PAGB E-News 54

The latest edition of PAGB E-News can be found by clicking here.

In this edition:

Page
2  GB CUP – Call for Entries 
3 Awards for Photographic Merit
4        Inter-Fed PDI 2012 + Featured Photographer
5 Colin Smith  1937-2011
6 Notices & PermaJet Free Draw Winners
7 How do you receive visitors?  
8 Notices for the RPS
9 Notices  and "An Exception to the Rule"
10 PAGB AV Awards Consultation.
11 … and Finally

Permajet Lecturers' Day at Smethwick

Permajet Lecturers' Day in association with the RPS Central Region. Sunday 29th January 2012. Your chance to see work from 17 different lecturrs in one day.

Photography and IT courses for 2012

Following the successful programme of photography courses run in Saltburn during 2011, Mark and Nel Hickson will be launching a new series of courses and workshops for 2012 under the name of PLaIT: Photography, Learning and Information Technologies. Click here for more information.

Seasons Greetings

I would like to take this opportunity of wishing all our members a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Thank you for supporting Stokesley Photographic Society over the last few months, it has been encouraging to see such a good turnout at our functions week after week.
The next Society meeting is on the 5th January and I look forward to seeing you all then. Just a little reminder that entries for our next competition, Rusty and/or Crusty, are due in on that date.

Regards to all

John Davies

Chairman

NCPF Website Updates

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message.

1.      Competitions/Club Championship Page:-

Information regarding 2012 rules and entry forms has been posted on the NCPF Events page and the Competitions/Club Championship pages .

2.      Diary:-

Information of two future “mini” Tours to the Federation Area in November 2012 and March 2013 added.  Also a substantial amendment to the Western Area’s Steven le Provost Lecture.

NCPF Spectacular - 29th January 2012

A reminder to book early, the majority of tickets have been purchased already, but there still some left.  Check out the “NCPF Events Page” on the NCPF Web site to get your tickets.

Sunday 29th January 2012 

Preparations are well in hand for the 2012, NCPF Spectacular, to be staged in the Tyne Suite at Newcastle Novotel, on Sunday, January, 29th.  Our presenters for this whole day, celebration of photography are from Ireland, Des Clinton, FRPS, FIPF, MFIAP and just north of the Border, Rod Whelans, FRPS, MPAGB, HonPAGB, MFIAP and Ann Greiner, MPAGB, all of whose work is respected throughout the UK and abroad.
There will be two presentations in the morning followed by a hot carvery lunch, and then a further two during the afternoon. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments are also provided.
Members will be pleased to learn that surprisingly, we have been able to hold the same £25.00 ticket price (£13.00 excl. lunch) due to the generous sponsorship of ‘FOTOSPEED’ who will be in attendance with, no doubt attractive event offers.
A Grand Raffle featuring valuable prizes has always been a feature of these occasions and hopefully, 2012 will be no exception.

NCPF Website Updates

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:- www.ncpf.org.uk

1.   Diary:-
Additional Executive and events dates, details of forthcoming Ashington Co-op Exhibition, and Western Area event in March 2012 (Poster included for Club Secretaries to display on Notice Boards please)

2.      NCPF Events:-

Page updated with brief details of 2012 events.

3.      News Items:-

Yet more cause to celebrate members’ success with the results of the November PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit Adjudication and once again further recognition of Northern Focus from PSA.

Invitation to provide pictures for the NCPF We site Rolling Banner

As promised when the new NCPF website was launched eleven months ago, they would like to place a fresh set of photographs on the ‘Rolling Banner’ at the head of the web page. To do this they have to have sufficient images of the required quality. Ideally NCPF would like to post six images, each depicting one of the Six Areas – Northern, North Tyne, Southern, South Tyne, Wear and Western. They do have some in stock, which were donated last year, but would like more to conside and are therefore inviting members to submit suitable images to the webmaster for consideration.

Each image should clearly depict a feature of the Area concerned and if used a credit will be placed as with the present set of images. Each image must be 1000 pixels by 260 pixels and set at 300 dpi please (the resolution will be reduced for the web site). Remember this banner is the NCPF shop window and needs to be the very best to show to the world. The images should be emailed to the webmaster by no later than the 15th December 2011.

