About us
We are a small, friendly, and active club with a distinguished record within the local region. Membership is open to all.
We meet at 7.45pm for an 8pm start on Wednesday evenings from early September to the end of May in the Larch Room, on the first floor of the Stanborough Centre, 609 St. Albans Road, Garston, Watford WD25 9JL (excepting the occasional ‘away’ fixture). See Programme for details. There is illuminated off-street parking for 100+ vehicles at the rear of the Centre.
We have a programme of lectures, digital workshops and regular competitions for both prints and projected digital images. We take part in many inter-club activities which is an opportunity to see work from other clubs around the Chilterns and wider afield.
All our members are happy to pass on their extensive and varied knowledge to new members, whether it be camera technique, traditional film processing or digital manipulation and printing.
Apart from taking part in CACC organised competitions and exhibitions and one-to-one events with other clubs, individual members enter their work in many other exhibitions. We also produce exhibitions of prints for display in local centres.
In both 2003, 2005 and 2012, we represented the CACC in the PAGB national print competition and in 2008 we represented them in both the national slide and national print championships. In 2011 we represented them in the PAGB national projected image championships.
In 2009 we won the prestigious CACC Rosebowl competition.
XRR won the Mersea Island Challenge Trophy in 2016, against competition from 10 other clubs from the British Isles.
For 25 years we ran a day of photography, called 'Pre Visions'. In 2011, Pre-Visions was replaced by 'VISIONS' which is a projected digital image competition open to both individual photographers and clubs.
HISTORY OF THE CLUB
We started life as the De Havilland club based at Leavesden airfield, north of Watford, but a number of industrial mergers resulted in us eventually becoming the “Rolls-Royce Leavesden” club. When RR closed the factory in 1993, we became independent under the XRR designation.
We meet at 7.45pm for an 8pm start on Wednesday evenings from early September to the end of May in the Larch Room, on the first floor of the Stanborough Centre, 609 St. Albans Road, Garston, Watford WD25 9JL (excepting the occasional ‘away’ fixture). See Programme for details. There is illuminated off-street parking for 100+ vehicles at the rear of the Centre.
We have a programme of lectures, digital workshops and regular competitions for both prints and projected digital images. We take part in many inter-club activities which is an opportunity to see work from other clubs around the Chilterns and wider afield.
All our members are happy to pass on their extensive and varied knowledge to new members, whether it be camera technique, traditional film processing or digital manipulation and printing.
Apart from taking part in CACC organised competitions and exhibitions and one-to-one events with other clubs, individual members enter their work in many other exhibitions. We also produce exhibitions of prints for display in local centres.
In both 2003, 2005 and 2012, we represented the CACC in the PAGB national print competition and in 2008 we represented them in both the national slide and national print championships. In 2011 we represented them in the PAGB national projected image championships.
In 2009 we won the prestigious CACC Rosebowl competition.
XRR won the Mersea Island Challenge Trophy in 2016, against competition from 10 other clubs from the British Isles.
For 25 years we ran a day of photography, called 'Pre Visions'. In 2011, Pre-Visions was replaced by 'VISIONS' which is a projected digital image competition open to both individual photographers and clubs.
HISTORY OF THE CLUB
We started life as the De Havilland club based at Leavesden airfield, north of Watford, but a number of industrial mergers resulted in us eventually becoming the “Rolls-Royce Leavesden” club. When RR closed the factory in 1993, we became independent under the XRR designation.