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Every year Irvine Camera Club challenge our members to try to recreate a famous photo. This year our members took their inspiration from movies, albums, art work as well as iconic photographs. Some of the more humorous creations were...
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This week at Irvine Camera Club we had the pleasure of welcoming Rob Davis from Ayr Camera Club who was judging our third internal club competition of the year. Around 80 images were submitted for this ‘Projected Digital Image’...
This week at Irvine Camera Club we had the pleasure of welcoming members from Levern Camera Club for our annual friendly knock out competition. With each club submitting sixteen images, they are projected one at a time on the screen anonymously before being projected side by side....
A reminder to everyone that our print exhibition is still on display at the Irvine Library and will continue to be there until the end of the year.
I am very pleased to report that after the exhibition has been taken down in the first week of January, it will be transferred to...
Canadian ladies visit by Fiona Wallace
Three members of Irvine Camera Club recently put their sports photography skills to use at Greenacres Curling Centre in Howwood.
Fiona Wallace, David Bell and Donnie Briggs stepped up to the hog lines to capture the action at the...
I am very pleased to announce that Irvine Camera Club have been awarded the full amount of North Ayrshire Council Locality Participatory Budget funding requested for our "Photography for Everyone" project.
Thank you to everyone who voted...
Irvine Camera Club is pleased to announce that at a recent assessment day, our Treasurer, Colin Houston, has been awarded the distinction of Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society.
Colin had to submit a panel of 10 images showing variety in approach and...
Irvine Camera Club has created a catalogue of our weekly Irvine Herald articles, providing a fascinating history of the club from September 2021 to the present day. We will keep the gallery...
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Last week Irvine Camera Club welcomed Keith Walker to judge our first print competition of the season. Keith is a photographer and educator from Shambellie House near Dumfries. Shambellie is a fantastic creative centre for arts and...
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Some ghostly goings on down at Irvine Camera last week as Halloween arrived again. Last week we turned our meeting hall into a spooky spectacular as members were encouraged to bring along their cameras to see if they could photograph...
Irvine Camera Club is delighted to announce that, at a recent RPS Assessment day, our Honorary President and current Secretary, Clive Watkins, was awarded the distinction of Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.
The Associate distinction...
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There are many ways of taking a photograph using a variety of techniques, whether playing with the shutter speed to create blurs or pin sharp images, adjusting the aperture to create different depth of field effects or moving the whole camera to...
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Competitions are an important part of a Photography Clubs season. At Irvine Camera Club we celebrate our competitions as an opportunity to get constructive and supportive feedback on our images. Our results evenings are...
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With the new season well under way, it has been a fantastic couple of weeks at Irvine Camera Club. We started the season off with an inspirational talk by Andrew Allan on Astrophotography, full of incredible images and useful...
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What shall I photograph today?
One of the great things I get to see every week are the images that our club members create. The range of subjects is varied, along with varying techniques and styles make it a...
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As a subject water tends to be a big influence on our members. Whether trying to avoid it as it falls from the skies or using it in our images, it can be seen throughout all of our work.
It helps to be living...
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One of the wonderful things we get to do as photographers is to share images, memories and create discussion in social groups regarding our work. It can be a very social thing to do, taking photographs. There are those that...
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Portencross is a very special place to visit whatever the weather. It has stunning views of the islands across the Firth Of Clyde, a Castle, a small port, and is a great place to start exploring the coast and hills with plenty of local history...
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We sometimes like to venture further afield on our photo walks, and towards the end of our summer season, the club decided to take a run up to Greenock to get some photography with a maritime influence. By sheer happy coincidence, perhaps...
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On one of the few sunny evenings of the summer, several members of Irvine Camera Club headed on the short trip down to Dunure Castle. The sunshine breaking through the moody sky gave some excellent “Golden Hour” light to get great photos of the...
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On a lovely sunny August evening, a large group of keen photographers from Irvine Camaera Club headed up to Glasgow to explore one of our favourite locations, The Pacific Quay.
The architecture there provides ample opportunity for...
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A few weeks ago Irvine Camera Club had a photowalk around Paisley. Many thanks to Fiona Wallace for organising this one.
To Quote Fiona "Our Tuesday trundle took us on a circular route around Paisley's historic sites...
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With this summer’s rather unpredictable weather, our photowalk to Saltcoats this year was spread over a number of evenings, culminating a large turnout on the 23rd July. On a nice evening Saltcoats has much to offer photographically....
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Each year Irvine Camera Club go on a summer trip to destination further afield than we usually venture. This year we hired a 15 seater mini-bus and headed to the iconic Lancashire seaside resort town of Blackpool. An early morning...
Our Irvine Library Exhibition was installed today by Clive, Alan, Malcolm M and Roy
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There’s no getting around it, this summer has been wet. Undeterred, our season of summer photo walks continues but with the challenging weather there always needs to be a backup plan. The images presented this week are from...
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On a recent Tuesday evening, members of Irvine Camera Club took a trip up to Dean Castle Country Park. We challenged our photographers to take photos from a different perspective of their surroundings by adjusting their positions to get high up...
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This week’s photographs are brought to you from the beautiful Isle of May, just a few miles off the Fife coast. Several of our club members made the trip across to Anstruther on a glorious Saturday morning in June to take the ferry over to the...
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The images this week come from an evening visit to Largs by Irvine Camera Club. A beautiful evening walk along the coast from the marina up past the famous pencil to the town provided plenty of things to photograph. The...
We were back in Ayr today for the first session of a new START (South Ayrshire Treatment And Recovery) Photography programme.
We let the participants upload photos to a gallery which we then view on the projector and discuss before we headed out to take more.
Thank you to Tracy...
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This week’s images are all from Irvine Camera Club’s recent visit to Muirshiel Country Park, just outside of Lochwinnoch. This location was suggested and the walk led by one of our members and was the first time into this part of...
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It’s very easy when planning photo walks to look beyond where we live to places that we feel may be more exciting. But never forget to look just outside your back door. This week Irvine Camera...
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This set of images was taken on a recent photo walk up Loudon Hill in the Irvine Valley, near Darvel. Members of Irvine Camera Club, having been thwarted the week before by bad weather, undertook the climb in the name of photography...
Robertson Park
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With our season of summer photo walks well under way, members of Irvine Camera Club are out and about every week with their cameras.
This week we present some images taken by members who made...
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With our season of summer photo walks well under way, members of Irvine Camera Club are out and about every week with their cameras capturing a variety of subjects that caught their eye.
This week we present some images taken...
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With our season of summer photo walks well under way, members of Irvine Camera Club have been out and about over the last few weeks with their cameras capturing a variety of subjects that caught their eye.
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With Summer a bit hit or miss weather wise, we are definitely in ‘Summer Season’ here at Irvine Camera Club as we embark on our annual season of summer photo-walks. These photos are from our first trip out to Glasgow and as you can see...
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Last week, Irvine Rugby Club played in the Mens Bowl Final at the Hive Stadium, in the shadow of Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. As a photography club, we have had the pleasure of working with the club and following them...
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At ICC we pride ourselves on our ability to help support local groups such as the Anam Cara Dementia respite Centre we featured recently. Another group we have been working closely with this year has been the Irvine Rugby Club,...
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Recently, we were really proud to have been asked to supply photographs for Anam Cara, a specialist dementia respite centre in Kilbirnie which has just re-opened to guests. Following on from last week, this week we are looking at more of the images...
Well done to Donnie Briggs, Malcolm Yates and Adrian Jones for going to Murrayfield last weeked to cover Irvine Rugby Club in the final of the Men's Bowl.
Some of their photos are featured on the back pages of this week's Herald.
You can find a bigger selection of the guys' work...
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One of the amazing things we get to do as a camera club is to get involved with the local community. Recently this had led to some incredible partnerships with local organisations and communities. Recently, we were really proud to have...