Updates to the NCPF Website

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:- www.ncpf.org.uk

Knowledge Base:-
Following a suggestion from Copeland PS, the recommended Conditions etc for Booking lecturers and Judges has been added to this tab, together with a downloadable PDF version of the Booking and Reply forms to be found in the PAGB handbook.

News Items:-
Two news items have been posted this week; with reports and pictures from both the North Tyne Area Print Battle and secondly Southern Area clubs results from the NYSD Annual Competitions.

Harman Best of Britain competition

Closing date of the Harman Best of Britain competition is 31st December 2011. There is a great prize and, so far, very few entries!!  Click here for more details.

PAGB E-News 53

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IN THIS ISSUE

2 Awards for Photographic Merit – November 2012 
3 Awards for Photographic Merit – Audio Visual
4/5  Breach of Rules
6 Notices
7 Fotospeed Advert
8 Take a View Landscape Winner
9 Illustrations & Advert

Guide to Using Camera Raw

I spotted a Guide to Using Camera Raw on the X-Rite website.  As it is a free download I have placed the pdf file on the 'Members' Only' page of our club website.

RPS Northern Region - 10 Fellowship Panels to View

10 FELLOWSHIP PANELS TO VIEW

At Duke of Wellington, Kenton Lane, Gosforth

Sunday 22 January 2012 at 2 pm

This is a unique opportunity to view 10 recently successful Fellowship Panels from four Categories – Visual Art, Nature, Travel, Professional and Applied.

Presented by Roy Robertson Hon FRPS and Sandy Cleland FRPS from the Distinctions Advisory Board.

Cost £10 including tea/coffee/biscuits

Please book with Treasurer Brian Pearson ARPS

Send a cheque made out to RPS Northern Region to 2, Waterloo Place, North Shields. NE29 0NA.  e-mail:- brianpearson41@btinternet.com

Please note food is available all day from 12 noon at the Duke of Wellington. The post code is NE3 3BQ. Parking is spacious and at the back of the building.

More on the Scam Phone Calls

With reference to my earlier post one of our club members has been in touch to let me know of his experience:

I've just read your Blog.    I had such a call about two months ago. As it happened my computer had been running very slowly for a while and Bryan had been to fix it.   

 

The call came at 8am when I was still in bed. They told me that they were Microsoft (R & D sticks in my mind) and that my computer was in danger of crashing and that I should go to it and they would talk me through it. I told the caller (Indian I think ) that I couldn't do that at the time and he said he would call back. A couple of hours later I rang Bryan and he advised me to have nothing to do with them..I had another call from them the next day. I could only hear odd bits of what the caller was saying and I said so. Another person came on the line and I told him that I wasn't interested so he said he would hand over to the Senior Floor Manager. She more or less repeated what had been said before; that I had downloaded some programs that had infected the computer and it was going to crash. I asked how they knew but I don't remember being told. In the end she said, "Well it's your computer. Have a nice day and keep smiling."

 

I've heard nothing from them since then.    It certainly pays to be very cautious and have a suspicious mind.

Microsoft - Beware of scam phone calls

A friend of mine has sent me the following e-mail.  I have checked the Microsoft website and this story does appear to be true.  This particular friend is very knowledgeable about computers and the e-mail I had from him was genuine.  As a test I replied to him and got a sensible reply!


He said:


I have just had a call from a guy claiming to be from Microsoft who said that they had been receiving lots of reports from my computer that it was about to crash and I would lose all my data and, wait for it………….even my IP address. He sounded really genuine and even had the same voice of a guy I spoke to many months ago regarding a problem I did have. He wanted me to connect to a web site whereby their engineers could remotely connect to my computer and sort out the problem. He had my name, address and even email and I could so easily have fallen for it but would never have let anybody remotely control my computer if I had fallen for it. So be aware. This is the latest scam to hit the market. If they get in they will nick all your credit card details and other stuff.

