The schedule of informal summer pub meetings is now available here. See you there!

Our exhibition in Church Walk on the 20th was judged a great success, with much interest from the passing shoppers. For anyone who missed it, the festival pictures we exhibited can now be viewed in this online gallery. And if you'd like copies of any images we can supply prints from as little as £1 each - just follow the instructions.

The Treasure Trail is now closed - visit this page to view the answers. The winner will be announced on July 1st and presented with their prize – a brand new Canon digital camera, plus a free one year membership of TPS.

Thank you to everyone who entered - we hope you enjoyed the challenge.

Planning is well under way for TPS involvement in the Caterham Festival. We have two key events planned:

The Photo Treasure Trail will be a free competition, open to the public, to identify the locations of a set of images of landmarks within the Caterham area. The overall winner of the competition will receive a Canon compact digital camera. Rules and entry forms for the competition will be available on this site from June 1st, and competition entries must be submitted by June 15th.

In addition, TPS members will be out and about photographing events throughout the festival, and these pictures will be on display to the public at an exhibition in Church Walk, Caterham on Saturday June 20th.

The relaunch of our Alec Braid panels competitions to include, for the first time, digitally projected panels, was a great success, attracting a record number of entries in both prints and digital images. A wide variety of subject matter was chosen, and judge Susan Hill was suitably complimentary.

Out of 18 digital panels, winners honours went to Paul Knivett ARPS for a set of night-time architectural images of New York. Commendations were also awarded to Caroline Farnes for pictures of a small Cuban boy, and Maria Kjellen for her underwater shots of plants and fish.

From a selection of 12 very different colour print panels, John Nathan LRPS was the winner, for his delicate images of red-painted wood, and John Howard was winner for monochrome prints with architectural shots of Valencia. Print Commendations were awarded to Paul Shilliam, Linda Dance, Caroline Farnes and Mike Crisp.

You can view some of the winning entries here.

A new year has started, and we have a packed programme of events ahead of us, including the 2nd and 3rd rounds of all of our main competitions. We also have some new images in the members' Gallery pages for your enjoyment.

We're also looking forward to having active participation in the forthcoming Caterham Festival later in the year - watch this space.

Thursday 27th November saw the first ever TPS Natural History Competition, which, with almost 40 colour and monochrome prints, and 36 digital images submitted, was deemed to have been a resounding success. Judge Mervyn Seltzer praised the very high standard and diversity of the work shown.
The overall winner in the print competition was declared as Brian Wreyford (club chairman) with his stunning image of a Bottlenose Dolphin off the coast of New Zealand. 8 Commendations were also awarded to pictures ranging from insects, polar bears, puffins, sea snake to geological features.

In the digital imaging competition, the overall winner was declared as John Nathan LRPS with his picture of a walrus in the Arctic. You can see a gallery of all the commended images, including the winner here.

TPS will be holding a one day Open House event on Saturday 25th October in the Meeting Room at Oxted Library (Gresham Road). There will be a large number of prints on display, and in addition members will be on hand to deal with enquiries and encourage visitors to join the club. Admission is free, and the exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 17:00. Do drop by for a look and a chat.

Also in Oxted, we will be participating in the bluehouse festival of arts and music, with an exhibition of 30 framed prints on show at the United Reform Church in Bluehouse Lane, Oxted. The exhibition will run from Monday 27th October to Saturday 1st November.

TPS will be hosting a gazebo at the Hurst Green Fair on Saturday 20th September, where you will be able to see a selection of recent work, and talk to members about joining our club (or the weather).

Also, our new season of meetings starts on Thursday 4th September, and visitors are always welcome to come along to Caterham and sample the delights on offer.

TPS will be hosting a stand at the Godstone Village Fete on 25th August (Bank Holiday Monday), where there will be a display of prints, and members will be on hand to enthuse on the many benefits of club membership - or just have a chat while consuming your cream tea. Do drop by.
The fete takes place on the village green, and includes a dog show and a donkey derby, so promises to be a good day out (with maybe a chance for some interesting photos).

Subsequent to the changes to our competitions agreed at the AGM in June, the details of all new rules and guidelines have been posted on the Competitions page, including a new edition of the Members Handbook. Please refer to the documents shown for guidance on all competitions in the coming season.

Details of two outings arranged for July have now been added to the summer programme.

A trip to Tate Modern to see the Street & Studio photography exhibition, and a trip to Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury

for the Rothschild Autochromes. Both should be good days out if you can spare the time.

The new programme for 2008-09 has now been published, and can be found here.
In addition, our schedule of informal summer events is also published here.

The end of the 2007-08 programme was marked by an enthusiastic discussion at the AGM, when a new committee was sworn in (see Contacts), and motions affecting the subject matter of future competitions were hotly debated.

The final event was another well-attended dinner at the Grasshopper in Westerham. Prizes and certificates were handed out by retiring chairman Marcus Scott-Taggart in his usual style(!) - you know what I mean.

We have also moved our web hosting to a new company, in order to gain the potential to add more exciting interactive features to the TPS site. Watch this space..

The new programme for 2008-09 will be published here shortly.

With the final round of our projected image competitions now completed, the main competitions for the season have closed, and full results can be examined on our results pages. We can happily report a renewed vigour in our competition entries, with numbers significantly increased, and with many new members joining in the fray.

This year congratulations go to Linda Dance and Brian Lavery for winning a hat-trick of prizes in what have been closely fought matches. Well done to both - now we all have to start working on next year's pictures.

This year TPS has once again being making good progress in the SPA Inter-Club Competition for Prints. On Wednesday 12th we won the match against Capel CC (Capel CC 81½ – Tandridge PS 87). So, we now go on to the final, which is being held on Saturday 17th May:

• Venue: Mole Hall, Bishop Fox Way, West Molesey, Surrey KT8 2RE (Note: the postode printed in the March Newsletter is incorrect)
• Time: TBA
• Judge: Roger Force FRPS

The TPS site has had a minor revamp - a link to our Flickr group has now been added to the menu, in place of the now defunct MSN message board. Any TPS member can join the group by first signing up with Flickr (its free!), and then clicking the Join This Group link on the main TPS page. The Flickr group offers a public showcase for any members pictures, and a private discussion forum (not accessible to non-members).

Another change is that older news items and all recent newsletters have been made available via a new Archive page, referenced at the bottom of the main menu.

Our recent digital Chinese Whispers round has just completed - you can see the resultant pictures here.

TPS are showing a small selection of framed prints at the Miller Centre in Caterham Valley. The exhibition runs until 25th January, 2008.

The first round of the SPA inter-club competition was held on the 1st, against Chertsey CC. Results were:

• Prints : Chertsey CC 78½, Tandridge PS 81
• Slides : Chertsey CC 79½, Tandridge PS 76½

TPS will have a stand showing recent prints by members at the annual Hurst Green Village Fair - Saturday 15th Sept. Members will be on hand to discuss photography with anyone who cares to visit.