POTTED HISTORY OF NORTHFIELDS CAMERA CLUB
Northfields Camera Club is based in Ealing West London, we meet every Tuesday evening except the second Tuesday of the month. We always welcome new members from raw beginners to accomplished photographers.
If you’ve just got a camera and you’re wondering how to take better pictures, if you just like looking at photographs or if you have had cameras for years and would like to meet others to share experiences, then Northfields Camera Club offers a warm welcome.
We hold weekly meetings with a variety of talks, studio sessions and competitions.
Some of us are beginners and some have many years experience. Anyone who is interested in taking photographs is very welcome. There’s no experience necessary to join and we have members with all sorts of cameras; simple digital compacts as well as more complicated digital SLRs and film cameras.
Our members offer advice and encouragement and plenty of opportunities to develop your interest in photography.
ginally called The Hanwell Camera Club, Northfields Camera Club was founded in 1958 by Reverend PG Kirby. He was a professional photographer before he entered the Baptist ministry.
The club moved to its present location in 1960 and was renamed Northfields Camera Club in 1962. In the same year local Photo Shop owner Vic Tennant became chairman.
We still have one founder member of the Hanwell Camera Club with us, Tony Meyer, who has some wonderful slides and prints ranging throughout the life of the Northfields Camera Club.
Over the 50 years that the club has been running it has attracted a cross section of the local community, and some from farther away. The membership levels have had a rollercoaster of a ride too, with as little as six members turning up for meetings during the 1990s. We are glad now that the club is on the upward ride of the rollercoaster again, welcoming new members throughout the year.
The photographic standard has also increased over the years although, looking at the first print to ever win a competition at Northfields, then Hanwell, and 2010s print of the year, the standard has always been high.
Northfields Camera Club is also a member of the Chiltern Association of Camera Clubs and we regularly have outside judges come in to judge our monthly print competitions.
If you’ve just got a camera and you’re wondering how to take better pictures, if you just like looking at photographs or if you have had cameras for years and would like to meet others to share experiences, then Northfields Camera Club offers a warm welcome.
We hold weekly meetings with a variety of talks, studio sessions and competitions.
Some of us are beginners and some have many years experience. Anyone who is interested in taking photographs is very welcome. There’s no experience necessary to join and we have members with all sorts of cameras; simple digital compacts as well as more complicated digital SLRs and film cameras.
Our members offer advice and encouragement and plenty of opportunities to develop your interest in photography.
ginally called The Hanwell Camera Club, Northfields Camera Club was founded in 1958 by Reverend PG Kirby. He was a professional photographer before he entered the Baptist ministry.
The club moved to its present location in 1960 and was renamed Northfields Camera Club in 1962. In the same year local Photo Shop owner Vic Tennant became chairman.
We still have one founder member of the Hanwell Camera Club with us, Tony Meyer, who has some wonderful slides and prints ranging throughout the life of the Northfields Camera Club.
Over the 50 years that the club has been running it has attracted a cross section of the local community, and some from farther away. The membership levels have had a rollercoaster of a ride too, with as little as six members turning up for meetings during the 1990s. We are glad now that the club is on the upward ride of the rollercoaster again, welcoming new members throughout the year.
The photographic standard has also increased over the years although, looking at the first print to ever win a competition at Northfields, then Hanwell, and 2010s print of the year, the standard has always been high.
Northfields Camera Club is also a member of the Chiltern Association of Camera Clubs and we regularly have outside judges come in to judge our monthly print competitions.
