Recent News

(For latest news see Newsletter)

Distinctions Group

April 2011 four members of the Distinctions Group were successful in their applications for distinctions to the PAGB and RPS. Richard Spurdens straight for DPAGB with a panel of 15 prints; Phil Reeds and Rod Marsh for CPAGB with panels of 10 prints each and a few days later Peter Farmer for LRPS with a panel of 10 digital images. This was a 100% success at their first attempts, a great endorsement of the work of the Distinctions Group. More members are welcome to join and work for similar success.

Flickr ICC Group

As notified to members the committee at their August 2010 meeting have agreed to Nick Hodgson's suggestion to create a private Group on Flickr for members to display and comment on their latest images. So far 39% of members have joined and submitted images which is an excellent start. The more members we have the better will be the feedback to help us all improve the quality of our images. Therefore do not delay in joining.

YPU Annual Exhibition held at York on 8 - 9 May 2010

This year the Club has won the Society Award, the J E Barker Trophy for General Colour Prints. We had 15 prints exhibited which was a 25.42% acceptance rate compared to the average of 15.88%. It shows that we are one of the leading clubs in the YPU. Several members either received certificates or had their images selected for the Photographic Alliance Competitions. Full details can be found here.

New Life Vice President

At the Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards on 23 April 2010 our immediate Past President, Rod Marsh was pleased to announce that the committee have agreed to make Judy Parker a new Life Vice President in honour of her work on behalf of the Club for over twenty years. For full details please see the Honours page.

Special Interest Groups

The Club is setting up two Special Interest Groups, Natural History (Co-ordinator John and Liz Stringer), Distinctions (Co-ordinator Rod Marsh). The latter is for those members who wish to submit panels to the PAGB for assessment in order to gain an Award for Photographic Merit The coordinators will be emailing all those who have expressed an interest in joining one or more groups to arrange an initial meeting.

The idea behind the Groups is that the members will help and assist each other to improve their images, skills and presentation to achieve their objectives. More members are welcome to join. If you are interested please contact the coordinators.

Fotospeed Discount

The Club has recently agreed a discount scheme with Fotospeed for the benefit of Club members and the Club. When you order from Fotospeed you mention that you are a member of Ilkley Camera Club and that the club is registered with them. You will receive a 10% discount, and the club will receive a credit amounting to another 10% of your order. When the club has sufficient credit, it can be exchanged for Fotospeed materials for the club to use as it wishes.

See Events for details of future special events.