Photographic Opportunities this Autumn

Winchester Discovery Centre

 

18 September   Gallery Tour of International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition with Philip Smith (Director) - Phone 01962 873603   19:30   £7.00

19 September   International Garden Photographer of the Year Workshop with Philip Smith (Director) Phone 01962 873603 - 10:00 – 16:00    £80.00

Until 30^th September   International Garden Photographer of the Year  - Library hours   Free

29 September  Get more from your Digital camera   10.00  – 16.00   £40.00

6 October - Improve your photography with a PC (Elements) 10.00  – 16.00   £40.00

3 November - Light & Portrait Photography    10.00  – 16.00   £40.00

New Forest – Michael Palmer Photography

September onwards - Digital Camera Workshop  10:00 – 15:00 - £79    

                                                                                       see michaelpalmer.com website for schedule

Hayling Island Camera Club

Annual Hayling Island Camera Club Photography Exhibition 6/7/8 September 2012
10-4.00pm at URC Hall, Hollow Lane, Mengham, Hayling Island PO11 9EY

Also a reminder that Langstone Hotel, Northney, Hayling Island are hosting a gallery of Hayling Island Camera Club prints and offering 10% off a cream tea. 

Romsey Viewfinders - Macro Photography Talk - Bob Brind Serch Sept 4th

Please come along on September 4th as Bob Brind Serch will be at Romsey Viewfinders giving a talk entitled Macro Photography - A Practical Exploration. The entry charge for non-members will be £3 on the door. The evening will run from 7.30pm until around 10pm and will be at our usual meeting place, Jubilee Hall, New Road, Timsbury SO51 0NH.

 

Details can be found on the link below

http://www.viewfinderscameraclub.org.uk/index.php

 

More details specifically about Bob and his talks can be found on this link.

http://www.naturesphotos.co.uk/

 

And as usual, you will get a warm welcome from Club members and the best tea and biscuits in Timsbury!

 

Best wishes

Pam Watson

Secretary

PLEASE NOTE: Sheila and I will be going on this date so if you wish to go we can give you a lift. See us on the first night of Salisbury CC's season [i.e. 3/9/12].

SOUTH DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

  Hunt for photos of life in the South Downs

Comedian and actor Hugh Dennis will help to judge a photo competition challenging people to capture ‘Life in our Landscapes’ in the South Downs National Park this summer.

Hugh Dennis, who lives in the South Downs National Park, said:

“The spectacular landscapes of the South Downs only exist because of the people who have shaped them over the past 6,000 years. I’ll be looking for a winning image that captures a story of the people who live, work and visit here today.”

Prizes for the competition, launched by the South Downs National Park, include £150 in vouchers to spend at Petersfield Photographic, a year’s subscription to Outdoor Photography magazine and a day of landscape photography training with photographer Simon Parsons.

The other judges are Steven Watkins, editor of Outdoor Photography magazine, Nick Heasman, Western Area Manager for the South Downs National Park and Doug Jones, Member of the South Downs National Park Authority.

Steve Watkins, whose office is based in the South Downs National Park said:

“It takes a different creative approach to capture an image of life on a farm, in a market town or of a paraglider soaring over the hills than it does to photograph an empty landscape.

“My tips would be to clearly define your main subject and then make that the most important element; and wait for a telling moment to press the shutter button – it could be the turn of a head, a smile, a person walking by or the paraglider executing a steep turn. My winning shot will tell the story of when people and landscape come together.”

Nick Heasman, Western Area Manager for the South Downs National Park and a keen amateur photographer said:

“The landscapes of the South Downs National Park are as much about people as they are about place. I can't wait to see images showing the relationship between man and the land, capturing tales of our rich cultural heritage, community pride, enterprise and recreation – the life in our market towns, at local festivals, working in farms and out on our footpaths.”

The competition closes on 15 October 2012. Information on how to enter and full terms and conditions are available at www.southdowns.gov.uk/photocomp2012.

