A Great Place For Photographers for Over 55 Years!
The Huntington Camera Club (HCC) was founded in 1966 to provide beginning and advanced photographers an opportunity to improve their photographic skills, meet like-minded people - who are also interested in photography, and provide a fun, supportive forum for the sharing of their photographs. Membership is open to everyone with an interest in photography, regardless of their skill level. The Club offers instructional programming, entertaining multi-media presentations, judged competitions, field trips, guest lectures by well-known photographic artists, and other events including special dinners and a family picnic.
The Club maintains an active profile in the community. Through dues, the generosity of individuals and various grants and awards, it has cataloged Huntington's historical homes, produced a multi-media show on "A Week in the Life of Huntington," taught photography to children at the Sunrise Day Camp, photographed shows and concerts for the Huntington Art Council’s Summer Series at Heckscher Park, conducts an annual photo competition for high school students, and provides a generous scholarship to a high school student interested in pursuing photography at the college level.
The HCC meets every Tuesday night at 7:30 PM(September - June)in the Auditorium on the lower level of the Huntington Public Library, 338 Main Street, Huntington Village. However, during the Coronavirus pandemic, there are select meetings where we meet virtually using Zoom at 7:30 PM. Please check the calendar below for the meeting schedule. The public is invited to attend some of our meetings, but only paid members can participate in competitions, Zoom only special meetings & special events. If you are interested in attending any of our Zoom meetings and possibly joining our club, please email hcczoomadmin@hccny.org for more information, and a meeting link.
Annual dues are $75 a year for individual memberships, $20 for students, $60 for seniors age 62 and over, and $120 for family memberships. Over 35 meetings during the months of September through June are held each year.
Please browse this website for more information.
If you have other questions, please email president@hccny.org
Upcoming Meetings
Keep an eye out for e-mails re: meet ups and photo outings.
Note: Competition nights are typically our busiest and start promptly at 7:30 PM. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLIER.
Dec 17th - Holiday Party at Eatalia, 34 New Street, Huntington, 6:30pm-9:30pm.
Dec 24th - *** No Meeting!!! ***
Dec 31st - *** No Meeting!!! ***
Jan 5th - HCC Photo Gallery Opening at the Huntington Public Library Lower Level, 338 Main Street, Huntington Village.
Jan 7th - Photo Critique Night.
Jan 12th - Sunday 8PM Competition Entry Deadline!
Jan 14th - January Projected & Prints Competition.
Jan 21st - HCC Board Member Presentations.
Jan 26th - Sunday 8PM Theme Competition Entry Deadline!
Jan 28th - Theme Competition: Theme TBD.
Feb 4th - Guest Speaker: Hazel Meredith presents a program on "Testures & Layers".
Feb 9th - Sunday 8PM Competition Entry Deadline!
Feb 11th - Projected & Prints Competition.
Feb 18th - Member Presentations: Carol Merkel on "Women’s Workshops, Opportunities, Experiences, How did you find it, How it lead to us", Laura Bergman on "Real Estate Photography", and Curt Dahl on "Centerport Eagle Photography".
Feb 25th - Remote Guest Speaker: Backcountry Journeys Annalise Kaylor presents "Style and Substance - Finding Your Visual Voice".
Mar 4th - Past President Darin Reed leads an "AI Photo Discussion".
Mar 9th - Sunday 8PM Competition Entry Deadline!
Mar 11th - March Projected & Prints Competition.
Mar 18th - Annual Roberta Strent Memorial Award Night.
Mar 23rd - Sunday 8PM Theme Competition Entry Deadline!
Mar 25th - Theme Competition: Theme TBD.
Apr 4th - Program TBD.
Apr 7th - Sunday 8PM Competition Entry Deadline!
Apr 8th - April Projected & Prints Competition.
Apr 15th - Program TBD.
Apr 22nd - HCC Team Project Presentation.
Apr 29th - Annual High School Competition Awards Night.
May 18th - Sunday 8PM Competition Entry Deadline!
May 20th - May Projected & Prints Competition.
May 25th - 8PM Year Competition Entry Deadline!
May 27th - 2024/2025 Year End Competition.
Meetings we've accomplished during the 2024-2025 Club Year
1. 08/20/24 In-Person Board Meeting.
2. 09/03/24 Welcome Back! Share recent adventures or planned ones.
3. 09/10/24 September Projected & Prints Competition.
4. 09/17/24 Member Presentation: Harold Naideau presents a program on "The Basics of Photoshop".
5. 09/24/24 Photo critique night.
6. 10/01/24 Member Presentation: Darin Reed presents a live program on "Lightroom Post Processing".
7. 10/08/24 October Projected & Prints Competition.
8. 10/15/24 Herb Knopp PFLI LV Award and Members BobW, DanaR, Dee present: "Processing Start to Finish"
9. 10/22/24 Scott Kelby(Kelby One) Instructional Video.
10. 10/29/24 Darin Reed introduces the member project: "Seeing in Quintets".
11. 11/05/24 No meeting tonight. See you all next week.
12. 11/12/24 November Projected & Prints Competition.
13. 11/19/24 "Team Photo Projects" Presentation.
14. 11/26/24 Guest Speaker: Lisa Langell, Zoom only Program TBD.
15. 12/03/24 Member Presentations: Glenn Gordon on "West Neck Beach Phtography", Sharon Collins & Mariann Willmott on "Photo Friends and How to Motivate Each Other" and Chris Zenyuh on "Underwater Photography".
16. 12/10/24 December Projected & Prints Competition.
The club has a regular scheduled field trip EVERY Sunday. This includes summer and winter breaks. We call ourselves the “Sunday Shooters”. Our meeting place is the Dix Hills Diner, 1800 E. Jericho Turnpike, Huntington NY near intersection with E. Deer Park Rd. We order breakfast at 7:30am. We have great conversations, discuss photography, and select places to go over breakfast. We meet rain or shine and throughout the year and sometimes find interesting places to go to. Often there are both local and longer trips to choose from so that you can be home early to spend lunch with the family or make it a longer day with a trip to the city. We frequently caravan and pile into one or two cars to share the expense of gas. Please feel free to join us. If you are an early bird, don't worry, many of us arrive before 7am to get into pre-breakfast discussions.
Due to COVID we temporarily are meeting on ZOOM. Please contact Marc Alter for Zoom information. Email: mfalter@optonline.net
| Competition Month | Judge |
|---|---|
| September | Andy Silver: Video Recorded |
| October | Kathy Baca: Video Recorded |
| November | Brad Berger: Video Recorded |
| December | Alan Agdern: Video Recorded |
| January | TBD: Video Recorded |
| February | Robert Ripps: Zoom Only |
| March | Frank Rocco: Video Recorded |
| April | TBD: Zoom Only |
| May | TBD: Video Recorded |
| YearEnd | TBD, TBD, TBD: Video Recorded |