RPS DI Group Thames Valley Centre: next meeting Sunday 30 January

SUNDAY, 30 JANUARY 2010

Morning: "FAMOUS FOR FIVE MINUTES ... or ten or fifteen!"

This is your chance for all attendees (whether RPS/DIG members or not) to hold the attention of the meeting for 5 to 15 minutes with whatever subject they think will interest the members in the Digital Imaging field. . it's up to you! No need for a prepared talk (unless you want to).  If you have not already indicated your willingness to contribute, please contact Roger Norton with a title and a one sentence description.

Afternoon: "PRINTER TEST PRINTS REVIEW"

An informal discussion lead by Roger Norton and Alan Cross to delve a little deeper into the interpretation of the results from the test prints from Mike McNamee's excellent presentation last September. Please bring your test charts with you or collect them at the meeting if you haven't already done so. If you have made any improvements or changes to your printing set-up, you might like to bring a new test chart for visual comparison. Mike's 'control' print will be available for comparison.

followed by: "YOUR PRINT WORKSHOP"

This informal 'prints around the hall' workshop is designed for you to get feedback on, or simply show off,  your prints. If you can bring your image(s) on a memory stick (ideally JPEG 1024x768 sRGB), we may also be able to arrange projection for group discussion.

For further details on each of these topics, please see our website (www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk).  The meeting will be held at the usual location, Coopers Hill Community Centre, Bracknell, and doors open at 10 am for 10.30. Don't forget your pack lunch.

As usual, we advise booking your place at this meeting. Cost: Season Ticket holders FREE, otherwise £5.00 for members of the RPS Digital Imaging Group; £10.00 for all others. Why not buy a 2011 Season Ticket and pay no more for the whole year? Details via the booking page www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/Pages/booking.html on our web site.

Doors open at 10 am for 10.30 and free refreshments will be available. Don't forget your pack lunch.
Further information at www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/

Best wishes from me and the committee for 2011.

Roger Norton

centrecoordinator@rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk

www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk

RPS Digital Imaging Group Southern Centre

Sunday 27^th February 2011

10.30 am to 4.00 pm

Doors open 10.00

Greyfriars Community Centre

44 Christchurch Road

Ringwood, BH24 1DW

1. Movie Making with a Digital SLR Camera

Stuart Culley 

Demonstration and talk using Canon and Nikon cameras  courtesy of Robert White Photographic.

2. Be Famous for 5 Minutes - Bring your prints, images for digital projection, or short AVs (max 5 minutes) to present informally.
   (DP images 1024X768 pixels tiff format please)

Admission:  DIG Members £4.00. All others £6 

 All welcome 

Tea and Coffee, Bring Packed Lunch

Further Information from Barry Senior:  

email: barry@littlepics.freeserve.co.uk 

T: 01425471489

Hot News

You will be pleased to learn that member Julie Layzell has been awarded the LRPS today.

Our congratulations.

More on this later.

Powell Publishing Charity Christmas Cards - Christmas shots

A year ago we contacted Camera Clubs across the country in search of a 'Special Christmas card shot'. We had an excellent response from members, who sent in a variety of wonderful photos. Some were selected by our Art & Design Manager, Zara Pyke, to mock up and present to some of the major charities we work with.

One image was chosen by the Children's Hospice Association Scotland -a photo of a robin, sent in by Ann Collins of Wokingham & East Berkshire Camera Club whom we awarded £100 and £50 to her club.

This year we are looking for new photos to present to charities and would like to offer the same reward for any photos that are selected by a charity.

Popular categories include:-

Robins
Red Berries
Snow Scenes
Animals in snow (Cats, dogs, sheep, horses)
Postbox in snow

If your members would like to send in your photos for consideration please email to:-

zara@powellpublishing.co.uk

Thank you and kind regards
Kind regardsCoreen Hardy
Administrator
Powell Publishing Limited
Direct Tel- 01304 833568
Direct Fax - 01304 833555

PicStop Phot Competition

Why not try this.  It is free.  You can vote on the current entries too.
See HERE to view.
This looks good fun.

PAGB News No 39

Hi All
Welcome to the Issue 39 of e-news which is mainly concerned with an obituary for Don Morrison but has some important news for those who have sent entries to the 2011 GB Cups plus several notices of forthcoming events and an interesting article on judges manipulating Digital Images that they are judging in club competitions.

Issue 40 of e-news in February will be distributed via the "managed distribution" which I recently informed you of. Already we have transferred our database and, if you know of anyone who would like to subscribe, please direct them to www.pagbnews.co.uk/enewssubform.html I would like to assure you again of the confidentiality and security of this database. Your address will not be shared with any other business or person and we will only use it for e-news and related supplements, none of which you need download unless you are interested in the content.

We will be using HTML in future for future e-news, a simple document which will link you seamlessly to the current issue of e-news on a website. We will also list back issues and this means that those of you who load it to websites will probably have the option of loading a link instead of the entire e-news although we do not object if you prefer to do it that way.

