Angie Cottis writes it was a really good evening on Monday, great judge, very complimentary of our photos and very fair. Well done to everyone who was placed. All of the images have been added to the competition gallery here on this website so take a look. 

On Monday we have George Collins the title of his talk is "In Search of Inspiration",  mmm could definitely do with some of that - should be interesting. 

Although this is nothing to do with photography (but there may be some photo opportunities) have a look at the lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/projects/thankstoyou for free entry to various lottery funded places of interest.  A few of the closest to us are Eden Project, Drogo Castle, National Trust Godolphin, Fleet Air Arm Museum.  Of course there are many others if you happen to be travelling in the UK. 

See you Monday, Angie Cottis

We were pleased to host the WCPF Travelling Photo Exhibition at PPC last night. This was an opportunity to view the work of photographers from clubs around the southwest, both as prints and as projected DPI's. The night was hosted by Alex Hamer who acted as compare and projectionist in the absence of Dave Smithson and Chris Arkle. Commentaries on the various prints were provided by Rod Fry, Chris Champ, John Jeffries, Russell McGowan and Dave Collerton with Alex Hamer holding things together and providing some amusing observations throughout the evening. The exhibition now moves on to Newton Abbot and then Dawlish & Teignmouth across the next few nights. A big thanks to Colin Winstanley for being with us on the night and for conveying the prints safely on to their next two destinations. Next Monday evening we have the judging for the Section 2 Urban Landscape competition with Ken Holland. Don't forget also that Monday is the last opportunity to enter your images for the 2019 Sleep Trophy Triptych competition.  

I hope that everyone has survived the cold and wet weather. It feels a little warmer the last few days, long may it continue.

Thanks to everyone who introduced the prints from the travelling print exhibition last week.  There were some very good prints, and we were lucky to have a couple from our very own Julie Mcgowan, well done Julie.  Also, well done to Russell Mcgowan for receiving a Silver medal for the Masters of Print. Only 60 prints are accepted throughout country and no one can enter more than one print.  Russell will be going to Birmingham at the beginning of December to collect his medal, well deserved Russell.

On Monday we have Ken Holland judging our Urban Landscape competition.Stuart Chapman is asking for volunteers to show some of their work for about 15 minutes on our Members night on 2 December. Please contact Stuart directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Angie Cottis writes "Monday proved to be an interesting evening with the judging of our James Wilson Trophy Abstract competition. I was glad I wasn't the judge!  I guess we won't be having that topic again. I think that maybe we all have different ideas of what abstract is - certainly different from the judges thoughts in many cases.  Irrespective of this, there were some great images, so well done everyone who entered, especially those who were placed". If you check out our competitions gallery, you will find all of the images that were placed and highly commended from the evening.

On Monday 11th November we have the WCPF Travelling Print Exhibition and Critique.  This is an evening where PPC members provide personal critiques of successful high scoring prints from the WCPF Members Exhibition.