NCPF Website Updates

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

1.      Competitions/Annual Competitions

All necessary downloads and information appertaining to the 2012 NCPF Annual Competitions are now available and should be accessed by Competition secretaries

2.      Events/Diary:-

Details of NYSD’s 60^th Anniversary Lecture in March
(Posters are attached for Club Secretaries to display on Club Notice boards please).

3.      Northern Focus:-

The Spring 2012 Edition of Northern Focus is now on line.

4.      Directory Updates:-

And another update to be noted.

5.      PAGB e-news

Issue 56 of PAGB e-news is now available and on line.

All of the images submitted for the last competition 'Rusty &/or Crusty' and the Winners Galleries are now on the web site for any one wishing to look at them at their leisure.

Joe Cornish Lecture

Don't forget Joe Cornish HonFRPS will be visiting our club on Thursday 1st March and the meeting will be in the upstairs room of Stokesley Town Hall.

Entry is free for SPS club members but visitors will be charged £5.  Entry by ticket only.

PAGB E-News 56

Please click on this link to read Issue 56 of the PAGB E-News.


IN THIS ISSUE

2 Meritorious Service Awards APAGB
3 Results of our AV Awards Consultation
4 Notices from FIAP & RPS
5 Ken Holland - Looking at Photographs
6 Notices     .......  and Finally

Appendix 1 GB Cup Entries received by 23/01/12 

NCPF Website Updates

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

1.      Events/Diary:-

Details of two Club events, at Ashington (starting in February) and at Stokesley (early March).
(Posters are attached for Club Secretaries to display on Club Notice boards please).

2.      Directory Updates:-

Another update to be noted, especially by Programme/Syllabus secretaries please

BT and Virgin Media Customers Please Read

This was sent by a friend of a club member and it is not a scam e-mail. 


"I received a phone call from BT, informing me that he was disconnecting me because of an unpaid bill.. He demanded payment immediately of £31.00 or it would be £ 118.00 to re-connect at a later date. The guy wasn't even fazed when I told him I was with Virgin Media, allegedly VM have to pay BT a percentage for line rental! I asked the guy's name - he gave me the very 'English' John Peacock with a very 'African' accent & phone number 0800 0800 152. Obviously the fellow realized I didn't believe his story, so offered to demonstrate that he was from BT. I asked how & he told me to hang up & try phoning someone - he would dis-connect my phone to prevent this. AND HE DID !! My phone was dead - no engaged tone, nothing - until he phoned me again. 


Very pleased with himself, he asked if that was enough proof that he was with BT. I asked how the payment was to be made & he said credit card, there & then. I said that I didn't know how he'd done it, but I had absolutely no intention of paying him, I didn't believe his name or that he worked for BT. He hung up. I dialed 1471 -number withheld I phoned his fictitious 0800 number - not recognized. 


So I phoned the police to let them know. I wasn't the first! It's only just started apparently, but it is escalating. Their advice was to let as many people as possible know of this scam. The fact that the phone does go off would probably convince some people it's real, so please make as many friends & family aware of this. How is it done? This is good but not that clever. He gave the wrong number - it should have been 0800 800 152 which takes you through to BT Business. 


The cutting off of the line is very simple, he stays on the line with the mute button on and you can't dial out - but he can hear you trying. (This is because the person who initiates a call is the one to terminate it). When you stop trying he cuts off and immediately calls back. You could almost be convinced! The sad thing is that it is so simple that it will certainly fool many. By the way this is not about getting the cash as this would not get past merchant services - it is all about getting the credit card details which include the security number, to be used for larger purchases."

One Hundred Beats of the Clock

One Hundred Beats of the Clock Exhibition at the Heritage Gallery open 20th Jan - 3rd February
ONE hundred photographs for 100 years.
Teesside photographer Charles Twist has devised a unique project called “100 beats of the clock” to celebrate the centenary of the Transporter Bridge.
He has taken 100 pictures of the Bridge at regular intervals from sunrise to sunset.
By maintaining the camera in the same position and at the same angle, the composition is constant, but the direction of the light and the events of the day change from one picture to the next.
The photographs symbolise the passage of time with each print representing a year since 1911.
Charles said: “The regularity of the sequence alludes to the bridge’s own rhythms – the to-ing and fro-ing of the gondola and the commuters, the ebb and flow of the tides – and also to the mechanisation of society which made the bridge both possible and necessary.
“The regularity of the shoot mirrors the labour-intensive construction of the bridge and may therefore be seen as performance art. This feeling is reinforced by the use of a camera and lens, which would have been available to a photographer of 1911.”
All the photographs have been captured directly on to the paper, there are no negatives or digital files created so there are no other copies once a particular print has sold.
Therefore, each print is unique and directly linked to the moment and place.
This method relies on the use of direct positive paper, which produces black and white prints on gloss, fibre paper.
All 100 photographs will be exhibited and available to buy during the exhibition at The Heritage Gallery

Postcode for SatNavs TS1 2RH

NYSD 60th Anniversary Lecture

PAGB E-News 55

Click here to read the latest PAGB E-News.

In this issue:

2  AV Awards Consultation
3  Diary of events
4 Edinburgh P.S. – Celebrating 150 Years
5  Advertisements
6 How do you receive visitors?
7 NEW Recorded Lecture – PAGB Awards
8 APM Frequent Questions and Answers
9  David Stout & Paul Sanders
10 Example – "Judges & Lecturers Requirements"

Update to NCPF Website

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


Events/Diary:-
Details of the 4^th British Small Prints Circuit, organised by West Cumbria Photo Group and its 5^th February Closing Date.

Talk by Ian Cameron of Transient Light

You are invited by Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club 

to a talk by Ian Cameron of Transient Light.

Ian will present some of his magnificent landscape images, 

most taken in Scotland but some from more exotic locations.

You can visit Ian's website at www.transientlight.co.uk

You can purchase tickets online using Paypal at 

http://www.kirkbymoorside-camera-club.co.uk/key_speakers_2011-12.htm  and we will email your tickets to you.

Or if you would rather pay by cheque please print and complete the application form.

Tickets are £5 per person. SPECIAL OFFER - buy 9 tickets and get the 10th FREE.

All ticket numbers will be entered into a draw for a copy of Ian’s book Transient Light.

TICKETS ARE GOING FAST AND WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER LEFT. 

REMAINING TICKETS WILL BE SOLD ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS.

2012 Here We Come

A Happy New Year to all our readers.

Here are some dates for 2012 which you may want to put in your diaries.

DRAGON BOATS AND CHINESE FESTIVAL: Sunderland Winter Gardens 28^th January

CHINESE NEW YEAR: Newcastle 29^thJanuary  

FOCUS ON IMAGING: Birmingham NEC 4^th-7^th March

WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND: Whitby 26^th-30^th April 

APPLEBY HORSE FAIR: Appleby 7^th-13^th June

DURHAM REGATTA: Durham 9^th-10^th June

GREAT YORKSHIRE SHOW: Harrogate 10^th-12^th July

DURHAM MINERS GALA: Durham 14^th July

SUNDERLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW: Sunderland 21^st-22^nd July

EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL: Edinburgh 3^rd-27^th August

PICKERING STEAM ENGINE RALLY: Pickering 2^nd-5^th August

STOCKTON INTERNATIONAL RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL: Stockton 4^th-7^thAugust 

PICKERING 1940S WAR WEEKEND: Pickering 12^th-14^th October

If you are an SPS member and have joined this blog please post any events which you know of that might be of interest to our members.