BANNER/PAGE HEADER Can anyone design a banner for e-news that we can use on the website and probably as header for the newsletter? I know there are many creative readers out there and I'm sure we could make a design statement. The only rule is that it must incorporate the (rather old fashioned) PAGB logo and that our title, e-news, is written lower case just as I have used it.

Rod Whelans

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Calendar 2012 Competition

To celebrate The Wiltshire Wildlife Trusts 50^th anniversary we are offering everyone the opportunity to put forward a photo for our 2012 anniversary calendar. The theme is ‘Wild Wiltshire’ and we want your best wildlife and landscape photos to show off our county and its wonderful wildlife throughout the year.  The calendar will be sold across the county and online and should be available from the end of May 2011.  We invite you to send your photographs to photos@Wiltshirewildlife.org or to Anniversary Calendar 2012 at the Trust.   Please include your name, contact number or email, and the location of where the image was taken.  Remember all photos must have been taken in Wiltshire and we are unable to return hard copies.  Make use of the dark evenings to go through your photo collections or get out there and click your way into our anniversary celebration.  Closing date for entries is 11^th February and we will notify winners by the end of February.  We look forward to seeing your entries.

Regards

Keely Everson

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has 18,500 members and manages 37 nature reserves in Wiltshire.
The Trust also endeavours to lead by example in the protection of the environment. Visit our
website at www.wiltshirewildlife.org

Southern Federation Exhibition is coming

Dear Club Members,

Do not forget that the SPF Exhibition is to be hung tomorrow.  The Federation is always grateful for help in doing this and as the local club we can do this more easily than most other clubs. This operation usually takes from 9.30am to 12 noon. Refreshments are provided for helpers. You will meet many members from other clubs too. So if you can spare some time it will help to get the exhibition hung that much quicker. This takes place on Thursday 6th Jan in the Library Galleries upstairs. Remember to sign yourself in at the enquiries desk before going upstairs.  This is for fire regulations as at the club.

Then on Friday evening from 7.30pm the SPF hold the Preview when the Trophies will be presented.  You are welcome to attend. Meet lots of people and the exhibition including the Projected Images.  Drinks and nibbles available.

The exhibition is open to the public from Saturday 8th until 30th Jan.  SPF site 

Just to remind you our next club meeting is on Jan 10th when we will be showing the SPF Exhibition Projected Images.
AND we shall have a Teach-In trying to answer some of your photographic queries. To that end it is sensible to ask us the queries beforehand. Please can you send Richard by email any problem you may have in this regard. After our visit from Barry Senior recently you may like to revisit some of the techniques he revealed but you now cannot quite remember!

Regards
the Committee

'Life in the Freezer' by Ben Osborne - in your area for one night!

If you’re inspired by nature or have a passion for photography, don’t miss this special evening with Ben Osborne.  Organised by Barkers of Ringwood, Ben’s inspiring slideshow is headlined as ‘a most absorbing, educational, amusing, remarkable evening.’ 'Life in the Freezer' by Wildlife & Landscape Photographer Ben Osborne Monday 31st January 2011 at 7pm Ringwood School Theatre, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 1SE Life in the Freezer is an inspiring and entertaining show about Antarctica.  It includes superb photographs of the wildlife and landscape of this dramatic continent and tells the story of the making of the BBC TV series. Behind-the-scenes photographs of film crews, filming techniques and the presenter (Sir David Attenborough) give a unique insight into the creation of television wildlife documentaries.

Ben Osborne has worked in many parts of the world but is best known for his images of Antarctica in the book of the BBC series ‘Life in the Freezer’.  His work has been published in numerous magazines and he works regularly with BBC film crews – most recently for ‘Planet Earth’, a major series about the Natural History of the world. Ben won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007, beating off 32,000 other entries from 78 countries. The competition is one of the most prestigious photographic events in the world and is one of the leading promoters of wildlife and environmental photography. Ben uses Páramo for his global travels and we are delighted to support this event. £17 tickets from Barkers

Winchester Photographic Society 78th Annual Open Exhibition

WINCHESTER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 

78th Annual Open Exhibition

16^th April – 8^th May 2011

OPEN FOR ENTRIES:   1^st – 28^th February 2011

Winchester Photographic Society is pleased to announce its 2011 Annual Open Exhibition will be held, as in previous years, in the City Space gallery at the Discovery Centre (Library) in Jewry Street, Winchester from Saturday 16^th April until Sunday 8^th May 2011.

The submission period for entries for consideration into the Exhibition is the month of February 2011.  All entries must be made, and images submitted, by the closing date of Monday 28^th February 2011.

Full Information about the Exhibition, the Entry Procedure and the Conditions of Entry is provided on the WPS website:-

www.winphotosoc.co.uk ® Our Exhibition ® 2011 Exhibition ® Information

From Tuesday 1^st February you will also find the Exhibition Entry section under the 2011 Exhibition menu on the website.

This is where you submit your images and make payment.

Please read the Information pages on the website.

Some details about the Exhibition have changed since last year.

