President’s Welcome
It is my
privilege and honour to welcome you to our website. Please take time to read
about the club’s proud history of over one hundred years of photographic and
artistic activity.
We are a
postal club but we meet for our AGM and exhibition, and to meet our fellow
members, at a residential weekend in the Spring at Willersley Castle in
Derbyshire. There are also Northern and Southern re-union weekends in the
Autumn.
Members enjoy
the fellowship of the various folios and the help that comes from
constructive comments on each others work. We now have digital folios
specialising in computer manipulation, and a Projected Digital Image (PDI)
folio for sending and viewing electronically.
View our Folios page for details of all our folios
A fine
display of members work is to be found in our Gallery. Use the menus above
to find further information about the club.
If you feel
that you would like to practice your photography, or art, within a warm
Christian fellowship or to comment on our website we would love to hear from
you via our visitor’s page.
Claude Kensett. President, Pen and
Camera Club of Methodism
Club Profile
The Pen and Camera Club is about the oldest Postal Portfolio in existence
having been founded in 1904 by the Rev’d H. Mudie Draper as a cultural
activity of the Methodist Wesley Guild.
In the early days, with a membership of around 20 the folio was circulated monthly, including
during both World Wars, with members entering monochrome prints until 1956 when the
first colour slide folio was formed. A rapid expansion took place after 1965
with the formation of additional folios and the Club now consists of a
monochrome folio, colour print folios, colour slide folios, digital folios, a
DPI folio and an art folio.
Each folio operates by post and members develop good friendships
and support each other in a loving Christian fellowship.
The Club has evolved continuously over the years with members using plate,
medium format, 35 mm and now digital cameras and computers This has ensured an active
membership that now stands at over 100. Membership is aimed at active Methodists,
although we are happy to accept others who are willing to worship with us. There are
currently vacancies in most of the folios.
Every year we have a most enjoyable AGM weekend, where old friends can gather
and meet new friends and new members, as well as conducting the club’s business
and competing in slide and print exhibitions for the various trophies.
If you click on the picture below you can see us all at Willersley
Castle in April 2019.
