Welcome

to the VIP Club,

The Vera International Photo Club

In VIPC we share a passion for taking photographs, developing and sharing skills and discovering our individual styles. Please take a look at our website and hopefully you will find it of interest and should you wish to join us, then please go to the contact page.

-Dear VIPC member,

As was announced at the last club meeting, it is now time to select members favourite photo submitted for a challenge in 2024. The winner will be awarded the John Michael trophy.

The committee has selected a shortlist of 13 pictures from those submitted for the 2024 challenges. You can find the images below.

I think you will agree that there is a really excellent set of images to choose from this year.

Each member is entitled to cast 1 vote for their favourite image. Please replyby email (to info@veraphotoclub.org) with the name of the image which you would like to vote for.

If one of your images has been shortlisted, you are encouraged not to vote for your own image.

Please note that votes / likes or comments on Facebook do not count - the only way to vote is by email.

The deadline for voting is Sun 9th Feb, and the winner will be announced at the club meeting on Sun 2nd March.

-At our meeting on Sunday 12th of January the Stan Roberts Trophie were presented. Last years winners received equally a certificate.

This year’s Judge Richard Bird was proud to annouce the winners of this year’s Stan Roberts Trophies:

Best Photo: Janet Hornsey

Best Set: Alfred Taylor

Congratulations to both!!!!

-we had a succesfull PHOTO TRIP onWednesday December 11th at 18.30. “Christmas lights in Mojacar Pueblo”. And a great VIPC lunch earlier.

Here are some photos from the lunching.

An excellent competition with Macclesfield Camera Club , last Sunday, 17th of November. Congratulations to them. They won with 391 marks against 382 marks for Vera International Photo Club.

We did have more recomanded photos in the end. These are the Recomanded photos from our club selected by judge Ian McCurrach. Thank you to Macclesfield Camera Club, Ian McCurragh and everyone who participated!!!

Don’t forget our next Inteclub competition is coming up! We compete against Wallingford Camera Club on March 20th at 7.30P.M.

We’ll update you soon on how we will proceed and deadline for submissions.

November 10th we had our AGM. Our members contributed with some great (new) ideas and suggestions. The comittee was re-elected.

Stan Robert Trophy 2023 winning Photo: Mi-Jo Savels, winning set: Elin Dahlin

JOHN MICHAEL TROPHY 2023

These are the photos you can vote for. Congratulations to the photographers! Click on the image for a FULL SCREEN PHOTO!!!!

Dave Rowntree’s winning image

Winner (photo No 2) Dave Rowntree (8 votes)

Joint second No 11 Rachael Prout and No 13 Trevor Perry (4 votes each)

Joint fourth No 6 Frank Notteboom and No 10 Monique Green (3 votes each)

Five of the remaining photos received 1 vote each

Total votes cast 27

Here are the photos for which you could vote for the “John Michael” trophy of the year 2022.

The winner is Trevor Perry’s “mist and pollution”!

Winner Stan Roberts Trophy 2022

Rod Westwood is the winner of the competition of the VIPC Exhibition 2022 judged by Graham Holtom. This competition is from now named "Stan Roberts Trophy". Congrats Rod

Winner competition 2021

Trevor Perry and Emilio Aramburu receiving their trophies at the VIPC-meeting on the 4th of december 2022. Congratulations!

The external judge for the exhibition, unfortunately, was unable to complete his review for personal reasons. Therefore, it was decided that the committee would have to complete the assessment. All the committee members viewed the exhibition in situ and a 3, 2, 1 points system was used to find the winners.

best photo: Emilio Aramburu

Best set: Trevor Perry

Best photo: Emilio Aramburu

Best set of photos: Trevor Perry

Winners for John Michael trophy 2021

Other contenders

Best Colour photo: “The Last Light” by Dave Beatson — Best Colour photo 2020: “The Last Light” by Dave Beatson

Best black and white: “Sandals” by Rachel Prout — Best black and white 2020: “Sandals” by Rachel Prout

Best photo of 2020chosen by all members,winner of the “John Michael” challenge cup: Ashton Field — Best photo of 2020chosen by all members,
winner of the “John Michael” challenge cup: Ashton Field

Hello

In VPC we share a passion for taking photographs, developing and sharing skills and discovering our individual styles. Please take a look at our website and hopefully you will find it of interest and should you wish to join us, then please go to the contact page.

The site contains :

A selection of the best photographs from our monthly challenges.

The entries from our annual competition.

A portfolio of members’ photographs.