Photography News 14

Camera clubs Tell us your club’s latest news, email: clubnews@photography-news.co.uk Camera club news If your club has any news that you want to share with the rest of Allow plenty of time. Photography News comes out around the third week of the month. For the next issue, which comes out 15 December, we need words and pictures by 4 December. HOWTO SUBMIT

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 them on the Word document. Deadline for the next issue: 4December

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

CharlieWaite says happy anniversary Crowds expected for renowned landscape photographer’s talk

Okehampton Camera Club has an exhibition of members’ photographs on display until 7 December at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Rosemoor near Torrington, Devon. It is open from 10am to 5pm every day, including weekends. Last entry is 4pm. Graham Brown, secretary of Okehampton Camera Club says, “This is the second year our members have exhibited some of their favourite images at RHS Rosemoor. We hope our photographs, on a wide range of subjects, give pleasure to the Rosemoor visitors.” Okehampton Camera Club meets fortnightly on Mondays at the Church Hall in Market Street, Okehampton, Devon. Meetings start at 7.30pm and new members are always welcome. Showingoff in thegarden A two-for-one deal if you like: visit an RHS garden and enjoy a photographic display

The Field End Photographic Society in Ruislip, West London, is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a talk from renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite. His visit on Wednesday 10 December is the highlight of the anniversary year and the club is expecting such a large turnout that they’ve moved their evening to a bigger venue at Fairfield, Northwood Hills. The event, An Evening with Charlie Waite: Behind The Photograph, is open to the public, starts at 8pm and tickets, which are available in advance only, are priced at £12.50. Book by emailing events@fieldendps.co.uk or call the ticket line which is 07579 001141.

CLOCKWISE FROMLEFT Okehampton Camera Club members Erica Griffiths, Mikhal Brandstatter, Graham Brown and club chairman Derek Stratton launch their exhibition at RHS Garden Rosemoor.

π To find out more, go to www.okehamptoncameraclub.co.uk.

π To find out more about Field End PS, go to www.fieldendps.co.uk.

Ware’s the annual show?

Dumfries Camera Club has again won the PAGB’s Inter-Club Print Championship 2014, sponsored by PermaJet, beating off fierce competition from 35 other clubs. Taking second place was the Beyond Group, followed by Smethwick PS and Chorley PS in joint third place. Dumfrieswins for the second time

SORRY We ran a story last issue on the success of Derby City PC member Barry Thompson in the London Salon and somehow printed the wrong image. Our apologies to Barry for any inconvenience caused. Nikonpicks awinner

π To find out more about the competition, go to www.thepagb.org.uk.

Ware & District Photographic Society is holding its annual exhibition at The Ware Arts Centre, Kibes Lane, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7ED, on 22 and 23 November, 10am until 5pm. Entry is free. At 11am on Saturday, the mayor of Ware Town Council will officially open the exhibition.

Congratulations to NWPG member John Riggott, who scooped the prize with his entry The Winding Road. The North Walsham Photography Group meet in the Atrium at North Walsham High School, on the second and fourth Tuesdays in the month.

North Walsham Photography Group (NWPG) was recently invited to take part in a Nikon School camera club competition, with landscapes as the theme. The competition, promoting the Nikon School, offered a Nikon D7100 with 18-105mm lens and SB-700 Speedlight as the prize.

π To find out more about North Walsham Photography Group, go to www.nw-pg.co.uk.

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

Photography News | Issue 14