Joanna Glyde Senior Media Officer South Downs National Park Authority Hatton House Bepton Road, Midhurst West Sussex GU29 9LU

 

Direct Line: 01730 811785 Tel: 0300 303 1053 Mobile: 07557 853277

 

www.southdowns.gov.uk

Sydney International Exhibition of Photography (Closing Date: 03rd September 2012 - Midnight AEST)

                                               

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Photography Holidays & Introductory Offer

Dear Photographer,

 

I would like to introduce you to Wildlife & Wilderness, a specialist tour operator which, as you will see from the attached document, is well versed in organising individual tailor made holidays and group photographic trips overseas. We would love to help your club or its individual members experience our worldwide destinations and we have an Introductory Offer that will save up to 10% on group or individual bookings made before 15 October 2012.

 

Why Wildlife & Wilderness?

Unlike many travel companies our holidays are rarely bought ‘off the shelf’ and hence we almost entirely work on designing specific itineraries for each our clients. We like to produce unique, intelligent itineraries that are based on your ideas, our enthusiasm, creativity, knowledge and expertise, all backed up by excellent service provided by our partners overseas. Consequently, this has led to tremendous repeat custom and our association with top professional photographers, Andy Rouse and David Ward. We can assure you of a truly memorable photographic holiday.

 

I hope that you will share this document with fellow club members at your next meeting and I do look forward to hearing from you with suggestions for your trips.

 

Yours sincerely,

Steve Banner

Dr. Steve Banner F.R.G.S. Director Wildlife & Wilderness

0845 00 44 599 or +44 1625 838 225

http://www.wildlifewilderness.com/

8th Swansea International Salon

 

NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES AT

www.swanseacameraclub.co.uk/inthome.co.uk

For entrants requiring FIAP countries Wales(Swansea) is counted as a different country from those internationals that are marked UK

4 sections open Colour(cpid) open mono(cpid) People(cpid) and travel

Max image size 1400 x 1050 at 300 dpi saved as a large jpeg. vertical size should not exceed 1050

Entries must be made through the Internet with easy upload of images one at a time.

Entries will be judged over 4 separate rounds

A full entry  guide showing  how to enter is available on screen

Payment of fee's can be made through Pay Pal either through your account of using credit/debit card.

You will be taken to the payment page where your total will have been worked out for you.

Paypal can convert this to your local currency.

Catalogue are sent by surface mail.

Entrants can have airmail delivery by accepting our offer of Air Mail for a £4.00 payment

Once again Swansea will use a large Plasma display monitor for judging. This will ensure that the judges see your image as you saw them on your monitor. No loss of quality due to poor projection or calibration.

Over 200 possible awards are available over the 4 sections and include FIAP Blue badge award.

Special medals are available in each section. See our awards page for full details.

Our A4 FIAP 4 star catalogue will be sent to every entrant paying entry fee and we will print all award images including commended acceptances.

Blue badge winner, the entrant with the highest number of acceptance over all 4 sections, will have one of their images on our front cover and all other accepted images within the catalogue.

Phil Elias Chairman

8th Swansea International

Latest news from the Salisbury Area Board

Latest news from the Salisbury Area Board News / blog | Our Community Matters : Follow our blog for all the latest news      News: Salisbury Area Board approves Market Square improvements      News: Southampton Road shoppers given chance to win their shopping…      News: A day in the life of a tattoo artist      News: Salisbury Car Share member wins a month of free fuel…      News: Campaign group celebrate success of Hiroshima Day candle float      News: The second suitcase      News: Help to build a Legacy to the Olympic Games!      News: Grant scheme for arts groups      News: Exercise programme launched for stroke survivors      News: Fun for children at Camp Activate this summer      Event: Jack Stephens, Magic Show – Salisbury Library

Links and more ·        Dates of Salisbury Area Board meetings ·        How can you get involved? ·        Report an issue in your community ·        Issues Tracking What is being done about the issues? ·        Salisbury Area Profile View interesting statistics about the area ·        Useful maps of the area ·        Community grants scheme ·        Community Pay Back Scheme ·        Salisbury Highway Information ·        Salisbury Community Area Plan ·        Contact the Area Board

Look forward to catching up soon! Marianna Dodd Salisbury Community Area Manager

Subj: UK School of framing coming to Salisbury

The UK School of framing is coming to Salisbury (Wilton Community Centre) to run our award winning two day Photography framing course  on 1^st & 2^nd September 2012.

