Our next gathering on Wednesday, we have a visiting speaker from the Wigan 10 Camera Club, Lynda Haney.
Lynda's photographic interests are wide and varied but her inspiration comes, mostly, from the beauty and diversity of the natural world however she does like the...
We are holding a Photography exhibition at ‘The Usual Place’ café on Academy St, Dumfries DG1 1BZ.
Starting on Monday 30th September till Friday the 11th October.
Our club members have produced a variety of pictures for this exhibition. These images will be for sale as part of a club...
Judith Hewitt is our next speaker is on the 25th September.
Judith is a curator at Dumfries Museum. Her talk is the life and works of Dr Werner Kissling.
Dumfries Museum has recently acquired a suitcase of personal items to add to their collection of photographs by...
Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant were welcomed inside the club on opening night. We had a full house of old and new members, which is always a plus for our...
5 days till the new season starts
We are in for a treat with visit from local award-winning Photographers Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant, talking about 'The Art of Seeing’.
Saskia Coulson & Colin Tennant are an award-winning artist partnership who develop projects...
The Glencairn Ward at Midpark Hospital is one of six wards within the hospital. Glencairn is a 15 bedded unit that supports older adults who are experiencing difficulties with their current mental health, which cannot be supported at home and so require hospital admission. Care is provided by a...
Dumfries Camera Club did well in the Masters of Print 2019, with 7 high scoring prints achieving acceptance into the Exhibition.
Several others came very close and their combined efforts placed us Second in the Club aspect of the competition.
A more comprehensive report is...
Dumfries Camera Club and Eastwood Photographic Society represented Scotland at the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick University on 14th July. Judges Phil Charnock, Des Clinton and Richard Spurdens scored eight images from each of the 38 participating clubs in the first...
Dumfries, Keswick, Carlisle, Copeland, Morton, West Cumbria and Workington clubs travelled to Penrith on Saturday 4th November to compete in the Western Area Battle. Leo Palmer judged six prints and six PDIs from each club; scoring out of a maximum of 20. After the print...
Dumfries CC joined 37 other clubs from each of the 15 PAGB Federations to contest the 2017 PDI Championship in Warwick. The judges on 15th July were Roger Hence, Gabriel O’Shaughnessy and Richard Speirs.
The first eight images were submitted in advance and steady...
The 94th Scottish International Salon of Photography was judged from 28th to 30th April when entries from over 50 countries were assessed. Approximately 25% of photographs were accepted and the judging panel awarded prizes to the best photographs in the six sections of the...
A small band of club members travelled to Hawick on Sunday 26th March to see Pax Garabedian judge the Borders Digital Challenge. After a break last year it was encouraging to see entries from 13 clubs representing both the Scottish and English sides of the border.
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Dumfries Camera Club is celebrating its 70th birthday and, as part of the celebration, even though the exhibition is already open, you are invited to be part of a major exhibition of portraits.
Come along on Saturday 2 September,...
Stewartry Camera Club hosted a well organised and very hospitable D&G Battle in Twynholm Village Hall on 9th March. Six clubs competed, with Dumfries Camera Club retaining their title and Mick Durham’s ‘Fighting Eagles’ judged best image of the evening. The four round...
Mick Durham’s stunning ‘Predator and Prey’ has won another national award. The image of a young male sparrowhawk grabbing a coal tit in mid-air has been awarded the gold medal in the Royal Photographic Society Members’ Exhibition. Mick’s photograph was selected for the top honour by...
The GB Cup for projected images has been described as ‘probably the biggest inter-club competition in the World.’ In 2017 the judging moved, for the first time, from Dumfries to Yorkshire.
One hundred and ten clubs entered the Nature Section which was won, by a...
Reigning Champions Dumfries travelled to Stirling for the Scottish Print Championships having pre-qualified for the 2017 Final in Blackburn. Individual members had submitted a maximum of three colour and three monochrome prints subject to a maximum of 80 photographs per club....
Last night the club members judged the 2016 Lochmaben Trophy. There were 12 panels submitted and the standard was very high indeed. The results are as follows:
The Best Print
1: Margaret Elliot
2: Mick Durham
3=: Tom Thompson, Edmund Fellowes
The Best Panel...
Last weekend the GB Trophy - a print competition run by the PAGB was judged in Yorkshire. The club entered both the open section and the nature section. Once judged the top 12 scores for each club are used to decide who the winner is. You may recognise some of the judges - they were Paul...
Dumfries Camera Club won the prestigious Scottish Photographic Federation Projected Digital Championship for the fourth year running at Stirling Court Hotel, Stirling, on Sunday 13th November.
The SPF Digital Championship is held annually and provides the opportunity for amateur camera...
Dumfries Camera Club competed with our Cumbrian neighbours in the Annual Western Area Battle on 22nd October. Club teams from Carlisle, Copeland, Keswick, Morton, Penrith, West Cumbria and Workington each entered six prints and six projected images for consideration by judge Peter...
The SPF Annual Portfolio Competition 2016 was held during our summer break though in fact it was run in Dumfries and our own John McVie who was the man in charge. Many thanks to him and all his team for all their hard work.
Scottish clubs were invited to take part in up to three sections:...
Thirty-nine clubs representing the 15 Federations of the PAGB competed for the Projected Digital Image Championship at Warwick University on 16th July. Dumfries Camera Club (DCC) qualified both as Scottish Federation winners and as finalists in the 2015 competition.
...The 93rd Scottish International Salon of Photography was judged from 15th to 17th April when over 9500 entries from ~52 countries were assessed with only 25% of entries accepted. Overall, Dumfries Camera Club had 65 acceptances with several members collecting individual awards...
Former President and current Vice-President of Dumfries Camera Club, Rod Wheelans has received the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain's highest award for service.
From the PAGB:
Rod Wheelans MPAGB MFIAP FIPF HonPAGB HonSPF joined the PAGB Executive...