For more information about any aspect of the exhibition, please contact:-

The Exhibition Co-ordinator: Louise Brown

Tel: 023 8026 5979      email: exhibitioninfo@winphotosoc.co.uk

PAGB News No 38

Hi All,
Welcome to the Issue 38 of e-news which is a picture special of the PAGB Inter-Federation Projected Image Championship. Click HERE
Also attached as a separate Supplement is an excellent article by Christine Widdal, the L&CPU President, on the subject of Photographic Plagiarism.
Click HERE
e-news is compressed as much as possible and is only suitable for screen viewing. If you need a copy to print for your club or for someone who has no e-mail please let me know and I will send a larger file.
Rod Whelans

Charlie Waite

An evening with acclaimed landscape photographer Charlie Waite

This January, Winchester Photographic Society’s annual spring lecture once again brings one of the world’s greatest photographers to the Discovery Centre.

Acclaimed photographer, Charlie Waite, will present a collection of his unforgettable images, revealing the dedication and craft that it takes to become one best landscape photographers in the world.

“The Making of Landscape Photographs - An Evening with Charlie Waite” is at Winchester Discovery Centre on 18th January from 7.30pm to 10pm,

Tickets are available from the Discovery Centre box office on 01962 873603  or online at http://www3.hants.g ov.uk/wdc/wdc-eventdetails?id=97276
Tickets are priced at £10 (concessions available).

NEWS SHEET Dec 2010

The following matters were discussed at the recent Committee meeting. Could all members please read and add their names to any appropriate list.

CHRISTMAS PARTY

The seasonal party is again upon us!! If you are going to attend please bring something for the buffet. We would also like to do a free raffle for everybody at the party. To achieve this we would like members to bring a prize that can be raffled (if you're lucky you might even win the same prize back!!). Also bring PDI's of your Christmas card design for a festive viewing.

PHOTO FORUM

Our second photography forum of the season will be held on Monday 10th Jan after our showing of the SPF exhibition PDI's. In order to meet your needs we would like an indication of any photo topics or queries that you would like answered. Please indicate these below, together with your name.

WARMINSTER CAMERA CLUB Interclub Print Battle

We have been invited to participate in this competition on Sat 12th Feb 2011. We are required to select 8 prints plus 2 reserves. The committee will select our best work from members own submissions. All members are invited to submit a maximum of 2 print images for consideration. Please choose any previously used or new work that you feel is your best. Please give these to Tony Oliver by Monday 17th Jan at the latest. Only work submitted will be considered.

SPRING TRIP

Following this years successful club trip to Bexhill it has been decided to see if sufficient interest exists to run another trip next year. Provisional dates will be three days in early April 2011 and the location is likely to be Wales/Welsh Borders. If you are interested please write your name below so the committee can decide whether to proceed further.

STUDIO NIGHT

Please write your name below if you have a provisional interest in attending Mark Coutt's Photo studio in Dorset for our third session there. Final dates to be determined, provisionally a week night in March. Max numbers 12, cost approx £15.

PAGB News No 36

Hi

Welcome to the latest Issue of e-news. Quite a short issue with news of 4 new MPAGB winners. This will be the last issue this year apart from an Awards for Photographic Merit results issue detailing the successful entrants to the recent adjudications at Wilmslow and Carlisle.
Click HERE to read.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy 2011.

Rod

Clare Astbury Exhibition

Clare has written to me as follows:
I would love to come to one of your meetings and show my work.

The photographic exhibition has been extened until Friday 10 December for staff at the Godolphin School but if you would like to come and have a look, please give me a ring on my work number 430500 and ask for the school secretary.

Kind regards
Clare
So it seems her show is on in two places!? Or have I misunderstood?

2011 Southampton CC Memorial Lecture

Tickets are now selling fast for David Noton on the 27th March 2011, at 14.30, and we would like everyone to have an opportunity to choose a good seat. Please email me events@southamptoncameraclub.co.uk or phone me 07771 665581 if you would to book. A seating plan can be seen here if you would like to pick where you would like to sit.

Link to POSTER

 

With thanks,

Colin English

Clare Astbury Exhibition

Please note that Clare has a photographic exhibition on at The Cafe on the Park, Greencroft Street.
If anyone has seen this let me know what you think.
Her web site is HERE

PDI Sizing Instructions

Due to popular demand I have now made the method for getting your images suitably sized for projection available with just two clicks from the Home page.
All you do is click on Sundries and then PDI Sizing.

