Our Programme.

Changes to the original issue of the printed Syllabus Booklet are shown in green.

Date Event
Sat 2nd -
Fri 15th Aug 2025 Summer Exhibition in Poulton Library including the Residents' Competition
Sep 4th 2025 Presentation of awards and review of last season's award-winning prints -
Gordon Jenkins Hon Life Vice-President, HonPAGB
Sep 11th 2025 Tutorial - Peter Knight & Malcolm Birkett
Sep 18th 2025 Hobby to Passion - Barrie Dickinson MPSA EFIAP DPAGB BPE5 GPU CR2L.APS/G
Sep 25th 2025 Barn Owls - Ron Blackburn
1st Competition : Final hand-in PDI-1 images
Oct 2nd 2025If it looks like Wildlife, it is Wildlife - Lynda Haney FBPE MPAGB EFIAP
Oct 9th 2025 L&CPU Folio
Oct 16th 2025 Results of the 1st Competition : PDI-1
Judge: Nicci Greenwood CPAGB
Oct 23rd 2025 Still Life & Macro Practical Session - John Collier / Alan Cameron ARPS
Oct 30th 2025Scapes 1 - Rural, Coastal & Astro via Zoom - Tony North ABPE MPAGB DPAGB
2nd Competition : Final hand-in Print-1 images
Nov 6th 2025 Composition in Photography - Susie Freeman
Nov 13th 2025 My Photographic Journey - John Pal
Nov 20th 2025 Results of the 2nd Competition : Print-1
Judge: Steve Proctor EPAGB BPE5 PPSA
Nov 27th 2025 Travels in Namibia - Alan Cameron ARPS
Dec 4th 2025 Set subject #1: My all-time favourite images and reasons why
3rd Competition : Final Hand-in PDI-2 images
Dec 11th 2025 Flash Photography - Rebecca Entwistle
Dec 18th 2025 Christmas Social - Venue TBA
Dec 25th 2025 No Meeting - Merry Christmas
Jan 1st 2026 No Meeting - Happy New Year
Jan 8th 2026 Results of the 3rd Competition - PDI-2
Judge: Gordon Watson ABPE DPAGB PPSA EFIAP
Jan 15th 2026 PAGB Master of Prints No.7 folio
Jan 22nd 2026 Studio Portraiture Guidance & Practical #1 -
John Collier / Barry Dickinson / Craig Bevington / Tim Gartside
4th Competition : Final Hand-in Print-2 images
Jan 29th 2026 How Do You Dance in a War Zone? via Zoom -
Maria Falconer MA MSc FRPS
Feb 5th 2026 Set subject #2: Triptych
Feb 12th 2026 Everything you need to know about Colour - Ray Wilson & Alan Cameron ARPS
Feb 19th 2026 Results of the 4th Competition - Print-2
Judge: Jane Lines MPAGB LRPS BPE5 AWPF HonLCPU
Feb 26th 2026 AV Sequence & Video Competition - Judge: Daryl Giles CPAGB
5th Competition : Final Hand-in PDI-3 images
Mar 5th 2026 Hosting Martin Avery print competition
Mar 12th 2026 Folie a Deux - Jane & Adrian Lines
MPAGB LRPS BPE5* AWPF HonLCPU & MPAGB FBPE ARPS EFIAP SPSA
Mar 19th 2026 Results of the 5th Competition - PDI-3
Judge: Ian WhistonDPAGB EFIAP/p FBPE MPSA HonLCPU
Mar 26th 2025 L&CPU Folio
Apr 2nd 2026 Maundy Thursday (no meeting)
Apr 9th 2026 Set subject #3: Black & White
6th Competition : Final Hand-in Print-3 images
Apr 16th 2026 Studio Portraiture Guidance & Practical #2 -
John Collier / Barry Dickinson / Craig Bevington / Tim Gartside
Apr 23rd 2026 Chairman's Evening - Alan Cameron ARPS
Apr 30th 2026 Results of the 6th Competition : Print-3
Judge: Nick Hilton EFIAP/b DPAGB BPE5
May 7th 2026 The PPS Photographic Outing
May 14th 2026 Southport PS 79th National Open Exhibition images
May 21st 2026 A Journey through my Back Catalogue - Peter Guy BPE3
May 28th 2026 PPS Photographic Outing Images & Photo Trip Images - Malcolm Birkett
Jun 4th 2026 60th Annual General Meeting
  Summer Break
1st - 14th August 2026 Summer Exhibition in Poulton Library, including the Residents' Competition
Sep 3rd 2026 Another Season Begins

NB (P) = Prints : (PDI) = Projected Digital Images