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This week we present a series of landscapes that members have taken. I always talk about how varied the interests are in our club with members actively engaged in wildlife, street, urban, studio, and animal photography. But...
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This week, I am showcasing more images from our recent knockout competition. It’s always a great competition that showcases the very best work of our members. Our members have a wide range of interests and it’s a strength of...
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This week, as we approach the end of our indoor season and look forward to getting out every week on our photo-walks, we finished the year with some truly spectacular images in our annual ‘Ian Davidson Memorial Knockout Competition’. ...
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This week I have been looking through the images that were entered in our annual panel competition and what strikes me is how diverse the photographic skills are within Irvine Camera Club. The diversity of interests within the club...
Irvine v Lochaber
Irvine 30 - Lochaber 7
Photos by Donnie Briggs, Adrian Jones and David Bell for Irvine Camera Club featured on the back page of this week's Irvine Herald. Well done chaps!
Dear members of Irvine Camera Club,
North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who so kindly gave permission for their artwork to be shared in ...
As part of our 2024 Festival of Photography taking place this summer we’re calling ALL photographers (amateur and professional) for...
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Recently, we were joined by Dave Ferguson who had kindly agreed to adjudicate our annual panel competition.
This challenge is a break from the normal camera club competition, which tends to focus...
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We are very proud of the fact that a third of our members are women and in this week of International Womens Day we are celebrating the incredible images that these members have created over the last year.
Coming from a variety of...
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CELEBRATING OUR WOMEN MEMBERS
If you’ve never been to a camera club before, you might be under the impression that its membership is mainly made up of men who are aged 65 and above. Whilst a few of our members do fall into that...
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There is always something to photograph even on days where the weather isn’t great. I recently found images from a photo-walk in Auchencruive that club members went on last year and it got me thinking about the challenges of finding...
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It has been a busy few weeks at Irvine Camera Club with talks, competitions, judging and this week we had a practical photoshoot at the club with two models and a full light and backdrop set up.
Looking ahead we are...
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This week at Irvine CC we had the pleasure of welcoming Campbell Skinner to present his judging comments on our Colour Print Competition. It is always interesting to hear the views of others on our work and we are grateful to Campbell...
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This week at Irvine CC we had the pleasure of welcoming Campbell Skinner to present his judging comments on our Mono Print Competition. It is always interesting to hear the views of others on our work, but also to receive some advice...
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This week at Irvine CC we had the pleasure of welcoming Alistair Jackson, a photographer originally from Skye who gave us a talk on Island Hopping around the Scottish Islands. A really informative talk with lots of great images and...
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This week at Irvine CC we had the pleasure of visiting Cumnock Camera Club for another of our social meet ups and knock out competition. Thank you to Tom Nelson for arranging the competition and to Derrick Phillips and Andrew Flannigan...
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Here at Irvine CC, our weekly meetings have now resumed and we have had the pleasure of visiting other camera clubs in Ayrshire for the ever popular knock out competitions. Our first was a visit to Beith Camera Club where we were...
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Happy New Year! This year at Irvine Camera Club looks like being the busiest ever with a growing membership, a photography studio workspace for members to book, weekly meetings, talks and competitions and a busy social media presence with a...
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This time of year tends to be when we reflect on the past year and look forward to what the coming months will bring. As we hope for dry, sunny days where we can get out with the camera, it is also when I look back through images to...
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This year, as Christmas approaches, we take a lighter and more humorous approach to photography at Irvine Camera Club with our fun competition entitled ‘The Picture I Wish I’d Taken’.
Tasked with finding a photo we like...
Earlier in the year the RPS ran a series of Coastal Walks all across the UK. The participants from each walk chose one photo from their walk to be featured in an Ezine. I'm pleased to say that our very own David Bell had is photo picked from the Photo Walk run by Clive at...
I am pleased to announce that Tracy won November's Royal Photographic Society Scotland Photo of the Month competition with her creative photo "Genesis"
Well done Tracy!
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This week we present some of the Highly Commended images from our Open Digital Projected Image Competition. Colin McLatchie, from Eastwood Photographic Club, came along to our club night to judge our images and did a great job of...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls some food for thought over the Festive. The SPF print competition will open for entries early January. It is open to club and individual entries. All entries are through the club and if you wish to enter, we need the prints by...
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Photographic competitions, a staple of a photography clubs’ season, are a great way to present your images to other people and receive feedback on them. It always starts conversations and generates discussion as to the merits or...
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This week we present more of our colour images from our first colour print competition of the season. The images this week all demonstrate the importance of colour in images. Of course, some images look better in black...
Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls just a wee reminder that the Picture I Wish I Had Taken entry is open on the webbysite. We know we said enter by e-mail, but your wonderful committee worked hard and managed to set up an online entry. If you have more than one, pop off an...
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This week we present some colour images from our first colour print competition of the season. Standards were high again with images demonstrating the wide range of interests of members in various styles. Once again Robert...
Masters of Print
Please note we are not entering a club entry after our recent attempt at SPF competitions (Report to follow) you can enter as an individual.
To do so go to the SPF Website.
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Lasies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, as we are having a great discussion on prints, may I remind folk that the PAGB Masters of Print competition still has a weeek or so to enter. just pop along to the SPF webbysite and under the tag External Competitions all the info is in front of you in...
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This week we present some more black and white images that were presented in our recent Mono Print Competition. These images show a variety of subjects that have been photographed with weather playing a part in the final image. ...
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This week we welcomed Robert Spence to our club to present his awards and judging comments in our first mono print competition of the year. Robert has years of experience to draw upon and spent time with every image, making suggestions...
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People are always an interesting subject to photograph and this selection of members images shows a vartiety of ways that they can be the subject in your images. Catching people off-guard, or from behind can tell stories, whilst asking...
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Variety is the spice of life, so they say and this is certainly true at Irvine Camera Club. Over the last few meeting’s we have been treated to a wide range of imagery presented by members and so this week I thought I would highlight the...
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The popular DPI – Digital Projected Image competition which is an open digital image competition on any subject in either colour or black and white always throws up a variety of incredible images taken by our members. Not only does it...
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This week we had our first club competition of the year. It was the popular DPI – Digital Projected Image competition, an open digital image competition on any subject in either colour or black and white.
The visiting...
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Autumn is upon us and our regular Tuesday evening club meets are well underway with lots of new faces which is great to see. This week’s set of images are from earlier in the year when we took an evening club trip to...
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Over the past few week’s we have been having a look back at the people we have met whilst out on our travels with our cameras. This week’s selection of images show some of the people we have met but who were on their way somewhere....
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This week we are taking a look back to a beautiful late summers evening at Portencross. With an incredible sunset to round off the evening there was a lot to photograph. ...
Irvine Camera Club recently went out along the river Irvine to document a big clean-up effort with Irvine Clean Up Crew, the Rubbish Paddlers, Irvine Sea Cadets, Scottish Maritime Museum, Coastwatch Irvine and other partners.
Teamwork was needed to clear and remove all the rubbish...
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This week we are taking a look back over the summer with this selection of images from Irvine Camera Club members. One of the great things about being a member of a club is the weekly interactions you...
This week’s selection of images from Irvine Camera Club members were taken on a recent trip to Buchanan Wharf, Glasgow. As with our recent trip a few weeks back to St James Dock, Greenock, there was plenty to see and lots of opportunity for some creative photography as well. ...
This week’s selection of images from Irvine Camera Club members were taken on a recent trip to Girvan harbour. As is sometimes the case, the weather was not going to give us the beautiful golden sunset we all hoped for, but instead gave us grey, wet and blustery.
