Join Us


We meet on Monday evenings at 7:30 pm at the West Monkton Village Hall, nr Taunton,TA2 8NE in the Heathfield Hall.


Please feel free to come and see us.


Click Here for a map to the hall


Ordinary Membership costs £25.00 (payable by the end of September)


Evening Costs are £4.00 or £5.00 depending on the speaker


Refreshments are included.

Who We Are


The Phoenix Group of Photographers prides itself on non-competitive support for all skill levels.

 

Phoenix is well established offering new photographers a supportive environment with a diverse knowledge base, and offer the more experiences photographers a place to share experience with like minded people wanting to network with others who share a passion for the art of photography.

 

So no matter what your skill level or experience, our common aim is to learn and share and support others with photography.

If you would like to get involved just email info@pgop.org and we will look forward to meeting you.

 

Committee

President: John Loveday 


Chairman: John Gamblin - chairman@pgop.org


Vice Chairman: Tony Raymond - vicechairman@pgop.org


Secretary: Sue Raymond - secretary@pgop.org


Treasurer: Sue Raymond - treasurer@pgop.org


Programme Secretary & Webmaster: David Beer - progsecretary@pgop.org


Exhibition Secretary:  Ray McIntosh 


Webmaster: WendyTancock - webmaster@pgop.org   


PR Officer:  Sarah Woods - profficer@pgop.org


Equipment Officer: Tony Raymond - vicechairman@pgop.org


Competitions Secretary John Gamblin  chairman@pgop.org


Committee Member: Chris Mowthorpe ARPS DPAGB   


 

New 2024/2025 Programme

*OPENING EVENING*


2ND SEPTEMBER 2024

A Presentation of MPIX 2024

competition winners.



9TH SEPTEMBER 2024

Land of Mountain and Flood

Malcolm McNaughton


16th SEPTEMBER 2024

Namibia

Scott Hurd's zoom presentation living 

and working as a photographer in

Namibia.


23rd SEPTEMBER 2024

The Dabbler

A talk by photographer

Di Wilkins


30th SEPTEMBER 2024

Digital Critique

Critiqued by Keith Spicer

 

7th OCTOBER 2024

Story/Narrative Photography

Laura Pearce


14th OCTOBER 2024

Travel Talk

Svalbarb and the Russian High Arctic.


Chris Marsham 

*****

Also Members' Exhibition on at

Taunton Library until 26th Oct.


21st OCTOBER 2024

Backwell Print Critique



28th OCTOBER 2024

Print Critique

Critiqued by Jane Kearney


4th NOVEMBER 2024

Through an Older Eye

Simon Williams


1th NOVEMBER 2024

Fotospeed

Tim Jones returns to the club.


18th NOVEMBER 2024

Talk Sports

Warren Alani presents his sports

photography presentation on zoom.


25th NOVEMBER 2024

Digital Critique

Critiqued by Andy Frances.


2nd DECEMBER 2024

Christmas Meal

*Details to be confirmed.


9th DECEMBER 2024



"It’s Not What You See, It’s What You Make”


Presentation on ZOOM 


Mike Martin AWPF EFIAP BPE1


This is a mixed evening - in addition to an overview of my people photography, this also showcases some of my non-portrait photography, step by step walk through making of some of my creative images using a live Photoshop demo.

in addition to an overview of my people photography, this also showcases some of my non-portrait photography, step by step walk through making of some of my creative images using a live Photoshop demo.


16th DECEMBER 2024

What the Romans Did for Me

Pauline Rook returns speaking about a

Roman mosaic discovery in Lopen.


23rd DECEMBER 2024

No meeting

XMAS break


1st January 2025

No meeting

New years Day


6th January 2025

Chasing the Light

Simon Van-Orden

(Zoom presentation)


13th January 2025

Dublin Camera Federation

Joint Digital Critique

(Zoom presentation)


20th January 2025

PAGB The Seventh Masters of Print

Salon des Refusés

The Masters of Print Exhibition is restricted to just 60 prints from 60 different photographers, and this makes acceptance particularly difficult.

Martin Barber


27th January 2025

Digital Critique

3 Images per member


3rd February 2025

Journey to Fellowship in Prints

Andrew Marker


10th February 2025

Capturing the Heart of the

Highlands

Dean Allen, Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year


17th February 2025

My Photography

Paul Stanley FIPF, EFIAP/g 


24th February 2025

Print Critique

3 or 5 prints to make a panel


3rd March 2025

Members 10 minutes.



10th March 2025

Practical evening ,bring your camera's we will have still life and second part painting with light.


17th March 2025

WCPF Print Exhibition

Hand in date for Digital Critique 31st March.


24th March 2025

Pedro Landers


31st March 2025

Digital Critique

3 Images per member

Critiqued by Peter Hyett ARPS,EFIAP/b,BPE2


7th April 2025

Club AGM


14th April 2025

Bristol Salon


21st April 2025

Easter Bank Holiday


28th April 2025

Print Critique

3 Prints per member


Time to cool down Martin Barber
Dave in the Pacific Robert Young
No-Way-Home Chris Mowthorpe
Looking for lunch Roger Thomas
this is fun Martin Barber
What are you looking at mum Roger Thomas )
Sycamore Gap Lynne Thomas
Tuscan landscape T raymond
Corfe Castle Ray McIntosh
Lullworth Coce Ray McIntosh
Mrs-Mallows-cottage Lynne Thomas)
wells John Gamblin
westbay by j loveday
New York Memorial Megan Rowe
Colour confusion Chris Penney
umbrela of love John Gamblin
gathering storm Tony raymond
Hats on Display Chris Penney
Having a Drink Michael Rowe
Scout & Dad Megan Rowe
still life  j loveday
darts farm mike chinnock )
at the bus stop Sarah Wood
Broken Old Boat Michael Rowe
Clearing Mist Chris Mowthorpe
all aboard terry crawley
concentration mike chinnock )
Goodwood David Beer
Red Arrows David Beer ()

Image Sizes for Submissions


Our projector has a resolution size of 1920x 1080 so images must be resized to these dimensions i.e landscapes 1920 wide and if possible 1080 high, this latter dimension could of course be smaller if a letterbox image is displayed,in the case of portrait images these must be no taller than 1080 the width will sort itself out on resizing.


Providing images are no larger than those stated all will project without problem.