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Photography News | Issue 39 | absolutephoto.com
Tell us your club’s latest news, email: clubnews@photography-news.co.uk
Clubs
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
How to submit
Deadline for the next issue: 2 January 2017
We need words and pictures by 2 January 2017 for the next issue of Photography News , which will be available from 16 January 2017. 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
Double honour for Wokinghamand East Berkshire Camera Club
Camera Club of the Year The search for Photography News Camera Club of the Year has begun! Look out for announcements about the themes over the next five issues of PN , and details of how your club can get involved. See page 20 of this issue for the latest information.
FarnboroughCamera Clubcelebrates
Farnborough Club celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, and held a commemorative event on 25 October, hostingDavidNoton and his Chasing the Light Roadshow. Mayor of Rushmoor, councillor Jacqui Vosper, introduced David and 160 people attended. David’s roadshow was a great event, showcasing his amazing work over the last 30 years, whilst also presenting some of his most recent work. Other events to celebrate the anniversary included a special dinner with Tony Oliver from the SCPF and members from Farnborough’s twinned club in Oberursel, Germany in attendance. The final event will be the 75th Anniversary Exhibition to be held in Princes Mead, Farnborough on 28 and 29 January 2017. Some of the best images from club members will Camera
be featured, along with pictures from Oberursel, as well as displays on the club’s history and historical shots. LeoRich fromthe PAGBwill be attending to present a special 75th anniversary rosette to the best image.
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Left to right Kathryn Graham, Terry Redman, mayor Jacqui Vosper, David Noton and Wendy Collens.
Photography enthusiasts are invited to come along to an open session with Paul Hill at QUAD in Derby on 8 December, 6.30pm to 8.30pm, (tickets £5). Share your work and gain advice and guidance from Paul, a photographer, author and teacher. The session, part of the FORMAT Photoforum event running until 19 January 2017, is an opportunity to expose your work to an informed audience of fellow practitioners and enthusiasts, and get feedback that may help move the work forward, or even get it published or exhibited. If you want to show your work, please contact Paul in advance at paul@ hillonphotography.co.uk FORMAT Photoforum: open session with Paul Hill
Hailsham memberproduces winningprint
The Kent County Photographic Association (KCPA) holds an annual print competition, the Ross Cup, to encourage the production of prints. This year’s event took place on 30 October. Gay Biddlecombe from Hailsham Photographic Society won the Lakeland Holidays Landscape Trophy for the best landscape print. Her print, ‘Volcanic Dust Descending’, was taken two weeks after the 2010 volcanic eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. The judge, Walter Benzie Hon FRPS, president of the RPS, said that landscapes depend on fine definition, an interesting viewpoint, timing and maximising the use of available light, and that this image had all the right ingredients.
Two members of Wokingham and East Berkshire Camera Club have been honoured in this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. Martin Pickles was commended for his image ‘Temple Island Flypast’. “To get so far is something else,” saidMartin. “It means a place in theAwards book andmy image will be displayed as a print in the LPotY exhibition. The image itself was both a bit of luck – beautiful winter morning, with the geese deciding to fly at that exact moment – and being prepared, ie having my camera set up and ready. I just had to lift the camera, compose, focus and shoot!” Matthew Cattell was named overall winner for his image ‘Starling Vortex’. “Winning Landscape Photographer of the Year has been a dream come true,” said Martin. “This was my second time witnessing the starling roost at Brighton and I knew before I arrived that I wanted to take a photograph from the pier to give the impression of being at the centre of the murmuration. The tones of the sky reflected the cold, winter weather and the wind had whipped up the sea to create large, rolling waves. I didn’t know if I had captured what I wanted until I got home. I was drawn to this particular shot because of the sense of movement created by the birds and waves against the static pier.”
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