Next Wednesday we have another change to the published programme, instead of a talk by Ian Beesley who has had to drop out due to a family bereavement, we will be treated to one of the recorded CDs from NEMPF (North & East Midlands Photographic Federation) showing images from a recent NEMPF Exhibition, narrated as usual by the extremely professional Ashley Franklin - always an entertaining evening. This was going to be in place of the talk by Linda Bembridge, the replacement for this talk will be announced next week.

DI Group holds its usual monthly meeting next Monday, 8 February. This week, standing in for Ashwin who is away in India, Mike Bews will be at the helm. As usual all members, old & new are welcome to come along at 7.30pm to enjoy a mixture of discussion and chocolate biscuits (Ashwin has left a supply hidden away in the cupboard). Members are encouraged to bring along pictures, either as prints or digital images (jpegs on USB memory sticks only please), either for general discussion or for help on a particular aspect of the image.

Round 3 of the Projected Image Competition was held last Wednesday when the judge was Graham Hodgkiss ARPS MPAGB APAGB AFIAP. 

Statistics:

Beginners - 1 Photographers; 3 Images

Intermediate - 7 Photographers; 21 Images

Advanced - 23 Photographers; 69 Images

 

Results are shown below:

 

Photographer	Title	Award
BEGINNERS
Andrew Tandy	Abandoned ~ Gunton Denes Beach, Lowestoft	1
INTERMEDIATE
Charlie West	Ladies Carriage	1
Terry Hilton	Metamorphosis of a dragonfly nymph	2
David Alderson	Tate Gallery Staircase	3
Terry Hilton	Spirit of the sea	HC
Terry Hilton	Charcoal beds - Smokey Mountain	HC
ADVANCED
Barry Mead	Two Cranes Flying	1
Ashwin Chauhan	Temptress	2
Val Duncan	Running Bobcat	3
Val Duncan	Billy	HC
Richard Kay	Sandhill Crane Taking Off	HC
Jim Marsden	Spring in the Wood	HC
Barry Mead	Wheel Riders	HC
Derwood Pamphilon	Girl at the Viaduct	HC

We finally get to the judging of this year's Bristol Salon next weekend (12 - 14 February). This year we have the luxury of space which will allow us to judge two sections at the same time, the Nature and Travel sections will be judged upstairs whilst the Open and Monochrome are being judged in the main meeting room. Members are welcome to come along to see the action as some 10,000+ images pass before the judges over the three days. The programme will run as follows:

Members who have come along in the past will recall that we used to go for lunch at a local hostellry, sadly there isn't a decent pub for miles so we will be providing lunch for the judges and workers in the clubrooms, however visiting members might like to bring "packed lunch" if they will be staying over he lunch time.

Members of camera clubs affiliated to the WCPF can now submit entries for this year’s exhibition. Entry is online via the WCPF website.
The Exhibition entry system will be open until 5th March 2016. There are the same 3 print classes (Mono, Colour & Nature) and 4 PDI classes (Open, Creative, Nature & Travel) as last year. The exhibition has PAGB Patronage (17-2016) and PAGB Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals plus Selectors Ribbons will be awarded in each class. New ‘Best Wildlife’ awards will be given in the Nature classes and the Margaret Aven Trophy for the entrant with the most acceptances will be presented for the first time. Full details of the class requirements can be found on the entry system website.
The Exhibition is one the highlights of the WCPF Year, where 100 + of the best print images, and a showing of all accepted images are on display to the public for two weeks in May. They are once again returning to Buckfast Abbey where the last 3 Exhibitions were shown and positively commented on by many visitors.
Please support the federation by entering and helping to ensure the exhibition is a success and that it maintains the high standards we have seen in previous years.

For full entry details, please go to the WCPF website where you will be able submit your PDI entries & digital versions of your prints, your actual print entries can go via Danny Heaton when he goes to the WCPF Council Meeting on 5 March.

Follow this link to see what happens when you cheat!

 

Steve McCurry - 24 February 19 March at Beetles + Huxley Gallery in London. This is an exhibition showing a cross-section of works from McCurry's long career, the exhibition will be an opportunity to view his most iconic images in London this February. Having travelled the globe for over thirty years, McCurry is a veteran photojournalist who has photographed warzones, burning oil fields, refugee camps, ship breaking yards and monsoons all over the globe. For full details, please click here.

 

Lacock Abbey - ‘Iceland, an Uneasy Calm’ is a series of photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by Tim Rudman who is acknowledged as one of the very finest landscape photographers working today. This stunning collection will be exhibited at the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Britain’s birthplace of photography, until  10 July. Click here for more details.

 

Contrary to popular belief, I do not possess psychic powers and need you to tell me if you've had successes. If you want to blow your own trumpet (or someone else's), then this is the place to do it. Please let me know and I'll include details in a future issue.

 

 

 

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