Programme 2025-2026


 

CLUB PROGRAMME FOR SEPTEMBER 2025 – JUNE 2026

Last Updated: 19th August 2025

Please keep checking this page for any changes to the programme.  Any changes, since the last update, will be highlighted in GREEN text.

Please visit\login to the Members Only section, to download a copy of the programme in PDF format

Viewing Competitions Over Zoom

For competitions, only the competition secretary’s & judges microphones will be enabled.  All members viewing the competition, over Zoom, will only be able to view and hear the meeting.  You will not be able to ask questions or comment etc.

Print competitions will NOT be shown over Zoom.


Monthly PDI Competitions (Excludes: Dave Addiscott, Whitcombe)

Members that would like to enter PDI competitions will need to either email their entries in or give the competition secretary their entries on a USB memory stick with a completed entry slip.

Each member may submit a total of 3 images.  Full rules can be found in the club handbook.

The following rules apply:

  • All entries MUST be received two weeks before the competition date.  This is to allow the competition secretary time to check all the images, setup the competition and send a copy of all the images to the judge to view on their own screen. Please see the programme for entry due dates
  • Entries must be within 1600px width and 1200px height 
  • No late entries will be accepted (e.g. the day after entries were due)
  • The competition secretary will not be able to resolve any image issue(s) (e.g. corrections to colour space, image size), replace incorrectly entered images or amended any titles of images
  • Any images not entered correctly will be rejected
  • All entries must be in a ZIP file and entitled with the members name (e.g. Joe Bloggs, Joe Bloggs LRPS)
  • All entries must be numbered 01, 02, 03 followed by the title (e.g. 01 My Best Photo, 02 Windmill in Kent, 03 Bird on a stick)
  • All entries must be listed in the email text, so the competition secretary knows which image is 01, 02 & 03
  • If too many entries are received to judge, all 3rd images will be automatically withdrawn and members notified 

If any member does not wish for their images to be possibly selected for external competitions, please could they let the competition secretary know by email.

PRINT Competitions

Members that would like to enter Print competitions will need to bring in their entries two weeks before the competition date.  The prints will be judged on the evening.

Each member may submit a total of 3 print.  Full rules can be found in the club handbook.

The following rules apply:

  • All entries MUST also include a PDI version, so the image can be shown on screen for members to see.  Only the print will be judged.
  • No late entries will be accepted (e.g. the day after entries were due)
  • The competition secretary will not be able to resolve any image issue(s) or withdraw a print
  • If too many entries are received to judge, all 3rd prints will be automatically withdrawn and members notified 

If any member does not wish for their prints to be possibly selected for external competitions, please could they let the competition secretary know by email.

The images displayed in the Zoom meeting\competition will be displayed for members to see only.  The judge will be asked to mark based on the prints only.

Please send your entries to:

competitions@maidstonecameraclub.org.uk

The competition secretary will confirm that your entry has been received, by email.


Date Subject Judge/Speaker for the evening
Mon 18th Aug
Until
Sun 24th Aug
Club Exhibition at The Mall Maidstone (UNIT 333, next to Superdrug)
Monday – Saturday: 9am – 5.30pm
Sunday: 10am – 4.30pm
Club members having the opportunity to display and show their work to the public
Includes a public vote for best image in the exhibition
Tue 2nd Sept HALL ONLY
Introduction to Maidstone Camera Club & Awards Presentations
Ben Kirby (Chairman)
Club Members
Tue 9th Sept HALL ONLY
Canada Landscapes

Submit entries for 1st Monthly PDI Competition

Steve Carroll
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 16th Sept ZOOM ONLY
Abstract Photography 
Peter Downs
Tue 23rd Sept ZOOM & HALL
1st Monthly PDI Competition
Pat Couder
Tue 30th Sept HALL ONLY
Outer Hebridges
Ray Bridges LRPS CPAGB ADPS BPE4 AFIAP HON. CPE
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 7th Oct HALL ONLY
Lecture On Long Exposure

