Summer Happiness

Reader’s Digest has launched a Summer Happiness photography competition.

Just think about what encapsulates summer happiness for you— and capture it in a photo. It could win you a Nikon DSLR camera worth £750 (or, for the under-18s, a Panasonic Lumix Bridge Camera worth £230).

Is it maybe a day on the beach, a picnic with friends or a holiday with your family? Or something else entirely? All you have to do is take a compelling picture that sums up happy times and send it to us. We’re looking for unusual approaches, so let your imagination run riot! You may enter more than one photograph.

The competition will be judged by the Reader’s Digest editorial team with the help of professional photographer James Eckersley, and the winning entries will be published in our October issue.

For full details and to enter, visit readersdigest.co.uk/enter-photo-competition.
Entries must be submitted by 5pm on August 25, 2016.
Good luck!

Mist Filters

Watch Jonathan Critchley at work using a couple of filters to transform an early morning scene into a magical one HERE

Published on 8 Jul 2016

Fine Art Photographer Jonathan Chritchley demonstrates how he uses the LEE Mist Stripe and LEE Mist Graduated filters to isolate his subjects and achieve the distinctive simplicity and sense of space he is known for.

RPS News No. 49

Read it HERE

eRPS  no. 49The e-newsletter from The Royal Photographic Society July 2016 The RPS International Print Exhibition 158 is on display at the University of Derby from 30 June –19 August. View the touring schedule   Image: © Duccio Aiazzi. Green Wall Members’ Monthly Competition June Theme: Distortion Open to members only, submit 5 images online here. Three winning images will be printed in the RPS Journal and the photographers will receive a print of their image courtesy of Metro Print. Image: © Francis Cox. Marina Speed International Photobook Exhibition Entries for the International Photobook Exhibition are arriving at an increased rate in this last month for submission. Entries that are posted by 31 July will be accepted. In addition to those from the UK, there continue to be many from overseas, most recently from Brazil, Japan, Greece and Russia. Exhibition details for the Espacio Gallery are now on the gallery website. Member Offer: Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph This exhibition at London's Media Space at the Science Museum looks at the work of  William Henry Fox Talbot who revolutionised culture and communications by inventing the negative-positive process, a technique that formed the basis of photography around the world for over 150 years and immortalised him as father of the photograph.    Discover the influence Talbot’s revolutionary technology, techniques and practices had on his contemporary practitioners – Anna Atkins, Hill and Adamson, and Calvert Jones – and see original prints from his seminal publication 'The Pencil of Nature' alongside the oldest surviving daguerrotypes by fellow photography pioneer Louis Daguerre. Book tickets here and use the code FOXRPS50 for a 50 per cent discount on tickets. Exhibition: Lenses on a Landscape GeniusLancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) This exhibition which runs until 26 August looks at the landscapes of 'Capability' Brown through the work of contemporary photographers. It is on show at The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT under the auspices of The Landscape Foundation. See more here. Image: Joe Cornish HonFRPS, Yews in the ruins of Milton Abbey. In the RPS Shop... The online shop has new RPS branded clothing and merchandise.  Back in stock is the ever popular OP/TECH camera strap click here to take a look and buy. The new clothing range can be seen here. Nature and Natural History exhibition The RPS East Anglia Region is holding an exhibition of Nature and Natural History from Saturday, 2 July--Saturday 30 July 2016 at Woodbridge Library, New Street, Woodbridge, IP12 1DT. See more here. Image: Richard Revels FRPS, Common Seals Playing.  Chichester Camera Club Annual Exhibition 2016 This exhibition, as usual, takes place at the Assembly Rooms, Chichester, PO19 1LQ and includes the work of a number of RPS members. It is open to the public from Saturday, 13 August-Saturday, 20 August (closed on Sunday 14 August) from 10am-5pm each day. Entry is free, refreshments will be available. Image: Ann McDonald ARPS. At the Doorway. The Royal Photographic Society Fenton House, 122 Wells Road, Bath BA2 3AH, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1225 325733       Email      Website      RPS Forum        YouTube        Reg Charity no. 1107831

Photography News

The club gets some copies each month but never enough for all members. However, there is an on-line version that you can get easily just by click on the LINK
So go and see the latest issue no 33 now if you have not yet seen a copy.

