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.

Use the Join Our Club button to set up an account and sign up. Use the About Us button for more information and contacts.

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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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Apr
3
Wed
2024
7:00 pm Committee Meeting
Committee Meeting
Apr 3 @ 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[...]
Apr
17
Wed
2024
7:00 pm Zoom Presentation – Bill Chamber...
Zoom Presentation – Bill Chamber...
Apr 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Photographers Caught Cheating in Competitions
Apr
22
Mon
2024
11:00 pm Submissions for The Leading Line...
Submissions for The Leading Line...
Apr 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[...]
May
1
Wed
2024
7:00 pm Committee Meeting
Committee Meeting
May 1 @ 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

Latest Edition of The Leading Line

January 2024 The Leading Line Newsletter

Catch up with all the latest news, views and images with our first newsletter for 2024.

Plenty of topics to read about including our new sponsorship deal, coffee catch-up, a photography exhibition at the Newcastle Show and an excursion to Pirrita Island amongst the myriad of interesting things to read about.

If you have anything you would like to have in our next edition send it through to our NEW email address: theleadinglinelmcc@gmail.com 

by Julie Brooks, January 11, 2024

PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE 2024

This year a new learning opportunity is being offered to club members in the form of a Photography Challenge. This is a personal challenge, not a competition.

Members who participate will select an area of interest (e.g. portraits) and work through a guided series of activities to improve their capture and editing techniques. They will meet with other club members in Zoom sessions to share their progress and receive advice from a mentor. Detailed information is available here.

by Roy Killen, January 10, 2024

Photoshoot for January

Our first workshop for Wednesday January 24th will be a boardwalk and sunset photoshoot at “Pirrita Island” Swansea beginning at 6pm with the sunsetting over the lake at 8pm. This area offers plenty of photographic opportunities so come along and enjoy the fun! There will be no workshop at VBC!

We will meet in the car park at approx 5.50pm. Finding the carpark is easy with a Google Maps search for “Pirrita Island carpark and foreshore” giving exact location. You should be on a bitumen road with caravan park on your LHS.

Bring your camera and maybe some insect repellant ( there maybe some sand flies and mozzies)

See you there GregC

by Greg Carruthers, January 10, 2024

Zoom Workshop for January

Hi to everyone and welcome to 2024. To kickstart the year our first Zoom presentation will be held at 7pm on Wednesday January 17th. For those new to the club most of our Zoom nights are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month with a start time of 7pm.

This month photographer Colin Harrison from Great Britain will be sharing some of his outstanding images in an award winning AV presentation .

Colin has written” Zoom Title – My journey in the Audio Visual World.” Three years ago having gained the EFIAP/d3 salon qualification, I decided to get back into producing audio visual sequences after a very long break. My AVs are mainly short and light-hearted, and I try to bring my creative skills into them. My mission statement is to entertain the audience. Recently I have received an AV exhibition silver medal in the UK and an AV Salon medal in Poland for my sequences. You will see a variety of subject matter in my talk including Death Valley, Grand Canyon, creative flower photography and ghost towns. Many of the images from my talk can be seen on my website www.colinharrisonphotography.uk

Please use the Zoom link, which can be found on our  website, to join the Zoom meeting from 6.45pm. Everyone is welcome including some members of the Wangi Club who will be joining us.

See you there GregC

by Greg Carruthers, January 10, 2024

Newcastle Show March 1st to 3rd

Our club will be helping to organise an exhibition of images at the upcoming Newcastle Show on March 1st to 3rd.

Katherine JAMES is the driving force behind our involvement. For those who would like to contribute we need 6 to 8 prints you may have entered in any print competition.

They must be on a mat board 50cm X 40cm (just as you would have entered them with name and title etc)

The Show Committee have requested the images are NOT of portraits of people, anything else is fine!

Interested in being involved and having your images on display? Then bring them along on Jan or Feb print nights at VBC and Katherine will collect them.

If this doesn’t suit please drop them off to Katherine at her house. Any questions please contact Katherine.

Thanks GregC

by Greg Carruthers, January 8, 2024