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This week’s selection of images from Irvine Camera Club members were taken on a recent trip to the St James Watt Dock, Greenock. With some great evening sunlight and broken clouds there was plenty to photograph. As always, the different interests of our members...
Our 2023 Irvine Library Exhibition is now on display until the end of September. Well done everyone who provided prints, I hope you enjoy seeing your work on public display. All framed prints are on sale for £60 with 20% going to the library.
Thank you to Alan...
Last week we looked at images from our photo walk around our home town of Irvine. With so much to see and photograph around the town, this week we present a further set of images from the same evening walk.
Irvine has a wealth of subjects to photograph from the architecture,...
If you have been following our travels over the summer months. You will know that we have been visiting places of photographic interest all over Ayrshire and beyond. This time we stayed closer to home, in fact our home town of Irvine was the focus to see what we could find. ...
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Members of Irvine Camera Club were out on a photo walk again last week. This time the destination was Dumfries on a lovely sunny afternoon. For some this was their first time exploring the town and its...
Some members from Irvine Camera Club recently spent an afternoon at the Doon Valley Railway, at Waterside, near Patna during one of their open days. Always great to see local history up close and working with steam engines running and knowledgeable people on site.
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Recently Irvine Camera Club took an evening trip down to Dunure to visit the harbour and the castle. On what turned out to be a beautiful warm evening, there was plenty to photograph as the sun dropped and the sky turned a stunning orange. The views across to Ailsa Craig...
Recently Irvine Camera Club took an evening stroll around Dumfries House. As a photographer there’s a lot to keep you busy within the grounds of the house and every time I visit, I find something new to capture. From the house itself with the impressive trees on the lawn to...
Recently Irvine Camera Club took an evening stroll around Kelburn Castle and Estate. With so much to see we were spoilt for choice and the resulting panel of images shows the diversity of interests that club members have.
The castle itself, with its...
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Recently Irvine Camera Club went on an adventure into the unknown as we left Girvan, heading out into the Firth of Clyde for the ten mile boat trip to visit Ailsa Craig. Steeped in history and sitting...
Summer photo walks are continuing with a recent visit to Whitelee Windfarm on Eaglesham Moor. The weather was a little windy with a chill in the air, as you would expect up on the moor, but it allowed for some moody dramatic images to be taken and reminds us that far from perfect...
As you may know, Irvine Camera Club choose a local charity each year to support. Sometimes judges and speakers forgo their fee & expenses - we use the money that we would have given them to donate to the charity. Bob Wark sold a print at the Crosshouse exhibition and he...
Kilmarnock may not be the first place that springs to mind when heading out on a photo walk, but that is where members of Irvine Camera Club found themselves one evening last week. The wonderful thing about photography is that if you look carefully there is always something to capture...
Irvine Camera Club is a very active club and we have at least one, sometimes two, ocassionally even three photo walks a week going on. These are a great excuse to get outside, especially on the evening walks after a day at work and explore the countryside or a location that can be...
This year Culzean Castle and Country Park are hosting guided photo walks, led by a professional photographer and accompanied by a park ranger. In preparation for this, Irvine Camera Club were invited to a preview of the public event.
The guided walk led to...
On a rather chilly April evening a large contingent of members from Irvine Camera Club met up at the Ballast Bank in Troon. With the intent of getting photos of the harbour, the shoreline and hopefully some nature, we set off to explore the area.
The light was...
Our most prestigious award, The President’s Quaich, was this year presented to David Bell. This trophy is award to the photographer who amasses most points across all competitions in the season. David is a keen landscape photographer, and his beautiful photographs document the...
This year Irvine Camera Club were proud to award the Dreghorn Plate for Most Improved Photographer to Trudi Fitzsimmons.
Trudi has only been with the club for a couple of years but in that time she has already begun to carve out her own distinctive approach to photography....
As our winter season draws to a close, Irvine Camera Club is recognising and celebrating the work of its members over the past year. Last week we held our yearly prize giving night. One of the most keenly contested trophies is always the Eglinton Plate which is awarded to...
This week Irvine Camera Club held our annual prize giving and social evening. As well as our digital and print leagues various other trophies were handed out for excellence in subject specific photography.
Every year we award the Eglinton Plate to our best beginning photographer...
Irvine Camera Club had its AGM on the 28th March where we reflected on our activities and achievements over the past 12 months.
It has been an excellent year for Irvine Camera Club. Our change of venue and the move to a Tuesday night has seen a large increase...
This week Irvine Camera Club staged the first round of our End of Season Knock Out competition. Everyone in the club was asked to provide two new photographs for this special event, the winner of which will be awarded the Ian Davidson Memorial trophy in memory of our long-term...
As you probably know, Irvine Camera Club run a weekly challenge for our members to go out and take a photo for a theme that we set every Monday morning. A couple of weeks ago we chose the theme “Chair”. As usual our keen photographers were soon out there snapping all manner...
I recently brought you the top 2 photographic panels from a new competition format we introduced this year. Our panel challenge was designed to encourage our members to express an idea, concept or theme using more than one image. This week we have another two...
Each year at Irvine Camera Club we hold a collaboration challenge where our members are paired up to work together on each other’s photography. Each person takes a photograph and hands it to their partner to post-process.
There is still a belief by some photographers that a “...
This week Irvine Camera Club present two photo projects that came first and second in our recent Photography Panel competition judged by Chris Gilgallon of the University of the West of Scotland
The Modern sheilings of Lewis by David Bell (1st Place)
During my...
Irvine Camera Club welcomed Levern Camera Club (near Barrhead) to our club room on Tuesday night for another one of our famous Knock Out competitions. Both clubs provided 16 photographs which were displayed in pairs and voted on by the audience. With over 40 people in the...
A few weeks ago, Ruth Hayton of Ayr Photographic Society was at Irvine Camera Club to judge the second and final round of our monochrome print competition.
Ruth brought her unique approach to assessing our black & white printed photographs, giving each one a careful analysis,...
Last Tuesday evening, Irvine Camera Club concluded its photographic print competitions for this season. We welcomed Ruth Hayton from Ayr Photographic Society to assess both the monochrome and colour print work of our members.
In this edition we are focussing on the colour...
A couple of weeks ago we welcomed our friends from Cumnock Camera Club to our meeting room at the Irvine Community Sports Club for one of our inter-club knock-out competitions. In the world of competitive photography, our creative work is almost always left in the hands of an...
Members of Irvine Camera Club were invited to join a Royal Photographic Society street photography walk in Glasgow last weekend. The RPS is becoming increasingly active in Scotland with a network of regional representatives throughout the country. Irvine CC now has four RPS...
A few weeks ago, we set our club members a task to take a photograph of something in way that disguises what it is. A photo which makes the viewer ask, “What the heck is that?”
This usually involves getting in very close with the camera and only showing a part of the object....
Irvine Camera Club are currently exhibiting some of our members’ framed prints at Crosshouse Hospital. The club’s work is arranged along one of the walls in the main corridor where we expect it will be viewed by hundreds of patients and visitors. The exhibition is on until...
By Janet Paterson
In 2016 my life changed beyond anything I could ever imagine and I knew in that in order to keep “going forward” that I had to do something that made me happy. With this in mind I left my job early February 2017 and enrolled in a photography course...
Happy New Year from everyone at Irvine Camera Club! I am using this first issue of 2023 to bring you a few of my favourite images of this season so far. Rather than repeat the selections made by our competition judges, I have put together a set of photographs that, although...
As we headed towards Christmas we injected a bit of fun into proceedings at Irvine Camera Club. This week our long-standing member, Bob Wark, hosted a humourous evening based on the idea of getting our members to recreate an image that they wish they had taken themselves.
This...
Our print exhibition opens on Saturday in the main corridor of Crosshouse Hospital.
Thank you to Alan Kempster for bringing it all together at such short notice.
