Club Competitions
The Photo Group year includes five regular "monthly" competitions, a panels competition and various other less formal competitions. The regular competitions have a maximum number of entries per member of 2 black & white prints, 2 projected images, and 2 colour prints. Some members enter all three sections! More details are listed on the Guide for Prospective Members which is given out by the Membership Secretary.
Extra Evenings
For the winter season 2009 to 2010 we will be running three special evenings to replace our print and digital evenings we used to have. The idea of each evening is to centre on images members have taken based on set subjects given in advance. It is hoped that these evenings will be able to help and advise members on the images produced regarding exposure, composition and quality. An evening of discussion on the ease or difficulty in producing the "image".
Projects
Members are encouraged to undertake a project on a subject of interest to them and at the same time broaden their photographic experience. This does not have to be for the whole or half evening, just 15 minutes will suffice, perhaps join up with a more experienced member. Some members do this every other year and derive a great benefit from it, as do the Group members. In fact members' Project Evenings often give some of the most satisfying evenings in the whole programme.
Exhibitions
Once a year, the Group tries to stage an exhibition in Exmouth wherein all members are invited to show examples of their work. These exhibitions are arranged primarily to present our work to visitors and residents of Exmouth to give some pleasure and also publicise our Group. Members can also exhibit in the Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF) Members' Exhibition which is held in May each year. The WCPF is an association of the majority of the clubs in the South West.
South Devon League/Inter Club League
This is a group of photographic clubs which join together in print and digitally projected images battles. The main object of this is to enable members from clubs to see the work of, and meet, photographers from the other clubs. Each year clubs meet at a designated club and an outside judge is selected.
Newsletter
In September 1996 the Photo Group published its first Newsletter. This was published and produced by Tom Gordon, a member of the Group. This has now been dropped as printing the Newsletter became expensive. We now produce a Newsletter which is posted on this web site.
Library
The Photo Group owns an extensive library on all aspects of photography. All of these library books are available for loaning to members.
Equipment
The Photo Group owns a fair amount of equipment to keep the club running efficiently including, slide projector, digital projector, print stand, projector stand, Logan matt cutter.