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Watford Camera Club

Meetings take place in the Main Meeting Room, Friends Meeting House, 150 Church Road, Watford WD17 4QB (where there is free parking) on Thursday evenings from 7.45pm from early September to mid-June.

Watford Camera Club is the oldest photographic club in Hertfordshire, having celebrated its centenary in 2003. Anyone
interested in photography is welcome - from novices to experienced photographers.

The programme offers competition evenings interspersed with lectures on all aspects of photography, social events and visits.

The competitions cater for prints, slides and digital images from all grades of photographer, and a judge provides a commentary and scores. You can have your work printed commercially - you don’t have to have a darkroom or a computer. In fact almost all our members produce their photographs with digital cameras or via computers now.

The Club takes part in "league" and "friendly" external competitions with various photographic clubs in the North West London and Chilterns areas. We also have links and visits with overseas photographic clubs.

The annual Watford International Salon of Photography (WISP) invites entries of 10 images emailed from each of 10 clubs worldwide. We always look forward to seeing the widely differing styles of photography.

Studio Group meets on an ad hoc basis about every two months. Recent subjects have been a karate group, a belly dancing class and a Husky dog!

"Workshop" evenings concentrate on practical aspects of photography and include demonstrations by experienced members or guest speakers.

Monthly Digital Workshops will be starting in January 2009, focusing on Adobe Photoshop photo editing software and digital photography.

Our Annual Exhibition takes place at the end of September in the Gallery at the Harlequin Shopping Centre. All members are encouraged to enter.

Individual subscriptions are just £35 per annum, with reductions for families, senior citizens and full-time students.
Visitors are welcome to come to two meetings free of charge.