Last Tuesday night Irvine Camera Club welcomed Andy Stark to judge our second Digital Projected Image competition of the season. With another large entry of almost 90 images Andy did very well to give a detailed assessment of everyone's photographs. All our members...
This week Irvine Camera Club brings you a dose of the winter blues… but don’t worry, despite the cool theme, there are plenty of creative photos in the selection to make you smile.
These are all photographs taken from one of the weekly challenges that we run on our popular Members &...
Irvine Camera Club run a popular and vibrant Facebook group for our members and anyone with an interest in the club. To keep everyone’s photographic juices flowing we set weekly themes and invite group members to submit images that fit the theme. At the end of the week,...
By Tracy Ross
Following on from the results of our monochrome print competition last week, Irvine Camera Club brings you some glorious technicolour images to brighten up your late November days. Our judge, Guy Philips from Helensburgh, was given a very challenging task with our...
By Tracy Ross
Last Tuesday night Irvine Camera Club were back at Irvine Sports Club, where we were joined by our guest judge for the evening, Guy Phillips - who would be assessing our C2 Open Mono Print and C3 Open Colour Print rounds.
With almost 90 prints in total to be...
Many people join a camera club because they want to improve their photography. At Irvine Camera club our members are inspired and motivated to continually learn new skills as well as to hone their appreciation of what makes a good photograph. None more so than our...
We had something very different this week at Irvine Camera Club. Local artist David McRae came along to the club to show us his drawings and paintings. David works almost entirely from photographs, often building up complex composite images with interweaving themes and...
Last week members of Irvine Camera Club visited Dalry Camera Club for a knock out competition. Each club put forward 16 photographs which were paired against each other and voted on by the assembled audience. With Dalry’s Harry Moules at the computer each pair of images was...
Members may be interested in Print and Digital exhibitions which are being run in Edinburgh next month. Clive Watkins & Tracy Ross have entries in both exhibitions, so if you are across that way you may want to pop in and have a look - details below:
...This week saw the first photography competition of the new season at Irvine Camera Club. With another great turnout at Irvine Comminity Sports Club, we welcomed along Stuart Strachan to assess our images from our first Open Competition.
Stuart, a member of Kilmaurs...
On a clear autumnal evening in late September, Irvine Camera Club arrived at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine for our annual visit. It has now become a tradition for us to invite other local camera clubs to join us at the Linthouse for a few hours of light industrial photography...
Irvine Camera Club is undertaking an ambitious project to document local community groups and organisations with the intention of putting on a major photographic exhibition towards the end of next year. Our plan is to involve as many of our members as possible. Getting them...
The first week of September saw Irvine Camera Club start the season at our new home, The Irvine Community Sports Club, with an open social evening. We welcomed nearly 40 people to our fabulous new venue, with our returning club members joined by several new keen photographers as well...
On a warm and sunny late August Saturday afternoon a small number of Irvine Camera Club members set off to Strathaven for the return of the annual hot-air balloon festival following a gap of 2 years due to the pandemic.
Strathaven is small town and over the weekend of the festival it...
A few shots of the “North Ayrshire Through the Lens photo competition” exhibition which is currently on show at the Trinity Active Travel Hub. The winning and shortlisted photos are on display and a film has been made of all the competition entries - viewing at the Trinity, Bridgegate, Irvine....
For our last mid-week summer photo walk this year, members of Irvine Camera Club headed down to Rozelle Park in Ayr. As soon as we arrived we had to work quickly because the light was already beginning to go. It is amazing just how quickly the days have begun to shorten as...
I am very pleased to report that Irvine Camera Club has once again been enjoying some fantastic success on the national photographic scene. Earlier in the year the club entered the Scottish Photographic Federation Print Championship. Camera clubs and photographic societies...
As we drove along the Kilbirnie road early on Saturday morning, dropping down into Largs we were greeted by a bank of fog and light drizzle. Not exactly an encouraging start for our day trip to Bute! Fortunately, the sun didn’t take long to start to burn away the gloomy...
Just like last year, Irvine Camera Club had another beautiful evening a Portencross last Wednesday. The glorious weather also brought out anglers, paddle boarders as well kids and families, all keen to make the most of warm evening sunshine.
Our keen photographers made the most of...
These are the individual print scores from the 2022 SPF Print Championship which saw Irvine Camera Club come 4th in the Colour Prints and 8th Overall.
All prints scored from 2 to 5 by three judges, giving a minimum total score of 6 and a maximum of 15
Well done to everyone...
For the first time since the pandemic, Dundonald held it’s Highland Games last weekend. A precursor to the big event was the Dundonald 10K run. Several Irvine Camera Club members turned up on Wednesday evening to get some photos of the athletes. We asked them to try to get some...
On a warm but breezy last day of July, a group of Irvine Camera Club members met up with Derek Dunlop Photography for a few hours of editorial photography training. Derek used to be a member of the club before going on to set up his own photography business. He is an award-winning...
Last week Irvine Camera Club decided to take a trip to a location that we haven’t visited before, Kelburn Castle & Estate. Access is available to the estate after the visitor centre closes. A large group of us assembled in the car park and we set off to explore. ...
Dear Club Member,
As you may know, the committee have been actively looking for suitable accommodation for next year's club season. I am pleased to announce that we have found and secured a new venue. In order to get the new room we have had to change our meeting night from a...
In the latest of Irvine Camera Club’s summer photo walks, some of our members took a trip down to Alloway to explore the area around Brig O’ Doon. This location is steeped in the history of Rabbie Burns and probably his most famous poem, Tam O’s Shanter.
We had been hoping for...
Last week Irvine Camera Club took a wee trip down to Auchincruive just east of Ayr. Up until 2007 the estate was home to the Scottish Agricultural College. Many of the college buildings remain giving the abandoned site a ghostly atmosphere, perfect for capturing some interesting...
Paisley Photo-Walk by Fiona Wallace
Wednesday 23rd June saw Irvine Camera Club take to the streets of Paisley for our Wednesday evening photo-walk. Having lived in the area for some time, I volunteered to take a group of club members on a tour of the town centre. The...
A couple of weeks ago, Irvine Camera Club decided to take a saunter down to the shipwreck of the SS Kaffir, whose decaying remains sit broken in two and jutting awkwardly from the sea just north of Ayr harbour. We had chosen the time carefully to coincide with a low tide so that we could...
A few weeks ago, Irvine Camera Club visited Dumfries House, not far from Cumnock, on another of our popular summer photo walks. Dumfries House is one of Britain's most beautiful stately homes. Set in 2,000 acres of land it offered our keen photographers plenty of subjects to aim their...
Dunure provides top backdrop for photos
On a beautiful summer’s evening a couple of weeks ago, members of Irvine Camera Club headed down to Dunure Castle for a Wednesday night photo-walk. Dunure is one of our favourite locations as it offers spectacular views of the...
If interested, please make your own arrangements to go along. No "official" SC workshop upload for your images, but you may wish to share in our Facebook group.
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Over the course of a few days at the end of May several of our members took advantage of the opening of Bargany Gardens to the public. Bargany, near Grivan, has an extensive 5- acre mature woodland garden with a fine show of azaleas and rhododendrons. There is also a lovely lake with...
A couple of weeks ago Irvine Camera Club took a short hike up the glen at Fairlie as one of our regular photo walks. With stout footwear and suitable waterproof layers we trapsed up the steep path from Fairlie Station to the castle. As it was cloaked in scaffolding and undergoing...
In order to encourage our members to enter the recent “Stories Through the Lens” photo competition run by The Trinity, Irvine Camera Club organised a photo-walk in Irvine a few weeks ago.
2022 is ‘Scotland’s Year of Stories’ and North Ayrshire’s story is written in its mix of coast and...
