News 2025-2026

Mid Season League Table
Posted on Thu 27 Nov 2025

The league table for the current season can be found at:

https://wellingtoncameraclub.co.uk/results/online-archive/league/2457

There are 25 members (55% of the active club membership) who have entered...

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November Competitions
Posted on Thu 27 Nov 2025

Wednesday nights meeting was our November competition. The theme was ‘Past its Best’ and, as always, the Open section. Our judge for the evening was Pedro Landers and as both sections had a similar number of entries we started off with the themed images. As usual there were a wide variety of...

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19/11/25 Meeting: The Quantocks - talk by Ursula Clare Franklin
Posted on Fri 21 Nov 2025

Wednesday's meeting, at the Rugby Club, was a talk by Ursula Clare Franklin on her ‘Quantock Project’. Ursula had been to talk to us before, on her ‘Mission Penguin’, so we knew what an accomplished and interesting speaker she is.

This time she came to speak to us on a project she took up...

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12/11/25 Meeting: Photographic Evening
Posted on Thu 13 Nov 2025

Wednesday's meeting was an interactive photography evening. Sarah and Polly had prepared a variety of stations with still life arrangements for members to photograph. There was also a selection of items that could be added to those arrangements or be used to create new ones if desired. In...

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05/11/25 Meeting: Extraordinary Ordinary - talk by Simon Caplan
Posted on Thu 6 Nov 2025

Last night’s Zoom meeting featured Simon Caplan talking to us on the ‘Extraordinary Ordinary’, how he finds and captures found still life and abstract images, and illustrated his talk with some really great pictures. His photographs, largely taken in the most run of the mill surroundings, were...

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October Competitions
Posted on Thu 30 Oct 2025

Last night was our first print competition of the season and the theme was 'Conversation' and of course the open. Our judge was our own Steve Wilcox. 

There were various interpretations of ‘Conversations’, most going for human conversation but others choosing to interpret a possible...

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Meeting 22/10/25: 'Professional Portraiture' by Marko Dutka
Posted on Thu 23 Oct 2025

On Wednesday evening Marko Dutka presented his talk on Professional Portraiture and took us through how his career, in the different areas of people photography, had progressed. He showed us a tremendous number of images illustrating the evolution of his photography starting with his early...

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Meeting 15/10/25: Challenge 1
Posted on Thu 16 Oct 2025

Wednesday evenings meeting was our first Challenge evening of this season and we were asked to bring in a memory stick with up to 8 pictures to make us smile or laugh. The offerings covered a wide variety of subject matter, some eliciting a smiling ‘Awww’ and others producing a full laugh.

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Meeting 08/10/25: Jane Lazenby - Find Your Own Story
Posted on Fri 10 Oct 2025

Wednesdays evening was a Zoom meeting at which Jane Lazenby spoke to us on how to ‘Find Your Own Story’. As usual Jane was an informative, and entertaining speaker who showed us some truly amazing images, some of which were wholly ‘in camera’ images and others that showed what can be achieved in...

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Meeting 1/10/25: Steve Wilcox - Post Production
Posted on Thu 2 Oct 2025
Wednesday's (1 Oct) meeting at the Rugby Club was a talk by Steve Wilcox on Post Production with the focus on the 'what and why' rather than the 'how'. Steve talked to us about identifying the story we want to convey through our images and making sure that that is what the viewer sees. He...
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September Competitions
Posted on Wed 24 Sep 2025
Last night was our first competition of the season and it was on the subject of 'Threes' and of course the open. Our judge was Malcolm Macnaughton from Dorchester.
'Threes' was interpreted in various ways, being either three main subjects, three of a kind or a triptych,...
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Chris Stone -'Visiting and Photographing British Coastal Locations'.
Posted on Wed 17 Sep 2025
Chris Stone was presenting a talk on 'Visiting and Photographing British Coastal Locations'. Unfortunately it was apparently some time since Chris had done a Zoom presentation and he needed some assistance to get things going. With Perers help he managed to share his screen...
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