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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.

April's theme was Rock. It's one of those subjects that we deliberately left open to interpretation by our members.

So, what did we see? Rock and roll? Stick of rock? Rock the cradle? Er, a rock? Part of the fun of our Show and Tell meetings is seeing just how imaginative our members are and, indeed, how far they can push the meaning.

Kevan Brassington's photo Beach Rock and Stack (left) filled the brief, but have a look at the gallery on April's Members' Images page to see all the other interpretations.

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Landscapes, cityscapes, starscapes, beachscapes - they'll all be at home in May's theme of 'Scapes'. Another month where there's plenty of scope to interpret scapes in many imaginative ways - truly we spoil our members.

Why not use the advice given in Bob Brind-Sarch's talk on 24th April to take your camera out of Auto and explore its creative possibilities? There's an option this month to submit up to three prints in lieu of digital images.

Here's another 'scape - you can't escape the deadline to submit your images by 9pm on Wednesday 14th May - either upload to Dropbox or by email to members@whphoto.club.

All our future themes and our other events are on our 2025 Programme page.

Our first talk this year from an invited speaker was from Derbyshire-based Ashley Franklin, who examined the work of the photographic greats. Ashley explored the story of Portrait, Fashion, Industrial, Travel, War, News, Street & Social Documentary Photography.

The talk was lavishly illustrated by the work of many of the greats of photography, including Avedon, Bailey, Beaton, McCullin, Karsh, Liebovitz and Salgado. Ashley promised 'an evening of informative, inspiring, powerful and world-changing imagery', and he certainly delivered.

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

This month it was the turn of our new chairman, Tony Teague, to take us with us on his photographic journey.

Tony is well-known both in and outside WHPC for his enthusiasm for railways in general, and steam locomotives in particular. This he demonstrated with many superb examples of imaginative train and locomotive images, some taken from privileged lineside positions.

We were also treated to photos that Tony has taken on his travels. These weren't endless holiday snaps - something Tony abhors - but well-composed and thoughtful shots of landscapes and iconic places. Tony generously credited others for helping him along on his photographic journey, but it's he who pressed the shutter button and provided us with the photos on an enjoyable evening.

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