2011 International Convention and Photographic Trade Show

Hi Salisbury Camera Club

We would like to extend an invitation to all members of Salisbury Camera Club to attend the 9th annual International Photographic Convention

Convention: 10th-17th 2011
Trade Show Dates: 14th-16th January 2011
Novotel London West - Hammersmith - London
http://www.swpp.co.uk/convention/

Full day seminars
Three-day Masterclasses programme
Three-day Superclass programme
Two-day Business School
Three-day Trade Show
Photographic Workshops around London's Premier Locations
20 x 16 Image competition
Qualification judging
Photographer of the Year Awards Night
http://www.swpp.co.uk/convention/schedule/
Thanking you for your support

Phil Jones CEP The Societies

We can also be found on Twitter and Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/theSocieties   http://www.twitter.com/TheSocieties

SPF League PDI League 4 Results

Hi to you all. Please find attached the results of our first PDI league match.
Not too bad. 
Very grateful for the extra half mark which really counted.
Hope to see you Monday
Tony
Page 1 and Page 2

Wildlife Photographic Break on Brownsea Island in Feb.2011

I am a member of Winchester Photographic Society and the RPS. I will be running a Photographic Break on Brownsea Island in February 2011 with a focus on wildlife photography.
I would be most grateful if you could pass on the attached details to your members.
Many thanks,
Joe Kaplonek ARPS
Mob: 077 4240 4945
Email: joe.kaplonek@ukphotos.org
Web: www.ukphotos.org

The SPF Digitally Projected Championship 2010 on Sunday

Well the Championship has run and Salisbury came in at 16th place out of 19 clubs.
We thought that you may like to see the scores overall.
See the image below. To actually read this click on the image to enlarge it.

Print Gallery Again

I have added two more members to the new Gallery 2010.  They are Tony O'Reilly and Stan Stubbs.

If you do not have your images here yet send me a selection today [preferably sized to 600 pixels on longest side].  Thanks

The link is HERE or via the menu it is under Gallery 2010

The SPF Digitally Projected Championship 2010 on Sunday

Sunday 21st November at Shaw Social Club, Almond Avenue, Newbury, Berks, RG14 1LU

The competing clubs are:

Alton, Basingstoke, Beaulieu, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Chichester, Fordingbridge, Havant, Hayling Island, Highcliffe & Infinity, Newbury, New Forest, North Hants, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, South Reading, Steyning and Winchester.

As always the event is hosted by Newbury CC and we are delighted that the event has once again been awarded PAGB Patronage.

Your judges on the day are all from Surrey and will be:

Mrs Jay Charnock FRPS, Mrs Ann Smith ARPS and Mrs Cynthia James LRPS.

Audience entry on the day is now free for members of SPF affiliated clubs + £1 for membership of the Shaw Social Club.

The doors open at 12 noon and judging starts at 2pm; a refreshment break will be taken at around 3pm. There will also be a substantial raffle. You will not have a better opportunity in the season to see the top PDIs from SPF clubs.

Map can be seen HERE

SPF Print League 2010/11 First Results

Here are the results from the first round that took place at Basingstoke on Thursday 11th November.

Page 1 HERE and Page 2 HERE

Do note that Sarah Shelley had our highest scoring print.  Well done!
Also my image Heidi got the lowest mark. Previously it was chosen by Gavin Hoey, no less, for an RPS Ribbon.  That is it was considered to be a super picture.  That's judging for you.

Photographs of Yesteryear

I came across a wonderful set of pictures from 1935 to 1948.  All monochrome of course but great quality.

Click HERE to see what I mean.

Photographer of the Year 2010

From the Photo Radar links on the NEWS page [on the right side] there is a link you might easily miss.
It is, however, well worth a few minutes.
There are sections for Joy, Travel, Landscape and more.  And these are only the Commended photos!
Click HERE

SPF Print League 2010/11

	This information has been copied from the SPF web site and looks much better there.

See the LINK HERE

There is a similar page for the PDI league.  We are in League 4. Click HERE

For the Prints we are in League 1.

The first fixture is tomorrow night if you want to witness the judging.

Club	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
	Basingstoke CC								0
	Chichester CC								0
	Farnborough CC								0
	Ordnance Survey PS								0
	Salisbury CC								0
	Viewfinders of Romsey CC								0

Scoresheet

	Date	Host Club	Judge
1	11/11/10	Basingstoke CC	Nick Scott
2	01/02/11	Ordnance Survey PS	Leo Rich ARPS EFIAP DPAGB APAGB
3	10/02/11	Farnborough CC	George Walsh APAGB
4	28/02/11	Salisbury CC	Jim Marsden FRPS EFIAP APAGB
5	08/03/11	Viewfinders of Romsey CC	Anne Mahany
7	07/04/11	Chichester CC	Caroline Colegate LRPS

Photo Gallery

I have uploaded a new Gallery of members photographs. I hope that this meets with your approval.

These photos only account for a few members abd if you are one who is not there abd would like your images dismissed then send me a selection by email.  Longest side to 600 pixels.

Click HERE to see the Gallery. To start click on any photo to enlarge it. You can navigate to the next screen of index images.

It would be good to get more photos.

Let me have some today.

Thanks

Clubbz Offer

Clubbz is offering us

5% off selected photographic products - Jessops
Get 5% off selected items using this voucher code on checkout - JESSOPS5
Who is Clubbz you ask?
Check on the Links page to see.
Or go direct HERE

PAGB News No 35

Hi

Welcome to Issue 35 of e-news. This is a Picture Special from the Inter-Club Print Championship.
Click HERE to see. [NB 480Kb]

I'm sorry if it took a bit longer to download but I think it is worth it. (To keep it small it is optimised for your screen and may not print as well as usual).


