Photographers to show their skill at exhibition

BELLARINE Camera Club’s exhibition was resurrected last year following COVID lockdowns, and is returning again in 2025.

The exhibition comprises works from the group’s members.

Bellarine Camera Club vice-president Neil Smith said the group was expecting between 150 and 200 images to be on display for the event.

“Some of them may be a few years old, but most of them would be relatively recent. Quite a few of them would be ones that have been entered into our club competitions.

“Some of our members have actually been successful in international level competition… which is a bit of a brownie point or two to actually be accepted into an international competition.”

The club holds the exhibitions as a way to raise awareness for the group and its talented members.

Around 50 members make up the club, all of them keen amateurs.

Mr Smith is hoping people who head along to see the exhibition will be pleasantly surprised at the skill level of the group’s members.

“Very few of them have had any formal training. A few have done TAFE courses, some through Oxygen College in Geelong.

“But none of them in the club at the moment are professionals. They’ve never done it for a living, it’s always been just purely out of interest and enthusiasm for the art form.

“Quite a number of photographers will be on site during the course of the weekend, so the public are more than welcome to have a chat to the club members about the photography.”

The exhibition will run from November 1 until November 2 at the Springdale Neighbourhood Centre at 17-21 High Street, Drysdale from 10am until 4pm.

For more information, head to the Bellarine Camera Club’s Facebook page, or head to bellarinecameraclub.org.au