Tenby Camera Club has compiled an exhibition in conjunction with Tenby Museum and Art Gallery to show the range of members' work, from beginners to more advanced, and to show their range of styles, subjects, approaches and locations, especially, of course, around Pembrokeshire and in Tenby, some indeed taken within a few feet of the museum.
Landscapes, seascapes, portraits, wildlife, boats, lakes, action photographs, including birds and even a car in flight, all are included. There are wet process colour and black and white prints, as well as digital prints from both film and digital cameras.
There are images which have been exhibited in the Welsh International Salon of Photography and others which formed part of final degree panels. This range of work comes both from a growing number of new members, including students, as well as from members who helped start the club early in the 1980s, such as founder Alan Hare, current chairman Doug Williams and programme secretary Ray Hine.
The longevity of the club not only owes much to members' enjoyment of photography (both the images and the gadgetry!), but also to the strong social spirit built up in fitting out the interior of premises as a clubroom in a former pottery at the Greenhill Centre in 1984 with its own kitchen, lecture and studio room, darkroom, including extra lights, wiring and plumbing. (Sadly, decay and lack of external maintenance of this building led to its abrupt closure by the owners, the cunty council, this summer.)
The club has found a welcome new home for its Thursday evening meetings this October in roomy premises offered by the Deer Park Baptist Chapel through the kind offices of its Pastor, Tom Torok.
Attendance and membership has grown this autumn, and the club looks forward to an exciting year of photography.
The club arranges exhibitions of work each summer in Carew Methodist Chapel's craft fair and also in the St. Johns Church art exhibition, as part of the Tenby Arts Festival.
Visitors and prospective members are welcome at club meetings from 7.30 pm each Thursday evening, via the rear entrance to Deer Park Chapel, Weston Terrace, off Warren Street, Tenby.
The exhibition will be officially opened on Friday, December 5, by Clr. Mrs Caroline Thomas, the Mayor of Tenby, and will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday December 6 and 7, and from then until December 19, on weekdays only (10 am - 5 pm).
At the same time, the museum will also be holding an art exhibition by pupils of the Tenby Junior School.
Both exhibitions will conclude a highly successful 125th anniversary year at the museum.