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Alnwick and District Camera Club was originally formed in 1901 by a group of chemists and their friends. All, of course, used film and printed their pictures in the darkroom. No digital cameras then!
The Club closed during the two great wars and then was reconstituted in 1952. It has met continuously every Wednesday from September to April ever since and for the last 25 years or so in the Mechanics' Institute in Percy Street, Alnwick.
There are 70 members in the current season (2009-2010) from all walks of life and with many different approaches to photography.
Where the founder members used film and printed and developed their photographs in the darkroom, most Club members, though not all, now photograph and print digitally. The Programme, over a 33 week season, is designed to support, teach and develop members' skills and to show, by inviting experienced photographers to show their work, the best of slide and print photography. There is, also, a variety of competitions through which members can test their progress.
The Club is affiliated to the Northern Counties Photographic Federation, a group of about 50 clubs in northern England. This NCPF offers opportunities for Club members to meet and compete over a wider range than they would if they met only within the context of their own club.
Hayseed (off-white) and black mountboards costing £1.25 each (cost price) are now available. If you send an email to John Thompson and let him know what you need he will have them packed ready for you on the following Wednesday evening.
Backing boards are now available at 25p each.
Members may enter up to three prints in each competition as usual but that if the total number of entries exceeds 90 (give or take several) then one of each of a competitor's entry will be "dropped". The choice of which of the three entries will be "dropped" will be up to the competitor and there will be the opportunity to nominate this on the slip which accompanies a member's set of pictures when handed in. This will not apply to "three of a kind" competitions and is unlikely, as yet, to apply to Projected Image competitions.
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