An SPS Year Book

Next season will be the club's 25th Anniversary and the committee have decided that it would be a good idea to launch a year book of SPS members' work.

We would like all club members to take part.

Please send two pictures to me resized to 2048 x 1536 and 300 ppi. The files should be in sRGB format. You will need to use 'Save As' to save as a jpeg rather than 'Save for Web' which changes the ppi to 72. Use the highest quality jpeg setting. The pictures used will be your own choice and can be either monochrome or colour but should have been taken after January 2009.

Rename your files as 1-xxx-title and 2-xxx-title, where xxx is your membership number and the title is how you would like it to be identified in the book. If you have any questions please contact me directly by phone or e-mail (both are in the programme booklet).

Whether we use one or two pictures will depend on how many are sent. If only 35 members take part we will use both pictures. However I hope that more than 35 members will participate and then only one picture from each person will be used. Please ensure that your preferred picture is the one numbered 1-xxx-title. 

Paula

Epson Printer Problems

We just had our Epson R2400 printer throw up a message box to say that maintenance was required. This usually means that it believes the waste ink reservoir is full, but it works this out on a counter of how many cleaning cycles have been performed. This reservoir is in the base of the printer and the waste ink is soaked up by an absorbent pad. You can check if it really is full by dabbing a piece of kitchen roll into the base anywhere along the width below the print head path. If it is comes up clean, the reservoir is not full. Obviously, if you find ink on the kitchen roll after dabbing, or if you get ink on the backs of your prints, then you do need to send it off or take it to a recognised agent. However, if it is not full you can avoid sending the printer off for maintenance by downloading some free software to reset the counter from http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml It is a Russian site and supports a wide range of printers. The software allows several other things to be done, such as cleaning black inks and colours separately.

During my recent California holiday, I called into the small town of Sonoma for a coffee stop and happened to park outside a photographic gallery. I can't resist these but I am usually underwhelmed by the exhibits inside. However on this occasion I was "blown away" by the quality of the images. The gallery belonged to a photographer called Lisa Kristine and was full of large high quality photographs of people in faraway places. There was also a video documentary running of Lisa explaining how she went about taking her photographs and her relationship with the subjects. I purchased 2 different videos which I hope to show at the club one day but in the meantime I would commend you to look at www.lisakristine.com for a flavour of what captured my imagination on that day.

Members' Galleries

Two galleries on the club's main website have been updated.  Have you looked there lately and can you spot which ones?


Any member of the society can have their own web gallery on our main website.  All you need to do is send me up to 6 jpeg files, at normal competition size, and I will do the rest.  Name the files with the title of the image.


If you already have a gallery on the main website why not get it updated.  A website - or blog - will die if there is no new input and people will stop visiting.


Paula