As the first signs of autumn make themselves known with the nights drawing in, we had the suitably shady theme of Shadows. Not only can shadows be used as a compositional tool to shape the light in an image and direct the viewer's attention, they can also hide elements to create an element of mystery.

 

Shadows occur anywhere so there was a diverse selection of subjects and scenes, each member interpreting the theme in their own way. Some images showed how shadows framed the light, others chose to focus on the shapes shadows created. This month's favourite photo was Pia-pia-piano by Alastair Bell (left), an imaginative interpretation of the theme.

 

This month we had our bimonthly theme prints section, which attracted a large number of entries, possibly encouraged by our Photo Show, followed by the usual Image of the Month. All these photos can be seen on the Shadows - October 2025 page.

 

Which one would you have voted for?

 

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Photographic Journeys is our occasional series of talks given by one of our members on how and why they started with photography and what motivates them to take photos.

 

This month Adrian Chandler will give us an illustrated talk on how his photography started and has developed as his mistakes have decreased. Adrian’s a bit of jack-of-all-trades when it comes to photography, so his images will be eclectic if nothing else. He will explain what motivates him to take the photos he does.

 

For details of forthcoming events take a look at our 2025 Programme and 2026 Programme pages.

We have been fortunate to have hosted many excellent speakers this year, and this trend continued when we invited Colin Trow-Poole to present his talk 'People and Places'.

 

Specialising in strong story telling and, by sensitively using lighting and carefully controlling tonal gradations, Colin produces evocative and thought provoking printed images that may be regarded as 'Fine Art'. Examples of Colin's atmospheric and inspiring work are on his website.

 

Colin illustrated his talk with prints, rather than projected images, avoiding the vagaries of projector and ambient lighting, especially due to the light summer evening. We are indebted to Badby & District Photo Club for their loan of print stands and lightbox enabling us to host this talk.

 

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Details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme page.

 

ICM - photographers love a three letter abbreviation. ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement and we invited Janie Chapman, a long-time contributor of prints to WHPC's Photo Show, along to talk to us about this creative tool.

 

Many of us have encountered unintentional camera movement when we've photographed something - a sneeze when we press the shutter button, or not holding the camera steady enough.

 

But what if we were to embrace and utilise this movement to produce interesting and creative effects? Janie explained to us how she produces her wonderfully dreamy and impressionistic ICM images - some examples are shown on the left. A larger version can be seen on her website along with other examples of her work.

 

During her talk she demonstrated how different types of camera movement - short, long, sweeping, slow, jiggles, forward and backward - effected how the image appeared. She showed examples from her work and photographers she admires; both these and her own photos were inspiring.

 

So inspired were members that in the following days WHPC's Members' WhatsApp group was full of examples of members trying out ICM.

 

For details of this and our future events have a look at our 2025 Programme pages.