Phoenix Group of Photographers

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.

Emailinfo@pgop.org

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.

23rd SEPTEMBER 2024

The Dabbler

A talk by photographer

Di Wilkins

30th SEPTEMBER 2024

Digital Critique

Critiqued by Keith Spicer

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.

7th OCTOBER 2024

Story/Narrative Photography

Laura Pearce

14th OCTOBER 2024

Travel Talk

Svalbarb and the Russian High Arctic.

Chris Marsham

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Also Members' Exhibition on at

Taunton Library until 26th Oct.

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.

25th NOVEMBER 2024

Digital Critique

Critiqued by Andy Frances.

18th NOVEMBER 2024

Talk Sports

Warren Alani presents his sports

photography presentation on zoom.

21st OCTOBER 2024

Backwell Print Critique

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

My Photography

Paul Stanley FIPF, EFIAP/g

(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

Lakes & Portrait Photography

Program change

10th February 2025

Capturing the Heart of the

Highlands

Dean Allen, Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year

17th February 2025

Print Critique

3 or 5 prints to make a panel

24th February 2025

Dublin Camera Federation

Joint Digital Critique

(Zoom presentation)

3rd March 2025

Members 10 mins & practical sesion ,painting with light and macro photography

10th March 2025

Journey to Fellowship in Prints

Andrew Marker

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

Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

Recorded Lectures

2024 GB Cup for Nature

2024 Championship Final

14th April 2025

Bristol Salon

21st April 2025

Easter Bank Holiday

28th April 2025

Club AGM

What are you looking at mum Roger Thomas )

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.