Rod Whelans

Congratulations Richard

Well done to Richard Ramsay for being a runner up in the Salisbury Journal Photographic Competition.
he entered his image of Cherhill Down.
Read the report HERE

Every Day it is an absolute tonic walking in Churchill Gardens, alongside the River Avon, in Salisbury. There is so much to see and do for every age group and animal lover and no two days are the same but today something was very different. Amongst the giant willows past the slide on the hill a a dark shape stood which was causing some alarm! Out of their 4 x 4's men leapt into action with sticks to try and contain the situation....walkers leashed their dogs and children were lifted to safety but the dark shape just turned to cast a glance at what the fuss was all about! After all there's nothing quite like chewing the cud in peace, musing about the Autumn colour, reflecting on life where the grass is greener - it's an absolute tonic for a cow in Churchill Gardens.

Just for everyone's amusement this is what I saw and photographed in Churchill Gardens this morning that appeared in the Salisbury Journal news today!

Click HERE to see the report.
Robin Gemmill

Friends of the Harnham Water Meadows Trust: Open events during winter and spring, 2011

The Friends of Harnham Water Meadows Trust is pleased to announce its programme of open events between January and May 2011. Children are always welcome, but for safety they should be supervised. No dogs please as the meadows are farmland.
Public demonstrations of ‘drowning’. Watermeadows are traditionally irrigated (‘drowned’) during the winter and early spring, this brings forward the ‘early bite’ of grass for livestock. The Harnham Water Meadows Trust is proud of its restoration programme that has been funded by the Friends, the former Salisbury District Council and the Environment Agency and assisted by many volunteers. We are now able to drown key areas, all accessible from Town Path.
The demonstrations are planned for:
Saturday 8th January
Saturday 29th January
Saturday 5th February and
Saturday 12th February
On each occasion, meet 10.00am at Rose Cottage, the programme takes about 1hr 30 min. Admission is free, there will be an invitation to make a donation to the Trust at the end, and light refreshments in the cottage from 11.30am. Natural circumstances may cause cancellation at short notice. Teachers are especially welcome, but there will be other opportunities to demonstrate drowning to school parties.
Demonstrations Saturday 26^th February through to Saturday 12^th March. Demonstrations may be arranged by appointment for schools and community groups. We invite a donation to the Trust, based on a minimum of £1 per pupil.
Spring Open Day Saturday 26th March. Come to Rose Cottage between 10.30am and 4.00pm. For the Friends this is the herald of spring. Admission is free, a sale of publications and light refreshments are available.  Guided walks at 11.00am and 2.30pm (£2.50 for adults; under 16s free).
Family Environment Event Saturday 7^th May. Rose Cottage is open between 2.00pm and 5.00pm (admission £1, under 16s free). There is a guided walk at 2.30pm (£2.50 for adults; under 16s free). We invite a range of local environmental organisations, there are events for children.
Summer open days and walks on the meadows. These were successful during 2010 and a programme will be announced later.

      Hadrian Cook, November 2010

For Sale: A3+ Printer - Canon Pixma Pro 9000 - £200

Comes with newly fitted print head and a set of newly installed inks.

Full spec and details can be found on the link. [Note this is not a Mark II.]

LINK

Can deliver locally or bring into the club.

It does comes in a large box!

Philip Pleass

07815 566110

Wildlife Photography Fieldcraft

A course aimed at teaching wildlife field craft as well as wildlife photography.
Tutors are Susan Young ARPS, Ian Parsons (well known wildlife expert often seen on TV ) and deer expert Tony Potter.
This is a unique course based in Devon.

Click on this link HERE
Thank you

Susan

Susan Young ARPS

Invitation

Today I added some 12 invitations under the Nom de Internet of "Blue Ram".  If you register with Google this invitation allows to you receive an email giving immediate information that is posted on the NEWS section. You can also post anything on the NEWS section. So if you have something to sell or give away you can advertise for free.
Julie was the last person to enroll.  Please ask her how she got on registering.

PDI Sizing

During the meeting on 25th October Richard attempted to explain this process again. I am not sure he got the message across from remarks overheard.  So once again check on the page on our site by clicking on the link below.
I have added some further information and images to clarify the method. Tell me if you do not follow please.


It seems that some members have not found the page that concerns sizing images for our PDIs. Well it is well hidden but it is there.  You can find this and lots of other items that could be useful to you, such as where and when to buy Print Boxes, on the NEWS section.  There are 2 search boxes here.  Select the correct one and put in what you want to know and Google finds the pages for you.
For PDI sizing go HERE

Mix and Match

Well last Thursday we won decisively and it was fun. Babara Holder was the long suffering judge. There was a considerable amount of friendly joshing and remarks to encourage her to decide for one team or the other.
After the first half there was only one point between the teams but at the end the difference was over 20 points. A Great Victory!
How many times now have we been the winners?

We had good support from your Club in this jolly event.  It was highly enjoyable and well worth the trip.

