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Photography News | Issue 41 | absolutephoto.com
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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
How to submit
Deadline for the next issue: 27 February 2017
We need words and pictures by 27 February 2017 for the next issue of Photography News , which will be available from 13 March 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
Beaconhits the streets
75years for Farnborough
Beacon Camera Club is launching the 2017 Beacon Street Photography Competition to promote this popular genre of photography. “The Club believes street photography is a wonderful method of making social comment and encouraging social awareness,” says the club’s vice chairman Trevor Bell. “It’s also creatively and technically challenging and we hope that the competition will prove appealing to the great many excellent amateur street photographers around. We hope to make this an annual event.” The competition is open to amateur photographers only and online entry is open now at beaconcc.co.uk/streetcomp.htm
and closes 1 June 2017. Entry costs £1.50 per image and prizes include Panasonic cameras; the winner gets a Panasonic Lumix GH5 worth £1700. Martin Parr Hon FRPS has agreed to judge the competition and announce the winners at an event at The Swan Theatre, Worcester on 1 July 2017. Results will be published in Photography News later this year. Tickets for the Martin Parr event cost £15 from the theatre box office at worcesterlive.co.uk/ boxoffice.asp or direct from Beacon Camera Club.
Mark Hamblin is visiting Droitwich Camera Club on 25 March 2017 at 7pm at Droitwich High School with his illustrated talkWild Scotland: a photographic odyssey. Mark is a wildlife photographer, writer and guide who lives in the Cairngorms National Park. He spends much of his time photographing Scotland’s birdlife, nature and wildest places. In this illustrated talkMarkbrings together aportfolio of hiswonderful images and speaks about his work on a number of conservation media projects. Mark will be donating a copy of his book Tooth and Claw as a raffle prize on the night. Droitwich gets wild and Scottish!
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Farnborough camera club held their annual exhibition on 28 and 29 January, celebrating the club’s 75th anniversary, with visitors voting for their favourite image. The winner was My Little World by Karl-Heinz Weber from Farnborough’s twinned club Photo-Cirkle in Oberursel , with Two Young Barn Owls by Terry Redman coming in second. As this is a special year, the club invited Leo Rich former president of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain to judge the entries and select the Best in Show. The winner was Get off my Pond by Mark Pirie. Leo said this was a great natural history shot: “It has everything,” he said, “Humour, storytelling, great exposure, fantastic sharpness throughout and still managed to capture the eye looking at you.” The club also included a display describing some of their history and previous images andwould like to thank the Princes Mead Shopping Centre for allowing them the space to hold the exhibition.
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Harpenden Photographic Society’s annual exhibition takes place this year on Saturday 11 March 2017 at High Street Methodist Church, Harpenden, from 10am to 4.30pm. Always one of the cultural highlights of Hertfordshire’s events calendar, the award-winning Harpenden Photographic Society warmly welcomes all to visit its exciting annual photographic exhibition, which will feature the work of local photographers. Chairman Peter Stevens comments: “HPS’s annual exhibition is a wonderful showcase of the work of local photographers, many of whom are award winning and critically acclaimed for their photography, and they will be displaying the finest examples from their portfolios. Whether you love landscape, portrait, macro street, sport or natural world photography, you will find it all in this exhibition!” HarpendenPS’s annual exhibition
Colchester victory Colchester Photographic Society maintained their winning streak by taking the North Essex PDI Inter-Club competition for the second straight year. 12 clubs took part, each entering five images with a sixth as a tie-breaker. Colchester took first place, Witham camera club second, with Clacton CC and Great Notley CC tied in third. Colin Westgate was awarded image of the evening with View over Stokksnes. Colchester PS meets every Tuesday evening at 19:30, Christ Church, Ireton Road Colchester CO3 3AT.
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