Culzean Trip by Alan Kempster
On Wednesday the 11th of May, Irvine Camera Club’s Photo-walk evening was to Culzean Castle and Gardens. Although the National Trust property closes its gates at 5 pm it is possible to park at Maidens and walk along the beautiful sandy beach to the steep...
If interested, please make your own arrangements to go along. No "official...
After seeing an advertisement for Dodds Of Troon on the same page as our Herald feature a couple of weeks ago, the club decided to take advantage of their day trip to Belfast. Seven keen club members (plus one husband!) signed up for the coach and ferry trip. On a rather...
Irvine Camera Club went on a bit of road trip up to the waterfront at Greenock last Wednesday evening. Club member Fiona Wallace knows the area well and she kindly volunteered to be our guide for the evening. With a large group of us assembled at the Customs House, our friend and...
Irvine Camera Club kicked off our summer photo walk season last week with a wee jaunt down to the rocky coast at Troon’s Ballast Bank shore. This has become a regular venue for the club as it is reasonably local for most members and it offers some varied and interesting photographic...
Beautiful scencery captured by the lens
Landscape photography is probably one of Irvine Camera Club’s most popular genres. It is easy to see why. One of the first things that we want to do when we get a camera is to record where we have been. To show what...
Irvine Camera Club is taking a short Easter break before we begin our Summer Photo Walk programme. I thought I would take this opportunity to have a closer look at some of the photos I took on short holiday on the Crinan Canal last summer.
Crinan is an area of Scotland that I was...
This week Irvine Camera Club held its annual Prize Giving evening. Even though covid is still an ongoing concern we wanted to close the season properly in the usual fashion with a celebration of all our members’ photography. We encouraged everyone to come along to Fullarton Hub with...
This week Irvine Camera Club held our Annual General Meeting. Although there were some changes to the personnel on the committee, none of the posts were contested and our chair, Tracy Ross, steered us through proceedings efficiently in short order.
With the refreshed committee now in...
After a long winter season, the last competitive trophy of the year at Irvine Camera Club is the Ian Davidson Memorial Quaich. This is awarded to the winner of our annual internal Knock-Out competition. Unlike nearly all our other competitions, this one is voted for by the club...
This week at Irvine Camera Club was a lot of fun. Over the last couple of weeks our members had been paired up with each other and asked to swap photographs. The intention was for everyone to get someone else’s photograph and to add their own interpretation in post-processing....
This week Irvine Camera Club welcomed some of the members of Beith Camera Club for a social evening together with a bit of friendly photographic competition. It has been a while since we have been able to host an evening like this in person and we were keen to make it a...
This week Irvine Camera Club bring you the results of our final judged competition of the season, the concluding round of the Colour Prints. Our judge, Robert Spence from Kilmaurs Photographic Club, knows a thing or two about the art of producing quality printed images. Not only is...
Living by the coast offers endless opportunities for creative seascape photography. One of Irvine Camera Club’s newer members, Colin Houston, has developed a real interest in the genre. That, coupled with his enjoyment of all things meteorological, prompted him to suggest that a few...
As we approach the end of the winter season at Irvine Camera Club and we start to look forward to warmer and longer spring days, I thought it would be good to look back at some of the fantastic work that has been produced by our talented members over the last year.
I have been browsing...
Many members of Irvine Camera Club regard themselves as documentary photographers, telling the stories of everyday life and events for current and future audiences. An event at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, presented an opportunity to record something through a kind of double lens – a...
Irvine Camera Club not only meet up in person most weeks at the Fullarton Community Hub, we also run workshops and studio nights at the Townend Community Centre in Dreghorn on selected Monday evenings. On top of all that we also have an active social media presence. This primarily through our...
This week members of Irvine Camera Club headed off to visit our friends at Cumnock Camera Club for a photography knock out competition. Trips like these have been sadly missed over the past two years, with most clubs having to rely on Zoom to virtual meet. So, it was lovely to...
Irvine Camera Club completed their Digital Projected Image competition this week, with esteemed landscape photographer, Mark McColl from Ayr Photographic Society joining us to judge our images. Due to the continuing pandemic this meeting was held on Zoom.
This was an important...
Happy New Year to all the readers from everyone at Irvine Camera Club. We are going to start 2022 with a little look back over some of the superb images our fantastic members produced last year with a bit of a “deep cut” into our archives. Photography isn’t just about winning...
Editorial by Colin Duffy
Photography was something I had been interested in learning for a few years, but like most people I had a busy life and I never seemed to get around to it.
I moved from East Kilbride to Saltcoats a couple of years ago, and then to Irvine within the last...
Following on from our marvellous medley of monochromatic images last week, in this issue Irvine Camera Club is brightening up your short winter days with a cracking collection of creative colour.
In the second part of his judging for us, Campbell Skinner, president of Greenock Camera Club...
This week we welcomed the president of Greenock Camera Club, Campbell Skinner, to judge our first two print competitions of the season. Campbell has been judging at the highest level for many years so we knew we were in for a good evening.
For our prints we run two separate...
Islay has become one of my favourite Scottish destinations for getting away from in it all. This wonderful island is relatively easy to get to and offers splendid isolation, fantastic scenery, fabulous natural history and, of course, stunning whisky!
We visited in early July this...
I had always liked taking pictures of holidays and events from when I was a teenager. I had gone from Kodak Instamatics, with their cube flashbulbs, to Olympus Single Lens Reflex (SLR) and finally a Digital SLR, but I had not really considered the composition and technicalities of...
This week we are having a look at the results of the Irvine Camera Club Landscape competition which was judged for us by Rob Davis of Ayr Photographic Society.
Rob was treated to a good submission of photographs from our membership demonstrating a wide variety of locations and styles for...
This week at Irvine Camera Club we held the judging for the first two trophies of the season. The In-Store Photo Quaich is awarded this year to the winner of our Sports In Action competition, and the Perceton Quaich goes to the winner of the Landscape competition.
Our judge for both...
I recently had the opportunity to complete a Mental Health First Aider Course and the importance of hobbies was highlighted as a mechanism to help with stress, anxiety and depression. This made me reflect on my interest in photography and how important it is to me. I have always found it to be a...
For a wee bit of fun, in-between the serious business of competition, we like to set our members and friends a weekly photographic challenge. Since the start of October, we have been asking our members and friends to go out with their cameras each week to capture images relating to...
In a sign that things are slowly getting back to something like normality, this week Irvine Camera Club hosted Dalry Camera Club at the splendid Fullarton Connexions venue in Irvine. The large church hall provided a spacious, comfortable and safe environment in which to accommodate the...
This week Irvine Camera Club had our first live, in person, judging evening since the pandemic started. We took up residence in the Fullarton Community Hub in Irvine and we were delighted to welcome a large number of members along for the judging.
Our judge for this Digital Projected...
The West Coast of Scotland has a long history of seafaring, and the Clyde river was home to some famous shipyards in their time. Much of the history of that seafaring is on display at the Irvine Maritime Museum. There are many exhibitions varying from simple wooden block and tackles to complete...
Autumn has well and truly arrived and summer is already feeling like a distant memory. With the change of the season, Irvine Camera Club photographers have been out and about with their cameras creatively capturing images of the changing colours and scenery. It’s not just the colours...
Following our very successful opening night, Irvine Camera Club started the new season properly with a fun “Knock Out” competition. We asked all of our members to provide three of their favourite photographs taken on our summer evening photo walks.
On the evening, the photos were...
Irvine Camera Club kicked off our new season with a weekend road trip to the Forth Valley. Ten of our intrepid club members made their way across to the Falkirk Wheel on a rather gloomy Saturday morning for a 10:30 rendezvous. Although it was cloudy there were only a few fleeting...
