Seaford Photographic Society

Welcome to Seaford Photographic Society’s first newsletter of the new 2021/22 season. Our first meeting is on Friday 3rd September at our usual venue, the Martello Room at Seaford’s Con Club, Crouch Lane, BN25 1PU. This will be a Welcome Back meeting and AGM. We are all looking forward to meeting in person again for the first time in around 16 months. There will obviously be some COVID restrictions in place so please have a look on our website where they will be explained.

As I write this, at the beginning of August, we are looking at the possibility of having some sort of hybrid meetings where we meet in person as usual, but also link to Zoom. This will enable us to continue to have speakers and judges from further afield, who can’t travel to Seaford. It will also enable some of our members to enter competitions and watch lectures from home if they can’t make it to the venue. We are still investigating the technical aspects of all this and it might be that we have two tiers of membership – ‘full’ for those who come along in person and some sort of reduced price ‘digital only’ membership for those only attending online. This will obviously have to exclude some meetings such as workshops and social events. Full details will be shown on our website but it might take a few meetings before we know how well this will work.

Our programme for the season has now been finalised and, as usual, features a wide range of competitions, lectures, illustrated talks, workshops and practical evenings. Coming up later this month we have the first Print Competition on 10th September (Round 1 of the Print League), assessed by one of our regular judges, Bob Webzel ARPS, EFIAP from Rottingdean. The following week, on the 17th we have two presentations by club members: Understanding your Digital Camera by our Chairman Colin Mitchell LRPS, and ON1 Editing Software by our Digital Secretary Simon Rigby. These should be very useful, particularly for our newer members or anybody thinking of attending for the first time. The final meeting in September, on the 24th is the first competition for Projected Digital Images (PDI League Round 1), judged by Paul Parkinson LRPS CPAGB BPE5*.

We have had a couple of informal set-subject competitions over the summer break, to encourage us to get out with our cameras, and the winners were decided by club members voting for their favourites. The first was ‘Slow Shutter Speed’ and Chris Dawson took both first and second places with two very different images taken

at Splash Point. The second competition was to create a ‘diptych’ showing two images side by side, before and after editing. Anna-Marie Armstrong won this one and Liz Fitzsimons took second place.

Our website is www.seafordps.org. It is updated regularly and has a contact form if you want to get in touch by email. We are always happy to respond to queries.

Photos from top: Summer Competition – ‘Slow Shutter Speed’:1st – Splash Point Sea Defences by Chris Dawson, 2nd – Wild Seaford Sea by Chris Dawson. Summer Competition ‘Before and After Diptych’: 1st – The Boat by Anna-Marie Armstrong, 2nd – Wintry Windows by Liz Fitzsimons.