British Wildlife photography Awards 2011

Out today.
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Coming Events

Listed here are some events that may produce some photo opportunities or exhibitions of photographs.

1. The Salisbury Food & Drink Festival.
Lots going on from the 12th to 18th Sept.
0845 241 9651
or http://www.salisburyfestival.co.uk/food-and-drink-festival-2011/food-and-drink-festival.aspx
Sunday has the BIG event. Lots to photograph I imagine.

2. Salisbury Art Trail 8th to 16th October.There are 48 venues. Many contain photography.
see http://www.plainartssalisbury.co.uk/category/salisbury-art-trail/

Mesage from The SPF to You

With the development and expansion of the SPF web-site (www.southernfed.org.uk)

your Council feels that it is no longer appropriate to continue to publish a separate Newsletter.

However, in order to alert clubs to ongoing new information, we will from time to time e-mail all clubs with a summary of significant issues from the web-site, along with the appropriate links to access the details. We hope you will help this to reach all club members in the SPF, by copying this e-mail to all your members.

So, to kick things off for the new season, here are a few headlines:

1. The SPF Leagues for 2011-12 are now sorted out; for tables and fixture lists and other details see http://www.southernfed.org.uk/league.htm All of the PDI entries for last season have now been added to the web-site in a set of galleries starting at http://www.southernfed.org.uk/leaguegallery1.htm ..well worth a look!

2. The SPF Exhibition in January 2012 will again be held in Salisbury. Entry for prints ( but not PDIs) is now closed. See http://www.southernfed.org.uk/exhibition2011.htm for full details

3. There is an important change in the PAGB standard mileage rate..up to 30p per mile plus fuel cost. See http://www.southernfed.org.uk/data/pagbrates20110426.pdf

4. Other than these key issues, there's lots of other information on the web-site, including RPS and PAGB Awards, PAGB Print Exhibition report http://www.southernfed.org.uk/pagbexhibition.htm, listing of upcoming events, minutes of Reps Meeting http://www.southernfed.org.uk/pagbexhibition.htm ( reminder: next Reps meeting is this coming Friday and much more.

5. Finally, I have been asked to bring to your attention a competition organised by The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), based at the Universities of Southampton and St Andrews.

The UN predicts that on the 31st of October 2011 the population of the world will reach 7 billion.
The theme of the competition is:'What Does Living in a World of 7 Billion Mean to You?'

Photo submissions can be anything that in the author’s opinion, answers this. The competition is free to enter. Selected photographs will be displayed in a presentation at the ‘World at 7 Billion’ seminar to be held in London on the 31st October 2011. The closing date is 14th October 2011

For details see www.flickr.com/groups/1731373@N24/

John Hodge SPF Council Member

David Noton Talk, Devizes

Devizes Camera Club is promoting a presentation by the renowned landscape photographer, David Noton.

This event will be at the Arc Theatre, Trowbridge, Wiltshire on Wednesday 16th November 2011, starting at 7.30 pm. He will be presenting his show 'Chasing the Light' which has rave reviews where ever it is shown. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see this show.

A poster is attached. If it is not of interest, please forward it to someone you think would maybe like to come.

Ticket price is £10.50 each. Tickets are very limited so please e-mail me or phone to check for availability.

David Noton shares with the audience how a landscape and travel photographer uses their eyes. It includes landscape, portraiture, street scenes and satellite imagery from around the world as well as in the field advice and photographic tips.

He shares the highs and lows of being in the field and ‘explores’ pushing the boundaries to encourage experimentation with our own photography either as snappers on holiday or budding developing photographers.

The presentation is a full audio/visual experience with high definition projection, music, video clips, practical technical backgrounds and travel anecdotes with David’s renowned sense of humour. exploring the essentials of location photography, location finding, pre-visualisation, understanding natural light, composition and colour.

http://www.davidnoton.com

http://www.davidnoton.com/roadshow.htm

http://www.arctheatre.org.uk

www.devizescameraclub.co.uk

"History behind the Counter"

8 to 11 Sept
Salisbury Civic Society Historic Open Days
A free event themed "History behind the Counter"
19 shops and cafes sharing the architecture of the building and history of the businesses within it.
Tel 01722 334 956

More Club History

There are two new galleries showing some interesting snippets of events in the Club in the past.