If you are using Windows 7 to be safe please turn off REMOTE CONTROL by going to START > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > REMOTE SETTINGS  (top left hand corner) and turn off ALLOW REMOTE ASSISTANCE CONNECTIONS TO THIS COMPUTER.

I also heard a similar story when we were staying in Worcester last week.

NCPF Website Updates

The latest update to the NCPF website includes THREE new items this week in the NEWS section:

i)                    firstly a number of our members are deserving of our congratulations,

ii)                  secondly results and pictures from the Western Area Battle and finally

iii)                a report from the NCPF Awards Presentations.

Item i) includes one of our own club members 

Durham Lumiere 2011

Had a great time last night - very crowded because of the procession but well worth a visit. It is every night until Sunday from 6 to 11 although they are advising that it is quieter to go after 8.30pm. Here is a selection of my photos.

Competition - 'Our Coastline from Berwick to the Humber'

All of the images submitted for the last competition 'Our Coastline from Berwick to the Humber' and the Winners Galleries are now on the web site for any one wishing to look at them at their leisure.

Updates to NCPF Website

The following update has been made to the web site since the last update message and all can be accessed at www.ncpf.org.uk

1.      News Items:-

The results of the Wear Area DPI Battle (and the winning image).

2.      About the Federation/Executive Minutes:-

The minutes of the August and October Meetings have been added to the page.

3.      About the Federation/Executive Members:-

Details of our new Acting General Secretary and Club Championship Officer added

4.      Competitions/Club Championship:-

The page has been updated with an outline description of the rules for the 2012 event. Full details and entry forms will be added once our new incumbent gets his feet under the table so to speak.

5.      Directory Updates:-

Consequential amendments, plus one more regarding Executive Members.

6.      Links

Minor updates to this page, including a new grouping listing NCPF sponsors.

PAGB E-News 52

Please click on this link to see Issue 52 of e-news from the PAGB. 

http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en52131111PrintChampAPMAV.pdf

IN THIS ISSUE

2/3 Inter-Club Print Championship 2011 
4 Inter-Federation PDI Competition 2011
5      Awards for Photographic Merit in Audio Visual
6 Featured Federation Photographer & Notices
7 Public Liability Insurance + Next Issue

Durham Lumiere 2011

2 years ago Durham held its first Lumiere Festival which consisted of a number of stunning light installations. They are now about to hold another festival from 17th to 20th November from 6 until 11 every night in the centre of Durham. They are actually repeating the one where they projected images from the Lindisfarne Gospels onto the cathedral- probably the most spectacular of all of it. See link above. I have also attached some of my photos taken at the event. Well worth attending with camera and tripod.

Whitby Photographers, their lives and their photographs from the 1840

*                  Published 20 October 2011

*       208 pages A4 – over 260 photos & 170 illustrations

*       An Ideal Christmas present

*       £15.95

The lives of Whitby’s resident photographers have been incredibly varied, and in the course of preparing this book much new fascinating detail has been discovered about them, their work, and, in some cases, their illustrious clients, such as Lewis Carroll, and also about the history of Whitby.

Some started out life as jet workers, joiners or clock makers, a few trained as photographers, others developed their knowledge as amateurs to forge a new career. Some were successful, others went bankrupt, some had tragedy in their lives, some became well-known and most led lives which have not been investigated before.

The book starts with the pioneer William Stonehouse and his photos, followed by others such as Wallis, Waller andDawson. New information has also been found on the most famous photographer of Whitby, Frank Sutcliffe, with new insights into his life and work, his travels abroad and a few of his letters, even the link between him and Beatrice Potter.For some photographers, such as Tom Watson and John Ross, this book expands in much detail on previous studies, but for most of Whitby's many photographers it is a journey of fresh discovery into their lives and work.

Whitby’s Photographers, their lives and their photographs from the 1840s, is by Ruth Wilcock, a local historian and amateur photographer, who has known Whitby since her childhood. The book is extensively illustrated with rarely seen pictures of the district and its people, many never published before.

A book for all those interested in Whitby and district and who enjoy photographs.

