Members, prospective members and visitors meet at Castleton Methodist Church at 7:30pm every second Thursday of the month . <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Castleton & Hope Valley Photographic Society (C&HVPS) is a small club: 35-40 members. If you are interested in photography, no matter what your level of competence you\u2019ll find like minded people. Over the years we have justifiably acquired the reputation of being a friendly and supportive club, with the emphasis on making photography fun. Those who would like to improve their skills have the opportunity to learn from experienced enthusiasts or those who have been recognised for their technical and artistic skills (two of our members have received coveted silver medals from the Royal Society of Photography.) We sometimes hold workshops giving technical tips such as advice on using photography related software e.g. Photoshop and Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our monthly meetings regularly feature photographers with a regional or national reputation (e.g. the renowned and highly respected but now retired photo journalist Denis Thorpe, has made three presentations to our club.). In addition we regularly hold outdoor meetings, taking photographs and then socialise over a drink &\/or a meal afterwards. From time to time we hold purely social (including others from member\u2019s families) family meetings, with hardly a camera in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than having regular printed image or DPI competitions, we limit ourselves to an annual competition \u2013 called our Annual Members\u2019 Exhibition. This Exhibition covers: general topics; themed topics; monochrome images (with or without a theme). These Exhibition images are then exhibited locally (called our Annual General Exhibition), often at local churches during their Wakes Weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information email \u2013 chvphotosoc@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Members, prospective members and visitors meet at Castleton Methodist Church at 7:30pm every second Thursday of the month . Castleton & Hope… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopevalleyphotosociety.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}