Please see http://www.diyframing.com/event_view.cfm/EventID/1062/ for further details.

Just a sample of what our students say about our courses :

' The course was excellent - I feel it provided good skill training at a fair price and was very enjoyable.'

'I found Richard (instructor) very knowledgeable patient and calm, it was a pleasure to be part of this weekend’s course'

You can book online or call me on 01494 459545 and I will be happy to help. 

Thank you

Best wishes

Judy Robertson

Judy Robertson Operations Director DIYframing Ltd Unit 2 Crusader Industrial Estate Stirling Road Cressex Business Park High Wycombe Bucks HP12 3ST 01494 459 545

SPF News Update August 2012

So here we are in the middle of ( occasional!) summer, when most clubs will have ceased activity until the new season starts.   Looking ahead to that, a lot of things have been happening, changes are afoot, and there are important dates that all clubs need to be aware of, especially some early deadlines.

 Most of these items are covered in detail on the SPF Web-site which is now in the hands of Ken Scott.  Ken has taken over this from Steve Kirkby who stepped down after a few years of doing a brilliant job. 

Firstly, some important things from the AGM.  Our new President is Glyn Edmunds. Terri Neil-Griffin, after her splendid two years as President, has taken on responsibility for the Leagues, and the post of Treasurer, vacant at the time of the AGM, has since been taken on by Keith Berry.  The full Council membership can be seen at http://www.southernfed.org.uk/contact.htm?20120519

There is an important change of date for the next Quarterly Reps meeting / EGM.  This will now be on Tuesday 9th October.  One of the items to be discussed is a new format for the Reps meetings where it is suggested we have fewer meetings but on a weekend day with a wider agenda of items including perhaps talks, demonstrations etc.  We need all clubs to be considering ideas for this in advance of the EGM so that we have some solid proposals to discuss / agree at the EGM.

The new Judging Workshops being run by Ken Scott are now in full swing. There are still a few vacancies for the next workshops; see the details on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/judging/20121118_Poster.pdf 

The new League Season will be kicking off in October. all participating clubs need to have their entries ( Print title plus PDI images) submitted by Sunday October 7th. As voted for at the AGM, titles will now be read out before images are judged, so if you are one of those who feel that titles can influence the judge, get your creative hats on! Click on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/league.htm for all details.

An early deadline to be aware of is for potential entries for the PAGB PDI Exhibition.  Lynn Lambert needs your submissions for consideration by 16th September.  See details on the main web-site page http://www.southernfed.org.uk/

The first big event of the new season will be the inaugural Digital AV Champoionships, being held on 28th October. All the details are just a click away on http://www.southernfed.org.uk/championshipsav.htm. The deadline for entries is 7th October. If you club has not previously been into AVs, now is the chance to try your hand and learn from participating in the Championships.

Many clubs are holding exhibitions during the summer recess.  The SPF Web-site http://www.southernfed.org.uk/ is a great place to advertise your club's exhibition or other event ( free!) and likewise is a good source to see what's happening around the federation's area.

There are lots of other things to read about on the web-site, including details of the 12 photographers from our Federation who have successfully attained FIAP Distinctions,  so do make regular visits to make sure you are up-to-date.

Finally to repeat a plea from the AGM.  This is the time of year when many clubs have changes in their committees, officers etc.  Keeping track of these changes is quite hard work for the various SPF officers who need to maintain current e-mail data-bases, and if there are any errors or omissions in these then vital communications can go adrift. 

What would really help would be if every club which has a web-site adopted generic e-mail addresses such as secretary@myphotoclub.org.uk, treasurer @..... etc . Once set up, these addresses can be set to direct mail to the personal address of the appropriate person in the club; then when a change happens all that is needed is for the club to update that link internally while SPF and other external contacts continue to use the generic address.    At the present time just 14 out of 63 clubs are using generic addresses so there's plenty of room for this to be improved!!

I Hope you all enjoy what's left of the summer, getting lots of great images in the bag for next season.

John Hodge

SPF Council member

The 9th Holland International Image Circuit 2014

Early message: Participation: The Contest is open to all photographers, worldwide.

