If you are new to our camera club, you can find out more about us (where we meet, how much it costs, etc) by clicking here. Visitors to our club evenings are always welcome: the programme for the next few meetings is outlined below - just come. Club evenings start at 7:30pm.

•  Bradford Abbas Shield 2026: "Farmers and Farming"   The 25th - and final - Bradford Abbas Shield competition was held at the end of March, and (rather fittingly) was won by the Sherborne/Bradford Abbas club ...... with South Petherton in 2nd place. The judge's scoring rarely strayed outside a range of 15-18 throughout so the total scores for each club were very close at the end. Congratulations go to are two top scorers each with 18/20: Steve Cooper for "Pig Happy" and Steve Harrison for "Chicken Feed" both very impactful photos. (Click on any image in the slideshow to see it enlarged).

•  Club Meetings:   our meetings are predominantly aimed at learning a bit about taking good photos from people who have been there, done it and acquired the T-shirt. Our in-person meetings take place at the Blake Hall, South Petherton on the first Wednesday of the month from September to July. We also have Zoom meetings on the third Wednesdays through the winter months, October to March - going on-line for these sessions enables us to get some very good speakers from more distant places on a greater range of topics. You can see the full programme using the link below.

Bradford Abbas images 2026 - 'Farmers and Farming'

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Visitors are welcome to join us for in-person and/or for zoom meetings - please e-mail for further details. Meanwhile our Monthly Challenges continue to run on-line with the images also being shown at our 1st Wednesday club nights.

•  May 6th   John Hudson ARPS makes a welcome return journey to our club, this time to talk on the subject of "Architecture and Drone Photography". Camera drones have become a lot more capable and a lot more affordable: John describes them as "giant tripods", giving reach to where we otherwise cannot go. The widespread adoption of drones in video across television programming - from wildlife and countryside documentaries to detective shows, gardening programmes and news broadcasts - have greatly extended our expectations of what can be achieved in visual imagery. Can it do the same for still photography? And what are the 'rules' and 'etiquette' for flying these things? - what do we need to know before giving it go?

See more of John's work here: https://www.jahphotographer.net/

•  March Challenge: "A Path, Track, or Bridleway"  

Again, this was a popular subject and it attracted a higher number of entries - it seems we all like to get out for a walk and when we do we have our phones or cameras with us. So lots to choose from. There were two joint winners:-

"Autumn Walk" by Ruslyn Morgan


"Hay Fever Hell" by Andy Lord
Well done to both Ruslyn and Andy for two well-observed and nicely coloured photographs.

See a quick summary of the results of voting on the challenge here:     as a video:   --->   mp4     or     as a pdf:   --->   pdf
See all the results of the voting   here.

Programme 2025-6   --- >   (in brief) here   < ---

Visit the South Petherton Photographers Facebook page   --->   here   <---

The SPPS South Petherton Calendar has become something of an institution over the years, and very well supported by sales it is too. Many thanks to the photographers who provided images this year of South Petherton and the area around: Steve Cooper, Carolyn Edwards, James McInnes, John Nicholson, Dave Simpson, Jenny Wade, Alan Williams and Robert Williams - and to the image selection panel, and the editor, James McInnes.

2026 Calendar We are always looking for fresh images to include in the next edition of the calendar. As you take them throughout the year, please send your South Petherton and locality images for collation and possible selection to .

The area included as 'South Petherton and its locality' can be displayed below: click on [Open Map] below to reveal the map.

Each month the club members are set a photo challenge to produce digital images on a set topic. The images are then reviewed at a subsequent club night and voted on to select the winner (who gets a round of applause and our heartfelt admiration).

•  You can view entries from past 2023/24 challenges and earlier here

Challenge topics and deadlines 2025/26      You can view all of the past challenge entries here.

Entries: (please make no smaller than 1Mb and no larger than 2Mb - as a guide, about 1200 pixels along the longest edge is plenty big enough for your image to be projected with good quality) can be e-mailed to .
Click here for the rules of the Monthly Challenge competition.

On-line voting: members can vote for their favourite challenge images (up to 2) each month - log into the Members' Area and follow the 'Monthly Challenges' link. The results of the vote will be announced at the following in-person club meeting (and shortly after on the club website).