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Camera clubs AnAby phone Marie-Ange Bouchard achieved her Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society with a panel of colour prints. Nothing unusual in that but her panel was the first successful ‘A’ shot using an Apple iPhone. “I couldn’t go to the Assessment Day,” says Marie, “but a friend, Marcus Scott-Taggart, was going and text me the result. I kept checking my phone and finally, a text announcing that the panel had been recommended to the Council for an A relieved me from my misery and I literally jumped for joy. “ We spoke to Roger Reynolds Hon FRPS, chairman of the RPS’s Distinctions Advisory Board for his reaction. “We are delighted with the successful application from Marie-Ange Bouchard. We welcome photography in all forms and it doesn’t matter how the pictures are taken provided they are up to the high standard required for a distinction. This stunning set of pictures is clearly up to the required standard. It also goes to show that the RPS is receptive to every style of photography.”
IMAGES A selection of images from Marie- Ange Bouchard’s successful ‘A’ panel – all images shot on an Apple iPhone.
Warwick Camera Club had its first meeting on 27 November with six keen photographers turning up. “I started a club in Leicester a few years ago which ended up with almost 200 members – we started with two people on that club’s first night,” says Steve Jane, the driving force behind the new club. “So with six people plus three more coming to the next meeting, it’s a positive start. “I’ll be there most meetings to ensure everyone has a great evening but I run my own photographic business so from time to time I might have to rely on others to run meetings, which is how the club is intended to run,” explains Steve. Warwick Camera Club meet every other Wednesday at the Chase Meadow Community Centre, Narrow Hall Meadow, Warwick CV34 6BT. Calling all keen photographers in the Warwick area: members wanted Newcamera club forWarwick
NEWS INBRIEF
SPEAKERS AT GUILDFORD PS One of the UK’s leading nature
photographers, Mark Sissons is hosting his talk The Secret Life of Puffins at Guildford PS on 6 January 2014. Tickets cost £10 each. See the website for
location details. Later in March 2014 renowned landscaper Guy
Edwardes is giving a talk and so too is Will Cheung FRPS about his passion for photography.
π To find out more, go to www.warwickcameraclub.co.uk or email steve@strobixphotographyco.uk.
“The Df offers much of what most amateurs want; a straightforward full-frame camera without video and minimal in-camera processing. But I can’t understand why Nikon should expect me to pay more for less. Does it do more than the D610? Hardly. So surely it should come in at around £1000.” Roger Tyler What you think of the Nikon Df First Df feedback
www.guildford photosoc.org.uk
“This camera looks fantastic, if Nikon brings out a DX version I would definitely buy one! Speak to Hiro Sebata for me, haha (I already use Nikon DX).” Gerry Marchant
“As a long-standing Nikon devotee, I love the Df which brings back memories of my FE but I feel it’s over priced by £1000.” Bernie Raynard
π We’ll be testing the Nikon Df in the next issue of Photography News (out 20 January 2014) and Advanced Photographer (out 16 January 2014).
Congratulations to
• John Morris of Scunthorpe CC for getting his LRPS. • Barry Badcock and Elizabeth Hales of Cambridge Camera Club both for gaining their LRPS. • Christine Hart of Ipswich & District PS for getting her LRPS. • Clive Downes of Cambridge Camera Club for gaining his ARPS.
PN really does need your help to fill its pages, so if your club has a big speaker appearing soon and you want every seat occupied, or if your club (or an individual member) has just scooped a big award or gained a distinction, or you have an exhibition on, we’d love to hear from you so please ask your secretary or publicity officer to get in touch. Stories should be 250 words maximum and accompanied by a high resolution JPEG (at least 2400 pixels on the longest dimension) and emailed to clubnews@photography-news.com. If we need anything else we will contact you. Thank you in advance for your help.
The next issue of Photography News is out 20 January.
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