Conwy Camera Club, St John's Methodist Church, Rose Hill St, Conwy (2026)

Conwy Camera Club is the oldest photographic society in North Wales, established in 1945. It’s now one of the largest in Wales, with over 80 members whose photographic interests and experience cover a wide spectrum. Many photographers have been inspired to join after viewing the club`s displays of prints in Conwy town centre, changed at the start of every month since 1998! See the Now Showing sect

ion of the website for details. The club has a friendly and social atmosphere, with photography regarded as a shared interest rather than a matter for studious concentration! Some of our activities are aimed at helping members to improve their work, explore new branches of photography and understand techniques like composition and exposure. At the same time there’s plenty for our more experienced members to enjoy, including lectures on digital imaging and talks by expert photographers. The club meets on Tuesday evenings at St Johns Methodist Church Conwy Rose Hill St, Conwy LL32 8LD

starting at 7.30pm. The season runs from September to May. Our weekly evening meetings are supplemented by meetings of Special Interest Groups, which cover several branches of photography including Portraiture, Action and Creative. The groups help members explore their shared specialist interests, as well as providing help and encouragement for those who are keen to develop their expertise in these subjects. See the Special Interest Groups gallery on the website for recent work from the groups. We hold 10 internal competitions each year, judged by an external photographer (usually a member of another camera club). Members learn a lot from the judges’ comments on their own work and the other images entered. We also enter work in external competitions with other clubs in the area. Our philosophy is that it`s not your equipment that counts but the way you use it. By looking at other people`s pictures, club members receive inspiration and understand how to improve their own photography. The club also has an expanding archive of members’ work from the 1930s to the present. See our Archive gallery on the website for a few of the archive images.

30/07/2026

Photo display marks launch of pilgrimage trail

Conwy Camera Club members have created a display at St Mary’s Church, Conwy, to celebrate the launch of Llwybr Celynnin, a pilgrimage trail connecting five historic churches. The photos will be on show until late September.

The 22-mile pilgrimage route in the Bro Celynnin Ministry Area has been set up as interest in walking spiritual paths continues to grow. Llwybr Celynnin is a figure-of-eight trail that follows existing footpaths between Conwy and Llanbedr-y-cennin, passing through Rowen in both directions. Walkers can collect a stamp at each church in a specially designed pilgrim passport, creating a record of their journey.

The club’s photo display shows all five churches and details inside or outside, including the holy well at the Old Llangelynnin Church and ancient paintings of saints in St Benedict’s Church, Gyffin. There are also photos of some of the wonderful scenery pilgrims will find along the trail.

The photos represent all four seasons and show how the atmosphere of the churchyards and landscapes varies with different weather and lighting.

Llwybr Celynnin information on Caru Conwy website
https://caruconwy.com/our-churches/home-2/bro-celynnin-pilgrims-way/

01/07/2026

Conwy Camera Club has been continuing to take part in the celebrations of the bicentenary of Conwy Suspension Bridge. This week, the Telford 200 exhibition in Neuadd Ni (the church hall in Rosehill Street) includes six ‘light painting’ images taken by club members on the bridge.
Light painting images at the Telford 200 exhibition in Neuadd Ni
Postcards of four of the images are on sale at Neuadd Ni, the GH Edwards corner shop (High Street) and Oriel Dawn (Bangor Road).
On Sunday the light painting images were arranged around the font at St Mary’s Church and formed an eye-catching display as people entered for the special service of celebration, led by vicar (and club member) Rev Kevin Ellis.

Light Painting images on display at St Mary’s Church
A group of club members took part in the Telford 200 parade on Saturday, led by Chair Bob Gresty holding the CCC flag. Some members who would otherwise have been in the parade were busy taking photos of the event, at the request of Conwy Town Council.

13/06/2026

Telford 200 ‘light painting’ on display in Conwy

Conwy Camera Club is supporting the Telford 200 exhibition at Conwy Culture Centre this month with a display of ‘light painting’ images created on the 200-year-old Conwy Suspension Bridge.
The exhibition includes information about the history of Thomas Telford’s bridge and Conwy in the 1820s, along with some of the results from the Telford 200 Creative Collective events held in the town last autumn. Conwy Camera Club’s contribution took the form of night-time workshops on the bridge, led by club member Ian Greenwood and Gareth Williams of Llŷn Light Painting. Participants used long exposures to record the shapes, letters or numerals which Ian drew using hand-held lights.
Six images from the workshops are included in the Culture Centre exhibition. They were taken by Martin Neale, Gail Johnson, Myo Tint, John Hibbs and Derek Phillips.
The exhibition is in the community room, past the double doors at the far end of Cantîn café.

14/05/2026

On Tuesday evening we had our AGM and our League Table Awards evening.
This marks the end of our Season for 25/26 and Venue Meetings. It was a wonderful season as we also celebrated our 80th year Anniversary and held many special events.
Programmed meetings will resume in September.
However we do have lots of Pop up social Events planned for over the Summer break, so still plenty to keep our members busy.

Huge congratulations to everyone who received Awards, they were very well deserved.
It has been a pleasure seeing everyone's images throughout the season, what fantastic talent we have at Conwy Camera Club.
Below are some pictures of our Award Winners.

28/02/2026

Our Conwy High Street screen for March is now live on Youtube
This month we welcome Club member Ian Wright as our Photographer of the Month and the theme for this month's images is "Rivers", showcasing our members photography.
As usual, feel free to share the link with your friends and don't forget to subscribe to the Channel.

02/12/2025

Conwy Camera Club held a Light Painting workshop as part of the Telford 200 Creative Collective. Participants captured eye-catching visual effects on the Conwy Suspension Bridge, which reaches its bicentenary in July 2026.

The Creative Collective, throughout November, involved a wide-ranging programme of arts events in Conwy. Results from literary and visual arts workshops will be displayed as part of the Telford 200 celebrations next year.
Conwy Camera Club contributes to many aspects of community life. The Light Painting event supported the Creative Collective and gave several people their first taste of the use of artificial light to illuminate features or create patterns during long exposures.

The event was led by club member Ian Greenwood, who runs Light Painting workshops on the Llŷn Peninsula. He was assisted by Gareth Williams, who had kindly travelled all the way from Aberdaron to help make the event a success.

Image Jayne Williams.

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