Welcome!
Welcome to Darwen Camera Club's website.
Darwen Camera Club dates back over 100 years and throughout our long history we have remained informal and friendly, appealing to photography enthusiasts young and old across the local community.
Whatever your photographic experience and ambition, if you're looking to improve your photography then Darwen Camera Club's weekly programme will have something to interest you, including monthly print and digital competitions, regular talks from experienced speakers in the area, reviews of the best work entered in regional and national competitions as well as practical sessions covering digital editing software.
The club is affiliated to the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU) and the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB), and both these bodies orgainse their own annual competitions where the standard is always extremely high. Many club members enter these competitions to learn from against the best photographers in the country and test their work against them.
The club are always keen to welcome prospective new members, so whatever your interest in photography, why not come along to our next meeting?
 | We're now on Facebook too - if you're on Facebook, please 'like' our Facebook page to see regular updates, news and information about the club, plus a selection of our best work. |
Note: Our Annual General Meeting takes place on Monday 23rd January, 7:30pm, at Hollins Grove Church, Hawkshaw Avenue, Darwen.
2012 Club Exhibition: Take note that our annual exhibition will soon be taking place! This year we'll be exhibition the best work from all our members between Saturday 18th February and Thursday 8th March in the Exhibition Room at Darwen Library. Come along and see what we do!
Latest updates to the site
18 Jan: Results from our latest club competition are now available on our News page, with each image now available on our Gallery page.
14 Jan: Information about some forthcoming events: our Annual General Meeting, the L&CPU Big Day of Photography and our Annual Exhibition are available on our News page.
7 Jan: We've added a note to this Welcome page about our forthcoming exhibition, which starts on 18 Feb.
23 Dec: Our News page has information about the 2012 Southport PS exhibition, where entries close on Wednesday 18th January.
16 Dec: The results from our latest monthly competition are available on our News page, and the top placed images are now included in our Gallery.
7 Dec: Darwen Camera Club has a new logo and is now on Facebook too - see our News page for more details! We've also added reminders on our News page about next Monday's monthly competition and our Christmas social evening the week after.
What does Darwen mean to you?
The Meeting by Bill Senior, an unusual view of Darwen's iconic landmark | Since our new website was launched, each month we've used the new page format to showcase some of our best images of Darwen. What does Darwen mean to you though? Get out and about in Darwen and send in your best pictures of the town, the local countryside, parks, people or events - basically any good quality images that portrays Darwen (and therefore the club) in a positive light. The only restriction is that your pictures must be in a 'letterbox' format to fit on the page. We'll take images from both members and non-members, so if you like our site and you've taken a great picture representing Darwen in some way then email your photos along with your name to web@darwencameraclub.org.uk and you never know - you might see them on this site! |
