News and Info
Annual awards and dinner see HERE
THE FUTURE OF SLIDES -
Regrettably we think there is no future for slides asfar a WMPC is concerend, no-one seems to work with slides on a regular basis nowand yet we still have seven trophies to be won, all of which score points for thePhotographer of the Year Competition and the Dallas Mitchell Trophy.So the following suggestion was put to the meeting, and agreed after a lively discussion, without dissent.
(1) The Spring Challenge for 2011 will still be for slides, three per member maximum, with an Open subject.
This is mainly to ensure that we have a few new slides to pick from for the two 2011 battles that currently still include four slides per club
, although we hope to persuade our opponents to drop slides in favour of projected images. (2 The end-of-year Annual Competitions will now be for prints (six categories) and projected images (six categories) and the slide trophies will be suitably amended (re-inscribed or re-plated) as necesary. Whilst we will need to have this change confirmed at the AGM by all the membershipbecause we have to have the 2011 Programmes printed in November/December weneed to assume that projected images will take over from slides as suggested abovenow. Unless anyone has strong objections to this course of action (and if youdo please let me know a.s.a.p.) we will expect the proposed changes to gothrough smoothly and without undue debate at the A.G.M.
It must be said that projected images are something we must get used to in the comingyears. All clubs will, I think, be moving in that direction if they have not alreadydone so. Currently WMPC has to rely on a laptop and projector kindly loaned by Peter Smith to show such images, and we will clearly need to purchase the necessaryequipment for the club if we go down that road. We do, of course, alreadyhave ringfenced funds earmarked for that purpose.
Certainly the projected images we viewed at the October meeting were ofexcellent quality, and the first Winter Workshop will be an opportunity for allmembers to find out more about projected images as we hope to show you the RPS's Creative Images Group exhibtion entry at that meeting. I think it is fair to say that certain images make better prints than projected images, and vice versa, so we will all have to learn which images work best in one format or the other.Hopefully the Workshop will help demonstrate that too.
WEBSITE
Peter Smith makes yet another plea for new images for the website. It takes littleeffort to copy a few of your recent efforts onto a pen drive (or CD) and let Peter have them so that he can up-date the Members' Gallery.
In future the winning images (and runners up) of the club's internal competitions willautomatically be displayed on the website UNLESS THE AUTHOR DOESNOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. The onus is on you to advise us if you want to opt out of that arrangement.
INTERNAL COMPETITIONS 2011 -
The subjects for the various Clubcompetitions have been selected, mainly from suggestions put forward bymembers. The feeling at the October Club meeting was clearly that widersubjects should be selected this time round, so we have followed thatsuggestion.
SPRING CHALLENGE
PRINTS (2 per member) - 'Contre Jour'SLIDES (3 per member) - Open (no theme)
ANNUAL COMPETITIONS
PRINTS (1 per member in each category)
Chairman's Trophy - Mono (Open)
Club Cup - 'In the garden'
Don Marr Cup - 'Bridges'
Ref.Centre Trophy - 'Street photography'
Taylor Trophy - 'Abstract'
Gwen Dyke Trophy - 'Graveyards'
PROJECTED IMAGES (1 per member in each category)
George Davey Shield - 'Weather'
Club Trophy - 'Rough...'
Millennium Trophy - Open (no theme)
Ref.Centre Trophy - 'Dereliction/Decay'
Taylor Trophy - 'Music'
Gwen Dyke Trophy - 'Impact'
LAMBOURNE TROPHY (N.B. Only 1 print per eligible member this year.)'Light on the water'
PANEL TROPHY4,5 or 6 'connected' images, no theme
MULTI-CLUB COMPETITION AT CAMBRIDGE
The selection panel will need to select our images for thiscompetition shortly so please let us have any images you wouldlike to be considered (as jpegs or Tiffs) as quickly as possible.The categories are 'landscapes', 'people', 'natural history' and'Open'.
