Close-Up, the newsletter of the Victoria Camera Club, has been in continuous publication since 1946. It has won numerous awards, most recently the 2002 CAPA award for best large-club newsletter. Close-Up is available in print form and in electronic form, either distributed by e-mail or by download via the link below. Contact the Close-Up editor.
***A Special Supplement to the December, 2011, issue is available to preview the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" exhibit now open at the Royal BC Museum. See the supplement here.***
Click the image on the right to read the current web readable issue of the newsletter. It now features hot links for all URL's etc, including ads, as italic/blue text and blue ad frames.
Alternatively, if you wish to print and fold the newsletter into book format, please click the link to download the new experimental printable version of Close-Up. Print quality is dependent on your printer.
You will need the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read or print these pdf versions. You can download it free from the Adobe website.
The print edition of Close-Up is available at the premises of a number of our advertisers. See the list below and follow the links to their websites or note the addresses indicated. Patronize these businesses to our mutual benefit!
In our black and white paper format and as an on-line colour pdf file, Close-Up reaches over 650 people every month.
Publication of the paper
edition of Close-Up is supported by ads from local photo-related
businesses. For deadline information, see page three of
Close-Up.
View the on-line Close-Up Ad Rates/Specifications sheet for detailed information.
Contact the Close-Up editor.
Access back issues of Close-Up via the button below. For the Sept/Oct 2011 issue you will be taken to a bonus page which includes pointers to the very first issues of Close-Up (from 1946-47) plus a chapter from our 50th anniversary publication, "A Celebration of Photography - 50 years of Photography with the Victoria Camera Club". It's Chapter 5, linked from the page, includes a review of the history of Close-Up from 1946 to 1995.
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