Photography News issue 18

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 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 around the third week of the month. For the next issue, which comes out 20 April, we need words and pictures by 7 April. Write your story in 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 in the Word document. Deadline for the next issue: 7 April 2015

Reason to celebrate

Newent & District Camera Club have the perfect reason to celebrate: the club marked its 50th year last month. They celebrated the occasion with a dinner on 3 February, exactly half a century after the club’s founding, which was masterminded by the local milkman. Guest of honour at the dinner was Jack Smith, a founder member and now club president. After- dinner entertainment was an enjoyable talk from Brian Swinyard MA, ARPS. Five decades after its foundation, the club has almost 40 members (it began with 20) and its bank balance has increased a bit too – it was £19.65 in 1970. Newent & District Camera Club meets on Tuesdays, from September to April at Newent Library.

Open for entry Submit to L&LPS this month and your image could be on show inMay There’s still (just!) time to enter Leicester and Leicestershire Photographic Society’s Annual Open Exhibition. You have until 28 March to get your submission into one of the categories: General Colour, Sports, Great Central Railway and Monochrome. Members can also enter images in a fifth category: Nature. Entries will be selected on 15 April by Bob Rowe ARPS, CPAGB, and the exhibition takes place on 15 and 16 May at Christchurch, Clarendon Park Road, Leicester.

π To find out more, go to www.newentdcc.com.

Smallest clubwins big f8 Image Group lands the top prize at WCPF Inter-club DPI competition The seven member strong f8 Image Group beat off 46 other clubs to be named overall winner at the recent Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF) Inter-Club DPI Competition in Exeter. It’s unusual for a small club to win the event outright, so they were exceptionally pleased. As they’d walked off with the top prize, the Small Club trophy went to Zen Photo Group. The second placed club was Bristol PS. f8 and Bristol now go forward to the PAGB Inter-Club competition, held in Warwick later this summer. In third and four places were Dorchester CC and Newton Abbot PC respectively. Individual awards went to Zen Group’s Pam Sherren (gold medal), Exmouth PS’s John Perriam (silver medal) and Bristol’s Greg Duncan (bronze medal), and six ribbons as well as 17 highly commended certificates were also awarded. Judges were Jay Charnock FRPS, David Gibbins ARPS, APAGB, EFIAP, BPE4* and PAGB President Leo Rich ARPS, EFIAP/g, APAGB, DPAGB, BPE3*. The annual competition is one of the main events in the WCPF calendar. This year, it was attended by more than 200 photographers from the region.

NEWS INBRIEF GOINTERNATIONAL WITHHOYLAKE With a target acceptance rate of 30%, Hoylake Photographic Society is inviting entries to its International Photographic Exhibition 2015. Entry is already open and closes on Monday 20 April. Judging takes place over the weekend of 2 and 3 May. As well as the six sections – Colour Open, Monochrome Open, Nature, Photojournalism, Photo Travel: The Western World and Photo Travel: Rest of the World, the exhibition this year is also offering a new award for the most successful club entry. This award will recognise the four highest scores from the six highest scoring

π To find out more about the exhibition, go to www.landlps.org.uk.

Competition time

Show off your images with Neath & District Photographic Society’s Annual UK Salon. With four categories – Colour Open, Monochrome Open, Industry and Nature, the competition is digital only, but you can enter by post. Entry closes on 11 April and selection takes place on 25 and 26 April. If you’re successful, you’ll hear in May, but the date for the presentation is yet to be confirmed, so no need to get the glad rags ready yet.

IMAGE Last year’s winner:

Liquid Lunch by Jamie MacArthur.

ABOVE European Roller Food Pass by David Morton. RIGHT The Pink Hat by Pam Sherren, gold medal winner.