We are celebrating 125 years of taking photos.

In 2025 we are celebrating 125 years of taking great photographs. To help us celebrate this we are appearing in St Helens Town Hall as part of the towns Heritage Festival. On the 31st May 2025 we will be displaying cameras, magazines and photographs from the clubs rich history.

The towns celebration details can be found at this link

https://www.sthelensheritagehub.org.uk/heritage-festival

Some of our experienced members will be available all day to answer any questions you might hove about the club past and present as well as offering advice about photography and how you too could become a member.

As part of the celebrations some of our members will be out and about taking photos to add to our archive and to share and celebrate across our socail media.

We are also holding our exhibition at St Helens Parish Church in Church Square.

Festival Poster
Festival Poster

St Helens Town Hall

Victoria Square​, Bickerstaffe Street​, St Helens

WA10 1HP

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Our Exhibition can be found at

St Helens Parish Church,
Church Square,
St Helens Merseyside
WA10 1AF

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London Salon Exhibition – Face in the Architecture

We have just been informed that our talented judge and member

Tillman Kleinhans ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPU

Who can be found at

www.tkimages.co.uk

Has had one of his images accepted by the London Salon for this year’s exhibition. This is such a wonderful achievement and we all congratulate him on his acceptance. Tillman has had an incredible career in photography, and this is one of the highlights of his success.

The Picture is Titled Face in the Architecture

Inter-Mersey Competition 2025

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Intermersey2025

On Monday 7th April 2025 we are hosting the Inter-Mersey competition with our respected Judge Martin Pickles.

Why not come along to see some of the most prestigious photographs taken by Merseyside photographers.

Doors open at 1930hrs for a prompt 2000hrs start

This will be our last formal meeting of the 2024/2025 season. However, we have a full summer months program in place.

So, if you have ever desired to learn how to use that DSLR camera lying in your bag, or how to creatively use your smart phone camera. then why not join us at one of our Summer get togethers.

Indeed, if there are any 35mm film camera users out there, we would love to see you at one of our meetings.

Details will be posted on our social media site as well as our Social Media page

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St Helens Camera Club

Hope to see you over the Summer.

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Tillman Kleinhans ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPU

Our very own Judge Tillman Kleinhans ARPS  EFIAP/g  DPAGB  BPE5*  Hon LCPU took this demonstrating the skill and timing required to get the shot.

Our AGM will be next Monday and with a Summer of activities ahead we hope to see everyone soon, perhaps come along to one of our closed season get togethers. at our regular club house.

For up to date information why not pop along to our Facebook page, we can be found at

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564909454195

Welcome to our new Poster

We are always looking to expand what we do, not just with photography but also how we can incorporate the art form in different ways. One of our talented members Eric Mercer has designed our new Poster. Why not pop along to our facebook page to see what we do. Promise we are a friendly lot and always welcome new members.

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AdvertPoster2025

Our last competition of the season, which is an open cometition with restrictions.

Its always sad to arrive at our last competition of the season, however withthe assistace of our Judge John Riley, we have cemented our understanding of what we can achieve with the assistance of great advice and critique. Many thanks to John Riley for his comments and advice on the night.

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    18_Into the Light Space_Tillman Kleinhans

Landscapes Competition

As we approach the remaining competitions in our club year, it’s always a pleasure to see how our members capture the land as the year turns. This year was no exception, we were presented with some outstanding entries, and with the help and advice of Chris Boyes BPAGB. Who provided his usual high standard of advice and comments we ended the evening with some wonderful pictures. Many thanks to Judge Boyes for his efforts.

My home town competition

We thought that to start 2025 we would like to offer each of our members a chance to celebrate the place where they live and so this competition was created. Our Judge for this one was Steve Hitchen EPAGB AFIAP BPE5 and as usual he provided some wonderful advice and comments on our pictures. the results are presented below and as we have now resolved our issue with the software we can once more provide pictures to our gallery, why not pop along to the Gallery page to see our entries and celebrate our towns along with us.