SCPF Inter Fed selections

SCPF selected images to represent our Federation in the forthcoming Inter Federation competition. The following members of our club had images selected.
This is a good percentage compared to many other clubs and shows the strength of Salisbury Camera Club member's work.

Open PDI:
Peter Read LRPS,DPAGB "Socialising"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Three Wheels on my wagon"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* " Horsepower"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Guard Duty"

Open Prints:
John Barton "Salisbury Cathedral Choirstalls"
Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows"

Mono Prints:
Mandy Herridge "Newcastle Railway Station"
Tony Oliver ARPS.CPAGB,BPE2* "Whitby by Night"

This selection was done a few weeks ago and we should know soon which
(if any) images were successful in subsequent selection for the PAGB
Exhibition.
Thanks, Tony
Click on the images to see a larger version.

Mandy Herridge "Newcastle Railway Station"

Peter Read LRPS,DPAGB "Socialising"

John Barton "Salisbury Cathedral Choirstalls"

Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Guard Duty"

Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* " Horsepower"

Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Three Wheels on my wagon"

Tony Oliver ARPS,CPAGB,BPE2* "Salisbury Cathedral from the Water Meadows"

Tony Oliver ARPS.CPAGB,BPE2* "Whitby by Night"

PAGB NEWS NO. 166

Click HERE for all the latest News from the PAGB

Salisbury Camera Club Visit Questionnaire Responses

14 replies received

Time Distance         2-3 hours OK: 12; not sure: 2

Interested in going further afield   Yes: 8; no: 5; no response: 1

Interested in possible foreign trip   Yes: 7; no: 7

Possible foreign locations suggested:

Ypres and the war graves area; La Rochelle
Also suggestion of 5 day Channel Crossing returns, with 4 people sharing a car.

UK locations

Wide variety suggested

SW: Devon, Dartmoor, Cornwall, Somerset

S.Coast: Bexhill, Chichester, Christchurch, Newhaven

East: Lincoln, Norfolk, Cambridge, Ely

Wales, Cardiff

Bristol, Weston Super Mare

Warwick, Stratford

Coast/scenic location

NOT east

Length of stay

3 nights about right: 14; Possible extra day if further afield

Costs   

OK:11; Willing to pay more: 2; Up to £75 per night max for dbb if sharing: 1

Timing    Spring :1, May BH: 1; Not BH: 4; Sept/Oct: 7; no preference: 1

Suggestion that some attractions might be closed early or late in season

Peter Woodhouse, 28 June 2016

Hat Fair Salisbury Camera Club Summer Outing

The response to my email regarding the Salisbury Camera Club Summer Outing have been very disappointing.

10 members saying they are unable to attend.
This makes it not viable to run as a group event, we are sorry about this.

As a result of this Members wishing to go will need to make their own arrangements.

Look forward to seeing you on Monday 5th September

Richard Temlett

Hon. Sec. Salisbury Camera Club.

Big Canon Lens for Sale

I’m a commercial photographer now shooting almost completely on Hasselblad but have a 400 2.8 canon lens, sat in it’s box collecting dust, the lens is in mint condition and has not been used much, looking to sell it and thought someone from your club may find it of value?
Comes with a protective black rubber coating sock to protect the lens surface, a extra built in slot polarising filter and a wembley tripod head stand which all big lens use to hang the lens/camera on, the wembley stand alone is normally £500. Also thrown in is a 1.4 x extension tube.

Selling the bundle for £3600. plus VAT. (I'm a business so have to charge vat sadly. Invoice / recipes supplied.)

My site in case your curious is www.davidlund.co.uk, you can see my work is very much studio based. This lens needs a new loving home, and to be used.
Any questions feel free to call. Perfect for this surfing shots.
Kindest regards
David Lund
Mobile + (44) 7711 267116
Studio +(44) 1652 636952
Mail david@davidlund.co.uk
Web www.davidlund.co.uk

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Volunteers at the Hospital Needed

I have donated two old hearing aids that were made by a company I worked for many years ago. They are for the Hospital Museum.

Did you know they had a museum? No I did not and neither do many Hospital employees.

Finally I tracked down Lesley Meaker and she gratefully accepted my gift.

I then found that Lesley has manged to get an HLF grant for the History Project. For this Volunteers are needed. I have pasted below some of the information about this project. If you are interested - and it looks very interesting -  then contact Lesley [details below].
Please not the Volunteers Parking Permit! Useful.

NB. Click on any of the boxes to enlarge.

 

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