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Macclesfield Photographic Competition

Please find below details of a photography competition which is being held in conjunction with the Barnaby Festival in Macclesfield from 18-20 June 2010.
The aim is to produce an image that could be used as a postcard of Macclesfield. Four winning entries will each be produced as 1000 postcards and the winners will be presented [...]

April Photography Course in Buxton

April photography course in Buxton
We have vacancies on our course in Buxton on 22-25 April.
In four days we cover using a digital camera, image organisation & editing, plus photo-quality printing and mounting. The cost is £295 inclusive of catering, materials etc. It’s ideal for people with DSLRs who want to get the [...]

Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin – 6-Feb-10 to 13-June-10. FREE ENTRY

Imperial War Museum North presents the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of Don McCullin, one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, to mark his 75th year. Many items are on public display for the very first time.
For more than 50 years, McCullin’s images have shaped our awareness of modern conflict [...]

Reality TV: CCTV Photographed by David Dunnico

Reality TV: CCTV Photographed by David Dunnico
24 February to 27 March 2010 in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Royal Exchange Theatre, St. Ann’s Square, Manchester, M2 7DH. There’s a preview on Friday 26 February from 5:30 to 6:30pm
It’s showing alongside a new stage production of George Orwell’s 1984.
There’s a web site to go with the [...]

Photographic Roadshow 25/2/2010

David Noton will be holding a Photographic Roadshow in Sheffield on 25th February.
The Roadshow is all about David Noton sharing from his extensive experience how a landscape and travel photographer uses their eyes. It includes landscape, portraiture, street scenes and satellite imagery from around the world as well as in the field advice [...]

SMCC Finish 7th from 37 in Inter-Club Comp

On the 28th November the club entered the L&CPU digital knock-out, held in Rochdale and finished joint seventh out of 37 clubs, with Wigan 10 Foto Club the winners. The judge was Brian Parkes from York. Because of the high number of clubs entering, only 5 out of 8 images entered by each club were [...]

Recent SMCC Visitor Exhibits at The Imperial War Museum

Powerful and striking images from award-winning conflict photographer Sean Sutton form a new, large-scale outdoor display at Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. The display is a unique collaboration between the Museum and Manchester’s Nobel Peace Prizewinning charity Mines Advisory Group (MAG). It marks 20 years of MAG clearing remnants of conflict for the benefit [...]

Another SMCC Competition Win!

The SMCC followed up successes against North Cheshire P.S and in the FJ Laughton Inter-Club Trophy with another victory in the recent Oldham Mono Print Competition, with the results as follows:
76 Rochdale
78 Rochdale and District
85 Oldham
89 South Manchester
Martin Malies and Phil Portus were the stars of the show with a maximum [...]

The Guardian Camera Club

Take at look at The Guardian Camera Club website…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/series/camera-club

SMCC beat 32 clubs to win competition

SMCC were victorious in the recent FJ Laughton Trophy Inter-Club projected image competition, hosted at Bramhall Photographic Society on the 29th October. The competition was entered by 33 clubs and so this was a fantastic result. The following images were entered by the club:
Grace by Andrew Wood
Loose Ball by John Coles
Sandpiper by Graham Coull
Winter Sunshine [...]