Worcestershire Camera Club

14/10/2026

Meet Gertrude...

'The Bride' by influential America photographer Gertrude Käsebier who died on this day, October 12th, in 1934.

Käsebier is best known for her images of motherhood and her series of portraits featuring Native Americans.

She is also remembered for her passion in the promotion of photography as a career for women.

You can read more about Gertrude's life and works via the link that I'll add in the comments section. ....
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Image: public domain

14/10/2026

Comp closes Oct 20th...

A cluster of Sulphur tuft taken at the end of a very wet fungi workshop yesterday....good conditions developing for more fungi though :-)

Don't forget you have until 20th October to enter the British Mycological Society's UK Fungus Day photography competition!

© Guy Edwardes Photography

14/10/2026

Changes afoot...
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18iX8AcCVN/

Getty Images - one of the biggest names in commercial photography on Earth - is preparing to go through Chapter 11 bankruptcy and become a private company. If ever there were a moment to examine what happened to the business of photographs, this is probably it.

And no, the lesson isn't:

“Photography is dead.”

People have never consumed more photographs.

The problem is that we've spent 20 years teaching everyone that photographs should be available instantly, infinitely and preferably for approximately nothing.

First came cheap stock.
Then smartphones.
Then free user-generated imagery.

Now AI can manufacture something sufficiently photograph-like before you've located your camera bag.

Getty has debt problems and plenty of company-specific issues, so blaming everything on AI would be lazy.

But photographers should pay attention to the larger pattern.

Images have become incredibly abundant. Good photography hasn't.

The safer career moat was probably never owning the most expensive camera.
It was learning to produce photographs that couldn't easily be replaced by the cheapest available alternative.

That's considerably harder to put on a spec sheet.

14/10/2026

A striking image, Adam and Eve, by David Sowerbutts.

13/10/2026

Tonight sees our first Club PDI Competition of the season, always a great opportunity to share and enjoy members' varied work and hear helpful feedback.
Guest Judge is Carol McNiven Young. FRPS EFIAP/g MPAGB ABPE
Tonight's comp is via Zoom. Visitors welcome; email [email protected] for the link.

Image: Les Bailey LRPS, Coniston.

12/10/2026

Back to the grind this Monday morning?

Enjoy 'Bringing home dinner' by Dr Andy Harrison WGDP.

11/10/2026

A serene Sunday scene from Angie Hill - enjoy!

10/10/2026

Food for thought...
https://www.facebook.com/share/1FmpwRg6uC/

Something to think about...

What do the following photographers sadly have in common?

⚫ George Eastman
⚫ Kevin Carter
⚫ Francesca Woodman
⚫ Diane Arbus
⚫ Bob Carlos Clarke
⚫ Pierre Molinier
⚫ Seiki Kayamori
⚫ Marian Hooper Adams
⚫ Terence Donovan
⚫ Warren Bolster
⚫ George Fiske
⚫ Ara Gallant
⚫ Ren Hang
⚫ Herzekiah Andrew Shanu
⚫ Warren Bolster
⚫ Art Kane
⚫ Matt Irwin

All of the above members of the photographic world took their own lives (along with far too many others)

Today, October the 10th, is 'World Mental Health Day'

Su***de is an extreme manifestation - but depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, self harm, etc can be devastating.

Remember it's OK to offer help, and it's OK to ask for help - it's OK not to be OK.

Perhaps it's time to catch up with friends? - maybe over a coffee or via social media? - and if you want to offer help, then perhaps try something as simple as reaching out to ask someone how they are - but perhaps ask twice - because we all know that the automatic response to the first ask will often not be the whole story, will often not be the truth, will often not really be what they want to say.

Thanks for reading, and as always, feel free to share - indeed I'd appreciate it if you did 👍

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/world-mental-health-day
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10/10/2026

Enjoy the atmospheric 'Impression of Witley Court Ruins' by Bob Oakley CPAGB WSDP.
Explore more of Bob's gallery here...
https://worcestershirecameraclub.co.uk/member-galleries/bob-oakley

09/10/2026

“Artists have been at the forefront of working with new technologies and art historians have led the way in understanding questions of representation, visual communication, and creativity. The critical and ethical understanding that art and art history can bring to AI is crucial, even as new technologies can make possible new methods of analysis and avenues of thinking.”

Lucy Bradnock, Dean for Research at the Courtauld Institute

We’re pleased to announce that the Courtauld has been awarded a grant that will enable researchers to pursue innovative projects at the intersection of AI and art history.

The Denise Coates Foundation Awards will enable the Courtauld to award research grants totalling £250,000 over five years to cross-disciplinary teams of advanced researchers at the Courtauld and King’s College London.

It builds on the 10-year strategic relationship between our institutions and cements a mutual commitment to path-breaking research that addresses urgent intellectual, cultural and societal challenges.

Read the story: courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2026/courtauld-institute-awarded-major-grant-to-support-innovative-research-in-art-history-and-ai/