This week Irvine Camera Club held our season Open evening at Townend Community Centre in Dreghorn. With North Ayrshire Council COVID restrictions in place we were limited to accommodating a maximum of 22 people. With most of our existing members, as well as a good number of new faces...
We really couldn’t have asked for better weather for our final evening photo walk of the summer. Portencross is always a special place to visit and last week we were blessed with the lingering warmth of a long hot summer’s day and the glorious golden light of the sun setting across the...
As the summer draws to an end, Irvine Camera Club are making the most of the fine weather and the good light that is often afforded to us by the early sunsets. Over the previous few months we have mainly stayed in the local area with trips to Troon, Greenan Castle, Lynn Glen, Saltcoats,...
This week the results of the Scottish Photographic Federation Print Championship were announced. Earlier in the year, camera clubs from all over Scotland were invited by the SPF to submit a selection of their members’ best photography in print form.
Across the world millions of...
Over the last few weeks we have asked our members and friends on our Facebook group to send in photos on the themes of “motion” and “two wheels”. Both challenges have prompted a wide range of interesting photographic interpretations.
Bicycles have of course featured heavily in the...
Rivers are a fantastic environment for creative photography. From the flora and fauna that can be found living in the rich eco-system they provide to the architecture of the bridges which span them – there is always something interesting to look at. Rivers also provide a place for much...
We have just recieved the results of the SPF Print Championship - to be placed 8th overall is an excellent result.
Notable mention to Michele Campbell who scored 2 x 15 which is the maximum score gaining individual awards of Highly Commended for "Knit one purl one" & Commended for "...
As the holiday season continues apace, many members of Irvine Camera Club are getting out and about either on their own or on our regular organised photo walks. Over the last couple of weeks our club has had mini-excursions up to Glasgow and, somewhat closer to home, to Dean Park in...
During the summer months when many folk are finally managing to get away for a well-earned break, it isn’t always easy to get everyone gathered together for camera club meetings. Irvine Camera Club has an active presence on social media and we find that our Facebook group is an ideal way...
Irvine Camera Club has been taking advantage of the good weather we've been having with our summer challenge series, visiting various beauty spots along the West Coast, and on July 7th, it was the turn of Dunure to be descended upon by our members.
The sun was shining, there were...
"A dull and overcast evening was the backdrop for our Irvine Camera Club Summer Challenge in Ayr last week. Despite that, we had a good turnout of members, ready to attempt to take pictures themed to this weeks choices: "Street", "Picturesque Riverside" and one a little bit more technical than...
A selection of members prints mounted in frames from recent years. Open to view 24 hours a day until the 27th August.
Irvine Camera Club has been participating in Exhibitions for many years, usually having an annual exhibition of members photographs in the local Library, and other venues as they occur.
But with lockdown, the Library being closed, and public gatherings not allowed any thought of an...
Last week Irvine Camera Club held its annual Prize Giving evening at the Irvine Water Sports Club. This was the culmination of a fantastic and somewhat remarkable season of competitive club photography. This was a very different year, not only because of the lockdown restrictions we...
On a rather gloomy Wednesday evening last week several members of Irvine Camera Club ventured to Saltcoats promenade to chance our hands and capturing the essence of the seaside town.
One of the challenges this week was for our members to take a “seaside” photo using their mobile phones....
The two slide shows from our prize-giving last night are now available on our YouTube Channel.
Congratulations to eveyone who won prizes! More importantly, thank you to all our members for taking part in all aspects of our club's activities. Here's to an even more successfull...
This week we asked our members to provide a photograph of one of their favourite places in Scotland, either locally or further afield, together with a few words to let us know why it is special to them.
Sandra King
I love to walk along Barassie beach to Irvine. I like to use my...
Last week saw a really good turnout for the Irvine Camera Club evening outing to Lynn Glen. We gathered at the car park just outside Dalry and headed off to explore the glen, lured by the sound of the Caaf Water as it tumbled through the rocky gorge.
As usual we had set...
Donnie Briggs
I recently joined Irvine Camera Club but I have been interested in photography for most of my life having taken up the hobby in my teens. I bought my first camera, a 35mm roll film Zenith, when I was on a school cruise to Russia. These eastern European...
On a warm late spring evening last week, members of Irvine Camera Club headed down to Greenan Shore just south of Ayr for a very enjoyable few hours of photography. After a long lockdown winter we are relishing the opportunity to spend time outside together not just talking about our hobby...
As a keen travel photographer, the last year has been particularly infuriating. During a normal year I would have usually partaken in a least a couple of trips abroad, either for pleasure or on business, but always incorporating some photography during the visits. COVID put a stop to all that...
From Monday 24th May, then on iPlayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/rankin-photography-challenge
Last week, with the relaxing of lockdown restriction, Irvine Camera Club were at long last able to meet up, suitably socially distanced, for a wee evening trip down to Troon Harbour.
At round about 7pm several of our members met up at the Ballast Bank. We could already see the...
Now that the official camera club season has completed, Irvine Camera Club are moving into our summer session. This is where members of the club meet up every couple of weeks to actually get away from the computer screen to go out and take photographs. We will be lining up a good...
Our trip to Iceland – by Alan Campbell
Michele & I visited Iceland for our second time back in Feb 2019. We had been there previously in 2015 but we missed so many things that we knew we had to plan another visit to get around many more of the amazing sights that we wanted to...
This week I am sharing with you the best images from Irvine Camera Club’s final Colour Print Competition of the season. As usual our members did not disappoint with a fantastic diversity of subjects and styles for our esteemed judge, Libby Smith from Carluke, to assess and critique....
After a few weeks of delay due the practicalities of gathering physical prints and distributing them to our external judge, Irvine Camera Club finally managed to complete our print competitions for the year.
The judge for both our monochrome and colour prints was esteemed award-winning...
Article written by Pete Heywood - A few copies of the book are still available and it may be purchased here https://www.thetraditionbearers.co.uk/shop/...
Irvine Camera Club’s “Ian Davidson Memorial Trophy” was decided in dramatic fashion last night with the cut and thrust of an internal club knockout competition. Club members put forward 3 of their favourite images to be voted on randomly by the audience of members and friends.
With a...
The latest eNews special GB Cup edition includes the club results and the entries from the top clubs in the GB Cup and the GB Nature Cup.
Michele's medal...
This week saw the announcement of the results of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) Cups. Irvine Camera Club had entered both the main competition but also the nature competition. We were competing with over 100 camera clubs from all across the UK. As a small club from Ayrshire it...
This week Irvine Camera Club hosted another virtual inter-club knock out competition with our near neighbours and friends, Kilmarnock Photographic Club. As with our previous knock outs, both clubs supplied 16 images each. After a wee bit of general chit chat the excellent turnout of...
I had always wanted to visit Australia, but let’s face it, it’s not exactly on our doorstep! However, following retirement I finally have plenty of time to go! It is a massive country and you certainly don’t want to go for a week’s holiday, three or four weeks is much more...
PRESS RELEASE International Recognition for Local Photographers
Local photographers Michele & Alan Campbell who are members of Irvine Camera Club have been granted membership of the 'Photographers Bar'!
Membership of the 'Photographers Bar' is a unique distinction only...
This week Irvine Camera Club were invited to an inter-club knock out competition with Cumnock Camera Club. As with previous knock outs, both clubs supplied 16 images each. The good turnout of members proceeded to vote on pairs of images using Zoom’s online polling. Bob Wark...
This week Irvine Camera Club virtually travelled up to our friends at Beith Camera Club for a friendly knock-out competition. Both clubs provided 16 images which were randomly presented in pairs for the membership of both clubs to vote on. Despite a few issues with the Zoom...
Each year the Scottish Photographic Federation stage a Digital Championship competition for affiliated camera clubs from all over Scotland. Usually this is held at a venue at Stirling University but this year, due to COVID restrictions, it was held via a 'Zoom' Awards Presentation event'...
