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
Speaker – Tom Hill
We were treated to a spectacular talk and demonstration from one of the top light painters, Tom Hill tonight! Tom came along and explained what a light painter is, the different genres of the subject, and told us about the tools of his trade. He showed us a few of...
PDI Competition Three Results Night
Glen Lawson was our judge for this evening's "Reflections" PDI competition, and what a fantastic set of images we saw. Glen had an extremely hard task, choosing HCs and places, the standard was really high right through. But choose them he did, and our Peter Chrisp...
Exchange Night with Consett PS
This is a new idea from our Programme Secretary Mandy, to encourage us to liaise more with the clubs in our area. We decided to do an "exchange" night, when some photographers come to WCC and show us their work, and then we will return the compliment and go over to...
Speaker – Wil Cheung, Chasing the Aurora
Tonight saw a speaker that most of us have been really looking forward to, Wil Cheung with his "Chasing the Aurora" talk. Wow! What a fantastic night we had! What this guy doesn't know about the aurora and the night sky is not worth knowing!!! Wil told us all about...
Show n Tell – What we got up to in the Peak District
Back in October, 12 of our members headed down to the beautiful Peak District for our Annual Trip away! Tonight we will be seeing what they got up to, where they went and what they saw on their travels. From climbing Mam Tor, visiting the beautiful Chatsworth...
Print Competition 2 Results Evening
Tonight saw us welcome an old friend to the club, in the shape of George Ledger... along to judge our second print competition of the season. He brought along with him his usual good spirited constructive criticism, humour and insights, and chose some fantastic...
NCPF Club Championships Selection Night
Our first evening back after the Christmas holidays saw us selecting which images we would like to represent the club in the NCPF Club Championships. This is a big deal, so we encouraged our members to bring in their best work in the shape of both PDIs and Prints....
Christmas Party Night!
Tonight we celebrated a great first half of our season and let our hair down with our Annual Christmas Party! The usual frivolities ensued, with Shawn's giant Christmas Quiz, our Big raffle, Best Christmas attire and not forgetting our world famous WCC Buffet! What...
Results Evening PDI Competition Two
What a fantastic set of images we saw tonight in our second PDI Competition of the season, and all under the theme of "Water/Seascapes". Along to judge it for us was our friend Lynda Golightly, who said that the standard was really high, and she'd had a job...
South Tyne PDI Selection Night
We had a very difficult choice in selecting our 10 images for inclusion into the South Tyne PDI Competition tonight! We need to keep the pressure on, and WCC up in the ratings, so we carefully debated what was in, what was out and what was in-between! Members...
