INTERESTED in photography? Baffled by the menus on your digital camera? Need to know more about image processing software? Want to enjoy good company and have fun?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then Holmfirth Camera Club is just the ticket for you.

The club’s new season starts on Monday, September 8 at 7.30pm in the West End Room of St. David’s Church, Holmbridge and continues every Monday until the end of April.

The club then continues on the first Monday of May through to August when members meet, purely by coincidence, at a location close to a pub where the occasional drink can be sunk after the serious work of taking photographs of the locality.

The photographs shown here are the results of an evening last July, featuring tuition on outdoor portraiture.

So what can you expect to find should you choose to join the club?

The club’s Geoff France says: “At the forefront are fun and a desire to help members, with the more experienced offering individual help over the telephone and sometimes personal visits to those with particular problems.”

At the beginning of each season the club publishes details of a help line for advice on printing, scanning, Photoshop and general photography.

The programme includes competitions, talks from visiting photographers and evenings when a look is taken at the best images taken by photographers from elsewhere.

Not all the competitions are deadly serious either – this coming season there will be one where members go out armed with a cheap disposable camera to see what can be achieved.

Membership is £25 a year or £2 a night for up to three meetings for people who just want to try it out. Go to www.holmfirthcameraclub.co.uk where you can see some members’ images, the syllabus and more.