Bishopthorpe Camera Club are delighted to welcome renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite on Tuesday 9th September, 7.30pm via zoom. Charlie Waite has been an advocate of ‘the photograph’ and the importance of engaging with the landscape through photography for over 40 years. He has had a lifetime’s experience of talking to photography enthusiasts and has travelled…
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All images: © Alex Burke For our last Zoom session before the summer, Viewfinder Photographic Society (VPS) will be welcoming large format landscape photographer, Alex Burke, who’ll be joining us live from Greeley, Colorado on Monday 14th April. Living in Greeley, near Denver, gives Alex access to Colorado’s magnificent mountains and a gateway to the western United States. It also provides him with the opportunity…
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We are thrilled that renowned wildlife photographer Tom Way is joining us at BCC on Tuesday 15 April. We are very fortunate to have been able to book Tom, as his diary is usually filled months if not years in advance. This promises to be an excellent evening of superb images and stories. Tom is…
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Images: Huibo Hou The Viewfinder Photographic Society is looking forward to welcoming its next speaker on 3rd March, landscape photographer Huibo Hou, who will be joining live from San Diego, USA via Zoom. Huibo’s distinctive style has led to numerous awards, speaking engagements and features in a range of publications, including the Monochrome Awards International Black &…
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All images: © Guy Edwardes The Viewfinder Photographic Society will welcome professional landscape, nature and travel photographer, Guy Edwardes on 27th January when he delivers his talk (via Zoom) entitled ‘Creative Landscape and Nature Photography.’ Guy will be showing over 200 of his inspirational images from around the world with continuous commentary explaining the techniques he…
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In his talk to Otley Camera Club, award-winning BBC cameraman Phil Savoie will cover topics not often discussed from the psychology of perspective & eye line to the science of lens testing & optical physics, aperture choice as a storytelling device as well as the odd location war story. Pro tips for participants to grow…
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Bempton Cliffs is situated on the Yorkshire Coast and from March to September is home to 250,000 breeding seabirds. This talk is about the life and death struggle of these amazing birds and how they bring up their young on the tight cliff ledges on the 400ft white chalk cliffs. Inspired by the natural world…
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Simon Baxter: ‘Beyond the Trees’ Monday, 4th December 2023 – 7.00pm (via Zoom) For our final Zoom session this year we welcome ‘woodland photographer’ Simon Baxter, Simon is a professional photographer from North Yorkshire and “the first woodland photographer on YouTube”. His passion is to explore, discover, experience and photograph the less obvious intimate scenes that are close…
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Reginald Van de Velde (Belgium, 1975) scouts the unknown & unseen. As a traveller he journeys all over the world, trying to capture the momentum of splendour still undisturbed by the turmoil and temptations of modern society. He is a vagabond for lost beauty, a chronicler of forgotten magnificence. His work has been exhibited in many solo and group expos at festivals, galleries and museums…
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Images: Reginald Van de Velde On Monday 6th March we welcome (via Zoom) award-winning Belgian photographer, Reginald Van de Velde. Reginald specialises in photographing unconventional architecture. He seeks out and captures ruins and abandoned places that take us on a journey through a world of dystopian dreamscapes. Reginald finds tranquility, beauty and wonder in the patina of dereliction and abstract patterns of forgotten grandeur. His…
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Otley Camera Club is proud to announce that our speaker on 9th February is the renowned award-winning professional photographer Emma Finch, owner of Emma Finch Photography; Belle Privé Photography; and AWOL Studios, Manchester. Her synopsis of the discussion is: Improve your portrait skills… It covers many aspects of portrait photography, from posing, lighting, styling and…
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Damien Demolder is a photographer, journalist and educator. He has worked in the photographic publishing industry since 1997, including 15 years at the world’s only weekly photo magazine, Amateur Photographer, where he was editor. He is also a marketing and technology advisor for camera manufacturers, providing consultancy services for market development and brand positioning. Damien is…
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On Thursday evening 8th December, Otley Camera Club’s speaker is Steve Race – a well-known award-winning professional wildlife photographer based in Scarborough, He has been a keen naturalist and photographer for over 35 years, lived on the Yorkshire Coast all of his life and believes there is no better place for variety of different habitats and…
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Settle Photographic Group present Amy Bateman talking about her current “Forty Farms” exhibition showing at Rheded Gallery. Amy’s talk will be held at St John’s Church Hall, Settle, on Monday 5th December 2022 at 7:30pm. Zoom is available to SPG members only, but others are welcome to come to the meeting in Settle. Admission £4. …
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Alex Nail is a full-time landscape photographer, particularly known for his mountain and wilderness images. He regularly travels to Iceland, Norway and Drakensberg, but it is the North-West Highlands of Scotland that draw him back time and again. These visits north of the border resulted in his highly acclaimed 2018 book ’Northwest’, which Joe Cornish described…
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On Thursday evening, 10th November, Otley Camera Club’s speaker will be Linda Bembridge, an accomplished photographer who has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society as well as the award for Excellence by the Federation Internationale De L’Art Photographique. “My approach to photography continues to evolve as I learn more about what inspires me.…
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