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