Photography News | Issue 50 | photographynews.co.uk
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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 achievements; 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
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Deadline for the next issue: 4 January 2018
We need words and pictures by 4 January 2018 for the next issue of Photography News , which will be available from 15 January 2018. Write your story in a Word document (400 words max). Please include contact details of the club, exhibition or event: website, meeting times, opening times, whatever is relevant. Images should be JPEGs, 2000 pixels on the longest dimension, any colour space, and image credits should be included. If the story is an exhibition or event, please send a picture from the exhibition (not the publicity poster) or one from the event. If it includes people, please identify them. Attach the Word document and JPEGs to an email and send to clubnews@photography-news.co.uk
Champions Cambridge
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Cambridge in this year’s PAGB National Print Championships that took place in Blackburn recently, beating 36 of the UK’s top clubs. It was the club’s first-ever victory in this prestigious contest that has been running for 21 years – its previous best result was 4th in 2007. To qualify for the event each club had to win their regional championship or finish in the top eight of the previous year’s event. Cambridge attended as reigning champions of the Eastern Region. On the day itself, the first round comprised 12 prints from each club and the top eight scoring clubs went through to the final. Cambridge CC triumphed
qualified in 3rd, one point behind Smethwick PS and Arden PG. For the final each clubhad to select 16 prints. “Our excitement began to rise,” says Chris Fell, Cambridge CC president. “We now had to select 16 images with the knowledge of which types of images were pleasing the judges on the day. We were allowed to include as many of the original selection as we liked, so we simply removed our two lowest scoring images and added six new ones. “When the final was under way, we were obviously able to record our own scores as our images came up to be judged. It wasn’t so easy to accurately keep score of the other clubs, but our initial thoughts were
Above Cambridge CCmembers from left: SueVaines LRPS, JonathanVaines LRPS (joint external competitions secretaries), PAGBpresident Gordon Jenkins, Chris Fell LRPS, president, AnnMiles FRPS, council member. Left David Omoregie lunges for the line.
Romford CC welcomes all levels of photographers and prides itself onbeing a friendly and fun club. One of their recent speakers was Damien Demolder; a super evening and instrumental in members taking their cameras out the very next morning. Members also organise outings and attend special events, such as the Photography News’ Photo 24. More knowledgeable members are always happy to share on clinic or instruction nights and are keen to share their knowledge of software. Visitors are welcome to come along and can have four free trial visits. The club meets on Wednesdays, from 8pm, at the Forest Row Centre, Collier Row, Romford RM5 2LD.
that we scored 202 points out of a maximum of 225. “We had towait 45minutes before the results were announced and we
found that we were first by a margin of just two points.”
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Farnborough CC reach out
Farnborough Camera Club is very proud of its close links with the PhotoCirkel Camera Club in Oberursel, Germany. Members have visited each other’s clubs of the last few years and pictures have been shown in each other’s exhibitions. This autumn
Farnborough kindly invited to send eight pictures on the subject of ‘Waterways’ for PhotoCirkel’s exhibition which took place in October. was
From left to right: Basil Groundsell, BarbaraAlbrecht, Laurent Grumbach, Wendy Collens andGunter Albrecht.
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Brentwood & District PC PC meets most Fridays at 8pm at the Friend’s Meeting House, Shenfield CM15 8NF. “Visitors and new members are always welcome,” says publicity officer Peter Elgar. “We plan a full programme every season and if anyone wants a good night out, please feel free to drop in. We have a couple of great talks early in 2018: Mountain gorillas of Uganda and Rwanda by Mike Fuller on 12 January and on 26 January we have A photographic journey from the beginning by Roy Essery MPAGB”. Brentwood and District
Historymade at Neath and District PS
In October, members of the Neath and District PS presented a William Henry Fox Talbot calotype print of an ancient doorway in Magdalen College, Oxford to the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. The calotype, which had been stored by the Neath and District PS in a light-proof box for many years, will now be looked after in a controlled environment by the National Library and be available for exhibiting and viewing by a much wider audience.
The print, taken on 9April 1843 and printed from the original negative in 1846 is to be retained as part of a collection of Fox Talbot’s work in Wales. The calotype (a process patented by Fox Talbot) represents an important milestone in the development of photographic printing and was donated to the Neath & District Photographic Society in 1954 by Ellis Jenkins, one of the Society’s early members.
Above Fox Talbot’s historic print finds a good home at the National Library ofWales.
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