Gloucester Camera Club

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‘Pearl bordered fritillary’ by Janet Gazzard

.The Galleries contain many more images by club members.

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Introduction to the club

Gloucester Camera Club (GCC) promotes and encourages many aspects of photography. The programme of meetings is designed both to help beginners and to suit experienced photographers.Like many other camera clubs, Gloucester Camera Club includes experienced photographers who work at very high levels of skill, gaining acceptances, awards and distinctions, both nationally and internationally. These members are always willing to help those who are working their way towards greater mastery.

It’s about people, too

But a club isn’t only about technique – it’s for people to enjoy, irrespective of attainment. We like to think that Gloucester Camera Club is a friendly group, where people can feel that they belong. Although one of the larger camera clubs in the region, and in fact still growing, GCC retains the intimate atmosphere of a smaller club. Some members live up to about twenty miles from the club, so they must be finding something they like. Why not come along and see for yourself? The club’s fees are as follows.Annual subscription – £25.00 – which is reduced if you join during the seasonAnnual subscription – £19.00 – if under 17 or over 60 on date of first meeting of the :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::season (6th Sept 2011)Fee for one meeting – £1.50 for a memberFee for one meeting – £2.00 for a visitor (which may be refundable, see below)Visitors to Gloucester Camera Club will be very welcome, at a cost of only £2 per visit. Anyone who subsequently joins the club can have up to three such fees subtracted from the annual subscription.

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Link to full contact information

Link to the programme for this season (2011 – 2012)

Link to a page for new members######Link to a glossary for new members

Meeting place and time

To find out where and when the club meets, please click on venue information.

The annual exhibition

An Annual Exhibition of club members’ work is held in the centre of Gloucester. For the past few years the exhibition has been staged in St. John’s Church in Northgate Street. The club members greatly appreciate this dispensation. Click here to see a map showing the location of St John’s Church. The next annual exhibition will be staged in September 2012.In this exhibition you will be able to view photographs in many styles, showing many different subjects. If you want to discuss your photographic interests and experiences, the stewards will be glad to hear about them. You might even consider joining a camera club . . . . .

Affiliations

Together with over a hundred other clubs, Gloucester Camera Club is affiliated to the Midland Counties Photographic Federation, MCPF, and through the MCPF to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain, PAGB, which embraces all the regional groups. In its turn the PAGB is a member of the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique, FIAP. Links – MCPF – - PAGB – - FIAP

Competitions

The club holds monthly competitions for prints and digital projected images, and annual competitions for audio-visuals and panels of images. Link to information about competitions

Club history

A camera club has existed in Gloucester since 1907, with a hiatus during the second world war, the current club being about 66 years old. For many years it has been linked with the name of Jack Farley FRPS EFIAP APAGB, whose life has been commemorated by the club’s Jack Farley Memorial Lectures, and by the Jack Farley photography awards to local students. Jack Farley’s contribution to Gloucester Camera Club and to photography in general was immense. His name appears in the MCPF Roll of Honour, along with those of Ray Guest APAGB and Ron Poppleton APAGB DPAGB, and in the APAGB Roll of Honour. From 1986 to 1988, the president of MCPF was a member of GCC – Ray Guest APAGB, now an honorary life member.

Distinctions attained by club members

Current members of Gloucester Camera Club have attained distinctions as follows.

Bob Train – LRPS

Brian Swinyard – BA(Hons), MA, MInstLM, ARPS, EFIAP/B, DPAGB, BPE3*, PPSA, PSA: CPID3*, EID(C)3*, EID(M)2*, ND2*, PTD2*, PPL(C)1*, PPL(M)1*

Jenny Bircher – LRPS

June Cook – FRPS

Mark Kemp – LRPS

Martin Cooper – LRPS

Paul Hoffman – CPAGB, PPE2*, EFIAP

Ron Poppleton – APAGB, DPAGB

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to Steve Mellor for the design, setting up, and maintenance of this web-site, and to Suzanne Mellor for the embedded images.Thanks are due also to the following club members, all of whom have contributed to the web-site.- Suzanne Mellor, Jay Martin and Ted Wilson for the prompt supply of competition results;- Mark Kemp, Gordon Norris and Brian Swinyard for articles written for the site;- Mark Kemp for a computer program that facilitates digital image competitions;- Bob Harding for programme listings;- All those other Gloucester Camera Club members who have contributed ideas, images, news items, and other material, making the site a true GCC team effort. Finally, a very important group of people, those Gloucester Camera Club members who have taken the trouble to read parts of the web-site and to report errors, omissions, problems, and areas for improvement. Also thanks to Clive Stanley for setting up and managing a Flickr group comprising members of Gloucester Camera Club.

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