For full details and to order copies please contact the author for any further details:

Ruth Wilcock    ruth AT towlard.com                               01277 219598                       For stockists and further details see www.towlard.com

Steven Le Prevost Print Lecture

Victorian Weekend

Robin Hood's Bay are hosting their 18th Victorian Weekend on the 2/3/4th December 2011.
It looks as though it could present some good photographic opportunities just before Christmas.

WWT Photography Competition 2011-201

Autumn heat now open - closing date 30 November 2011

Enter your autumnal photos in the Wetland Wildlife Trust's competition to be in with a chance of winning one of many great prizes.

This year's competition takes place over 12 months with four seasonal heats. During each season, we'll be looking for the best photos that represent that season.

At the end of each heat winners representing each of WWT's nine wetland centres will be chosen from each category.

When the competition closes on 31 August 2012 all regional heat winners will go through to the grand national final to be held in autumn 2012, and our Portfolio Photographer will be chosen and awarded the grand prize of a trip to Antarctica.

Click this link for more information http://photo.wwt.org.uk/

SPS at the PAGB Print Championships

On Saturday 22nd October Stokesley PS was one of the clubs representing the NCPF at the PAGB Print Championships.
The competition is in two parts. In round 1 all 36 clubs competed with 12 prints, each print being marked by three judges using the international scoring system of 1 to 5. Our highest scoring print was Paul Forster's 'Winter Trees' which scored 12 points. At the end of Round 1 SPS had a score of 125 putting us in 2nd to bottom place.
The top 8 clubs in Round 1 go on to compete for the Trophy while the remaining clubs compete for the 'Plate'. 5 prints are used for the Plate competition, two of which have to be monochrome.
Three of our prints managed to score 12 this time, Paul's 'Winter Trees', John L Davies' 'Saltburn Twilight' and Guy Davies' 'Cambridge Bicycle'. Our final score was 57 points putting us in 12th equal place. The highest placed clubs won the Plate competition with 63 points so we were only 6 points behind. This time we did improve and there were 10 clubs with lower scores.

Winter Trees by Paul Forster

Saltburn Twilight by John L Davies

Cambridge Bicycle by Guy Davies

Niall Benvie style Opaque plastic

Paul Forster has kindly obtained a link for the purchasing of the above style plastic, he says the

3 mm thickness ones should be what you need for the light to get through, details scanned.

PAGB E-News 51

The latest PAGB E-News is available by clicking here.

In this issue:

2 Great News about the GB Cups
3        Results of the Inter Federation PDI Annual Competition.
4/5     Highlights from the PAGB Executive Meeting
6 Warwick – A Personal View by Chris Forster
7/8 Notices and Adverts
9 L&CPU Mentoring Scheme by Christine Widdal
10 Invitation to the 2012 GB Cups
11 RPS Medal for Peter Brown +  In the Next Issue

PLUS   
4 PAGE SUPPLEMENT OF SHOW OFFERS AVAILABLE AT THE PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP

The Fantasy Forest, Cragside

'The Photographers'

Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition

A hundred wildlife photographs are on display at Kirkleatham Museum until November 20th.  These showcase the best wildlife photographers in the world.  This is a touring exhibition from the Natural History Museum in London.
The exhibition is free of charge and the museum is open from 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesdays to Sundays.

Issue 50 of PAGB E-News

The latest issue of PAGB E-news is available by clicking here.  This issue includes the following:


2 Jane H Black FPSA 
3 The 26th FIAP Projected Image Biennial results
4        Your Invitation to the Inter-Club Print Championship
5 Wigan 10 CD Offer + First Wrekin Salon & Notices
6 The PermaJet Winner for September + Advert
7 Two Federation Featured Photographers
8 Advert - GB Cup Sponsor
9 APM in AV + a Wonderful Book and e-mail security
10 Advert 
11 PAGB Handbook
12 Death of an Icon, + Next Issue ……….. and Finally

Jane Black awarded FPSA

Jane Black ARPS FPSA HonPAGB has received from recognition from the Photographic Society of America (PSA) for her work over many, many years for photography.  In this year's honours list from PSA she is included with what is one of their highest accolades for service to photography, by making her a Fellow of the PSA (FPSA).

