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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...
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...