Welcome to the Winlaton Camera Club news section.
Here we’ll be regularly posting updates about what’s going on at the club, along with photographs taken by members on our days out.
Latest News
Guest Speaker – John Birch, Professional Wildlife Photographer
Wow! What an evening we had on Tuesday with the long-awaited visit by John Birch, an award winning professional wildlife photographer! John told us all about the Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago which is situated between mainland Norway and the North Pole, and...
PDI Competition 3
This week saw a welcome return of Keith Archer to WCC, to judge our third PDI competition of the season. This one was an open theme, so we saw some really interesting images, from landscapes and nature, to street and macro, and even some abstract too. What a lovely...
Winlaton CC and Ponteland PS Inter Club Friendly
Our Programme Secretary, Mandy, has worked hard to bring us a new competition between members of Ponteland PS and Winlaton CC. Tonight we saw the results of the friendly competition and what a lot of lovely images we had to look at! First of all we looked at...
South Tyne PDI Competition – Results
This week we all travelled up to Hexham PS for the results of the South Tyne PDI Competition, and what a nail biter it was! WCC ended up 3rd position overall, with only two points separating us with the winners who were South Shields! The final points were as...
Wales Revisited!
What a weekend it was! Our annual trip was to North Wales last year, and we wanted to show our members who didn't attend, just what they missed! What a beautiful place it is, we saw images from Portmeirion, The Fairy Glen, Trefor Beach, Harlech, the Lone Tree at...
Print Competition 2
Results of our 2nd and last print competition of this season. We had Will Ireland from Washington Camera Club come to judge it and give us his insights. He awarded 5 Highly Commended as we went through, then announced his 3rd, 2nd and 1st choices at the end.
South Tyne PDI Selection Evening
Our selection evening for the South Tyne PDI Competition was held tonight, and we had such a lot of entries to look through! Despite the football being on, a few of our intrepid members ventured out to cast their votes, and I think we've come up with ten...
Guest Speaker Harry Hall
Tonight we welcomed Harry Hall back to WCC to tell us all about his "Traveller's Tales"! We were entranced by his images that took us from Kashmir to Somalia and Peru with a few other places thrown in for good measure! He told us about living in caves in minus...
PDI Competition 2
Our second PDI Competition with the theme "Abstract and ICM". Our judge for this competition is our old friend, Jim Welsh, who conducted the proceedings with his usual mirth and humour... "It's not sharp!" – here's his choice for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, along with...
Christmas 2022
December seemed to fly over like a shot! We had an evening with Shawn showing us the new features in Photoshop, we had Ian Taylor come to talk to us about Life on and off the Street and we had our BIG Christmas Party! What a fab evening, as you can see by these...
