News in Brief

New Programme for 2011 to 2012 published

Shoot Maldon Live - Sunday 15th May cost approx £25.00. Caroline Mockett Judge. See Dave Wilcox for more information.

The Chairman's Trophy Competition which is being held on the 5th April - the theme is 'Between the Lines'.

Gordon Bramham has had 4 acceptances in the Saguaro Nature

In the Photolovers International Gordon gained 15 acceptances, 2 Medals and 1 Honorable Mention.

Sarah Brigden appears in the Outdoor Photography magazine this month as part of the Readers Workshop.

Gordon has had a plethera of acceptances over the last couple of weeks. He gained 4 in the Serbia International, 3 in the Taiwan International and 26 with 4 Honorable Mentions in the DIGA Circuit of America.

Dave Wilcox and Sarah Brigden have had photos published in this months edition of Amateur Photographer. Dave is now in the top 10 of the competition.

Both Eric Bush and Gordon Bramham received 4 acceptances each in the Great Barr Exhibition - BPE.

Jeff Oliver has had an image published in this month's Amateur Photgrapher magazine.

Gordon Bramham received a PSA GOld Medal for the Best Bird Image in the 2nd Cape International Circuit with 'White Tailed Sea Eagle'.

He also received an Honorable Mention in the Beyond Group - BPE.

Gordan Bramham in the S4C International received 2 Honorable Mentions with 'Eagles at Home' and 'White Tailed Sea Eagle Snatch' as well as 4 other Acceptances.

Also in the Norga Print Circuit Gordan received Best in Show and a Medal of Merit with 'White Tailed Sea Eagle Approach' and a Medal of Merit with 'White Tailed Sea Eagle Snatch'

Club News

Members Galleries

The Members Galleries are available for all members of the club to show off their work. These can be updated at any time or yearly if you so wish. You need to have 12 images - sized as per digital competition and given to me on a Club Evening or emailed to me.

Existing members who have galleries if you want your gallery updated then send me your images whilst new members not only need to send the images to me but also your full name, genre of photography you prefer, camera you use and finally if you have your own website or flickr or picasa page then the link to that site.

Website is 1 Year Old

The Club website in its new look is now one year old and I thought I would let you know some statistics about the website.

From the 15th July 2010 to present there have been some 5620 visitors - 2952 in 2010 and 2668 so far in 2011. This includes 3363 unique visitors or first timers and 1751 returning visitors. These visitors have come from a number of different countries including USA (New York, California, Alaska, Florida and many other States), South America (Brazil), Russia, New Zealand, Australia, China, South Africa as well as many Countries within Europe. In fact the website has been seen Worldwide.

Hopefully over the coming years the website will continue to grow and be seen by many more people around the world and be the showcase for our members photographic work.

If anyone has any comments ot suggestions on changing/improving the website then contact me via email or see me during one of our club evenings.

AGM

The AGM took place on Tuesday 29th March. The Series results were announced for each category - Mono Print, Colour Print and Digital. The full set of results for the 2010/11 Season can be found on the Competition Results page whereas a list of the Overall Winners for the Season can be found here. A selction of the winning images from this year can be found under the gallery tab or by clicking here. A special mention must go the Adrian Looby for taking a clean sweep of the Prelim Class winning all 3 categories and now has been promoted to the Intermediate Class. Also Annie Moring and Jim Barber were promoted to the Advanced Class. Congratulations also to Steve Pinto, Roy Taylor and Dave Wilcox for winning the Image/Print of the Year Competitions in Digital, Mono Print and Colour Print respectively. Clubman of the Year this year is Annie Moring and the Norfolk Trophy was awarded to Jeff Oliver and Sarah Brigden.

Annual Results

The 3 Annual Competitions - Mono Print, Digital, and Colour Print have now been completed. The results of the top 3 positions and the highly commended's can be found on the results pages. Congratulations to all of you on your successes.

Congratulations should also go the Dave Wilcox who won the Overall Colour Print of the Year Competition.

Digital Battle v Brentwood

On the 8th February the annual digital battle versus Brentwood took place at Upminster Camera Club. Each club submitted 20 images and the judge this year was Harry Tabaert LRPS CPAGB. It was a closely fought match and in the end came down to the battle of the nature images. Brentwood took the honours this year with 343 point - just 4 points ahead of Upminster. Congratulations to Brentwood on their victory.

PSA Proficiency Award

You may have read below about Gordon gaining a Distinction in the PPSA. It has now been comfirmed with this press release from the International Conference at Charlestown on October 3-9 2010. Congratulations once again to Gordon on this fantastic achievement.

Press Release

PSA Website link

Eric gains BPE1*

Congratulations to Eric Bush who has gained his BPE1* Award having gained 25 acceptances in the British Photographic Exhibitions.

External Competitions

Thank you to those who have submitted their images for selection. This has now been completed. Dates for the competitions are as follows:

6 Club Battle - 1st October at Brentwood

Windmill Trophy - 19th October at Upminster

Alan Coleman Entry - 21st October

Brentwood Print Battle - 29th October at Brentwood

Loughton Anniversary Trophy - 10th November at Loughton

Hornchurch Diamond Jubilee - 29th November at Hornchurch

Gordon receives more Honours

Gordon Bramham has been awarded the PPSA - for achieving 288 acceptances from at least 96 different images.

Date Change

Please note that there has been a change to the Programme for November. The 9th and 16th events have been switched round.

Altitude 360º

The Altitude 360º Viewing Gallery located on the 29th floor of Millbank Tower, Westminster's most iconic skyscraper, gives you unrivalled panoramic views of London. The 118 metre high tower is London's answer to the Empire State Building. You can book tickets - great for panaramas and night photography.

Howard King

In the Camera Clubs section of the Digital SLR User Magazine this month (Sept) you will find our very own Howard King. He has become this month's Gold Member for his portfolio of images that he has submitted tho their Gallery. Congratulations Howard.

Time Lapse Photography

Dave Wilcox has been experimenting with time-lapse photography. Click here to see the recent AGM in 1 minute 50 seconds.

New Website

As you can see the new website is taking form and should be fully completed within the next couple of weeks. The galleries are not completed yet since we require your images. There are 2 galleries – the main gallery is going to be a wall of images. For this we want your single best/favourite image. The members gallery is where you can exhibit 9 of your images together with other information about the camera you use, preferred/specialised genre of photography and a link to your own website or flickr or picasa page etc.

Images need to be jpeg and resized to 1400px x 1050px – the same format as for the Digital Competitions. These need to be sent via email or put on a disk and given to me clearly indicating which images go in which gallery. If you require any further information then email me - malchughes@hotmail.com

Digital Competitions

The club has purchased new software for the Digital Competitions. The process of resizing is exactly the same as previous but instead of resizing to 1024px by 768px images now need to be resized to 1400px by 1050px and saved as a jpeg file at the maximum quality.

The naming of your images has also changed. The filename of the image can be called anything you want for your own purposes but for the Competitions then you need to right click on the image and choose properties. You then choose the detail tab. A list of properties for the image will appear. Next to the Title you need to enter the title of your image – as you want it to appear on the screen. Next to Author you need to place your name. Click OK and the information will be saved and then can be sent in to the competition in the normal ways. For more information then click here for a help sheet.