The SPF Digitally Projected Championship 2010

This event will be held on Sunday 21 November at Shaw Social Club, Newbury, hosted by Newbury CC.
Salisbury CC has entered this for the first time and so you would be very welcome to attend.

Audience entry on the day is now free + £1 for membership of the Shaw Social Club.
This is the best opportunity in the season to see PDIs from the SPF clubs.

See HERE for more information

The judges will be Mrs Jay Charnock FRPS, Mrs Ann Smith ARPS & Mrs Cynthia James LRPS, all from Surrey.
The doors open at 12 noon and judging starts at 2pm; a refreshment break will be taken at around 3pm.
There will also be a substantial raffle.
For general event information please consult Ernie Fulbrook.

OCTOBER DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

OCTOBER DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

There are several events this month which will be at venues or on days that are different from our normal Monday.

Monday 11th October

Monday Club: Annual competition versus Southampton and Bournemouth Camera Clubs (Prints and PDI's).

This year Bournemouth are hosting. There will not be a meeting at Harnham, so come to Bournemouth instead. Please note that they have a NEW VENUE from previous years. They now meet at The Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 39 Christchurch Rd. Bournemouth. BH1 3NS

Monday 18th October

Night Photography: Our annual nocturnal foray into Salisbury. Meet at the Cathedral West Front at 7 0'clock and then into town and Salisbury Fair. A tripod will be of use if you have one, but not essential. Finish in the Cloisters pub about 9 O'clock for discussion and refreshment.

Thursday 21st October

Mix and Match Competition v Andover Split Image Camera Club:

Venue; Andover Club meet at The Red Lion Inn, Clanville, Nr Andover SP11 9HN

This is an annual fun event between the two clubs. If you have never been to a mix and match do come, it will be an enjoyable evening.

Monday 25th October

Back to our own venue for a club provided evening. Exact format still to be decided, but possibly looking at images from the Night Photography, Workshops on Photoshop, Print Mounting etc.

If you would like to attend any of the away events and need more details, please let me know. Transport can be arranged if you need it.

Tony Oliver

PDI Sizing

During the meeting on 25th October Richard attempted to explain this process again. I am not sure he got the message across from remarks overheard.  So once again check on the page on our site by clicking on the link below.
I have added some further information and images to clarify the method. Tell me if you do not follow please.


It seems that some members have not found the page that concerns sizing images for our PDIs. Well it is well hidden but it is there.  You can find this and lots of other items that could be useful to you, such as where and when to buy Print Boxes, on the NEWS section.  There are 2 search boxes here.  Select the correct one and put in what you want to know and Google finds the pages for you.
For PDI sizing go HERE

Exhibition in Waterstone's Shop

Here is a link to the gallery about this recent exhibition.
Click HERE

Set Subject Results

Here are the images that came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the recent Set Subject PDI Competition.  They were chosen by our judge John Randall from the ASIPS club

Andrew Murgett's third placed PDI for the set subject

Austin Thorp's third placed image.

Julie Layzell's second placed PDI

Sally Money's FIRST placed PDI Image for the set subject of  Mainly Yellow

Dianne Owen will be at Southampton, Winchester and Highcliffe & Infinity CCs

Dianne Owen FRPS is a creative and imaginative photographer and it is a great opportunity to see her work at any of the three clubs she will be visiting.
She is coming on October 25th, 26th and 27th.
See the poster HERE

PRINT BOXES

The closing date for the next order for PRINT BOXES

SATURDAY, 9^th OCTOBER 2010.

Boxes should be available for collection at the Club Reps meeting in November.

The prices remain the same as the last order but do remember that a VAT increase is on the horizon. I pointed out last time that Nomad have rationalized the pricing to some extent by removing the differential between similar sizes, e.g. 2½” depth and 3” depth cost the same. I would also like to point out that Nomad do give a discount on quantity. Obviously this cannot be reflected in the price of individual boxes but any ‘profit’ is paid to the SPF, thus helping to keep Federation costs down.

SIZE COST

21" x 17" x 1 5/8" £21.50

21" x 17" x 2" £21.50

21" x 17" x 2.5" £22.00

21" x 17" x 3" £22.00

21" x 17" x 3.5" £22.50

21” x 17” x 4” £22.50

21" x 17" x 5" £23.00

21" x 17" x 6" £23.50

Handles can be supplied at an additional cost of £3.00.

Orders in writing and with cheques payable to J. PEARSON

 Send to:

Mrs. Jennie Pearson,

6, Inhams Road, Holybourne, ALTON, Hants. GU34 4EU.

Before SATURDAY, 9th October 2010.

Boxes to be collected at the SPF Representatives Meeting

in November or by arrangement.

