Our previous blog post talked about our Sara Cremer-Evans achieving her Licentiate with the Royal Photographic Society and today the story is in the Barnsley Chronicle. If you haven't got a copy then here it is.

Barnsley Photo Club is proud to announce its first member to achieve the prestigious Royal Photographic Society distinction of Licentiate, with her panel of 10 prints, is Sara Cremer-Evans LRPS

Sara, 34 and currently living in Hemsworth, only picked up a camera some 3 years ago and quickly fell in love with Landscape Photography; driving hundreds of miles a month to pursue her new hobby.

Within a year she was entering her first competitions with Shafton Photographic Society where she won that year's 'Most Improved' and 'President's Award for Achievement' titles. Sara has also been published in the Digital SLR photography magazine.

Sara then became a founder member of Barnsley Photo Club in April 2013 with a new focus of achieving the Distinction of Licentiate with the Royal Photographic Society; to capture the range of techniques required is demanding, and the panel was finally ready just 2 weeks before the Assessment date of 2nd March 2014 which was held at Birmingham NEC as part of the 'The Photography Show' where her award was met with a round of applause when announced by the judges.

We are not wanting to say too much more now as Sara is already booked to explain the route & hurdles to achieving this prestigious award to our camera club in June, and we're hoping many others will also take up the challenge. While the aim is the Distinction it is the journey of development, the learning, improvement and shooting to a discipline that is the major benefit for one's photography.

Sara is already planning for the higher award of Associate (ARPS) in Landscape Photography by the end of 2015. To follow in Sara's footsteps contact us and see about joining Barnsley Photo Club.

The panel which Sara submitted can be seen in the gallery below along with a hanging plan of how the images were viewed by the judges.

This article was produced for The Barnsley Chronicle who have taken an interest in Sara's story and as a reflection of Barnsley Photo Club.

Look out for another piece on Barnsley Photo Club in today's Barnsley Chronicle, and if you haven't got a copy or you just simply missed it...

Look out for Barnsley Photo Club in this weeks edition of the Barnsley Chronicle. The excellent half page spread is on page 15.

Last Wednesday saw us have a mini meet at The Full House to get together for a group photograph for an article in the Barnsley Chronicle and Mosaic magazine. There was a good turnout with a number of us donning our Barnsley Photo Club gear. Thanks to member Jon Skidmore for the above image and his caption;

'Its always good to have a pro togger at a camera club. I over heard him telling John how to switch from auto.'


Look our for us in the Chronicle on Friday 14th June along with a piece in the Mosaic magazine.