Fine Art Portraiture by Michele Campbell
Having first joined Irvine Camera Club some 10 years ago and after some spells at other clubs I decided it was time to return to Irvine at the start of this season. It was at Irvine that I first developed a love for Studio Photography...
The judging of the SPF Digital Championship took place this weekend. Full rules and club results and awards can be found here.
Irvine Camera Club did reasonably well in...
This week Irvine Camera Club hosted Dalry Camera Club for what was the first, but I am sure not last, inter club knock out evening between the two clubs.
In normal times we would have a social evening where members of the clubs would be able to mingle and get to know each other with the...
This week at Irvine Camera Club we welcomed our friend Stuart Strachan, from Kilmaurs Photographic Club, to judge our final Projected Digital Image competition of the season. Once again, our members stepped up to provide a good selection of images, of a wide range of subjects, for Stuart...
The New Year has brought us another new lockdown and, for the next month or so, we should all be doing our best to stay at home and only go out for exercise or when it’s absolutely essential. Fortunately for the members of Irvine Camera Club, photography is great hobby to have when you confined...
I’d like to start by wishing a very Happy New Year to all of the Irvine Herald readers. Irvine Camera Club has been delighted to support the paper during what, by any measure, has been an extremely difficult year. Having the club’s images in the paper each week gave many of our members and extra...
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, in spite of the ongoing restrictions that we are all having to live with. For the final Irvine Camera Club article of the year we are bringing you a fresh selection of images from the first few months of our 2020/2021 season. I think these...
This week we are taking you away from the dark mornings and chilly evenings of the Ayrshire winter on a summer trip to Cuba with our club member Agnes Dalziel...
On a visit Havana you could be forgiven for thinking the city has been frozen in time. There is little evidence...
After the simplicity and starkness of the monochrome prints last week, in this edition Irvine Camera Club is splashing the colour to liven things up a little with the results of our Colour Print competition. Judged on the same evening as mono prints, our friend Andy Stark wasted no time in...
Herald Edition - 25/11/2020
Irvine Camera Club’s set theme competition a few weeks ago had such a large number of entries that we didn’t have the space in one newspaper spread to show you just how good some of wonderful photographers are getting. So, this week I have decided to revisit the...
Herald edition - 02/12/2020
Frank Healey passed away on the 11th of November aged 95. He was someone that any camera club would be proud to have as a member. Clubs such as Irvine thrive on those who enjoy their hobby enormously and are keen to pass on their enthusiasm to other members....
Irvine Camera Club welcomed back (virtually!) a good friend and excellent judge this week, Andy Stark from Kilbarchan, for our first print competition of the season.
The challenge to produce good quality photographic prints requires our members to use a totally different skill set...
Herald Edition - 18/11/2020 by Tracy Ross
I first went along to Irvine Camera Club on a dreich winter’s night in late January this year. Having recently purchased a new camera, I was keen for photography to become my new hobby. Little did I know then how much it would mean to...
Herald Edition - 11th November 2020
Irvine Camera Club’s annual set subject competition evening was held this year on Bonfire Night. We ask the club members to take 2 photos for each theme. This year our themes were Street Life, Nature and Landscape. The idea of this is...
Herald Edition 4th November 2020
IAN MORTIMER
I live in Ayrshire and I am a keen photographer and an active member of Irvine Camera Club.
I have been taking photos for over thirty years and I have a wide and varied interest in all genres of photography....
Herald Edition - 28/10/2020
At this time of year, the countryside is ablaze with colour. It really is visual feast for photographers, with the leaves turning shades of orange, red and yellow. The sky can also get very dramatic with the increasingly early sunsets catching stormy...
Irvine Camera Club took full advantage of an offer to visit the Scottish Maritime Museum last week. A trip to the museum has become a traditional part of our early season programme but there were fears that this year’s event would have to be cancelled. Thanks to the museum’s very...
Journey to the End of the World
by Agnes Daziel
Herald Edition 07/10/2020
In February this year, just before the current restrictions I was fortunate enough to travel to South America on holiday.
We arrived in Santiago, the capital of Chile. There was plenty...
This week was the first competition night of the new season for Irvine Camera Club. Members new & old were asked to enter 3 digital images each of whatever they desired. This led to a really interesting mix of subjects and photographic approaches. Our judge for the evening...
With the weather forecast set fair last week, I decided to make the trip over to Berwick for a couple of days cycling, walking and, of course, photography.
Given I was planning to be on the move a lot, I didn’t want to be weighed down with a load of camera gear. With that in mind I...
After an initial relaxation on restrictions on meeting in public places, they are now beginning to be imposed again. This brings several challenges when trying to keep even a small camera club running. Irvine Camera Club have a full programme of events planned out for the winter season, but we...
Over the space of the last couple weeks members of Irvine Camera Club have been making their way up to Glasgow in small groups in order to complete their next assignment. We asked them to capture images illustrating Striking Architecture, Glasgow street life and Modern Scotland. ...
Back in March, Covid brought a sudden end to the Irvine Camera Club Season. Although the club had managed to complete all of the competitions for the year, we had not at that point had the opportunity to celebrate our members’ successes nor to hand out any trophies. So, it was with...
As an enthusiastic landscape photographer, I have found being locked down for almost 6 months has been a very difficult experience. Irvine Camera Club has provided plenty of opportunity for taking photos in the local area but my wanderlust has really been pulling at my feet. ...
On a sultry summer evening last week Irvine Camera Club headed into Irvine town centre to capture the juxtaposition of the old and new architecture. We also asked the photographers to take images of local people in and around the streets. This kind of social photography is so...
Our friend Jack,
Jack Mellon always had a warm welcome to anybody coming to our camera club. He always had a smile and a sparkle in his eye when he was talking to you. He had been the longest serving member when he left us. He was part of the original membership...
This week members of Irvine Camera Club ventured into Kilmarnock town centre on a quest to take photographs of street life, the urban landscape and light trails. The first of these themes was particularly challenging as by the time we arrived the Kilmarnock town centre was practically empty!...
I became a member of Irvine Camera Club (under its previous name of Townend Camera Club) 10 years ago. I wasn’t looking to join a club at the time but at a chance meeting with Alan Kempster, the club secretary, I was convinced to sign up and give it a go. I had been a keen amateur photographer...
On a rather dreary and not very inspirational evening last week members of Irvine Camera Club set off on a field trip to Auchincruive on the north banks of the River Ayr. We had hoped for a pleasant weather for a summer evening strolling around the grounds of the soon to be redeveloped...
This week Irvine Camera Club are celebrating the success of one of our members who has recently achieved his HNC in photography. Andy Burns’ (54) interest in photography started off when he began to take photos of abandoned buildings as part of his Urbex (Urban Exploration) hobby. Andy has been...
Irvine Camera Club broke out of the confines of lockdown this week to meet, in a suitably socially distanced manner, at Troon harbour. After the summery weather of weeks gone past it was bound to be a gloomier evening when we eventually did get to the point of meeting up. We didn’t let the cloud...
This week Irvine Camera Club are showcasing some more images that our talented members have been making over the three months that we have been in lockdown. As the president of the club, it has been my absolute pleasure to witness how warmly regarded the club is by its own members. Our weekly...
This week we gave two challenges to the members of Irvine Camera Club. To take a photo of a subject beginning with the first letter of your name and another based solely around the theme of Technology. We certainly had some interesting interpretations of both topics, with our more...
Another great article in this weeks Irvine Herald... Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen).
For this week’s Irvine...
Another great article in this weeks local paper... Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
After several weeks of photographic...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all of this weeks photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
This week Irvine Camera Club set our...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all of this weeks photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
This week Irvine Camera Club undertook another...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all of this weeks photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
The Irvine Camera Club challenge this week really...
