NEXT MEETING
Wednesday 16TH July at 8.00pm
In person at the Bell Inn, Hampton
A presentation by Fred Barrington, FRPS “My View of the World”
Fred will be presenting IN PERSON
Our speaker tonight will be Fred Barrington FRPS (2022) who describes himself as an enthusiastic amateur who has lived in London all his life but is well-travelled from Antarctica to Cambodia and many countries in Europe including England.
Fred will talk about his photography and hopefully show us images from his long photographic career. Many of his images are lines and shapes, patterns and colours and architectural – often with a dash of humour.
Until fairly recently he was President of Beckenham Photographic Society and is an active volunteer with RPS London and with the RPS Visual Arts Special Interest Group. Fred held a solo exhibition at the Bonnington Cafe in Vauxhall in 2024 and is holding an exhibition in Mayfair jointly with James Kirkland at the end of this month.
Find out more about him on his website: Fred Barrington and on his Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/
Members do not need to Register.
Non-members are requested to sign up here or by e-mail chairman@hamptonhillps.
LAST MEETING
Wednesday 18th June
We enjoyed a presentation from Julian Elliott on Patagonia: Journey to the end of the World.
An award-winning professional freelance landscape and travel photographer as well as an occasional writer, Julian constantly travels the world and, on this occasion, joined the meeting via zoom from Vietnam- so for him it was the middle of the night! Unfortunately the sound quality was not as good as it might have been due to fans running in the background, but the group enjoyed the talk and hearing about Julian’s adventures in Patagonia, and the difficulties of getting images for clients wit very little time and few opportunities in which to do so.
As a reminder and so you can see more of Julian’s work, here is his website: Travel & Landscape Photographer – Julian Elliott – UK & France and here is a link to his Gallery, where you can see some of his photos of Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego Photos of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego & Torres del Paine
CHRISTMAS COMPETITION – Wednesday 17th December
At the last meeting, the Members voted on a subject for the Christmas Competition and after a process of elimination “Light” was chosen as the topic. Start working on your entries so that we can have the best Christmas Competition ever!
FUTURE MEETINGS
Planned dates for next meetings are:
Wednesday 16th July – In person presentation by Fred Barrington FRPS
Wednesday 20th August – Speaker/presentation to be confirmed.
Wednesday 17th September – Picture Sharing.
October 15th is not yet booked.
November 19th is a zoom presentation with John Humphry FRPS, a specialist in Creative and Experimental Photography – here’s his website – About :: John Humphrey Photography
And December 17th is of course booked for our Christmas Competition, so the calendar is filling up!
And DON’T forget to start planning your images for the Annual Exhibition in January 2026!
SURREY PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (SPA) AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE OF GREAT BRITAIN (PAGB) NEWS
Coming Events and Exhibitions for the SPA are:
Saturday 25th October – SPA Individual Print & PDI Competition at East Horsley Village Hall, Kingston Avenue, East Horsley, Leatherhead KT24 6QT. Submissions must be uploaded by Saturday 04 October 2025, 3 weeks prior to the competition date.
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November 2025 – SPA run PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit (APMs). Tiffin School, Kingston. If you wish to submit for one of these awards, you must let David Smith berenty@sky.com know by the end of August – see last month’s Newsletter and PAGB Website here for more details https://thepagb.org.uk/wp-
Saturday 06 December 2025. SPA Inter-club Print Championship at East Horsley Village Hall (see above). Submissions must be uploaded by Saturday 15 November 2025.
All available information can be found on this website: Surrey Photographic Association
PAGB information can be found on this website: https://the pagb.org.uk
ADVANCE NOTICE
Molesey Photographic Club have their Annual Exhibition and Awards Evening on Friday 5th September 2025, at 7:00 for a 7:30 pm start in East Molesey Methodist Church KT8 9JU.
BACK TO HAMPTON HILL
We look forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday evening in The Bell. Any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards, David
David Hicks
Chairman, Hampton Hill Photographic Society