About us
We are a small, friendly, and active club with a distinguished record within the local region. Membership is currently closed to new members.
Until March 2020, we held regular Wednesday evening meetings from at the Stanborough Centre, 609 St. Albans Road, Garston, Watford WD25 9JL.
We currently hold all meetings exclusively via Zoom and there is no longer a formal programme of competitions and talks by guest speakers. The format for al club meetings is currently informal.
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.
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 and 2019 we represented the CACC in the PAGB national projected image championship at Warwick.
In 2009 we won the prestigious CACC Rosebowl competition and in 2019 won the CACC Projected Image Championship
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'. From 2011 until 2020, 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.
Until March 2020, we held regular Wednesday evening meetings from at the Stanborough Centre, 609 St. Albans Road, Garston, Watford WD25 9JL.
We currently hold all meetings exclusively via Zoom and there is no longer a formal programme of competitions and talks by guest speakers. The format for al club meetings is currently informal.
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.
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 and 2019 we represented the CACC in the PAGB national projected image championship at Warwick.
In 2009 we won the prestigious CACC Rosebowl competition and in 2019 won the CACC Projected Image Championship
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'. From 2011 until 2020, 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.