Member Favourite Images of 2025
2025 has seen a wide variety of images produced by club members. Here are a number of the images of which the members are proud of, or which have special meanings, for various reasons. Click on each image for a higher quality version.
Alan Brown – A collection of Images
Hortensja Malek
Richmond Park, early morning.
Just as I was about to pack up and head home, I noticed a deer hidden in the tall grass. He stood perfectly still, watching me. I couldn’t resist taking a few quiet steps closer. I raised my camera and captured the moment. Then he calmly passed by me and disappeared into the grass. A brief, silent encounter – pure magic.
John De-Terville
The year has held many favourites for me and those shown here are more about the reason for getting out and making images than being competition winners per se. Our Photo Club has gripped Street Photography by the horns for some months now which this has returned me to the streets to continue a project I shelved a long time ago called ’Things-On-The-Ground’
It is very true, we don’t have to travel to some exotic location to create our images, many a photographer would relish the chance of shooting in our overcast skies and sample that wonderful soft light. Slow shutter speed is a craving I have now, more to come in the new year I think.
Chris Bean
HOTROD HAYRIDE
Each Summer, a small part of Surrey turns back the clock to America in the early 60’s. So it was time, once again, to find some rolls of Kodachrome 2 and Ilford FP4 get my Levies on, fire up the Harley and head on there! Over the weekend more than 200 pre 1966 American, Custom and Hot Rods cars turn up to show off and drive around to the accompaniment of rock and roll music. Many of the owners and their partners also dress up in period outfits to wander around the cars and bikes and listen to the music. It’s a great atmosphere everyone is friendly so it’s a great spot for some ‘street photography’. Can’t wait for next year!
Ian Hardacre
Another busy year with both travels and workshops. Sadly in 2025 I didn’t make it the Welsh Valleys for my favourite subject of fast jets. Fingers crossed that I can resume activities on the hills in 2026.
Richmond Park, St James’s Park and the Farne Islands gave me opportunities to capture nature images.
During almost every visit to London I visited the Leake Street arches to see the street art. These visits along with street art images from every European city I visited made my Instagram profile dedicated to street art my most popular social media channel (@street_art_from_ian)
A handful of studio sessions added portraits to my portfolio.
Street photography continues to be my main interest and every month I found new opportunities in London as well as on my European travels.
My street portraiture was a combination of my growing experience with studio work coupled to street photography. These sessions were with models and with complete strangers who agreed to pose for me.
To confirm the busy year my website (ian.hardacre.com) has now has nearly 1,200 posts and my Instagram (@ian_hardacre) has over 2,400 shared images,
John Fletcher
I visit Cleethorpes every year. It’s where I still have family.
These images were taken in a very cold February and translate well into black and white, showing the bleakness of an east coast beach in winter
Kerry Turner – A collection of Images
Annie Lane – Favourite Images
Paul Hendley – A collection of Images
Lesley Taylor
Home
After so much rain in 2024, the beautiful, hot summer of 2025 brought a resurgence of invertebrates everywhere. These are three images that were taken in my back garden:- A small copper butterfly, a green-eyed flower bee (quite rare and a first for me) and one of the ruby tailed wasps. All just outside my back door – what a privilege!
Away
Somewhat further afield, these photos were taken on a trip to Sri Lanka in February. The two Toque Macaques have invaded an unattended car and are fighting over the ariel. I love that the baby elephant is walking along in step with its mother – photographing elephants can be a very emotional experience, their sense of family is immense. Lastly the fighting redshank. I have a long sequence of images which shows that they were taking it in turns to be the aggressor. So, were they two same sex birds fighting for supremacy, or was it a precursor to mating – if the later, it was very tough love.
