Events for 2024

An image of anyone, anything or anywhere that LOOKS wild in any way. You must incorporate the word ‘wild’ in your title.

On the Australia Day public holiday in January, the club ran its first social outing for the year, a photo walk on the North Fremantle Heritage Trail followed by morning tea at the Bruce Town café on Queen Victoria Street.

Our February workshop night serves as our AGM meeting night. Everyone is asked to bring a plate of share food and after the AGM, we get together for some socialising over tea and supper.

A long-time Perth photographer, Andrew is a perfectionist exponent of interpretative and creative photographic art. In fact you could say that he’s a practitioner who puts the art into art photography. And one of his secrets to success is his habit of returning time and again to a selection of favourite locations.
So much so that at our club’s first 2024 workshop, Andrew shared stories of going back to places for three decades or more.

Club members enjoyed shooting performances in the annual Fremantle Street Arts Festival held over Easter.
The favourite attraction was an act called The Bubble Canteen which appealed to all ages and tastes, with plenty of photographic opportunities.

No workshop tonight, since it's Easter Monday

There is no denying Karen McGlue’s passion for sharing her knowledge and her technical proficiency in using light within her craft. With equal measures of vigour and enthusiasm, Karen presented an interactive May Workshop Understanding Light.

Who needs a camera? Is this the end of camera clubs? Are we facing the same threats as artists 200 years ago when photography came along? These were among the provocative questions delivered by awarded photographer and judge Colin White as he kicked off the WA Camera Club’s open forum on artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on photography.

Leading photographers Mark Greenland and Susi Nodding presented a workshop styled as “a chat about success and failure” in appraising your own images.
Mark posed the opening question: Why do you make pictures? The answers could include to compete, to enjoy, to record, to share.

The WA Camera Club’s August workshop guest presenter was astro photographer Roger Groom. He describes himself as “a software developer by day, astrophotographer and amateur astronomy researcher by night, and landscape and nature photographer by weekend”.

Brad Rimmer is one of WA’s most acclaimed documentary photographers. His long-term projects of portraiture, landscape and social documentation have featured in major exhibitions and books.
Brad will share his journey in photography in a rare artist’s talk.

City Beach, bring a macro lens. Meet at the human sculptures on the lawn - Click the date to the left for more details

What gives travel photographs meaning and power? How do you capture great travel photographs -- images that move beyond just a representation or snapshot, images which say something about time, place, people and feeling?

Join Seng Mah of Venture Photography Workshops and Tours and learn how to make your travel photographs more invested in the moment, the spirit of place and the emotions of experience.

Judge and leading wildlife photographer Craig Franke will return to the club for an informative workshop on shooting macro.

To see some of Craig's work, please visit his Instagram feed at https://www.instagram.com/jarmat_photography/

Set Subject - Animal Face. Fill the frame with an animal face (omit the body, legs, etc).

The annual awards dinner and prize presentation was a fantastic and festive night out.

Award winners were as follows:

Projected Mono of the Year: "Squares within a Square" - Susi Nodding
Honourable mentions:
Chaotic State of Mind - Di Warner
Curtain Call - Richard Goodwin
Mackenzie Country - Ray Ross

Projected Colour of the Year: "Blue Thongs" - Fiona Burt
Honourable mentions:
Callistemon in Milk - Susi Nodding
Kellands Pond - Jocelyn Manning
Showing Off - Gary Talbot

Colour Print of the Year: “Windows" - Susi Nodding
Honourable mentions:
Bird Whisperer - Di Warner
Aloft - Richard Goodwin
Eye of the Wind - Kim McAvoy

Monochrome Print of the Year: "Shearing" - Susi Nodding
Honourable mentions:
Barber Kolkata - Di Warner
Old Iron Bridge - Jocelyn Manning

Lee Bickford Street Photography Award: “A City Street” - Anne Mead

Darryl Collett Encouragement Award: Kate Bilton

Open Mono: Susi Nodding (121 points)
Runners up:
111 - Jocelyn Manning
106 - Fiona Birt

Open Colour: David Steele (121 points)
Runners up:
119 - Richard Goodwin
115 - Susi Nodding

Set Subject: Susi Nodding (202 points)
Runners up
183 - Fiona Birt
179 - Richard Goodwin

Projected Images Overall Total (Team Digital): Fiona Birt (204 points)
Runners up:
179 - Susi Nodding
177 - Richard Goodwin

Grace Munday Award: Highest Annual Print Entry Points: Susi Nodding (259 points)
Runners up:
206 - Richard Goodwin
197 - Fiona Birt

Highest Annual points scored: Susi Nodding (438 points)
Runners up:
401 - Fiona Birt
383 - Richard Goodwin

Well done to everyone!

The 2025 Wagin Woolarama is coming early this year, so please upload earlier than the Jan competition with the same theme
Subject: A Touch of Red
Definition: The colour RED should occupy a small part of the image.