Jane was the first lady President of NCPF back in 1976 after working on their Executive for a number of years. Since then she has been a stalwart of the executive to this day. For two decades or more she served on the PAGB Executive eventually being made its President during the period that we at NCPF celebrated our Centenary.

She has also served for another 20 years or so as the Regional Organiser for the Northern Region of the RPS.  However nothing can out do her commitment to the Northern Counties International Salon of Photography; the founding Chairman, she is still serving in that post as we come to the end of the 32nd such salon.

Safari with Andy Rouse

One of the best natural history photographers and speakers.  An evening not to be missed.

RPS Northern Region:- "Safari with Andy Rouse" - Tickets £9 (students £4.50)

7.30pm at The old Town hall, West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1H

RPS Northern Region Spring Break 2012 at Netherwood

You do not have to be an RPS member to attend this weekend.

Spring Break 2012 at Netherwood Hotel, Lindale Road, Grange over Sands, Cumbria

Friday 16th March - Sunday 18th March 2012

Contact: Jane Black

Email: j.black70 AT btinternet.com

Phone: 0191 252 2870

Lecturers: Ian Hulme FRPS EFIAP, Paul Foley FRPS & Priscilla Thomas FRPS MPAGB 

Prices £180 half-board per person sharing (£200 single)

Deposit: £40 per person not later than 31 October 2011

In the event of the weekend having to be cancelled
the deposit is returnable.

The hotel offers a special price for dinner B&B of £65 per person for Thursday 15 & Sunday 18 March.  Please book direct with the hotel Tel: 015395 32552

Most of the Saturday will be free for you to explore the area.

Ian Hulme FRPS EFIAP
Ian’s boundless enthusiasm for photography began at the age of nineteen and has never waned. He was a member of the Newcastle Society for many years and on retirement he moved across to the west and joined Grange club. His photographic interests are wide and varied and despite his enthusiasm for Nature photography his Fellowship panel was of church interiors. Ian is currently carrying out meticulous research into high end compact cameras with amazing results.

Paul Foley FRPS EFIAP MPAGB makes a very welcome return to the Region with his latest work. A dedicated landscape photographer he constantly seeks to express the beauty and tranquillity of the natural world. He gained a Fellowship in both colour prints and colour slides and he is currently a member of the RPS Visual Art Panel. Paul is an active member of Arena and since taking early retirement he has organised a very successful series of landscape workshops in both UK and abroad.

Priscilla Thomas FRPS MPAGB makes a very welcome return to the Region with her latest work. She may be small in stature but she is big in energy and imagination. Her Fellowship was achieved with a panel of prints in the genre of Abstract and this encouraged her to continue down this avenue of abstract and imaginative photography.
Priscilla has published a fascinating book, with forward by Sir George Pollock FRPS, which chronicles the development [and details the method] of her work from Impressionism to Constructivism. She has lectured extensively, exhibited at the RPS and taught workshops on “Exploring the Photographic Abstract”.
Priscilla is unique and her photography is original.

RPS Northern AV Group Meeting

RPS Northern AV Group Meeting at St John's Church Hall, Snods Edge, Shotley Bridge DH8 9TJ on Saturday 22nd October starting at 10 am.

Laurie Ramsay: “Nature Trail”
Laurie – a regular provider of Natural History images for the Yorkshire Wild Life Trust – will show some of his excellent natural history sequences, which include narration, and he will give advice and tell the audience when, how, and where he gets such wonderful and unusual shots of his subjects.
He will be open to any questions the audience want to ask.

Eddie Spence FRPS DPAGB A-AFIAP
Eddie will show how he built one of his latest sequences in PTE 6, and how he used Audition to create the sound track for the sequence. Eddie will also show some of his award-winning sequences, and explain what inspired the making of them.
He will also talk a little about story-telling, which is a subject that he considers to be one of the most important elements in Audio Visual sequence production.

As always, this promises to be a super day, and should not be missed!
Cost: RPS AV Group members £10 (pay at door £11); non-members of the RPS AV Group £12 (pay at door £13)
Morning coffee and afternoon refreshments are included. Lunches will be provided at £6.00 per head, but must be pre-booked by Saturday 15th October 2011. If you prefer to bring your own lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.

