Club News 2024 - 2025

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Wincanton Camera Club member's work featured in October issue of The Blackmore Vale Magazine

Congratulations to Brian Stubbs on having his work as an equestrian photographer featured in the latest issue of the The BV Magazine. Brian was interviewed at his home by the BV team who then wrote an article which, along with some of Brian's photos, then featured in the October online issue. Brian even managed to get a plug in for our club. Do check out the magazine and the article - it runs to 6 pages and is worth a read.


Charlie Waite presentation to Wincanton Camera Club and guests

What an evening! Charlie Waite delivered a wonderfully entertaining talk on landscape photography to a packed audience at Wincanton Memorial Hall on Wednesday, October 2nd. There were over a hundred people in the audience, not all of them photographers, who thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Thank you Charlie. Our thanks also to Toby Erlinger of Fotospeed for stepping in at short notice and ensuring Fotospeed had a presence at the evening with their stand of papers, inks and products for sale on the evening.
As a result of the ticket sales and raffle Wincanton Camera Club are pleased to be able to present the Disabled Photographers' Society with a substantial cheque. They were represented on the evening by Tom Molloy, President of the society, who had travelled from Coventry to be with us. Charlie is a long time supporter of this charity.
Our thanks also go to all club members who got stuck in and helped make this evening happen.

Our next meeting is on October 16th at 7.30pm in our usual side room at the Memorial Hall. The theme is a Critique Evening. 		Photo of Charlie Waite
Photo of Memorial Hall filling with guests Photo of Meyrick with Charlie in hall Photo of Tom Molloy with Rosemary Photo of Charlie Waite standing
Photos courtesy of Andrew Washington.

First internal competition of the season - Open - Wednesday September 18th 2024

Shoe Shine by Lachlan Fraser We hosted our first internal club competition on Wednesday September 18th at Wincanton Memorial Hall 7.30pm. Even if you did not enter any photographs, these nights are some of our most well-attended evenings as there is so much to learn from seeing the images and listening to the judge's comments. We welcomed Steve Field from Bristol, a new judge to our club, who went through our images, prints and DPIs, with good humour and insightful comments.
We started with the print section where Meyrick top scored with a 20 for "Winter Walk at Burton Bradstock" , a lovely moody image of cliffs, sea and sand.

In the DPI section Brian gained top marks with a 20 for "Black and white Springer", closely followed by Lachlan with 19 for "Shoe Shine" .

In both sections it was good to see a very varied range of subjects including some cracking abstract work and street photography, as well as Portraiture, Landscape and Still Life.
Well done to all who entered and our thanks to Steve Field for an entertaining evening.

To see the scores from all competitions, including this one, click on our Club info page
To see the DPI'sfrom this competition click here.
To see the Prints from this competition click here
Remember, by clicking on the small images you can view a larger version with the image title, including score and author.

Lee Miller


I have been fortunate to twice hear Antony Penrose speak about the life of his incredible mother, Lee Miller. Antony has curated his mother's work and maintains the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose collection at Farley Farm House.
The Victoria and Albert Museum have released a video with Lee's Grandaugter relating some of the story of Lee's life.
The most rebellious female photographer - Lee Miller published by the V&A presented by Lee's grandaughter.


This coincides with the release of a feature film, starring Kate Winslett, which is being released on September 27th. I would recommend all photographers find out about Lee Miller and her role in the history of photography.
Lee - Starring Kate Winslett - Biographical film about Lee Miller, to be released in British cinemas on September 27th 2024.

New Season started on Wednesday September 4th

Everyone is welcome to join us for the new season, just get in touch or come along to a meeting and introduce yourself. We have an exciting programme of events lined up. At our first meeting of the season we welcomed a number of potential new members to the club and, despite a glitch getting started, we enjoyed looking at members' photographs they had taken recently or during holidays. We also discussed plans for the first competition of the season on Wednesday September 18th with a submission deadline of September 11th. We are also getting a touch excited about our guest speaker on October 2nd.

