Photography News issue 19

Camera clubs

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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 18 May, we need words and pictures by 4 May 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: 4May 2015

Earl Shilton turns 40 Celebrating with a talk by PN’s editor

“A well-established camera club, Ealing and Hampshire House PS (EHHPS) is one of the oldest photographic groups in the world. We’re a friendly, sociable club where members of all ages have a range of photographic styles, abilities and interests. The richness of our backgrounds provides a welcoming, creative and vibrant atmosphere. “Joining EHHPS offers many benefits, including workshops aimed at developing technical and artistic skills; entry into external and national competitions; club competitions in a friendly atmosphere; talks from acclaimed photographers; peer support and critique; photographic outings; exhibitions; and social events. “EHHPS meets on Thursday evenings at Ealing Town Hall. Details can be found at ehhps.org.uk.” Ealing and Hampshire House Photographic Society SPOTLIGHT End of term Heswall Photographic Society is holding its Annual Exhibition at Ness Botanic Gardens in May. The print exhibition runs 13-19 May and offers visitors the chance to vote for their favourite image. It’s free to enter, but there is a fee to visit the gardens. The friendly Heswall PS meets on Friday evenings at St Peter’s Centre, Lower Heswall Village from September to the end of April. With a varied programme of talks and competitions, the club will be holding a few summer meetings.

NEWS INBRIEF EXHIBITIONOPENS Alba Photographic Society is inviting entries to its 2015 Alba Digital Exhibition, and with a closing date of 23 May, there’s still plenty of time to enter. The exhibition is part of the British Photographic Exhibitions (BPE) group and successful acceptances can use this for the BPE awards. There are five categories: Colour, Mono, Nature, Creative and Photo Realistic. Entries will be selected over the weekend of 30/31 May by Robert Fulton MPAGB MFIAP BPE 5* (Scotland), Judy Boyle FRPS (Ireland) and Peter A Young CPAGB (England), and entrants will hear soon after whether they’ve CORRECTION Our apologies to Colin Close, whose image End of the Day was credited incorrectly on page 15 of issue 17. A clerical error led to the mistake, so sorry again to Colin. NEXT ISSUE Photography News issue 20 is out 18 May. been successful. www.albaps.co.uk

Since its first meeting in 1975, Earl Shilton Camera Club has grown. Now to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the club is holding a Presentation Night on 27 May at the Earl Shilton Constitutional Club when PN ’s editor Will Cheung FRPS will be the speaker. After more than 30 years on photo magazines and 40 years of taking photos, Will is perfectly placed to share his insights on what makes a great image. Tickets for the event are £8 each and refreshments will be available.

ABOVE Martin Eves wins first place at the Heswall PS Annual Exhibition with this image of a red squirrel.

π To find out more about Heswall Photographic Society, go to www.heswallphotosoc.co.uk.

π To find out more about the event, go to www.earlshiltoncameraclub.org.uk.

Inaugural salon at AvonValley Avon Valley PS’s first salon closed for entries on 1 March and after a weekend of selection at RPS HQ in Bath, the results are in. Acceptance ran at 26%. You can view the full line-up on the Society’s website, but among the awards Peng Li won the Chairman’s Award for his image Apiouskid (left) and Charles Akerstrom’s Dog Training won the Open Triptych Section.

π To find out more about the Avon Valley Salon, go to avonvalley.photography/.

Clubcompetition withadifference No camera and just one hour to produce four winning images – that was the formula at Park Street recently Park Street Camera Club’s latest club competition, dreamed up by chair Maggie Fricker and her husband Rod, challenged members to create images in just one hour without a camera. Working in teams, members used a maximum of 30 of their own images, their imaginations and Photoshop skills to ANNUAL AWARDS Dunchurch Photographic Society held its annual awards evening during its penultimate meeting of the season. Awards were presented to the winners of the various competitions run during the society’s year. Pictured from left to right are Ian Andrew, Mark Varney, Mike Parmee LRPS, Dougie Wright (chairman), Judy Longthorn, Richard Anthony (president), Mike Gardner and Andrew Henning. www.dunchurchps.com

© The Young Ones

create images to fit four subjects – only given to them on the night. All the masterpieces (or not!) were judged on the night. This was the first time the club had attempted such a competition and it was declared a resounding success, as much for the hilarity as the brilliance of the images.

If you want your club featured in Club Spotlight, write 200 words about your club and why it’s going places, then send the Word document and up to five JPEG images frommembers to clubnews@photography-news.co.uk. LEFT Dance for Me by Shaun Hodge. RIGHT Bathing Belle by Karen Helle.

π To find out more about Park Street Camera Club, go to www.parkstreetcameraclub.com.

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