After our summer break we were certainly back with a psychedelic bang with our Colours theme. Some of the images were eye-watering in their intensity.

 

With such an open theme we had a huge variety of subjects, although flowers were strongly represented, unsurprisingly. What was notable was the way members had spotted the colours that are always present around us. The favourite was the wonderfully humorous Rub a Dub Dub by Jane Weston (left).

 

This month, instead of an Image of the Month, we looked at the images taken by the members for the August Challenge of Pareidolia. These and all the other Theme images can be seen on the Colours - September 2025 page.

 

Which one would you have voted for?

 

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We have been fortunate to have hosted many excellent speakers this year, and this trend continued when we invited Colin Trow-Poole to present his talk 'People and Places'.

 

Specialising in strong story telling and, by sensitively using lighting and carefully controlling tonal gradations, Colin produces evocative and thought provoking printed images that may be regarded as 'Fine Art'. Examples of Colin's atmospheric and inspiring work are on his website.

 

Colin illustrated his talk with prints, rather than projected images, avoiding the vagaries of projector and ambient lighting, especially due to the light summer evening. We are indebted to Badby & District Photo Club for their loan of print stands and lightbox enabling us to host this talk.

 

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Details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme page.

 

ICM - photographers love a three letter abbreviation. ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement and we invited Janie Chapman, a long-time contributor of prints to WHPC's Photo Show, along to talk to us about this creative tool.

 

Many of us have encountered unintentional camera movement when we've photographed something - a sneeze when we press the shutter button, or not holding the camera steady enough.

 

But what if we were to embrace and utilise this movement to produce interesting and creative effects? Janie explained to us how she produces her wonderfully dreamy and impressionistic ICM images - some examples are shown on the left. A larger version can be seen on her website along with other examples of her work.

 

During her talk she demonstrated how different types of camera movement - short, long, sweeping, slow, jiggles, forward and backward - effected how the image appeared. She showed examples from her work and photographers she admires; both these and her own photos were inspiring.

 

So inspired were members that in the following days WHPC's Members' WhatsApp group was full of examples of members trying out ICM.

 

For details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme pages.

One of the aims of West Haddon Photo Club is to encourage people to explore the creative opportunities of their cameras (and this includes mobile phones) by switching away from the Auto Mode.

 

This is why we invited along nature photographer Bob Brind-Surch to give his talk 'From the ordinary to the extraordinary part 1 – Beyond Auto Mode – Taking creative control of your camera', which pretty much sums up the aim.

 

Through explanations of how you can control your camera using aperture, shutter speed and ISO, Bob carefully showed how each could be used to enhance creativity. His presentation should provide many of us with more confidence to trake our cameras out of Auto mode.

 

For details of forthcoming events take a look at our 2025 Programme.