Submit entries for Dave Addiscott PDI Competition

Paul Parkinson
Tue 14th Oct HALL ONLY
Members Discussion Night
OPEN DISCUSSION NIGHT
TOPICS: Distinctions, Programme. Queries on any cc related topics. Advice and help available for printing. Workshops.
Club Members
Tue 21st Oct ZOOM ONLY
Dave Addiscott PDI Competition
Judge: Don Salmon
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 28th Oct HALL ONLY
Talks by members of Tonbridge Camera ClubMaidstone welcomes three members giving talks on Wildlife, Record and Portraiture

Submit entries for 1st Monthly Print Competition

Members from Tonbridge Camera Club
Tue 4th Nov HALL ONLY
Lebanon, A paradise Lost
James Kerwin
Tue 11th Nov HALL ONLY
1st Monthly Print Competition
Judge: Helen Taylor ARPS, DPAGB, BPE3*
Tue 18th Nov ZOOM ONLY
My Restless Lens

Submit entries for 2nd Monthly PDI Competition

Keith Snell
Tue 25th Nov HALL ONLY
Members Night knockout PDI Competition
More details will be announced soon
Club Members
Tue 2nd Dec ZOOM & HALL
2nd Monthly PDI Competition
Judge: Clive Tanner
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 9th Dec HALL ONLY
Peters travel images from India
Peter Brook LRPS
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 16th Dec This club evening is to be confirmed later in the year

Submit entries for President Cup PDI Competition

Tue 23rd Dec No meeting.  Christmas Break
Tue 30th Dec No meeting.  Christmas Break
Tue 6th Jan ZOOM & HALL
Presidents Cup PDI Competition
Judge: Ray Bridges LRPS CPAGB ADPS BPE4 AFIAP HON. CPE (President)
Tue 13th Jan HALL ONLY
Members Evening
Critique/Advice Evening, With PDI And Prints
Club Members
Tue 20th Jan ZOOM & HALL
A Portrait Of The Landscape
Colin Jarvis
Tue 27th Jan HALL ONLY
Wildlife Evening With Chris Couch
Chris Couch
Maidstone Camera Club
Tue 3rd Feb HALL ONLY
In My Backyard

Submit entries for 3rd Monthly PDI Competition

Anne Healey
Tue 10th Feb HALL ONLY
Pet Portraits
Kevin John Pigney
Tue 17th Feb ZOOM & HALL
3rd Monthly PDI Competition
Judge: Paul Adams
Tue 24th Feb ZOOM & HALL
Uzbekistan
Submit entries for Annual Set Subject PDI Competitions
Julian Elliott
Tue 3rd Mar HALL ONLY
Members Night
15mins presentation by 8 members.
Show And Tell What You Took Why You Took It And How You Processed It
Club Members
Tue 10th Mar ZOOM & HALL 
Annual Set Subject PDI Competition
(Record/Portrait/Natural History)

Submit entries for Annual Set Subject Print Competitions

Judge: Darren Woolway
Tue 17th March ZOOM & HALL 
Amazing Images
David Sadler
Tue 24th Mar HALL ONLY
Annual Set Subject Print Competition
(Record/Portrait/Natural History)
Judge: Graeme Wales
Tue 7th Apr HALL ONLY
5 Portrait Photographer Styles
Lawrence Homewood
Tue 14th Apr ZOOM & HALL
Lecture Title TBC 

Submit entries for Annual Pictorial Print Mono & Colour Competitions

Steve Sain
Tue 21st Apr ZOOM & HALL
Lecture Title TBC
Mike Martin
Tue 28th Apr HALL ONLY
Annual Pictorial Print Competition
(Mono & Colour Separate)
Judge: Alan Lomakin
Tue 5th May HALL ONLY
Talks by members of Ashford Camera Club
Maidstone welcomes three members giving talks

Submit entries for Annual Pictorial PDI Competition

Members from Ashford Camera Club
Tue 12th May HALL ONLY
Landscape
David Jenner
Tue 20th May ZOOM & HALL
Annual Pictorial PDI Competition (Mono & Colour Combined)
Judge: Roger Reynolds
Tue 27th May HALL ONLY
Bird Photography In The UK
Roger Hance
Tue 2nd Jun HALL ONLY
Awards Evening
Ben Kirby & Club Members

A copy of the programme is available to download from the Members Only section of the website.