WINTER LANDSCAPES TRIP - JANUARY 2011
Derbyshire is the venue this time, and Sue has arranged the tripfor Monday January 31st to Wednesday February 2nd. A Ways and Means meeting for those interested will be held at The Seal publichouse, Woodbridge, on Tuesday Noveber 2nd at 7.30pm.
Hi everyone,The results of the club's Annual Slide and Print competitions were as follows:-
SLIDES
Open 1 - Mary Harden 2 - Valerie Chandler 3 - Caz
Close up 1 - Caz 2 - Sue Evans 3 - Basil Jenkyns
Something silver 1 - Brian Barley 2 - Terry Goodchild 3 - Sue Evans
Enviromental changes 1 - Caz 2 - Valerie Chandler 3 - Peter Smith
Art in the making 1 - Peter Smith 2 - Terry Goodchild 3 - Valerie Chandler
Suffolk at war 1 - Terry Goodchild 2 - Sue Evans 3 - Caz
PRINTS
Mono 1 - Basil Jenkyns 2 - Graham Garner 3 - Brian Carlick (Highly Commended - Brian Barley and Tony Colbourn)
Macro 1 - Brian Barley 2 - Brian Carlick 3 - Peter Smith
Flash photography 1 - Jill Temperton 2 - John Temperton 3 - Brian Carlick
Enviromental changes 1 - Brian Carlick 2 - Mary Harden 3 - Terry Goodchild
Art in the making 1 - Sue Evans 2 - Caz 3 - Jill Temperton
Suffolk at war 1 - Peter Smith 2 - Brian Carlick 3 - Sue Evans
LAMBOURNE TROPHYPerspective 1 - Mary Harden 2 - Graham Garner 3 - Mary HardenPeter wants to publish all the images, winners and runners-up, on the website, so pleasesend a jpeg of your image to him at peter@1stg.co.uk mailto:peter@1stg.co.uk , as soon as possible.
IF YOU HAVE OTHER RECENT IMAGES WE CAN USE ON THE WEBSITE PLEASESEND THOSE ALSO, USING THE CLUB PEN DRIVES IF POSSIBLE.
I have been asked by the Committee to remind all members that all images entered in clubcompetitions
MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITHIN THE LAST 24 MONTHS ANDMUST NOT HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN ANY PREVIOUS CLUB COMPETITION INWHATEVER FORMAT.
Congratualtions to all the winners and runners-up, and thanks to everyone who entered.
AWARDS DINNER - FRIDAY JANUARY 7th
We did ask a few months ago for an indication as to who was intending to be at the AnnualAwards Dinner in January, and we had twenty-six members putting their names forward.As the 'Three Horsehoes', who has done us proud in previous years, can cope with onlytewnty-three diners we switched venues to the 'Chequers' at Kettleburgh. Unfortunatelyonly seventeen members have actually signed up for the evening, a 'drop out' rate of around 34%. This does, of course, make organising such events a frustrating task. (Since writing thattwo more have added their names to the list of those attending, making nineteen in all.)However, hopefully it will be a good evening, the food will be served at around 7.30pmso hope to see the other sixteen (now eightenn!) of you from about 7pm onwards.
PROJECTED IMAGES - PART 2 - WORKSHOP - FRIDAY JANUARY 21st
Graham West will be taking us through the second part of his tutorial onProjected Images, showing how an image starts life in the camera and travels viaRAW and/or Photoshop (or similar image-manipulation software) to the finalprojected image. This is something we will all need to get involved with nextyear, both in club competitions and in inter-club battles, so this is an importantWorkshop. Peter Smith will also be showing how the software program we as a club will be using helps gets us to the final projected image, and also recordsimage details, author, title, etc. plus any marks awarded in competition. Please make everyeffort to attend as this is one of the very few occasions when we will have the timetogether to discuss these important matters.