Club outing to Savernake Forest

On Saturday, August 31st, a group of members travelled to the Savernake Forest, just South of Marlborough in Wiltshire. This is an ancient forest with lots of very old trees making very good photographic subjects. Our thanks once again to Meyrick for organising this trip. Attached photo is courtesy of Pam Watts. Photo of club members at Savernake forest

Olympic Photos - some special ones

With the Olympic Games currently underway in Paris there are a huge number of photos being taken and made available to the World almost instantaneously. The Athletics hasn't even started and yet Getty Images have close on a quarter of a million images available. This is matched by the other agencies such as Shutterstock, Alamy and so on. There have been, however, some very special images and these are featured in an article by Time Magazine. Click on the link below to see some amazing sporting images.
Time Magazine and some incredible sporting images

Wincanton Camera Club annual print exhibition

Our annual exhibition of prints at Wincanton Library opens on Wednesday August 7th. Prints will be exhibited on newly made stands (thank you Andrew) and will continue to be on show until Saturday, September 14th. This is a free to view exhibition and members of the public are encouraged to vote for their favourite image. Why not pop in to the library and have a look. If you like what you see and would like to get involved with the camera club then do look at our Contact page and get in touch.

Wincanton Camera Club in the New Blackmore Vale Magazine

Wincanton Camera Club features on page 4 of the latest issue of the New Blackmore Vale Magazine (NBVM) printed edition and also in their online version of the magazine.
Wincanton camera club on page 4 of 101st issue of the NBVM
A lovely write up and good plug for our forthcoming presentation by Landscape photographer Charlie Waite. This talk is open to the public who can purchase tickets via our online booking system. More details are shown further down this page.

Welcome to Wincanton Camera Club's website.

We are finalising our programme for the 2024-2025 season which promises to be a very exciting year for us. We have an extended exhibition of members' work being held in Wincanton Library from August 7th and our first club meeting is in Wincanton Memorial Hall side room on Wednesday September 4th at 7.30pm. Do have a look at our Programme. We are particularly thrilled to welcome renowned landscape photographer, Charlie Waite, to speak to us in the main hall on October 2nd. This event is open to the general public and tickets are already selling. See the article below for more information.

A very special speaker for our new season - Charlie Waite

Wincanton Camera Club are delighted to announce that Charlie Waite will be coming to Wincanton Memorial Hall to speak to us on October 2nd 2024. This will be a very special event and as such we are opening admission up to the general public. Fotospeed will be in attendance to market their products as Charlie is one of their ambassadors. There will also be representatives from the Disabled Photographers charity in attendance as they will be sharing in the funds raised by this event. Charlie is a long time supporter of this charity.

Click here for much more information about the event and for a link to purchase advance tickets. We fully expect this event to sell out so do not delay booking your tickets. 		Photo of Charlie Waite

Photography session with professional model, Natasha J Bella

On Saturday, June 29th, four of us from Wincanton Camera Club travelled to Rod Warren's RawPics studio, near Ilminster, to meet with professional model Natasha J Bella for 4 hours worth of studio photography. Natasha is a professional freelance model and photographer, based near Leeds, who was able to guide us through a model shoot. All lighting and universal triggers were provided by Natasha within Rod's very versatile studio. The session was limited to 6 photographers so that each had plenty of opportunity to take photographs and have time with Natasha, who was able to advise as we went along. All were agreed that this was an excellent outing and that we must repeat the experience in the future. Our thanks to Natasha and to Rod who was on hand to assist if needed.

Photograph of group at RawPics Studio
Photo courtesy of Rod Warren.

Photograph of Natasha with golden wings

Club outings / activities during the holiday break

Do keep an eye on the website and your emails for activities taking place during the holiday break. Some of us have already been to Nunney International Horse Trials and a number of us are attending a photography studio portraiture workshop with a professional model and photographer on Saturday June 29th. There will be other activities for you to join in with if you wish.

Wincanton Camera Club on Facebook

Our club now has a private group on Facebook for members only.
Click on this link to see the page and request to join. You will need to have a Facebook account which is free.

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