Exhibition at The Moors National Park Centre, Danby

Three members of Gallery Photo Group, John Devlin, Brian Jobson and Mike Kipling, have an exhibition 'Masters of Light & Creativity from Nature' from 16th June to 28th June.  Click above for a link to the poster.

NCPF Annual Competition Full Results

The full results for the NCPF Annual Competition are now available by clicking on the link above.

In summary Stokesley PS had mixed results as follows:

Monochrome Prints

Stokesley were 6^th equal out of 29 clubs.  The winners were Dumfries with Northallerton in second place and Sunderland, West Cumbria and Workington sharing equal 3rd place.

John C Davies & John L Davies were each awarded a Highly Commended.  These pictures plus one from Paula Davies were selected as part of the NCPF entry to the annual PAGB exhibition. 

Paul W Forster had a print selected for the Selectors Choice Portfolio.

Colour prints

Stokesley were 11^th equal out of 30 clubs.  The winners were Keswick with Northallerton in second place and Dumfries 3rd

Paula Davies was awarded a Highly Commended.  John L Davies had a print selected as part of the NCPF entry to the annual PAGB exhibition.

David Smith and Guy Davies each had a print selected for the Selectors Choice Portfolio

Digital Projected Image

Stokesley were 2^nd out of 27 clubs.  The winning club was Northallerton with Sunderland and Gallery sharing 3rd place.

John L Davies was awarded the Hilton Trophy for the best creative image.  HC's were awarded to Ian Rathbone & David Smith (2).  David Smith had one image selected as part of the NCPF entry to the annual PAGB exhibition. 

Beginners Prints

Paul Rose was awarded Highly Commended.

Well done to all who took part and particularly to those who gained awards and/or had work selected for the Alliance entry or for the Selectors' Choice Portfolio.  

Congratulations also to Northallerton CC who were placed in every section of the competition.

PAGB E-News 43

For the latest edition of PAGB e-News click here

Click on the link at the bottom of page one for a chance to win a pack of 25 A3 Permajet Artist paper.

Farne Islands return

A few people have expressed an interest in repeating last year's trip to the Farne Islands, so I will arrange a repeat run if there is enough interest. In order not to clash with the Malham weekend, I suggest the date of Wednesday 29th June - which is just about a week later than we went last year. Cost is likely to be around £27 for the trip to Inner Farne & Staple Island - about 5 1/2 hour outing in total. If anyone is interested, leave contact details on the list at the AGM next week or email me at simon-AT-sandlallen.co.uk (replace -AT- by @)

FIAP Awards

Four members of NCPF clubs gained FIAP awards recently.  Two of whom are from Stokesley PS.  See the NCPF Website.

Alnwick & District Camera Club Exhibition

There is an Exhibition of Alnwick & District CC work entitled "Personal Views" at the Woodhorn Museum, QE11 Country Park, Ashington NE63 7YF from 23rd April to 10th July 2011.

New printing company after RGB

I used the Brighouse printing service during the last few days and pleased to report the service and quality of prints is rather better than I have been getting elsewhere. They will give us the discounted rate which ammounts to £1.50 for an 18 x 12" prints with Gloss, matte, lustre, pearl and metallic finishes. I have used the lustre type prints and have been very pleased with it (will bring some samples into the club for members to view). They would prefer us to have a club named account that would allow us to transfer large files onto their hard drive and be ready a few days later to collect. All very civilised, and for those who do not have their own printers this may be a very good option. See me at the club if you want further details. Follow the link above to go to their web site. Dave

NCPF Annual Competition Correction

An error crept in to the results shown on the NCPF website for the Miles Audas Trophy for the Best Club entry of PDI.  This has now been corrected and Stokesley PS were in 2nd place not 3rd as stated previously.

Northallerton CC presentation

NCPF Beamish Members’ Weekend

18th/19th/20th June 2011
NCPF Beamish Members’ Weekend

Arrangements are now complete for the weekend.

Members of NCPF Affiliated clubs and their family and friends will, on production of an 'NCPF pass', now available from your Club Secretary, enjoy discounted admission fees over the weekend. Prices per day (10am-5pm) are Adult £11; Senior Citizen £10, Children £6 (or, ‘Annual Pass’ for Adult £16, Child £10 ). 

As well as the myriad of photographic opportunities, there is a 'classic car' event on the Sunday, and in addition to this we are organising two further photographic opportunities for members.

Firstly, and as already announced, over the weekend of the event we shall, in full co-operation with the authorities at Beamish, be mounting an “Exhibition of Members’ Prints” and these will be available for sale. Please see the details on the link below. It is now timely for members to be considering prints to be submitted to reach the organiser by the due date!

Secondly, the new competition associated with the weekend, the “NCPF Beamish Trophy”, will be for prints of images exposed at and during the event. Please see the link below for entry details and dates.

