Photography News 10

Camera clubs

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Camera club news If your club has any news that you want to share with the rest of the world, this is the page for it. Your story might be about your club’s success in a contest, or a member’s personal achievement; it could be about a group outing you had recently or when the annual exhibition is on show. Any news is eligible for inclusion, so club publicity officers please take note of the submission guidelines and get your stories in

HOWTO SUBMIT

Allow plenty of time. Photography News comes out (roughly) around the third week of the month. For the next issue, we need words and pictures by 7 August. Write your story on a Word document (400 words maximum) and attach it to an email to clubnews@ photography-news.co.uk. In the story please include contact details of the club, exhibition or event – website, meeting time, opening times, whatever is relevant to the story. Images: Yes please, and attach these to the email too. Images should be JPEGs, 2000 pixels on the longest dimension and any colour space. If the story is an exhibition or event, please send a picture from the exhibition (not the publicity poster), the winning image or one of the event. If the picture includes people please identify on the Word document. Deadline for the next issue: 7 August.

It’saknockout 21 clubs contested the Ted Colman ‘rather different’ Knockout Competition recently at Rochdale & District Camera Club. Judging the event was Tony Pioli FRPS

Imagesof Banbury

ENTERHERE There’s £5000 of Canon kit to be won in this year’s EEF/ Lombard annual Make it Britain photography contest. The EEF is the manufacturers’ organisation with over 6000 members nationwide comprising companies of all sizes. www.eef.org.uk/photo NEWS INBRIEF

ABOVE As it looks now.

ABOVE Banbury Cake Shop built 1638 demolished 1967.

example, no photo of the old Banbury Cake Shop in Parsons Street. “Some members had their own suitable images and they donated on the premise that their copyright was maintained. This idea caught on quickly and soon donations of all kinds were made. Donated images are scanned and returned to their owners and to date we have over 1500 images. “The project is ticking over nicely with new images being added every week. Also, we have developed a circle of knowledgeable Banburians who help us with some of the older photos. “The Images of Banbury collection is a valuable resource of interest to schools and other organisations. I’ve put together several presentations, with recorded comments, to show local groups. A popular show is A Walk Around Banbury, showing the enormous changes that have taken place since the 1960s. We get a great deal of information about the photos this way and havemademany friends.” .

Alan Sargeant has been in touch about a long-term project run by his club, Banbury Camera Club, and it’s an idea worth considering by all clubs. “Back in the sixties one of Banbury CC’s members, Ernie Lester, became concerned about the destruction of many of Banbury’s old buildings; he persuaded the club that it would be a worthwhile project to record anything in danger of disappearing. By 1965 a set of slides had been produced and was being shown with recorded commentary to local clubs. Over the years, members have added to the original set. In 2006 it became clear that the project needed to be revived and overhauled. “We received a grant from the National Lottery to undertake this task. We bought a good quality laptop, digital projector, screen, projector trolley, 35mm film and slide scanner, and photo-enhancing software. “I volunteered to start work on the project. Every slide, negative and print was scanned at high resolution. “Later we noticed that the collection had some shortcomings. There was, for

SHOOTTHEPATH

The South West Coast Path (SWCP) competition is now open for entries. You’ve got until 31 December to get your entries in and the 12 winning entries will be featured in the SWCP 2016 calendar – the winner gets printed on the cover. This year’s judge is landscape pro David Noton. For details of how to enter and prizes, go to the website. www.southwestcoast path.com/photo- competition

Each club submitted a bank of 13 images and then prior to the event selected four images from this bank to be shown in round one. The images were marked and at the end of the round the six lowest scoring clubs were eliminated. These were: Oldham CC, Whitworth PS, N Manchester CC, Davyhulme CC, Padiham & District PS and Todmorden PS. What makes this competition different is that the scores from each round are not carried forward and the images can each only be used once. The remaining clubs selected four images for round two and this round the seven lowest scorers went out: Bolton PS, Huddersfield P&I Club, Rochdale & District CC, Swinton & District PS, Rochdale PS, Accrington CC and Bacup CC. The last eight clubs then selected four images from their bank. At the end of this round the top two clubs compete for the trophy. The clubs who went out were: Bury PS, Blackburn & District

ABOVE Mike Heaton CPAGB AFIAP (left) receiving the Ted Colman Memorial Trophy from the judge, Tony Pioli FRPS of Chapel CC.

π To find out more, go to www. banburycameraclub.org.uk.

CC, Preston PS, Leigh & District CC, Atherton & District APS and Chorley PS. The last two clubs were South Lancs Imaging Club and Oldham PS and each had one image left. These were: Studying by Mike Heaton of SLIC and Cement Factory at Dawn by Matt Aspden of Oldham PS. Tony chose Studying as the winner.

RPS Print Exhibition

Over 6600 images were submitted to the RPS International Print Exhibition from 1727 photographers in 72 countries but for the exhibition just 100 images were selected. The five award winners came from Germany, the USA and the UK. They are on show until 28 August, at the Greenwich Heritage Centre, London.

π To find out more go to www.rps.org/IPE157

π To find out more, go to www.rochdalecameraclub.org.uk.

Photography News | Issue 10