Our new account is now up and running, where newspaper features and members images will be featured to give us another platform to promote the club. If you have an account, do please follow us and like and share the posts as they pop up.
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The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all of this weeks photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
This week the members of Irvine Camera Club were...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all of this weeks photographers, Clive Watkins for his report, and The Irvine Herald for putting it all together.....(click on images below to view full screen)
Post Processing can give an Image the Edge...
Another Scoop. If you didn't get your copy when we were featured in the Herald, this will now be featured in this weeks Kilmarnock Standard.....(click on images below to view full screen)
Hospital Exhibition was a Privilage
This time last year Irvine...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
Snappers focusing on life in lockdown.
As the weeks in lockdown pass by, Irvine...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
During the spring and summer Irvine Camera Club would usually spend Wednesday evenings on photographic...
The Herald's sister paper the Kilmarnock Standard have asked us for images - this week they have featured a Nature selection with images featured by Pete Heywood, Ian Mortimer, Nimrod Asbury, Alan Kempster, and Douglas Sanderson.(click on images below to view full screen)
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
I’m sure that many of you have very quickly become experts in video conferencing over the last few weeks...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....
Hospital Exhibition was a Privilage
This time last year Irvine Camera Club were preparing for an exhibition of photography at Crosshouse...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks to all the photographers, Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
It’s the time of year when Irvine Camera Club would usually be about to embark on a spring & summer...
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
Irvine Camera Club’s season has been suspended as we all move into period of social distancing and potentially...
3D Documentation of Heritage Artefacts: Introduction to Photogrammetry.
Wed, 18 March 2020, 10:30 – 16:30 GMT
See https://www....
At St. Joseph's Academy - Kilmarrnock.
Organised by Kilmaurs PC.
See poster in link: https://irvinecc.co.uk/programme/mike-hamblin-wild-scotland...
The SPF Print Championship will be Judged on Sunday 16th February 2020 at Stirling Court Hotel (Formerly Stirling Management Centre) , Stirling University, Stirling FK9 4LA.
more info, see
The Club's in the local paper again this week. Many thanks Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald.....(click on images below to view full screen)
"The New Year got off to an exciting start at Irvine Camera Club with members, old and new, returning after the Christmas break...
Oscar Marzaroli is arguably Scotland’s most notable documentary photographer. His photographs and films of Glasgow from the 1950s through to the 1980s captured a period of enormous...
Open at 7pm for a 7:30 start. (RESULTS - SEE LINK BELOW)
With judge Ken Lindsay of Eastwood PS.
A great way for current members to display their work, providing an entertaining exhibition for patients, staff and visitors. See all of the exhibiton below and here ...
https://prideglasgow.com/march/
A huge parade going through the city centre, with thousands of people taking part. Sets off 11:30 (see link)
A small selection of members work. Now open at Irvine main Library. Now extended until the 30th August.
Opening Hours
Mon & Fri 9 -5.30; Tues, 9-7; Weds 9.30-12.30; Thurs 9-7; Sat 10-4. Sun: Closed
Contact Phone (01294) 271295...
On until November, so should be able to view it during our evening workshop in September.
https://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/exhibitions/window-on-the-clyde-f......
Started Thursday, runs until Sunday.
Late back inotice, butsome good photo opportunities....
Step to the mid 18th century at the FREE ...
Late back inotice, butsome good photo opportunities....
Step to the mid 18th century at the FREE ...
No show at Ayr this year - check out this one instead?...
https://www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-events/events/national-museum-of-fligh...
The Club's in the local paper again. Many thanks Clive Watkins and The Irvine Herald...
One from our final print competion of the season. Well done everyone.
Please see attached pdf for better detail.
Another excellent 2 page spread in this weeks paper. Well done everyone.
Pleass see attached pdf for more detail.
More pics from ICC in this week's news following on from the club's last projected image competition of the season. Well done again guys.
More pics from ICC in this week's news. Well done guys.
Hosted by the Scottish Maritime Museum, and will be led by Historic Environment Scotland who have put together the exhibition of industrial survey photography, INDUSTRY + AESTHETICS.
See ...
http://kilmaursphotographicclub.co.uk/doug-allan-an-eye-for-an-image/ -
Starts at 7:30pm - £10 each
A good way to start the New Year for the club. Well done to Ian, Janet, Jim, Kevin and Lorna. Happy New Year and please note we start back again on Wednesday the 9th - all welcome.
Another selection of the club's work in the paper over the Xmas holiday. A double page spread for the club and picture of the week for Jakki Kyle.
Watch out for more next week.
These days folk rarely take the time to print their photographs. In a world of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter the digital image is king. Sharing our photographs is so quick and easy, not to mention cheap! However, there is still an enormous amount of pleasure to be had from...
Results of C2, C3 and C4 and "picture of the week"
Three trophies were hotly contested this week at Irvine Camera Club’s annual set subject
photography competition. Honours were up for grabs in three categories… sports,
landscape and human portrait.
The club was delighted to...
Scotland was amongst the first industrialised nations in the world. In the post-industrial age, our legacy of industrial sites and places can still be viewed negatively – synonymous with decline, pollution and blight upon our traditional view of Scotland.
More.......
For details, please see https://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/spf-digital-championship
Have you got any old pics, snaps, postcards of Dreghorn? ..probably worth a few of us going along to this to do a bit of networking....10 - 12 Sat 10th Nov.
If you fancy shooting some fireworks....
Plenty on around Ayrshire this weekend.
One of the better ones if the weather's good -
Grand Hall, Kilmarnock - 7pm
Doug Allan is one of the world’s most respected cameramen, best known for his camera work in cold, remote places on BBC wildlife and expedition series such as Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and Forces of Nature. In this presentation, he’ll...
Irvine Camera Club’s first competition of the year was judged on 3 rd October by our good friend Stuart Strachan from Kilmaurs Photographic Club. Stuart is a renowned local
photographer with a special interest in natural history. His constructive and gentle
encouraging approach...
The new season has only just got going at Irvine Camera Club but we have already had a lot of interest from budding photographers. We got underway with our traditional open evening where many prospective new members were welcomed to our club rooms at Townend Community Centre in Dreghorn....
September marks the end of the summer holidays and for Irvine Camera Club it means the start of another club season. Not that the club has been quiet over the summer months. On the contrary, Irvine’s keen photographers have been keeping themselves very busy with lots of interesting...
Exhibition at Pollok House.
https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/events/harry-benson-from-glasgow-to-america
Saturday and Sunday from 11am.
With Judge - Elspeth Fear from Strathaven.
Organised by Saltcoats CC.
At Saltcoats Town Hall, Countess Street, KA21 5HP.
Pay Parking adjacent to Saltcoats Station.
...
Photo Competition 2018
3 weeks to go! Shoot some winning images and upload your photos for a chance to win!
We wanted to remind you that our photo competition closes on 31 Aug 2018....
Now on until 11th Aug - http://troonartclub.co.uk/events/
Until Sunday 12th August -
https://www.glasgow2018.com/ note: road race, time trial, and mountain bike cycling events are free to spectate - great for photos.
...also on https://www....
enter here http://www.dingwallcameraclub.com/nationalcompetition.asp
Closing Date 30th September
"Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?" see http://www.travellinggallery.com/futureexhibitionsdefault
Tuesday 15 May - The Cross ...
Now open for entries - Club PDI entries at £1-20 per entry closes 13/04 - see http://irvinecc.co.uk/competition-round/2018-scottish-salon-pdi-entries-......
Organised by Ayr Photographic Society. £8 per head. 7 for 7:30 pm.
We've reserved 4 tickets for Irvine CC members (there'll be plenty of seats if you decide to go). See you there soon after 7pm - Alan
see ...