We’re a friendly group of people who enjoy photography and meet regularly to show and talk about our photos, with no judging or competitions.
If you want to improve your photo skills, come along to one of our meetings – you’ll be made welcome, and 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.
My Photographic Journey is a regular feature when we ask a member to talk about how they have developed as a photographer and how their life has influenced this. For this talk Pyers kindly agreed to share his journey.
Club members will be familiar with Pyer’s extraordinary wildlife and aircraft photos, an example of which is alongside. His images generally exhibit a high degree of technical skill and suggest that a good deal of forethought and preplanning goes into each.
Pyer’s photographic journey has certainly been a lot more spicy than most. A spell in the army encountering fighting in Kenya, dealing with a war criminal and mine-sweeping with radio aerials in Bosnia certainly presented some unique photo opportunities.
As well as sharing some striking photos, Pyers also brought in a selection of his photo equipment, including a humungous (technical term) Nikon 600mm f4 lens. He also demonstrated a drone that he’s used to make images with novel standpoints.
For details of future events, take a look at our 2026 Programme.
In it, on it, under it, messing about with it, reflected in it – all these fit into this month’s theme. Water seems to attract us and hopefully this will result in wide variety of photos for our Show and Tell meeting.
This month members can submit up to three prints in lieu of digital images. Our recent Photo Show demonstrated how good photos look when printed. Now WHPC offers precut mounts at reasonable prices, so we hope to see members submitting more prints.
Don’t miss the boat – submit your images by 9pm on Wednesday 18th November – either upload to Dropbox or by email to members@whphoto.club.
All our future themes and our other events are on 2026 Programme and 2027 Programme pages.
Photo Show is over for another year and it has been our most successful yet. Thank-you to everyone who visited and for your generous comments – it makes it all worthwhile.
We’d also like to thank all the photographers who submitted their beautiful images, please know that they received lots of praise from our visitors.
We ask everyone who visits Photo Show to vote for their favourite print and digital photos. The results are in and the returning officer (thanks Liz!) has declared Ballerina by David Kallmeier (see left) to be the favourite print image, and Adrian Howes’ Going to get wet is the favourite digital image. Well done to both!
More details about this year’s Photo Show are on our Photo Show 2026 page.
Can you tell what it is? Abstract photography can be somewhat divisive, but it allows photographers to be creative and, possibly with a dose of chutzpah, to repurpose mistakes as ‘I meant to do that’.
The photos our members submitted this month were as imaginative as they were diverse and it was fascinating to hear how each photographer had created them. We wonder what some have been putting in their cups of tea.
The favourite photo was Colin Waite’s Globe Thistle. To see all the other images, including those submitted for our Print and Image of the Month sections, head on over to the Abstract page.
Which one would you have voted for?
These days it’s more unusual not to have a smartphone and one of the more popular uses is as a camera.
As the founder and creative director of Jet Black Squares, Jet Lendon recognises this and she has a passion for showing people how to obtain the best photos from their phone.
Her Smartphone Photography talk was full of fascinating and interesting information about the capabilities of phone cameras. Jet’s enthusiasm is infectious and as she talked she encouraged us to try some of the things she covered on our own phones.
Many of have used phone cameras as ‘the one we happen to have with us’, perhaps not realising the amount of functionality they have to truly deliver as creative tools. Jet unlocked this knowledge for us and you could see many of the audience having lightbulb moments as they realised what they could do.
This was an excellent talk, inspiring and informative and helping to dispel the snobbery of, ‘oh, smartphones they’re not proper cameras’. Thank you Jet for such an enjoyable evening.
We met on Thursday evening at Braunston Marina for one of our photo walks.
There was plenty to photograph here: the marina, the canal and locks and, slightly further afield, St. Peter’s church, adjacent to the abandoned village of Wolfhamcote. It was no surprise that we split into groups, each pursuing the subjects that interested them the most.
We were blessed with a fine evening; the sun shone in a hazy sky with a few thin clouds. We were lucky to have some great light near sunset, providing some golden tones on the already yellow grass.
Inevitably we worked up a thirst during the walk and we met up at the Admiral Nelson afterwards, talking for some time. It was like Click and Natter on tour.