Re Devizes CC Event

Devizes Camera Club are delighted to welcome for the 2010 Arc Theatre presentation the well known travel writer and photographer John Pilkington with his new presentation ‘A Stroll through the Axis of Evil’. John comes highly recommended and this promises to be a fascinating and highly rewarding evening

The attached poster gives more details, or visit our new website www.devizescameraclub.co,uk  Tickets are now on sale at £10 each and I would strongly recommend booking early since we are limited to 150 places for this event

To reserve your places please email myself in the first instance. Bookings will then need to be confirmed by sending to me (10 Collett Way Frome BA11 2XR) a cheque payable to Devizes Camera Club for the full amount of the ticket value, together with an SAE for the return of your tickets

I look forward to welcoming you to the Arc Theatre on 6^th November

Regards

Frank Collins

Chairman

Devizes Camera Club

Inter-Club Competitions and Exhibitions 2010/11

For the coming season there will be a number of inter-club competitions and exhibitions requiring print and PDI selection.

The following are already known and require members to submit images to the committee for selection. The type, number and (most importantly the date needed by) are listed below. The date required will allow the selection committee enough time to select and submit entries as necessary.

As in previous years the committee will be pro-active in approaching members for work already seen, however ALL MEMBERS are encouraged to submit suitable images (probably your best work) for consideration that have previously been unseen (if you don’t show us we can’t consider it for selection!)

Comp/Exhibition	Image type	Numbers req.	Date req.
SPF League	Prints	8	29th Sept *
SPF League	PDI’s	8	29th Sept*
SPF Exhibition	Prints	6	29th Sept
SPF Exhibition	PDI’s	8	29th Sept
SPF Inter Club	PDI’s	20	20th Oct
Monday Club	Prints/PDI’s	10 of each	7th Oct
New Forest Match	Prints/PDI’s	12 of each	1st April
Andover Mix/Match	Prints	40	18th Oct
SPF Inter Fed	PDI’s	No limit	13th Sept**
Club Calendar	PDI’s	12	TBC

* Date to allow first Club bi-monthly entries to be considered

** Individuals can submit direct to SPF up until 22^nd September

Any queries please ask me. Tony Oliver Competition Sec.

Southampton CC trip to Stonehenge

Dear Clubs,

Would you please be kind enough to circulate details of a trip to Stonehenge on Friday 17th September. There are a limited number of places and there will be a maximum of 20 photographers.  It's a great chance to share an evening out, and get inside the stones to do some photography.

It's on Friday 17th September at 18:30 until 19:30 (Sunset is 19.15, the moon and Venus will be visible in the sky by 18.30).

If you are interested please contact me as soon as possible chris.neillgriffin@gmail.com and if you are a EH/NT member I will need to know your National Trust/English Heritage membership number.

The cost is £14.50 or £11.50 to English Heritage/National Trust Members.

Any questions please let me know.

With thanks, 
Terri & Chris

Programme Changes

There have been some minor changes to the Programme.
So to check on the latest version see our web page.
Changes are for 3rd Sept, 20th Sept, 25th Oct and 28th Feb 2011.
The last change means we have moved the Pyramid competition to 4th April 2011 together with the Mary Luckham Trophy setting.
Programme page

Photo Gallery

Although not the very latest pictures you can now see a randomly selected photograph on the Gallery page. Each time you click on the word Gallery in the menu a different photograph appears.

Check this out. Any comments?

Viewfinders Stockbridge August 2010

 

Information about Viewfinders Exhibition can be found HERE

David Noton's Photographic and Travel Roadshow

David Noton's Photographic and Travel Roadshow to be held in Andover this November 10th.

David is a worldwide renowned landscape and travel photographer who has been passionate about photography since he started 24 years ago. He has been running his Roadshow for over 2 years now. The show lasts 2 hours using Davids images from all areas of the world, google earth world maps re locations, music, video footage of David in the field with room for viewers question time.

People who have attended before shared with us how much they enjoyed the images with high definition projection accompanied by David's travel tales, technical know how and humour. This has led in some cases to a change in approach to individuals photography and even the hasty press of a mouse whilst planning the next trip! Most of all viewers said how uplifted and inspired they felt.

I have included here a flyer to share with your members to inform anyone who may wish to come along. You can view David's WORK and obtain TICKETS from David's website www.davidnoton.com student tickets at a reduction.

Any queries please do not hesitate to call us at the office on 01963 250061.
We hope to meet you there.

Thank you for your support.
regards
Wendy Noton

For all the latest news on the website http://www.davidnoton.com/news.php

Devizes Camera Club are delighted to welcome for the 2010 Arc Theatre presentation the well known travel writer and photographer John Pilkington with his new presentation ‘A Stroll through the Axis of Evil’

The attached poster gives more details, or visit our new website www.devizescameraclub.co.uk

Tickets are now on sale at £10 each and I would strongly recommend booking early for what promises to be a fascinating and very rewarding evening

To reserve your places please email myself in the first instance. I will acknowledge your email with instructions for payment but I will not have access to emails until 23rd August – so please accept my apologies if there is a few days delay acknowledging your message

I look forward to welcoming you to the Arc Theatre on 6th November

Regards
Frank Collins, Chairman, Devizes Camera Club

Sam Cal Pics

You will be interested to learn of the images that have been selected for this calendar.
Congratulations to those selected and commiserations to those who were not.  We may still use them for our own calendar.

