life in a small farming village and some street life in the cities.

Tom Tivey Competition
2025-12-04 19:30 - 22:00
Tom Tivey Club competition. This competition is named after our former Chairman Tom Tivey. Tom was a groundbreaking wildlife and landscape photographer, and this competition is themed around these two subjects. Members can submit up to three prints and three images for projection.

The Creativity Toolbox.
2025-12-11 19:30 - 22:00
Paul O’Flanagan
Can Creativity be learned? Yes! Using the Creativity Toolbox.

Members Social Night
2025-12-18 19:30 - 22:00
Club Quiz night at The White Swan public house, Castle Street, Melbourne.
With lashings of cake and ginger beer, there will be a quiz on the night, and how was your year with the Melbourne Photographic society?
After tonight, there are no meetings until the 8th of January and Andy McDonald.
Into Darkness.
Andy’s talk will describe how he produces fine art black and white architectural photography picking up an Associate distinction from the Royal Photographic Society. ARPS.
