Est: 1891. Serving photography in Wakefield and District for 131 years.
Members from Wakefield Camera Club were joined by members from Selby, Harrogate and Pontefract Camera Clubs for a Zoom presentation by Julian Elliot on The Fjords of Patagonia – Journey to the end of the world. Julian is an award winning professional freelance landscape and travel photographer as well as an occasional writer …
Members welcomed guests from Harrogate Photographic Society to their first Zoom experience and together they welcomed Chris Upton for a return visit to Wakefield Camera Club, this time, to talk about Finding the Beauty In Nature. Chris is a professional photographer, based in Nottinghamshire (UK), specialising in Travel, Landscape and Social Documentary photography. …
It is several years since members and guests of Wakefield Camera Club welcomed Dave and Sheila. Last time they presented their ‘Pictures all Around Us’ show, this time their amazing prints were part of their ‘Two Cameras Out and About’ show. Dave and Sheila are mainly landscape photographers, but within those landscapes they …
Members and guests were all aboard for a trip around the Peak District courtesy of guest speaker Graham Dunn. Having originally trained at medical school, Graham changed direction from a career in surgery to one behind the camera. Currently based in Sheffield, he has been a full-time photographer since 2006. Graham has a …
The evening of Monday 28th October saw a visit to the club by Steve Cheetham to deliver his talk “The Adventures of Monoman”. Steve only does 4 or 5 talks a year so we were very lucky to be one of those. He started by explaining that he got interested in photography at …
On the evening of 29th October a large audience of members were present at a fascinating talk by Dave Butcher entitled “City Lights”. Dave is one of what is nowadays a rare brand of photographers using exclusively film – indeed he has no digital camera. He uses a Mamiya 7 medium format camera …
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go on the Anglesey trip but here’s a report from Steve Wood (who seems to have organised it brilliantly) and some images in a gallery at the bottom. On Friday the 5th October, Members of WCC descended on the beautiful Isle of Anglesey for a short trip to …
The evening of Monday 18th June saw a fascinating talk by Eddie Ruffell who is managing Director of Lee Filters. As may be expected his talk was about the use of filters in photography and it was very informative. Eddie started by looking at the reasons why we use filters. He compared the …
This evening was a purely print night with the presenters Roger and Judith Parry from Smethwick Camera Club using their prints to illustrate the theme “Using the Light”. As might be gathered from the title the lighting of photographic subjects, particularly models, was a key element of their work and it showed throughout …
This was a “return match” of an evening following a visit by some of our members to York Photographic Society. The idea is for clubs to share their ideas about interests, specialities and skills. We took a few members over to York to give short talks about their particular interests (e.g. creative imagery, …