CANON PRINTER FOR SALE
Graham West has recently up-graded his printer and has an eighteen-month-oldCanon 9500 Pro for sale, including two full sets of inks. This is an excellent top-of-the-range printer incorporating three black/grey cartridges (the only wayto produce accurate mono images with the full tonal range), and prints up to A3size. The price to a club member is £300 and if you're interested or want furtherdetails contact Graham direct on 01473-321003 or 07899877288. An excellentChristmas present to yourself maybe !
PURCHASE OF PROJECTOR AND LAPTOP
We must await the decision of the AGM before going ahead with the purchase of asuitable projector and laptop (plus software) as we start to play catch-up with otherclubs who are already deeply into projected images. At the moment we are usingequipment kindly loaned by Peter Smith and Graham West but this can be no more thana temporary measure. The total cost is likely to be around £1,300, and although we havehad about £1,400 'ring-fenced' in the accounts for the last few years for this very purpose it would be nice to replace some of the money we will need to spend in 2011as painlessly as possible. The annual Subscriptions do little more than pay the year'sexpenses, judges' and speakers' fees, rent of the Village Hall, etc., and with the rentsent to rise in 2011 (by an anticipated 20%) and wiyh a likely fall in membershipnumbers we need to consider ways of raising additional funds. Which leads me to the next item.
PROPOSED E-BAY AUCTION
Graham West has volunteered to organise the listing on e-bay of any items (photographicor otherwise) that members are prepared to donate, with any expenses paid by the clubbut all proceeds going into club funds. This will take place in January so can includeany unwanted Christmas presents received (and I'm sure we all get them!) plus any item that you no longer want and which is in good condition. This will involve Graham in quite a lot of work so we are grateful of his offer to do this. If I tell you that projector bulbsuntil recently cost in the region of £250 each (now around £100 for the model we have inmind) you will appreciate the need to have additional funds available, over and above theclub's normal running expenses.
Please drop me a note with brief details of any item (the emphasis is on the 'any'!) thatyou can donate for this purpose, and we will sort out the details about collection, etc. later.And please do it now, so we can get some idea what will be involved, you can always addthose surplus-to-requirement Christmas present to the list later !That's it for now, it just remains for me to wish everyone a happy, safe and healthyChristmas and New Year.Terry
SLIDES
Open 1 - Mary Harden 2 - Valerie Chandler 3 - Caz
Close up 1 - Caz 2 - Sue Evans 3 - Basil Jenkyns
Something silver 1 - Brian Barley 2 - Terry Goodchild 3 - Sue Evans
Enviromental changes 1 - Caz 2 - Valerie Chandler 3 - Peter Smith
Art in the making 1 - Peter Smith 2 - Terry Goodchild 3 - Valerie Chandler
Suffolk at war 1 - Terry Goodchild 2 - Sue Evans 3 - Caz
PRINTS
Mono 1 - Basil Jenkyns 2 - Graham Garner 3 - Brian Carlick (Highly Commended - Brian Barley and Tony Colbourn)
Macro 1 - Brian Barley 2 - Brian Carlick 3 - Peter Smith
Flash photography 1 - Jill Temperton 2 - John Temperton 3 - Brian Carlick
Enviromental changes 1 - Brian Carlick 2 - Mary Harden 3 - Terry Goodchild
Art in the making 1 - Sue Evans 2 - Caz 3 - Jill Temperton
Suffolk at war 1 - Peter Smith 2 - Brian Carlick 3 - Sue Evans
LAMBOURNE TROPHYPerspective 1 - Mary Harden 2 - Graham Garner 3 - Mary HardenPeter wants to publish all the images, winners and runners-up, on the website, so pleasesend a jpeg of your image to him at peter@1stg.co.uk mailto:peter@1stg.co.uk , as soon as possible.
IF YOU HAVE OTHER RECENT IMAGES WE CAN USE ON THE WEBSITE PLEASESEND THOSE ALSO, USING THE CLUB PEN DRIVES IF POSSIBLE.
