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

A new Joe Cornish lecture

At the end of last season Northallerton Camera Club announced and distributed information regarding a lecture to be given by Joe Cornish, supported by Steve Byard, at the Northallerton Forum.  With the start of the new season I am expecting tickets to sell fairly rapidly so felt it might be useful to send out a reminder of the event. This is a new lecture by Joe with Steve Byard providing support around the technical aspects of capture and production, so it will be an interesting and enjoyable evening.  

Tickets are priced at £6 which also includes light refreshments and can be obtained by sending a cheque, made payable to Northallerton Camera Club, to:

Northallerton Camera Club

4 Belgrave Terrace

Sowerby

Thirsk

North Yorkshire YO7 1RE

A stamped addressed envelope should also be sent with the cheque, for the return of the tickets, along with a contact telephone number in case there is a problem.

I hope that you are able to further publicise this event to your fellow club members.

Regards

Euan Mitchell

Hon. Secretary – Northallerton Camera Club

Italian Digital Exhibition

Dave Coates has been asked through his FIAP contacts to draw your attention to an Italian Salon.  It is FIAP and PSA patronised and the closing date is 10^th September 2011.   It is a digital salon and the themes centre around agriculture, especially landscape work in and agricultural environment.  The catalogue is a rather luxurious book, rather that the usual small catalogue.  If you are interested try this link:-

www.obiettivoagricoltura.it

The organisers are somewhat concerned that there is no British involvement.

NCPF Website Update

The following update has been made to our web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:-

www.ncpf.org.uk

1.      News Items:-

A rather topical but what I feel is a rather nice personal story by one of our “elder statesmen”.  See under News Items on the right 'Remembering - 70 Years On'

2.      Directory Updates Pages:-

Keep checking as these are undated continuously.

First Meeting

Don't forget the new society season starts on 8th September at the usual time of 7:30.
It is an informal evening when we are able to catch up with all the news and discuss the season ahead, it also gives members the opportunity of renewing their membership.
Please bring some of your summer photos to show the group.These can be on memory sticks or disk or as prints.
Looking forward to seeing you all again.

John Davies

Chairman

Yorkshire Dales revisited

I revisited the Dales to capture the Fellsman passing over the Ribblehead Viaduct- quite a sight. If anyone is interested it happens on a Wednesday morning at anything from 11.10 to 11.40am There are two more this year 7th and 14th September.