The Circuit will be carried out in accordance with the rules of:

FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique), Patronage

PSA  (Photographic Society of America), Special Recognition

RPS  (Royal Photographic Society), Patronage

UPI  (United Photographers International), License

ISF   (Image Without Borders), Label

Fotobond, (Dutch Federation) Auspices

Themes: CPID Open, MPID Monochrome, PTD Travel, 5 Star FIAP Catalogue.

Closing date: January 7th 2014

Number and size (format) works. Any participant can submit up to 4 photographs under each theme (maximum 12 photographs in 3 themes). For more future information please visit: www.hollandcircuit.nl

Bournemouth Electric Camera Club Photo Exhibition 7th Oct 2012

RPS SouthernCentre DIG Meeting Ringwood 7 October 2012

Invitation for 36th International Salon of Photography

Dear friends of photography,

The 36^th Taipei International Salon of Photography competition is open now.  It is my great pleasure to invite you to participate with your best pictures.

We have received outstanding amount of works in 2011 and hit a record high in both Picture Color Image and Nature Color Image sections. There were so many fantastic and excellent pictures from 55 countries around the world, which really gave us great enjoyments and made it again a very successful global photographers’ exchange. 

The foundation laid by the Taipei International Salon of Photography in the international arena in the past has proved very solid by receiving such high degree of recognition from the international photographic societies. We really appreciate your past participation with passion.

The innovative concept of photography has been surging with the help of advanced digital technology. It is a trend and should be bound to leave valuable track in the history.

Once again, we cordially welcome your continued participation this year to work together to create our history.

Mei-Hua Teng

General Chairman

Taipei International Salon of Photography

Website: http://www.tisp.org.tw

PAGB News No 73

Hi All

Please click on this link to see Issue 73 of e-news from the PAGB which has lots of the best photographs from Warwick and much more.

http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en73180812_Warwick_FIAP_KTAllenV2.pdf


The Royal Photographic Society has worked with independent publisher Ranconteur Media on a special report titled 'Photography as Art' which is available with today's (15 August 2012) The Times newspaper. There is a link to an electronic version here: http://np.netpublicator.com/netpublication/n02035768

The Society proposed contributors to the report and those writing include Tim Rudman, Jonathan Shaw, Joe Cornish, Richard Freestone, Karen Fuchs, Diane Smyth, Miranda Gavin and The Society's Director-General Michael Pritchard. A number of The Society supporters such as The Macallan and Olympus have also participated.

The report has a print run of 710,00 and a readership of around 1.4 million. Society members in the UK will receive a copy with their September Journal and copies will be available for collection at The Society's headquarters, Fenton House in Bath shortly.

                    Rod

International Gardener Photographer of the Year

International Gardener Photographer of the Year

Hello,
I work at the Winchester Discovery Centre where we currently have 85 of the best images from the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition on display in our gallery. I imagine this will be of interest to members of your photographic club, so wondered if you could please forward this message to anyone who might be interested in visiting? The exhibition is free to visit and runs until 30 September.
We are also very lucky to be joined by competition director Philip Smith who will give a one-off tour of the gallery and workshop in September:
Tour: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wdc/wdc-eventdetails?id=161926
Workshop: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wdc/wdc-eventdetails?id=161933
Gallery: http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wdc-gallery.htm
Many thanks,
Steven Hunt
Service Development Manager
Basingstoke & Winchester Discovery Centres
Basingstoke: 01256 478670
Winchester: 01962 873600
steven.hunt@hants.gov.uk
www.facebook.com/basingstokedc
www.facebook.com/winchesterdc

BEAULEAU CAMERA GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Sat. 18^th and Sun. 19^th August 2012

Beaulieu Camera Group  have their 15^th Annual Photographic Exhibition at  Beaulieu Village School, Main Street, Beaulieu.  11.00am – 5.00pm.    

• Stunning photographs.    
• Everyone welcome.    
• Admission Free.

Level 1 Judging Workshop - 18th November 2012

The next Level 1 workshop for beginning judges will be at Littleton Millennium Hall, near Winchester, SO22 6QL on Sunday 18 November 2012.
Booking is now open and places are limited strictly to 12 on a first come first served basis. Please use the links below to reserve a place. 

Details HERE
BOOKING FORM [Word format]
BOOKING FORM [PDF}