Date: Thursday 24 October 2024
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Moor Park Sports and Social Club
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Moor Park Sports and Social Club
Bill Ward is a multi-award winning photographer and actor, born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Shooting Water
Join us on Thursday 24 October for the Multi-award winning creative photographer and actor Bill Ward discusses photographing the wet stuff in all its glory.
From waterfalls to seascapes, urban canals to mountain streams, Bill leaves no stone unturned in his quest to uncover the mysteries of H2O, and how we as photographers can help unlock its full potential.
Expect a light sprinkling of handy tips and advice, as well as a bucketload of aqueous photographic delight.
From waterfalls to seascapes, urban canals to mountain streams, Bill leaves no stone unturned in his quest to uncover the mysteries of H2O, and how we as photographers can help unlock its full potential.
Expect a light sprinkling of handy tips and advice, as well as a bucketload of aqueous photographic delight.
About Bill Ward
He was awarded the Adobe Prize at the 2015 UK Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards (also Commended 2013 and 2020), Best Seascape at the 2020 Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards, and runner up in the “Your Vision” category at SLPOTY 2021.
He is honoured to be a judge for UK Landscape Photographer of the Year. His work is frequently Commended, Shortlisted and Nominated in competitions all over the world.
His work has been exhibited in numerous fine art galleries around the UK including the Mick Oxley Gallery in Northumberland, Contemporary Six and the Wendy J Levy Gallery in Manchester, and has been featured in newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, and books.
He’s been a regular writer and contributor for the worldwide “ICM Photography Magazine” since its inception, and gives talks at Festivals, Shows, and Camera Clubs all over the world. He uses Pentax cameras, and is proud to be both an Ambassador for Pentax Ricoh UK, and a Tour Leader for Light and Land.
His primary photographic subject matter is landscapes, whether natural, urban or industrial.
He specialises in creative photography, and is particularly drawn to water.
A lifelong traveller, he’s interested not just in the places he goes, but the time that he spends in them. It's this that forms the basis of his work: specifically how it felt to spend this particular time, with this particular place.
An actor for over 20 years, he has performed in over 30 Television shows and Films, and over 50 Plays since turning professional in 2000.
He is probably best known for playing the badly behaved builder Charlie Stubbs in the UK TV show Coronation Street, a role he played for over 400 episodes and three and a half years, and for which he won numerous awards. He also played the long suffering farmer James Barton in Emmerdale, also for more than 3 years and 300 episodes, and for which he was also nominated for a number of awards.
Recent TV work includes After Life for Netflix, The Hunt for Raoul Moat for ITV, and Before We Die for Channel 4/Worldwide.
His Theatre work includes multiple roles in London West End (Everybody Talking About Jamie, Spamalot, Million Dollar Quartet, Viva Forever), UK Tours (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Glee Club, Shakespeare in Love, Legally Blonde, Look Back in Anger), Rep Theatre (Bristol Old Vic, Bath Theatre Royal, Manchester Royal Exchange, Northern Stage, Theatre Clwyd), New Writing (National Theatre Studio, Battersea Arts Centre, White Bear) and Off West End (Southwark Playhouse, Greenwich Theatre).
He recently played Gerald in the major UK Tour of “The Full Monty”.
Constantly in search of peace and quiet, his photography is a response, and in many ways an antidote, to the time he spends as an actor working in the public eye.
He is honoured to be a judge for UK Landscape Photographer of the Year. His work is frequently Commended, Shortlisted and Nominated in competitions all over the world.
His work has been exhibited in numerous fine art galleries around the UK including the Mick Oxley Gallery in Northumberland, Contemporary Six and the Wendy J Levy Gallery in Manchester, and has been featured in newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, and books.
He’s been a regular writer and contributor for the worldwide “ICM Photography Magazine” since its inception, and gives talks at Festivals, Shows, and Camera Clubs all over the world. He uses Pentax cameras, and is proud to be both an Ambassador for Pentax Ricoh UK, and a Tour Leader for Light and Land.
His primary photographic subject matter is landscapes, whether natural, urban or industrial.
He specialises in creative photography, and is particularly drawn to water.
A lifelong traveller, he’s interested not just in the places he goes, but the time that he spends in them. It's this that forms the basis of his work: specifically how it felt to spend this particular time, with this particular place.
An actor for over 20 years, he has performed in over 30 Television shows and Films, and over 50 Plays since turning professional in 2000.
He is probably best known for playing the badly behaved builder Charlie Stubbs in the UK TV show Coronation Street, a role he played for over 400 episodes and three and a half years, and for which he won numerous awards. He also played the long suffering farmer James Barton in Emmerdale, also for more than 3 years and 300 episodes, and for which he was also nominated for a number of awards.
Recent TV work includes After Life for Netflix, The Hunt for Raoul Moat for ITV, and Before We Die for Channel 4/Worldwide.
His Theatre work includes multiple roles in London West End (Everybody Talking About Jamie, Spamalot, Million Dollar Quartet, Viva Forever), UK Tours (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Glee Club, Shakespeare in Love, Legally Blonde, Look Back in Anger), Rep Theatre (Bristol Old Vic, Bath Theatre Royal, Manchester Royal Exchange, Northern Stage, Theatre Clwyd), New Writing (National Theatre Studio, Battersea Arts Centre, White Bear) and Off West End (Southwark Playhouse, Greenwich Theatre).
He recently played Gerald in the major UK Tour of “The Full Monty”.
Constantly in search of peace and quiet, his photography is a response, and in many ways an antidote, to the time he spends as an actor working in the public eye.