NECCC Camera Club Spotlight Features Greater Lynn Photographic Association
Club Name: Greater Lynn
Photographic Association
Club website: www.greaterlynnphoto.org
Club contact (email address, phone
number optional): Marilyn and Rick Cloran, mrcloran@comcast.net If they are
interested in membership they can either sign up on the club web site or send a
message to membership@greaterlynnphoto.org
Club Meeting Location: 564 Boston
Street, Lynn, MA Greater Lynn is one of the few clubs in the United
States to own its own building.
Club Meeting Times: Mondays
beginning the Monday after Labor Day until the second Monday in June (which is
generally our year end banquet). The club is open at 7:00 PM. Meetings start
with announcements at 7:30 PM. We try (as best we can) to get the actual program
or competitions started by 8:00PM at the latest. On a four Monday month the
first Monday will be an educational program or showcase, the second Monday is
print competition, the third Monday is projected image competition, the last
Monday will be a short business meeting and another educational program or
showcase. On months with five Mondays, we will have educational programs or
showcases on the first two Mondays.
Because we own the building we
have activities on a number of off nights as well. These include three monthly
special interest groups: Print Group, Nature Group, and Digital Group. We also
have several Sunday portrait sessions over the course of a
season.
During the season we will hold
several “social” nights when members can come to the club for a nice dinner,
refreshments and a chance to just chat with fellow members. Many of these are
theme nights, such as Halloween (complete with costumes) or Oscar / Movie Night
when we may roll out our own red carpet and present an award to the best short
show by a member.
The upcoming programs can be found on the club’s website and
calendar
Club Mission Statement (if you have
one, optional): Not so much a mission statement as who we are - The Greater Lynn Photographic Association is a
group of photo-hobbyists dedicated to "teaching the craft of the camera and
exploring the art of photography." The membership is a group of serious
photographers ranging from young adults to retirees and from total beginners to
a Pulitzer Prize winning professional, with most of us somewhere in between.
Number of members: approximately
275
Year your camera club started: 1888
per our records although the club has not been continuously active for that
entire time.
What is something about your club
we might not know?
Greater Lynn members are actively
involved in the community. We currently provide three rotating print displays at
the Union Hospital. We also have a yearly exhibit of members work at the
Grosvenor Park Nursing Center Gallery. Greater Lynn is also the sponsor of one of the largest
single section projected color image international exhibitions in the world. The
international is normally judged in February with the accepted images shown in
April. After 37 years, we are taking 2014 off, but we will be back again in
2015.
Each fall Greater Lynn holds an annual photo course geared
to beginning photographers. Three of our instructors will be teaching the
Beginner’s Track segments at the 2014 NECCC Conference at UMass Amherst. In
addition, the club will normally hold one or two workshops during the winter
months directed at topics the members have identified as being of interest. The
2014 workshop was on basic Lightroom skills.
Three words that best describe your
camera club (optional):
Active, Educational, and Fun
Favorite subject matter of your
members (optional): There are a wide variety of interested within the club. The
“strongest” group at present are likely the nature
photographers.
Favorite field trip (optional): Our
Field Trip chair is always trying to come up with a variety of trips to
differing locals with a goal of providing a series of differing shooting
opportunities in the hope of giving all of our members a chance to shoot
something they find interesting with their fellow members at some point during
the season.
