West Haddon Photo Club
We're a friendly group of people who enjoy photography and meet regularly to show and talk about our photos.
Come along to one of our meetings - you'll be made welcome, and if you want to improve your photo skills we'll be happy to offer help and encouragement.
See below for our upcoming and most recent events or take a look at our Programme for this year. For more information about the club go to the About Us page.
Most Recently...
'Scapes - May's Theme - 15th May
Landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes - they all found a home in May's theme of 'Scapes'. This was another month where there was plenty of scope to interpret scapes in imaginative ways - truly we spoil our members.
Unsurprisingly, landscapes formed the bulk of the submissions, with some members cunningly titling their images as a sunscape or riverscape. Extra points should be awarded to the moonscape, stationscape and aerialscape photos for imaginative titles.
Members found it tough to decide which to vote for, but ultimately the favourite image was Alastair Bell's beautifully atmosperic Seascape (left). To see why it was tough to choose a favourite have a look at the gallery on May's Members' Images page to see all the other images submitted this month.
ICM by Janie Chapman - 22nd May
ICM - photographers love a three letter abbreviation. ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement and we have invited Janie Chapman 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 will explain 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.
Janie has supported WHPC in past years by exhibiting some of her prints in Photo Show - please come along to what should be a fascinating evening. Non members are welcome to attend for £5 - please email events@whphoto.club to reserve a seat.
For details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme pages.
June's Theme - Nooks and Crannies - 19th June
Easily overlooked and notorious for the places where dust and cobwebs collect, nooks and crannies are our theme for June's Show and Tell meeting on 19th June.
If it helps our members, we suggest they can also include crevices, niches, cracks, chinks and clefts as their subject matter. Once you get your eye in you'll see they're everywhere, from the huge (Durdle Door) to the tiny (cracks in old paintwork).
Don't crack the deadline - submit your images by 9pm on Wednesday 18th June - 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.
Beyond Auto Mode - Talk by Bob Brind-Surch - 24th April
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.
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.
Details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme page.
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