1. At one time we had an exhibition in the Library in Amesbury. The date is unknown - unless you know better? Find this HERE
2. The next item is some pictures that were in a postal competition over 100 years ago. The interesting part is the critiques that came with the images. The remarks are amazingly similar to those we hear today. Read these HERE
3. Note in the above gallery is a single photo taken in 1946 of an exhibition. Where was this held? Does anyone recognise the room? Let me if you do please.
   

Newsheet for September

1. The club are planning to hold an exhibition in the Guildhall on January 23rd-27th 2012. We expect to be able to exhibit approximately 100 of your images to the public (exact numbers will be known nearer the date). All exhibited images must be mounted and framed to maximise the visual impact (again exact details will be given later). There is no need to do anything at the moment other than note the dates and perhaps give some thought to providing an entry for the exhibition.

2. Set subject title "Natural History"

As you are aware the first PDI set subject this season is Natural History. In order to clarify what is acceptable and to avoid confusion in this specific area of photography, the RPS/SPF definition is outlined below.

• Images can be of any branch of natural history except anthropology and archaeology.
• No photos of artificially produced plants, mounted specimens or wildlife in captivity are allowed.
• Human elements should not normally be present unless they are necessary to enhance the photos story.
• No digital manipulation allowed that alters the truth of the image.

Tony Oliver Competition Secretary.

Competition Image Selection

The club initially require the following number of prints and PDI’s for competition and exhibition this season. We would like as many members as possible to submit work for consideration.

SPF League 8 Prints, 8 PDI’s

SPF Exhibition 6 Prints, 8 PDI’s

Monday Club 10 Prints, 10 PDI’s

There will be further matches/exhibitions during the year when image selection will be made nearer the date.

The Selection Committee will make the selection by the end of September in order to return the entry details by the required date. To facilitate this all work must be submitted on or before Monday 27th September (to include images from the first bi-monthly.)

The following criteria will be used for the initial selection process.

Prints: All members are invited to submit up to 5 mounted prints for consideration. These can be new work or previously unselected work from last year. Prints should ideally be on 500mm x 400mm mountboards.

PDI’s: All members are invited to submit up to 5 digital image files for consideration. These can be new work or previously unselected work from last year.

The selection committee may also ask to see specific work not submitted as above that they would also like to consider (e.g. known competition / Fools 100 images).

Prints should be given to Tony Oliver by the above submission date. PDI's should be given to Richard Temlett by the same date. These can be e-mailed to him (preferable), or submitted on a CD or memory stick. PDI's should not exceed the following dimensions 1400 (W) x 1050 (H) pixels and should be submitted as JPEGs in the Srgb colour space.

These events are an opportunity to show the best work of our club members. In order to do this we need your best images. If you have any queries please let me know.
Thank you.

Tony Oliver Competition Secretary

P.A.G.B. AWARDS

Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 13:27:07 +0100
Subject: P.A.G.B. AWARDS

Dear Club Contacts

Please could you inform your members that North Hampshire. P.S. are hosting an evening by Leo Rich.ARPS,EFIAP,APAGB.( Vice President of the P.A.G.B.)

Where he will be outlining these prestigious awards. What is required , their difference to the R.P.S., costs, how to enter, and standard of work.

He will also have projected a number of successful panels.He will not be doing any appraisals, although he will be commenting on 2 of NHPS members work.

Those present will be able to ask questions in respect to the Awards.

Date :- Friday 7th October.

Time :- 8.00.p.m.

No Charge, although a Raffle

Venue :- Oakley Village Hall, Station Rd. Oakley RG23 7HA.

Location Map :- www.nhps.weebly.com

Yours in anticipation

Ernie Fullbrook. BEM, APAGB.

Secretary N.H.P.S.

Feast of Old Vehicles

On Sunday 4th Sept go to the Central Car Park to see some of the finest preserved commercial vehicles.
They will be there from 9.30am to 11.30am. They will also be passing through Ringwood from 9am to 10am and through Amesbury from 10.30am to 12 noon.
This looks like an ideal time to get some competition quality photos.

Wings Over Stonehenge 17 Sept 2011

Both these events are organised by the National Trust.

From 11am to 1pm there will be walk to commemorate the death of Lt Reginald Cammell. He suffered the first fatal military aeroplane accident. A look at aviation from 1910 to 1914.

In the evening from 4.30pm to 7.30pm there will be a photography walk around the Stonehenge landscape.

Booking essential. Phone 01980 664780