Hello All and Welcome to N4C for 2011-2012

We must keep the activities of the Council fresh, and to continuously stimulate interest and involvement by the membership. The objectives established in the N4C Constitution seem to be just as timely and challenging today as when the organization was founded.

January 2012 will mark the 56th anniversary of the North Central Camera Club Council (N4C). Even though photographic technology has changed drastically since 1956, there is still a unique bond among photographers and the joy of sharing photos with each other. There is also a hunger for knowledge in the craft. Keeping up with the latest equipment and techniques is an ongoing challenge. Sharing at a higher and more diverse level expands horizons beyond what is available in many of the individual affiliated camera clubs of the Council.

I believe that whenever a photo is presented for judging it becomes a form of art. We invite others to view it and express their opinions about it. Such subjective evaluations by unknown audiences may be varied and unpredictable. Thus photo competition becomes a type of game where photographers must evaluate and present their best work hoping to please the majority. “The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality” a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -1749-1832. The focus of our photography is then to record the lighting on our chosen subject and present it in a way that it becomes ideal, perfect, beautiful or even larger than life and striving to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. My emphasis here is that our focus is on the product of our photography – the print, the projected image, the essay, the book, the story and the record. HOW it may be achieved will vary widely. With digital capabilities we are experiencing an exciting renaissance in photography. There are many new challenges, opportunities, and occasions for experimentation. Interest is growing, clubs are growing, and change is inevitable.

The challenge of the Council is to facilitate improvement and meaningful sharing of photography through inter-club contests. I encourage all members to read the rules in the N4C Handbook before any judging activity. We will strive to provide basic and stimulating educational opportunities at Springbrook and Convention gatherings. Using a variety of communication such N4C Newsletters, website, forum and other internet capabilities we can expand our reach directly to members in the ten-state region of the Council

Ken Johnson
N4C President

History

The "NORTH CENTRAL CAMERA CLUB COUNCIL” had its inception almost simultaneously in the minds of three men  Robert H. Cochran, M.D., APSA. Omaha, E, Curtis Lugg, Sioux Falls, and Francis A. Kingsbury, Ponca and Sioux City.

Fate decided that their paths should cross in the Spring of 1955, these three men sat on the front porch of the Kingsbury home in Ponca Nebraska where their vision gave birth to the North Central Council of Camera Clubs. From their idea that evening a tentative organization, created May 30, 1955, combined members of seven Camera Clubs located in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota. and South Dakota.
 
Summer, Fall, and Winter Seasons were spent in organizational creation of many of the services still available from the "N-4-C", as the infant was nicknamed. Meeting at the Joslyn Memorial Art Museum in Omaha, January 22, 1956, resulted in adopting a Constitution, and in electing the temporary officers to their permanent positions.
 
The First Convention, held in Sioux City, lowa, with Francis A. Kingsbury as General Chairman gave the 123 delegates from the 20 member Clubs such excellent programs that it is difficult to uphold tradition in the subsequent Conventions, The now famous "N 4 C, “Where Names become Faces and Paces become Friends"  was originated during this gathering by Francis Kingsbury. The original officers were re-elected to complete their assignment to build an active and lasting N-4 C.

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