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Issue No. 39 - February 2010

Welcome to the Febuary 2010 edition of the BCC E-News.

Open Exhibition 2010

The opening evening for our Annual Open Exhibition went without a hitch last Thursday, and was a most enjoyable event. The hard work is of course mainly done by Steve Bright, who has been the main producer of the show for several years (ably assisted by a small but devoted team of backroom staff), and thanks to him that the opening evening was such a success.

So our thanks go to Steve, for the tremendous efforts he has put in, particularly during his time as our President, and the behind the scenes work of his small band of helpers. The result has been another excellent advertisement for the club. So thanks to all who helped with the organising and putting on of the Opening Evening, and to everyone who entered.

If you haven’t yet seen our exhibition website, do spend a few minutes and have a look. The standard of entries seems higher than ever.

 

Revised Programme for the next few weeks:

PLEASE NOTE: DIGITAL IMAGING ROUND 3 IS CANCELLED - competition will be judged on 3 rounds only this year.

FEBRUARY

18th SPF Home Round, Prints and Digital Images - judge Glyn Edmunds

25th 3rd Round Print League

MARCH

4th Michael Huggan ARPS - What to do with all those Pictures

11th Story Mug Competition - A series of up to 8 digital images to tell a story.

18th 4th Round Digital Image League

25th Andy Jones - Scandinavia and Beyond - Andy will show us Digital Images of his recent travels

APRIL

1st 4th Round Print League

8th Len Quinn and Keith Longman - Two more recent additions to the ‘A’ League show us their images

15th Set Subject Competitions

22nd Three Rising Stars - Lin Osborn, Stuart Minte and Derek Murrells

29th John Wells FRPS - The Coming of Age Roadshow

 

The Winchester Photographic Society Annual Open Exhibition

Winchester Photographic Society's 77th Annual Open Exhibition will be taking place between Saturday 24th April and Sunday 16th May at the City Space at Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester. We’d like to invite you to join us!

Both members and non‐-members are welcome to submit entries, with the best images displayed in the exhibition.

To find out more, and to register to enter images online, visit the Winchester Photographic Society website at, or view their poster here:

www.winphotosoc.co.uk

Registration is open from Monday 18th January to Tuesday 2nd March.

A maximum of 12 images can be entered into the three open classes, with no more than 4 images in any one class. Cost of entry is £2 per image.

 

Viewfinders of Romsey are having a fundraising evening and will be welcoming Donald Bradshaw to the Jubilee Hall in Timsbury on March 23rd to give one of his exciting presentations. As most of you will already know, Donald has travelled extensively around the world and has compiled a number of lectures in different locations, using his stunning images of the wildlife, landscapes and people.

This one gives an insight into the landscape and wildlife of Madagascar, and should be a fascinating evening, including of course images of the lemur which is unique to the island.

Tickets may be obtained in advance or at the door on the night if space is available.

Click here to view their poster.

RPS DI Group Thames Valley, Next Meeting Sunday 21 February, for which there are the speakers who were postponed from last month. In the morning, Colin Harrison FRPS MPAGB EFIAP will be presenting "Digital Adventure". He will be showing many of his award winning photographs and explaining his approach to digital manipulation. The images will cover many subjects including portraits, landscapes and travel images, the latter including images from a recent trip to Nevada and California.

The afternoon session will be devoted to the "Epson Showcase". This will be hosted by Julian Sinclair who is a member of Epson's Field Based Sales Support Representative team. This will be an opportunity to see the latest Epson products. Julian will bring along all the relevant products with ink and media for 'hands on use' by attendees, along with handouts, and will conduct a question and answer session. Attendees are invited to bring along a print-ready image file on USB memory stick or memory card, for some to be selected for printing.

This is an all-day meeting starting at 10 am for 10.30. Refreshments will be available as usual, but attendees usually bring packed lunch. 'Pay as you go' charges for this event will be £5.00 for RPS DIG members, £8.00 for non members. Season tickets for 2010 are available £20.00 for RPS DIG Members and £30.00 for all others. Please see our web site for details of how to pre-book with either a Day Ticket or a Season Ticket.

Venue: Coopers Hill Community Centre, Crowthorne Road North, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, RG12 7QS

For further details please visit: www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk         Click here for their poster.

 

Another advert from the SouthernFed - a Landscape photography course in April. An “amazing and different approach to landscape photography” - a different approach and good quality. View their poster here.

The club has been contacted by Caledonian Images who offer Photographic Holidays in N.E. Scotland.
Click here to read their flyer or see their website at www.caledonianimages.com

Hayling Island Camera Club - Digital entries now invited for Open Exhibition (2-9 April 2010). Details of classes, submission requirements and forms, terms and conditions and fees available at exhibition link on club website - http://www.haylingislandcameraclub.co.uk/page52.html Click here for poster.

A message from the Southern Fed about Print Boxes

The closing date for the next order for PRINT BOXES is SATURDAY, 27th MARCH 2010.

It is expected that the boxes will be available for collection at the Club Reps meeting in May or possibly at Finals Day on 18th April.

You will not be surprised to see that the price has risen. However, Nomad has 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, to

Mrs. Jennie Pearson,

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

BEFORE SATURDAY, 27th MARCH 2010.

Boxes to be collected at the SPF Representatives Meeting

IN MAY 2010 or by arrangement.

 

Mike Jones of the RPS Southern Group has asked to have attention drawn to their website. You can view it at http://www.rps.org/region/Southern lots of good stuff there!

Quick reminder about the Judging Workshop
A quick reminder to all members about the event - it's this Sunday 21st Feb., at Littleton Millennium Hall, Littleton, Near Winchester SO22 6QL, at 11:15 for 11:30am. Tickets available on the door at £8 each, everyone is welcome.

Please remember to bring a packed lunch with you, we will break for lunch, however there are not many places locally for food.

With grateful thanks,Chris Neill-Griffin SPF Secretary

 

XTO IMAGE AWARDS- Call for Entries

Calling all photographers and illustrators inspired by the human form to submit their work to the Xto Image Awards. The final deadline is March 1, 2010.

Prizes: $2000-Grand Prize Winner and $1000-Runner-Up; An exhibit in Los Angeles for the top two winners of each category.

The exhibit will be April 1-7, 2010 at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA

CLUB WEBSITE

If you would like to exhibit some of your photos on the club website contact the webmaster via this link mailto:webmaster@basingstokecameraclub.co.uk . If you would like to submit a photo for “Photo of the Month” please use the same link.

 

PHOTOCLINIC

This is a great opportunity to receive critique of your photos in a friendly, constructive and non-competitive arena so do consider coming along. The next dates booked are:

            8th March   12th April   10th May

The Photoclinic is held at the Jolly Farmer pub in Cliddesden, who kindly make their front room available to us. 

If you would like to take part please let John Buttress know on 01256 818515 or john@johnbuttress.com

How To Do It Group

Informal sessions in a member's house are held for members who want help with various skills related to producing and showing photographs.

This will be practical advice on topics such as how to use a digital camera, how to manipulate images in Photoshop and then print them, and how to mount your prints.

Look for the sign-up sheet or ask Mike or Cath.

COMPETITIONS AND PROGRAMME

Follow this link to view the club’s programme:

http://www.basingstokecameraclub.co.uk/html/programme.html

If you need to check the competition rules please follow this link:

http://www.basingstokecameraclub.co.uk/html/competitions.html

Digital entries may be e-mailed to Len at: mailto:compsec@basingstokecameraclub.co.uk

 

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