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Contents Club Meetings

Autumn Programme

Competition Calendar Communications

This Weeks Cover Image

Yaks waiting for a load. Langtang Valley Nepal By Bob Singleton

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

October 28th

BB2 5EP

Entry night Activities Competition

CLUB ACTIVITIES COMPETITION 1 2 3 4 5

This competition is open to both Prints and Projected Images

Images must have been taken during the course of the current club year (Jan足Dec)

Entries will include any image taken on any club activity e.g. portrait nights / summer outing or any club event during that year. Prints may be any size on a mount no larger than 50x40 Cms

Projected Images size 1024x768 in J足peg format with maximum file size 2Mb

Presentation

Lee Johnson

Lee's presentation will be in to two parts.

The first part will be based around what Lee has been doing for the last year or so. He is changing his style of photography and will talk about the projects he has been working on. The second part of the evening will present Remnants in context with the history of the locations.

Autumn/ Winter Programme2012 October 8

15 22 29

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

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.

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

Members' Evening:

Free and Easy with a presentation of Member’s best images taken in 2012. Please bring along up to eight of your best images.

President's Evening

Holiday

Competition Calendar 2012 Oct 1

Entry Night – Activities Competition Results of Activities Competition

Nov 5

Elimination Competition Judge Bob Singleton

Results of President’s Prize Competition – judge: Jim Cunningham

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

Communications Bookmark these links Web

www.blackburncameraclub.co.uk

Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blackburn足District足Camera足Club

Forum

Facebook Group

www.blackburncameraclub.co.uk/forum

http://www.facebook.com/groups/412484715456784/

If you have any suggestions about how we should improve club communications please write to me. Secretary@blackburncameraclub.co.uk