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Monthly Club Nights & Topics - 2025/26
Each month a theme (topic) is set for a photo subject challenge to try and stretch your photographic skills out of your comfort zone. Listed below are the topics for the year.
Digital entries must be submitted to digital@mandurahphotography.club by 6:00PM on the Digital Submission Date shown below for each month. All images must comply with the clubs Digital Image specifications.
January 2025
Peeling Paint
Peeling paint brings texture; the character of age and time to a subject. Shiny buildings tell few stories, but decaying buildings have secrets to reveal. They have stories to share, like an elderly person on a park bench, if one has patience to wait, watch, and listen.
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December 29 January 8
February 2025
Geometric Shapes
Geometry plays a vital role in photography from framing to creating depth and perspective. By incorporating geometric shapes, lines & patterns you can create visually appealing photos.
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February 2 February 12
March 2025
Silhouettes
In photography, a silhouette is defined as an outline that appears dark against a light background. More specifically, it is where your subject is seen as a black shape without detail against a brighter background. This is an artistic outcome that many photographers like to perfect. This effect can be achieved with any kind of bright light source, but of course the most commonly used is the sun around sunrise or sunset. The backlighting from the sun shadows everything towards you and produces this effect.
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March 2 March 12
April 2025
Pep Ventosa Style
The artist and photographer Pep Ventosa's work is inspiring, alluring, and exciting to try to emulate. His work is a process of walking all-around a subject taking photos, and then combining them in Photoshop or a similar stacking/layer program to create one final image.
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March 30 April 9
May 2025
Diptych Photography
Diptych photography is where two separate images are placed side by side. The two images may be of the same subject or two different subjects. You can use diptych photography to create a variety of effects.
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May 4 May 14
June 2025
High Key Photography
High key is a style of image with predominantly light tones and minimal shadows. The image will contain a small, even tiny proportion of dark tones.
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June 1 June 11
July 2025
Intentional Camera Movement
A photograph taken with a long exposure time, typically ¼ to 2 seconds, during which time the camera is moved to create a blurred image. The image may exhibit painterly, abstract, or impressionistic effects.
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June 29 July 9
August 2025
S-Curve
The S-Curve is a composition technique that has been used in art for centuries. It is a form of leading line in the shape of an “S” that guides the eye through an image.
This technique can give a scene depth, as well as a sense of motion in an otherwise static photograph.
S-curves occur often in both natural and urban environments. Look for winding roads, rivers, fences, and paths, as well as more subtle curves like the ridge of a sand dune or the froth from waves on a beach.
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August 3 August 13
September 2025
Rain
A lot of people are fair-weather photographers, only venturing out when the sun is shining. But rain photography can add mood and drama to your images.
While the weather itself can be your subject, there are other compositions you can explore. Wet streets offer opportunities for capturing reflections in puddles. Water droplets can be photographed on various surfaces with a macro lens or captured using a fast shutter speed to freeze the motion. Splashes from passing cars or children playing in the rain can create dynamic images.
Of course you don’t have to go outside. You can create interesting abstract photographs from indoors by focusing on rain drops on a window.
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August 31 September 10
October 2025
Your favourite Song/Movie Title in photo form
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September 28 October 8
November 2025
A Unique Tree
An image of a solitary tree within a contrasting environment.
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November 2 November 12
December 2025
Awards Night
Details TBA
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January 2026
Sports Action
This could be a ball game, a race, down at the bike track, morning jog and so on.
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January 4 January 14
February 2026
Urban Decay
An image showing the effects of neglect and weathering on a man-made subject.
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February 1 February 11
March 2026
Table Top
A photograph of items typically arranged on a table. It includes still life, food or similar genre. The key to success is the artistic arrangement and lighting of your subjects.
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March 1 March 11