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On Friday 29 January around forty Ilkley Camera Club members gathered online for the annual Open Colour competition.  52 images were presented including still life, nature, landscape and documentary. The judge was Colin Williams who is local to Ilkley and … Continue reading →

Friday 29 January sees members revealing their own talents as our visiting judge, Colin Williams CPAGB, EFIAP, assesses the entries in the Open Colour digital competition. Ilkley Camera Club is currently meeting via Zoom at 7.30pm on Fridays. For more … Continue reading →

Dublin based photographer Joe Houghton enthused Ilkley Camera Club members on 22 January via Zoom as he offered a masterclass in post-production techniques using Lightroom software. Best of all, he used members’ own images to show how to maximise the … Continue reading →

The Club’s guest speaker on Friday 15 January will be Diane Seddon ARPS, AFIAP, CPAGB, BPE3*. Based near Louth in Lincolnshire, she has been making photographs for around 20 years – before that film, and processing in the darkroom. She … Continue reading →

Guest speaker Astrid McGechan from Surrey told members on 8 January via Zoom that real photography is about passion and involves pure emotion. Drawing on examples from her own exhibitions she spoke of how members of the public had been … Continue reading →

Ilkley Camera Club starts 2021 with photographs of great emotion and intensity. Guest speaker, Astrid McGechan, joins members via Zoom on 8 January with her lecture ‘Feel the Land – Photography & Emotion’. Astrid is a freelance photographer and book … Continue reading →

Winning images from the competitions announced on 11 December 2020 are now available for viewing. Please click on the links. Urban Scapes People  Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who entered including Gareth Martin for judging.

On Friday 11 December, Ilkley Camera Club hears the views of visiting judge, Gareth Martin AWPF, CPAGB, on entries for two members competitions: ‘urban scapes’ and ‘people’. The Club is currently meeting via Zoom on Friday evenings at 7.30pm. For … Continue reading →

Club member, July Kay, was one of the last westerners out of Bhutan when the covid-19 virus locked-down the remote Himalayan kingdom early in 2020. On 4 December she told her story to the Club and showed the images she … Continue reading →

On Friday 27 November, acclaimed flower and still life ‘picture maker’, Polina Plotnikova, shows members how to create images from a blank canvas. Polina is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and holds many photographic awards, including eight Gold … Continue reading →