I have been asked by the Committee to remind all members that all images entered in clubcompetitions
MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITHIN THE LAST 24 MONTHS ANDMUST NOT HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN ANY PREVIOUS CLUB COMPETITION INWHATEVER FORMAT.
Congratualtions to all the winners and runners-up, and thanks to everyone who entered.
AWARDS DINNER - FRIDAY JANUARY 7th
We did ask a few months ago for an indication as to who was intending to be at the AnnualAwards Dinner in January, and we had twenty-six members putting their names forward.As the 'Three Horsehoes', who has done us proud in previous years, can cope with onlytewnty-three diners we switched venues to the 'Chequers' at Kettleburgh. Unfortunatelyonly seventeen members have actually signed up for the evening, a 'drop out' rate of around 34%. This does, of course, make organising such events a frustrating task. (Since writing thattwo more have added their names to the list of those attending, making nineteen in all.)However, hopefully it will be a good evening, the food will be served at around 7.30pmso hope to see the other sixteen (now eightenn!) of you from about 7pm onwards.
PROJECTED IMAGES - PART 2 - WORKSHOP - FRIDAY JANUARY 21st
Graham West will be taking us through the second part of his tutorial onProjected Images, showing how an image starts life in the camera and travels viaRAW and/or Photoshop (or similar image-manipulation software) to the finalprojected image. This is something we will all need to get involved with nextyear, both in club competitions and in inter-club battles, so this is an importantWorkshop. Peter Smith will also be showing how the software program we as a club will be using helps gets us to the final projected image, and also recordsimage details, author, title, etc. plus any marks awarded in competition. Please make everyeffort to attend as this is one of the very few occasions when we will have the timetogether to discuss these important matters.
CANON PRINTER FOR SALE
Graham West has recently up-graded his printer and has an eighteen-month-oldCanon 9500 Pro for sale, including two full sets of inks. This is an excellent top-of-the-range printer incorporating three black/grey cartridges (the only wayto produce accurate mono images with the full tonal range), and prints up to A3size. The price to a club member is £300 and if you're interested or want furtherdetails contact Graham direct on 01473-321003 or 07899877288. An excellentChristmas present to yourself maybe !
PURCHASE OF PROJECTOR AND LAPTOP
We must await the decision of the AGM before going ahead with the purchase of asuitable projector and laptop (plus software) as we start to play catch-up with otherclubs who are already deeply into projected images. At the moment we are usingequipment kindly loaned by Peter Smith and Graham West but this can be no more thana temporary measure. The total cost is likely to be around £1,300, and although we havehad about £1,400 'ring-fenced' in the accounts for the last few years for this very purpose it would be nice to replace some of the money we will need to spend in 2011as painlessly as possible. The annual Subscriptions do little more than pay the year'sexpenses, judges' and speakers' fees, rent of the Village Hall, etc., and with the rentsent to rise in 2011 (by an anticipated 20%) and wiyh a likely fall in membershipnumbers we need to consider ways of raising additional funds. Which leads me to the next item.
PROPOSED E-BAY AUCTION
Graham West has volunteered to organise the listing on e-bay of any items (photographicor otherwise) that members are prepared to donate, with any expenses paid by the clubbut all proceeds going into club funds. This will take place in January so can includeany unwanted Christmas presents received (and I'm sure we all get them!) plus any item that you no longer want and which is in good condition. This will involve Graham in quite a lot of work so we are grateful of his offer to do this. If I tell you that projector bulbsuntil recently cost in the region of £250 each (now around £100 for the model we have inmind) you will appreciate the need to have additional funds available, over and above theclub's normal running expenses.
Please drop me a note with brief details of any item (the emphasis is on the 'any'!) thatyou can donate for this purpose, and we will sort out the details about collection, etc. later.And please do it now, so we can get some idea what will be involved, you can always addthose surplus-to-requirement Christmas present to the list later !That's it for now, it just remains for me to wish everyone a happy, safe and healthyChristmas and New Year.Terry