Welcome

Please take a few moments to browse through the pages on this website, and remember, visitors are welcome at club meetings, so come along and check us out and hopefully you will be keen to join the New Brighton Photographic Club. Meeting times and events.

Our current membership of approximately 40 includes people of all ages from varied backgrounds who share a common interest in photography.

Club activities are based on weekly meetings and the occasional field trip, all of which enable members to have fun while learning and improving their photographic skills in a friendly environment. Our meetings program includes a mixture of discussions, tutorials/workshops, guest speakers and monthly competitions. Field trips range from short photo walks at close-by locations to weekend trips to other areas in the South Island.

Monthly competitions are the back-bone activity of the club. Members are assigned to a grade (A, B or C) according to skill level, and by accumulating points awarded by independent judges are able to move up through the grades as their skills improve. Members may submit a combination of slides, prints and digital images into the monthly competitions.

Our club is affiliated to the Photographic society of New Zealand (PSNZ) which is the governing body for amateur photography in New Zealand. Our club frequently competes in interclub competitions organised by PSNZ and we have an excellent record of success in national inter-club competitions organised by PSNZ.