Club News

This page will contain details of events that are taking place within Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club.

Programme of Meetings

The full programme of events for season can be found at Programme 2025/26

We have also now published our programme for the next season.  This can be found at Programme 2026/27

Future Presentations and Events

As part of our programme SBACC hosts evenings where we invite well known and recognised photographers to our hall to give us a presentation.  These evenings are always popular.  We open our doors up on these evenings to non-members who may wish to see the speaker.  Ticket prices are £7.50 per adult and £2.50 per child (Under 16).

Anyone wishing to buy a ticket should contact our Treasurer Mat Philips at sbacc.treasurer@gmail.com 

Stephen and Helen Jones - Life In Prints

On 28th April SBACC will host a presentation by Stephen and Helen Jones entitled Life In Prints

Stephen and Helen are two active local photographers and are members of Dorchester Camera Club.

During the evening they will show many prints of their event and street photography. All images will be put on display for members to take a close look at.

This is a very good opportunity to appreciate the value of printing in what has become a very digitally based pastime.

SBACC Annual Open Competition

On 12th May we will be hosting our Annual Open Competition.  This is always a great evening with our members being able to enter images of any subject that they have taken over the past 12 months.  

There will be two categories to be judged.

• Best Digital Image
• Best Print (Mono and Coloured Combined This Year

This competition will be judged by Janet Miles.

End of Year - Print Exhibition

To round the season off SBACC will once again invite all members to bring a few of their prints to the hall for display to other members. These will be displayed around the hall on tables which will allow members to socialise and view the images throughout the evening.

There is no theme, and there are no restrictions regarding size and / or framing.  

This is an ideal opportunity to discuss printing techniques with those club members who are very proficient in this art. 

Photoshoots

A full programme of photoshoots throughout the year is currently being organised.  A full copy of the years programme of photoshoots can be found at Photoshoots 2026

Recent Club Meetings

Joint Meeting with Whittlesea CC - Australia.

On Saturday 18th April members of SBACC joined an online meeting with Whittlesea CC, Australia to share and enjoy images they had taken over the past year.  These meetings are held twice a year and bring together like minded photographers from both sides of the world.

The theme for this meeting was “The most pleasing photo you have taken in the last 12 months”

As always this was a popular meeting with all participants sharing ideas and techniques others. 

A section of images from this meeting can be found at Gallery

SBACC Challenge

On 14th April members of SBACC presented their images ifor judging in this years Challenge.  The theme this year was Nature.

This was a very highly contested competition with over 50 images being displayed on th night, making judging very difficult.

The winning images were:

• Digital Award 1st Place - Stephen Davenport - Razorbill.
• Print Award 1st Place - Sarah Simpson - Bullrushes.

All placings can be found here in our Competitions page

Placed and Commended Images can be viewed here in our Gallery

Bradford Abbas Shield

On 24th March we welcomed members of Shaftesbury, South Petherton, Wincanton and Yeovil Camera Club to our hall for the last ever Bradford Abbas Shield.  This competition has run since 1984 during which all clubs have battled each year for the Shield.

As last year winners SBACC chose the theme FARMERS AND FARMING – (THIS THEME IS TO INCLUDE THE ACTIVITY OR BUSINESS OF GROWING CROPS AND RAISING LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY).

Each club submitted 5 Digital Images and 5 Print images for assessment and scoring by our judge Norman Marsh.  His job was made extremely hard as the standard of images was so high.

The winning club was once again Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club (174), with South Petherton 2nd, (165), Yeovil 3rd (164) , and Wincanton and Shaftesbury joint 4th (162).

Workshops

Periodically we will run workshops for the development of our members.

At this time we do not have anything planned as we are concentrating on skills in the field through our programme of photoshoots.

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