ATTENDEES’ SEQUENCES
There will be the usual opportunity in the programme for attendees to show their latest digital sequences using PicturesToExe or Pro- Show Gold before an appreciative and expert audience.

For more information and a booking form see the Notice Board page on the SPS website.

ANN SWEARMAN at the TEES DIGITAL PHOTO GROUP

The next meeting of the TEES DPG is on Wednesday, 5th October at 7.30pm in The Gallery at Southlands Leisure Centre.

The guest speaker will be long-time favourite, Ann Swearman of Tynemouth Photographic Society. She will be showing some of her stimulating pictures and she will explain how she achieved them.

Non-members are invited to attend at a cost of only £1 which includes tea/coffee and biscuits.

Clicking on pictures in the blog

Introducing Lightbox, the latest in a series of Blogger updates aimed at giving you an improved and modernized blogging experience. Lightbox is a whole new way to interact with photos. When clicked, images now expand into a shiny new overlay that displays them at their full size for optimal viewing.

Once an image is opened in the lightbox view, any other images from the same post will now appear as thumbnails along the bottom, which can be easily browsed by clicking the arrow keys on the left or right side of the lightbox.


Go to one of the posts below and click on a picture.  They look really good on a black background.

NCPF Website Updates

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via www.ncpf.org.uk

1.      International Salon:-

The 32^nd International Page has been further updated, this time with all the results of the PDI Sections and the “Gallery” of the main medal winners.

2.      Northern Focus/On-Line

The Autumn 2011Edition of Northern Focus, the very first “on-line only” edition has been posted on the site.

3.      Events/Diary Page:-

i)                    Full details and posters relating to the NCPF Awards presentation in November and the NCPD Spectacular in January 2012.  (copies of the posters have been attached where applicable for club Secretaries)

ii)                  Details of future events and exhibitions for Alnwick in October and November.

4.      Affiliated Clubs:-

We have a new club at Darlington.

5.      News Items:-

Two new items; one with a Federation view on the International, and the other more detail about the new club at Darlington.

6.      Directory Updates:-

Keep checking

NCPF Website Update

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via www.ncpf.org.uk

1.      International Salon:-

The 32^nd International Page has been updated with the results of the Prints Sections and a schedule of when and where you can see the resulting Print Exhibition.

2.      Diary Page:-

Details of a lecture by Rob Jordan at Morpeth CC on 8^th November.

3.      Directory Updates Pages:-

Keep checking, they’re still coming in.

New Projector

Now that SPS has a new high resolution projector it is best to resize your images to 1400 x 1025 ppi for club competitions or any other time that your pictures are shown via the club laptop and projector. If you resize to 1024 x 768 ppi the projector will re-size, and interpolate, so your files may lose quality.

Those of you who were at the opening meeting last Thursday will have seen how good the new projector is.

Havant Open Exhibition (BPE)

Havant Camera Club 41^st Open (BPE) Exhibition closes on Tuesday 27^th September 2011

There are 5 sections. Prints: Open Colour, Open Monochrome and Nature. Projected Images: Open and Nature. For more information, entry forms etc go to http://havantcameraclub.co.uk/?page_id=237 (Note: no WWW)

Save yourself postage - Paula & Guy Davies are two of the selectors for this exhibition and the Chairman, Jean Brooks, has arranged for them to take any prints (which must be mounted) with them when they travel to Havant. Entrants must enter the exhibition, and pay the entry fee, before the closing date but can deliver their mounted prints to 26 The Stripe, Stokesley, TS9 5PU at any time up to 4 pm on Wednesday 5^th October. Telephone 01642 714972 or e-mail paulaATpixelfoto.co.uk to make any arrangements for delivery. The prints will be returned personally by Jean Brooks on November 24^th after which you can arrange to collect them from Paula & Guy.

Dales Workshop

Great weekend - thanks to all who organised it.

My first waterfall taken with nd grad!

Some of the fauna at the station