Atherton & District Amateur Photographic Society

Some time ago a battle was arranged with ourselves and the club in St Helens. Lesley has written to St Helens camera club and confirm that we wish to continue on ZOOM. As it was a away event it is being organised by them but on there Monday evening club night. Please try to watch via zoom on the nig...

As we are in unusual times we are obviously not meeting for our social night. But to keep our minds alert we will be holding an ADAPS quiz night on zoom. I have seen and taken part in an zoom quiz which was successful. I have put together over 50 questions but we will see how it goes. The questions ...

Tonight starts at 7:30.

It is different as we have a representative from Olympus cameras here to present to us. It should be a great evening.

We will be open early at 7 ish.

A chance of something a little different. Danny Jubb our guest wil bring an assortment of creatures to be photographed by members. So please enjoy and bring your camera along.

Events for November 2019 7th November 19 – Guest Speaker We had originally invited Dianne Owen to speak to us, but due to sickness she is unable to make it. However Dianne was kind enough to ask Gordon Jenkins to stand in and speak to us. We are very grateful to Gordon and Dianne for re-arranging t...

26th September 19 – Tai Chohan We all enjoyed Tai’s presentation to the club in February which was very interesting so I have invited him back the club for a presentation called ‘The Art of Zoo Photography’. Tai has asked me to share this with our members - I have attached my latest works on my blo...

Events at ADAPS for August 2019 Thursday 1st August Appraisal Night Appraisal Night is here again and it gives us a chance for those images to be appraised by other members. We all are sometimes uncertain what our images look like in front of us on the big screen, so here is our chance. John has as...

EVENTS for JULY 2019 Thursday 4th July – AV night This is an evening which is popular with our members. Lots have asked can these evenings be more frequent. So this is the second of our yearly events. Please bring your AVs to the evening. To make it fair, everyone will have a turn at showing their ...

As the summer is upon us. I notice the adverts in the local newspaper trips along the Manchester Ship Canal. I thought therefore that this talk would be of interest to members This is an illustrated lecture of the modern voyage down the Canal with some notes on the history. George has been a frequen...

On the 6th June Ian who has judged here is presenting his talk about Drone photography. From the lecture notes this is a practical and PowerPoint presentation plus AV show on correct use of Drones to take our photography to new heights and is a new subject for the club to enjoy. I hope this will be ...

This is a chance to see the work of another fine ADAPs member. Chris has developed his own genre over the years since being interested in photography and has become an expert in studio work achieving recognition in the competitions he enters. Chris has put a lot of images to show his development ove...

Thursday 2nd May – The AGM at ADAPS Think john has kept everyone up to date with this on Thursday evening. Please just come along and find out more about your club. Thursday 9th May – Chris Harrison presents Thursday 16th May – The Clean and Spruce-up night A lot of effort is put in behind the scen...

An excellent and enjoyable presentation by Alf. Hopefully we will arrange another visit for 2020. The link to the blog he mentioned about his CPAGB Journey. He said that I was free to share it with the club if you think it will be of benefit - https://www.alfmyersphotography.co.uk/blog/2018/12/an-aw...

11th and 18th April

The 11th April will be our annual Print competition and the 18th April will be our digital competition.

Please speak to Leslie for any information regarding these competitions

25th April – Alf Myers presents - Street Photography This should be a good evening to see some great street photography presented by Alf. Alf has been to the club to judge one of our this seasons monthly competitions. I am always inspired when I visit websites like Alfs and see his images His websit...