Subject to your support we would like to make this an annual event.  So, please make a diary entry of the dates and take note of the details for the Exhibition and Competition.

For further information about the Members Exhibition, the Trophy Competition or about the Museum itself, click on the appropriate link below:-
>> Beamish - Members' Exhibition>> Beamish - Trophy Competition>> Beamish Museum web siteFor any general or other queries please contact :-eventsorganiser@ncpf.org.uk

NCPF International 2011

Closing date 20th August 2011.


Full details for the 32nd International Salon of Photography have now been posted on the NCPF Website, including, Conditions of Entry, Definitions, Rules, Entry Forms and Fees.

NCPF Annual Competition

The annual NCPF competition took place at the weekend.  Congratulations to Dr John Davies for winning the Hilton Trophy for Best Creative Projected Image with 'L'Estate'.  Stokesley PS came equal 3rd in the Digital Projected Image Section.  The headline results can be seen on the  NCPF website


Paula Davies

Whitby Abbey at Twilight

I have just noticed in my English Heritage magazine that on Fri 13th and Sat 14th May, Whitby Abbey will be open from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Weather permitting it could be an ideal opportunity to get pics of the building with a sunset in the background (it is not normally open in the evenings.) Also, I believe it will be illuminated. Admission is free to members of EH but otherwise £6 or less (depending on status.)

Open Theme on Whitby- Competition Images

All of the images submitted and the results for the final competition

"Open Theme on Whitby" are now available for viewing on the web.

Is Your Monitor Calibrated Correctly?

I also came across two good websites on monitor calibration.  On the first one you can easily check to see if your monitor is calibrated correctly.  The second goes into more detail.


http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/  (no www on this one)
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/MONCAL/CALIBRATE.HTM


Paula

Great British Landscape Website

I have just come across an interesting website which features great British landscapes.


On the first page there is a link to a video chat with Joe Cornish about his picture of the gate with fingerposts at Sutton Bank.  http://www.landscapegb.com/issues/lgb-0010/


Paula

Web Competition Images

All of the images submitted for the Peter Denham and the Open Competition are now on the Web together with the results.

More Good News for Stokesley PS

NCPF Inter Club Championships

Once again, Stokesley Photographic Society had a good day at Washington this weekend. At the end of the final in the Print section, we were joint 1st with Northallerton. Sadly in the tie-break, no matter what the quality, our 5 home-grown prints were never going to beat Northallerton's 5 from exotic locations around the world (am I becoming cynical but there is something about flashy foreign birds that causes judges' collective knees to tremble). However, taking 2nd place means that we will once more be going down to Connagh's Quay in the autumn for the National championships. In the Projected Images section, things were a bit more clear cut and despite leading at the half-way stage, we lost by a couple of marks, once more to Northallerton. However, this still means that we will be representing the NCPF in the summer in the National PDI championships in Warwick. On an individual note, congratulations to Paul W Forster whose print of Winter Trees (remember it from the recent Peter Denham competition?) was adjudged the best over all monochrome print on the day

Great British Cup

In this annual national inter-club competition, Stokesley entered the Open section (to all intents, the "advanced" group) and came 22nd out of 109 clubs. Such was the closeness at the top that one other measly mark on top of our 163 would have placed us in the top 20 and two would have given us 15th place. For those of you who are interested, Northallerton were well below us with only 159 marks.

In the Nature section we were less successful but still managed 36th place out of 97 clubs.

Congratulations and many thanks to all who supplied me with photographs for these various competitions. Allow yourselves to bask in the warm glow of our success while it lasts!

John

Vivian Maier

I have just been reading the amazing story about a previously unheard of photographer, Vivian Maier. She worked for most of her life working as a children's nanny for wealthy families in Chicago and spent her spare time photographing life on the streets of the city between the 1950s and 1990s. She shared her pictures with no one but after she died in 2009, her work was discovered in an auction. It is estimated that there are around 100,000 negatives, many of which are still undeveloped. In my opinion, she will eventually be recognised as one of the major photographers of the 20th century on a par with the likes of Cartier Bresson. See what you think by clicking on http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/ and I would particularly commend the video of "Chicago Tonight" link on that site.

TechTip -Take fine control of your cursor

Ian Rathbone recently came across the above tip in the paper.

Anyone editing photos,editing documents or taking screen grabs will want to select precise areas on a computer screen-but it is impossible to move the cursor accurately with a mouse.
Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, though, the cursor can be moved pixel by pixel using the keyboard.

To enable this option, open the Ease of Access option in control panel, select the mouse control menu and select the 'Set up mouse keys option' under the heading Keyboard Shortcut, tick the box labelled 'Turn on Mouse Keys with left Alt+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK'. Save your changes, and you'll be able to move the cursor by tiny increments up and down, left and right, using the four arrow keys on the the keyboard. Selecting Control & Shift will speed up the movement.

Note: do not select the 'Turn on mouse Keys' option as this disables your numeric key pad.