September 21st Blackburn & District Camera Club Feniscowles Methodist Church Hall Preston Old Road Blackburn BB2 5EP W 足 www.Blackburncameraclub.co.uk
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Contents Club Meetings
Autumn Programme
Competition Calendar L&CPU Update
External Events
Communications
This Weeks Cover Image
Tuscany By Barry Noon
News Events and Activities
From Blackburn & District Camera Club
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Editorial Staff Pixel Editor Lee Johnson Pixel Xtra Editor Bob Singleton Editorial Assistant Barry Noon Blackburn & District Camera Club
President Jim Cunningham Vice President Judith Marr President Elect/Treasurer John Murray Secretary Bob Singleton Competition Chair Roy Pickering Publicity & Communication Chair Lee Johnson Programme Chair Jim Cunningham
Contact Secretary@blackburncameraclub.co.uk Web www.blackburncameraclub.co.uk www.facebook.com/BlackburnDistrictCameraClub We also have a facebook group
Next Meeting We meet each Monday evening (except Bank Holidays) at 7:30pm at Feniscowles Methodist Church on Preston Old Road Blackburn BB2 5EP
September 24th Quarterly competition results night Theme: Sport Judge:
Richard Heyes
Autumn/ Winter Programme2012 CLUB ACTIVITIES COMPETITION 1
2 club
This competition is open to both Prints and Projected Images
Images must have been taken during the course of the current year (JanDec)
October 1 8
3 Entries will include any image taken on any club activity e.g. portrait nights / summer outing or any club event during that year. 4
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Prints may be any size on a mount no larger than 50x40 Cms
Projected Images size 1024x768 in Jpeg format with maximum size 2Mb All entries must state Title and Class, but not the entrants name All packaging must clearly state the Author’s name, and will be returned after judging
Projected images may be submitted on CD/DVD,PEN DRIVE or by E MAIL to the relevant competition secretary by or on the entry date
Prints must bear on the back of the mount, in the top left hand corner, The TITLE of the print, SECTION (when relevant) and the MEMBERS CLASS (ADVANCED or BEGINNER) and must be handed to the relevant competition secretary by or on the entry night
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Entry Night Activities Competition Presentation by Lee Johnson
Annual Extravaganza – Fifteen local Camera Clubs have been invited to this event. The first part the evening will be a talk by Rod and Margaret Smith entitled “Interpretation, Interpretation, Interpretation”. In the second part each Club attending will present 4 images. These will be awarded marks by our Speakers and best total mark will be the winner. Results of Activities Competition Judge: Peter Madeley Battle with Atherton
Lecture Bob Dennis will present a tutorial entitled “Towards Better Landscapes”. Bob is an elected member of the L and CPU and is an excellent speaker.
Nov 5
Elimination Competition Judge Bob Singleton
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Members' Evening: A chance to look at the accepted entries to the “2011 Guernsey Salon” , a national competition in which our Club had six acceptances. This will be followed after break by an Open Forum – a chance to bring images for critique, sort problems with editing software etc.
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Dec
Entry Night: President's Prize Theme: "By the Sea" Lecture: Ray Wilson and Eddie Garside from Blackpool will give a talk entitled “AV Our Way”
Results of President's Prize Competition judge: Jim Cunningham
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Members' Evening:
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Free and Easy with a presentation of Member’s best images taken in 2012. Please bring along up to eight of your best images.
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President's Evening
Holiday
Competition Calendar 2012 Oct 1
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Entry Night – Activities Competition Results of Activities Competition
Nov 5
Elimination Competition Judge Bob Singleton
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Results of President’s Prize Competition – judge: Jim Cunningham
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Entry Night: President’s Prize Theme: “By the Sea”
Next years competitions Themes
Including President's Prize there are 4 themed competitions next year. Following the vote at last weeks meeting the THEMES will be as follows:
Dawn & Dusk
Running Water People at Play
Small is Beautiful We will let you know which theme attaches to which competition when the calendar is finalised and released in the Autumn
Image sizes
No changes are planned in respect of Prints
Our current DPI sizes are smaller than those used in the external competition we enter as a club and the committee are considering rule changes for next year. That is competitions entered after 1 January 2013. However if you are preparing images now for next year please be aware of the change and work on larger images. The final rule changes will be announced later in the year and ratified at the AGM. For the time being we suggest that you work anticipating a new size of 2000px on the long side of the image
L&CPU APM MENTORING SEMINAR
L&CPU
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR TWO POPULAR EVENTS:
PAGB INTERCLUB PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday 27th October TICKETS £5 NOW. THIS IS HALF THE USUAL PRICE SO BE QUICK
Sunday 28th October 2012 in Warrington Top class support for your CPAGB, DPAGB or MPAGB application. This scheme has proved very CHESTER PS showing of the RPS PI successful and other Federations are looking to it INTERNATIONAL at CHESTER ZOO as a model. • PAGB ENewsletter 74 (1.1Mb) Free but tickets needed SAE to Bob Dennis GB Cup 2012 CD and Certicicates! please.
Some exciting new EVENTS Mold CC have Martin Parr giving their 50th Anniversary Lecture on 11th October
Wirral PA have Colin Prior on 18th November
Judge choices at Warwick
East African Wildlife by Margery Maskell MFIAP** Tim PIle RPS and The Times
EC David Gibbins ARPS AFIAP APAGB BPE3* Print Champ Tickets RPS distinctions story
Bebington Salon of Photography details now Dianne Owen is running a workshop on September available 29th, British Pathé would like your help in identifying 50 cameras which appear in their films
Finally, We have a new article in our "Electronic Focal Points" section on the DOWNLOADS page
What does it take to make a good Judge? A personal view of things by Dr Brian Law of Macclesfield CC.
As usual all these items are linked from the front page at http://www.lcpu.org.uk/ Regards,
John Royle
L&CPU Webmaster www.lcpu.org.uk
External Events
Communications Bookmark these links Web
www.blackburncameraclub.co.uk
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Forum
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