They are

Photograph                                       Photographer

January Avebury...Snow                     Richard Ramsay

February Hoarfrost Odstock                Tony Oliver

March Cloisters...A Quiet Place           Austin Thorp

April Westbury...Horses                      Austin Thorp

May Bluebells                                    Tony Oliver

June Stourhead Bridge                        Richard Ramsay

July Kennet & Avon                           Richard Ramsay

August Wilton House                          Richard Ramsay

September Spire...Salisbury                 Austin Thorp

October Stourhead. Autumn colours     Richard Ramsay

November Salisbury Cathedral             Richard Ramsay

December St. Annes St....Post Box      Peter Read

Arena Preview Evening 3rd September

Members of Arena would be delighted if members of Salibury CC would like to attend the preview of the Arena exhibition at The Creasy, Young and Main Galleries at Salisbury Library on Friday 3rd September for 6.00pm.

Proper Invitation is HERE [Please note the RSVP]
Hope you can make it,
With best wishes,
Tony Worobiec, (Chairman).

Mottisfont Exhibitions

One of the photographers exhibiting at the Winchester Discovery Centre is local wildlife and landscape photographer, Paul Sansome. He gained a "Highly Commended" for his "Terns in a Queue". I mention this because Paul has a one man exhibition starting at Mottisfont Abbey, tomorrow - Saturday 31 July. The exhibition runs until Thursday 12th August. Note that Mottisfont is not open on Fridays.

I have just come from assisting with the set up, and it's a stunning exhibition.

If you are a National Trust member then entry is free - otherwise normal Mottisfont NT admission charges apply to gain access to the gardens, river walks, house and exhibitions. There is even a new ice cream parlour!

Mottisfont is actually a good day out for all the family. They also have a very interesting Beatrix Potter exhibition at the moment of some of the original watercolours she painted to illustrate her books. Evidently these paintings are only exhibited every ten years or so!

Another one for the diary - Andover Split Image Photographic Society will be exhibiting at Mottisfont later this year - Saturday 28th August to Thursday 2nd September.

Regards,
Roy Brophy

PAGB E-News No. 31

Hi All

Welcome to Issue 31 of e-news with a report of the Warwick Inter Club PDI Championship - the full club scores will be published shortly in Issue 32.

Click HERE to read the PDF file.

rod whelans

Photo Course in Sussex.

Just a note to inform your members of 2 half-day workshops I'm leading on Saturday 31st and Sunday 1st August. It'll be based on the South Downs visiting 3 or 4 locations. Meet will be at Alfriston where we head off in the minibus for the afternoon and evening. Time will be 3pm till sunset. It's summer and as photographer's we are all fully aware that the best time to take landscape images is early morning and evening.

Much of our photography will be centered around the Cuckmere Valley, near Seaford in East Sussex. We will shoot sweeping vistas of Downland hills, the Cuckmere River, The Seven Sisters and as the sun sets, beach scenes and majestic cliffs.

This is suitable for those of all levels, from the beginner to the more experienced shooter.

In order for Robert to spend quality time with each person, numbers will be limited to just 5. Aside from making transportation to various locations much easier, it also makes for a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Cost for the day will be £70 which includes transportation to all locations.

For full details including how to book, please visit my website at www.robertcanis.com
or phone me on 07939 117570.

Sam Cal Pics

Sorry about the abbreviations. It is a vain attempt to stop crawlers from finding this page.

Some of you are using Steve's System on public.me.com/stevepereira and it is working very well.
Would all use this from now on please?

It would be a good idea if you can add your name somewhere in the image plus copyright data just to protect yourselves.

The way to do this will vary depending on the software you use.
For instance on the humble Photoshop Elements 2.0 go to File > Info and the following box appears.

I have filled in the spaces that are needed.
In addition if you click on the Section drop down you can check on the EXIF data.  This will tell you exactly when you took the picture [assuming you set your camera with date and time of course].
The Title section is not necessarily the same as your actual file name. And we do need a proper file name and not the one the camera gave it.

We still need more of your images please.
Today is soon enough.
Thanks

A true story

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death.

Thus the story: --------

On March 23, 1994...... The medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus, and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head.

Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.

As he fell past the 9th floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the 8th floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

'Ordinarily,' Dr Mills continued, 'Someone who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide.' That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a "homicide" on his hands.

The room on the 9th floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously, and he was threatening her with a shotgun! The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger, he completely missed his wife, and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr Opus.

When one intends to kill subject 'A' but kills subject 'B' in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject 'B.'

When confronted with the murder charge, the old man and his wife were both adamant, and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded.

The old man said it was a long standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.

It also transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.


Now comes the exquisite twist:

Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the 9th story window.

The son, Ronald Opus, had actually murdered himself. So the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

A true story from Associated Press.

Print Leagues for next season

All the league fixtures are now on the SPF web site. Click HERE
With just 5 leagues in the print section we are in the top league No.1 a tough group indeed!
Bournemouth, Farnborough, Basingstoke, Chichester, Ordnance Survey, & Salisbury!

PDI Leagues for 2010 to 2011

The list of Pdi Leagues has now been finalised and you can see them HERE