Welcome to the Melbourne Camera Club

The Melbourne Camera Club is a dynamic (Not for Profit, volunteer run) photographic environment where members are encouraged to extend their interests and skills. We have a Darkroom, Gallery and Studio for members. Visitors are welcome to join our Thursday night meetings, check out What’s On calendar. All Members and Visitors to the Clubrooms must abide by the MCC COVID Safe Policy.

Support - David Sherwood (Commended - Set Subject A Grade PDI - 26 May 2022)

Yellow Peril - Ralph Domino (Highly Commended - Open A Grade PDI - 26 May 2022)

Peaceful place - Annette Donald (Highly Commended - Set Subject A Grade PDI - 26 May 2022)

Passage of Time - Bob Warfield (Highly Commended - Open A Grade PDI - 26 May 2022)

Night Trains - Robyn Faris (Highly Commended - Set Subject B Grade PDI - 26 May 2022)

Latest MCC News

Weekly MCC News #30 – 14-August-2022

This week we are commencing Week 3 of our 5-week Introduction to Photography Course program, thank [...]

14
Aug

Weekly MCC News #29 – 07-August-2022

We welcome all our new members to MCC – our Introduction to Photography course members [...]

07
Aug

Weekly MCC News #28 – 31-July-2022

Open House Melbourne – thank you to the volunteers who helped to make this weekend’s Open House event [...]

31
Jul

Weekly MCC News #27 – 24-July-2022

“There is one thing the photo must contain – the humanity of the moment” – Robert Frank [...]

24
Jul

Weekly MCC News #26 – 17-July-2022

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams Today we bring news [...]

18
Jul

Weekly MCC News #25 – 11-July-2022

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson. Change to Competition Entry Submission [...]

11
Jul

Review Guest Speaker – Paul Dodd: Drone Photography

Photographers are not only highly skilled technicians we are also creatives. As such, we question and challenge stereotypical depictions of [...]

09
Jul

Weekly MCC News #24 – 03-July-2022

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – [...]

03
Jul

Weekly MCC News #23 – 26-June-2022

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. Diane Arbus [...]

26
Jun

Weekly MCC News #22 – 19-June-2022

The eye should learn to listen before it looks. Robert Frank Thanks to Wendy Currie for [...]

19
Jun

Weekly MCC News #21 – 12-June-2022

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and [...]

12
Jun

Weekly MCC News #20 – 05-June-2022

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It’s important to know what you [...]

05
Jun

Weekly MCC News #19 – 29-May-2022

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of [...]

29
May

Weekly MCC News #18 – 22-May-2022

If your pictures are not good enough you are not close enough. Robert Capa The Women Of [...]

22
May

Weekly MCC News #17 – 15-May-2022

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. [...]

15
May

Weekly MCC News #16 – 08-May-2022

A reminder that Photo 2022 has started. Details can be found at its website. The Women Of [...]

08
May

Weekly MCC News #15 – 01-May-2022

You can’t teach people photography, they’ve got to learn how to do it the best way possible for [...]

01
May

Review Guest Speaker – Chris Bowes

In this presentation on studio portrait photography, Chris Bowes from Kindred Cameras will discuss how he designed his latest portrait [...]

01
May

Weekly MCC News #14 – 24-April-2022

The eye should learn to listen before it looks. Robert Frank A further reminder that there is [...]

24
Apr

Weekly MCC News #13 – 17-April-2022

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. – Ansel Adams [...]

17
Apr

Weekly MCC News #12 – 10-April-2022

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. – Abraham Lincoln Things [...]

10
Apr

Weekly MCC News #11 – 03-April-2022

Creativity takes courage. Henri Matisse The return to normal continues as the Board has published [...]

03
Apr

Weekly MCC News #10 – 27-March-2022

Sunday 27th March 2022 Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks [...]

27
Mar

Weekly MCC News #09 – 20-March-2022

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift You [...]

20
Mar

Weekly MCC News #08 – 13-March-2022

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of [...]

13
Mar

Weekly MCC News #07 – 06-March-2022

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. – Eugène Atget [...]

06
Mar

Weekly MCC News #06 – 27-Feb-2022

The newsletter will now be advertising exhibitions and competitions outside the club. If you have such an [...]

27
Feb

Weekly MCC News #05 – 20-Feb-2022

Things are coming back to normal. The schedule as live events is filling up. It is a [...]

20
Feb

Weekly MCC News #04 – 13-Feb-2022

This week we have a lead image based upon a conceptual project being carried out by [...]

13
Feb

Review Guest Speaker – Kris Anderson

On 21 October 2021 Kris Anderson zoomed in from Brisbane to present his private work on illustrated storytelling to the [...]

08
Feb

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