Welcome

The club caters for photographers of all skill levels from beginners to highly experienced. You do not need expensive camera equipment to participate in club activities.

We meet at the Valentine Bowling Club at 7.00pm on the second Wednesday of each month. Members can participate in graded print and digital competitions. ZOOM tutorial sessions and hands on workshops occur on the third and fourth Wednesday in each month. Go to About/Help/Contact for more information.

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About our club

Lake Macquarie Camera Club Inc. is an incorporated association that was previously the Belmont 16s Photography Club. We meet at the Valentine Bowling Club on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. Club members are required to join Valentine Bowling Club as social members.

Objectives of the Club

To provide members of the club with opportunities to advance the standard of their pictorial and technical photographic work.

To promote the exchange of information and ideas about photography through the provision of education and training programmes, newsletters, a website, and other means.

To encourage and assist members to participate in photographic competitions both within and beyond the Club.

 
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2024
11:00 pm Submissions for The Leading Line...
Submissions for The Leading Line...
Jul 22 @ 11:00 pm
Each month the club publishes a newsletter called The Leading Line You will find all the latest news on a variety of topics including what’s happening on Zoom.   Send your submissions to our Newsletter[...]
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2024
7:00 pm Committee Meeting
Committee Meeting
Aug 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Club Committee meets on the first Wednesday night of each month from 7pm to 8pm via Zoom. If you have any issues that you would like the Committee to consider, please contact the Chairperson[...]
Recent Posts Archives

All club meetings cancelled

In view of the latest and best advice re Corona virus threat, the committee has decided to suspend all future Print competitions until safe to resume. Electronic image competitions will continue as usual.  The committee has also decided to suspend all scheduled Photography Club meetings until further notice. This includes all presentations, committee meetings and club competition meetings .

by Susan Slack, March 19, 2020

Cancellation of Club Print competition night 18.3.2020

In view of the uncertain situation re the Corona virus COVID-19, the Belmont 16’s Photography Club Committee has decided to cancel our regular club meeting on Wednesday 18th March. The print competition for that night is also cancelled. Decisions re all future club meetings will be made as soon as possible. Normal monthly digital competitions will continue as usual.

by Susan Slack, March 15, 2020

Judges Choice award correction

Our apologies to Colin Woods who achieved the top award of Judge’s Choice in A grade Large Colour Prints section at our club print competition night last Wednesday for his image of “The Speaker”. 

By mistake, the award of Judge’s Choice was omitted in the initial publication of results. This has since been corrected online and once again our apologies for this oversight.

by Susan Slack, February 21, 2020

Michael Snedic Free E-book

Michael has been acquainted with our club since he gave a great presentation to our club on Nature Photography a couple of years ago and several of our members have attended his in the field experiences.

 

Click on the link below to download a copy of Michael’s first E book which he is releasing completely free to all our members.

 

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by Susan Slack, January 25, 2020

New Year’s Eve invitation

Good day to all our members. If you would like to join other members on New Year’s Eve

We meet at Pelican around 5.30 to 6pm.  We all meet about 1/2 way up the park, We bring food, and put it on the “ Share” table We just sit and Yak, Eat and Drink  The fire works go off over a Swansea around 9pm and then we go home, “ really exciting”

Katherine

by Susan Slack, December 18, 2019