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