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1 Shaftesbury Camera Club SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 2015 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday A WARM WELCOME back to members past and new to our 6 th year of the Shaftesbury Camera Club each year brings new members with up-to-date visual experiences and more enthusiasm. We again congratulate the Winners for last season shown above- David Townley, Val Saxby, Karen Green and Adrian White. We hope you all had an eventful summer and look forward to sharing more successful photography this season. Printed copies of our programme will be available at our first meeting but can also be viewed or printed from our web. COMPETITIONS We are defending our win last year against 4 other clubs at Sherborne Bradford Abbas on October 27 th and the subject will be UMBRELLAS. Please upload PDI s and bring any prints you may have for selection to our FIRST MEETING on September 24 th. This year we have THREE rounds of the Shuffell Trophy The subject for all rounds is Open but images in the third round must be MONOCHROME (you may enter two Prints and/or two PDIs and the highest cumulative score in each section wins, see the revised rules on the website) The DEADLINE for Shuffell Trophy Round 1 entries is 1st October (Val will assemble and run the PDI competition). PDI's to be submitted through the website as last year (please ask at the first meeting if you need any help) and titles of prints either through the website or to Helen at info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk. Reminder to Members: Annual Subscriptions of 25/member are now due please see Karen Green at the entrance on Thursday 24 th September. You have three meetings to pay but NOTE only paid up members can enter competitions. If you cannot be at the first couple of meetings please let Chris and Helen have your entries (and subscriptions) for the Shuffell Trophy before the season starts. Photographic news you may have caught over the summer includes Meeting Dates /16 Season Begins Thursday 24 th September Our 6 th Season Welcoming new and old members with a cheese & wine Social and to choose the entries for Bradford Abbas Please bring UMBRELLA Prints & PDIs Thursday 8 th October The Shuffell Trophy Competition Prints & PDIs 1 st round Subject: Open Judge: Paul Thackeray PDI s to be uploaded and print titles entered by October 1 st please Thursday 22 nd October In House Critique evening To discuss ways of improving & selecting images Tuesday 27 th October The Bradford Abbas Shield competition away Subject UMBRELLAS Thursday 29 th October Guest Speaker Bertie Gregory Bertie is a young exciting & aspiring professional wildlife photographer, filmmaker & presenter. The Blandford Camera club Annual Exhibition in May was an excellent exhibition, well composed and presented at The Corn Exchange, Blandford. Shaftesbury Arts Centre hosted an exhibition Trees in and Around Shaftesbury from 29th May to 9 th June which was well attended and some of our members exhibited their work. Wareham, Dorset Arts & Craft Photographic competition in August - Mike Harding entered five prints and was pleased to say all five were accepted with the following grades: Jess: Work of Outstanding Merit.

2 Portland Lighthouse: Highly Commended. Nuns Cottage Dartmoor, Shipwreck and The Old and the New Swanage were Commended. Barbara Harrison also had accepted Creative Poppy Heads, Hellebore, Passing By and Oil on Water while her Goatsbeard Seeds received highly commended. Babs went to the Exhibition which was full of exquisite work by many talented exhibitors in Dorset. Shaftesbury & Gillingham Agriculture Show Dorset Photographers James Macmillan, Cerrie Simpson and David Hansford exhibited examples of their work, services and products. SKY-HIGH CHALLENGE for Parkinson s Charity - Congratulations to Peter Hayes on his tandem skydive, he took part in the skies on 16 th May to raise money for charity Parkinsons UK. Peter appreciated all your support and thanks everyone for the donations. FUTURE EVENTS Workshops: The new season gives us an opportunity to organise these according to members needs, so please let us know what you want covered. We can do either short one-to-one sessions or larger groups so please tell us. WCPF 2016 DPIC is in February and we would like to make a club entry again this year. Please start thinking of what you may wish to put up for selection. The terms and conditions, detailing rules, definitions, dates, etc is available on their website. John Tilsley and fellow photographers will be exhibiting in Shaftesbury Art Centre from Wed September 23 rd to Tues October 6 th. Swanage and Purbeck Walking Festival taking place from the 19th to 27th September with renowned photographers Andy Farrer and Julian Sawyer who will each be leading two walks at the festival. The walks only cost 3.50, so represent excellent value for anyone wanting to learn a little from these two experts. Full details are on the website where the walks can also be booked. We are updating the club s website to include links to member s own sites, so if you have your own photographic site please make sure Chris knows about it! Darkroom equipment on offer- please look at our website for further details 2015/16 Season begins Thursday, 24 th September 2015 Looking ahead Thurs 12 th November Thurs 26 th November Thurs 10 th December Thurs 17 th December Ladies v Gents PDI Competition Judge Colin Gogerty Audio Visual Evening The Shuffell Trophy Prints and PDIs 2 nd Round Subject Open, Judge Norman Carey Christmas Party fun competition with images from mobiles, tablets or small compacts Please mark 28 th April in your diary for 2016 STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne A freelance photographer who specialises in wildlife and landscape photography including images of the Antarctic for the BBC series Life in the Freezer. Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

3 Shaftesbury Camera Club NOVEMBER 2015 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday We open this newsletter with sad news. Norman Good, a very active and long standing member of the former Shaftesbury Art Centre Camera Group, and latterly a very supportive member of our newly established Shaftesbury Camera Club passed away last week. Norman has shared his wonderful images over many years. We send thoughts and condolences to his wife Isabel and family at their loss as well as to Bill and Elspeth for the loss of a great brother-in-law. There will be a funeral service for Norman at 12 noon on Thursday 12 th November 2015 at St James Church, Shaftesbury Our first round for the Shuffell Trophy Competition was Open and judged by Paul Thackeray who was extremely perceptive, awarding marks to a wide range of subjects. The top scoring prints were KA Green s Shadow Play and Val Saxby s Dog. The PDI winners were Mike Harding with Look into my Eyes and Sunset Old Pier Swanage, Val Saxby with Fly Past and KA Green with Hot Gossip. Many words of encouragement and some constructive criticism, he gave excellent descriptions with help for the author - an excellent evening. Log in to our website for full results For our In house Critique evening, we discussed ways of improving and selecting images which turned out to be very helpful with a lot of good advice shared. A successful evening rounded off by Val showing us images of what the Salons expect and accept and answering various queries. Hopefully she inspired more members to submit images to Salons. The Bradford Abbas Shield competition (away) with the subject Umbrellas was judged by Michael Birbeck, and was between Sherborne Bradford Abbas, (hosts), Wincanton, Yeovil, South Petherton and ourselves. Meeting Dates 2015 Thurs 12th November Ladies v Gents PDI Competition Judge: Colin Gogerty A fun Competition that hopefully all will enter, everyone will have at least one image chosen Although last year we were surprised to win the Shield, we knew this year would be harder with this tricky subject. Mike marked down images where the umbrella was not the main subject and we only managed four 18 s in the evening. Full results are on the website. Well done to Yeovil who won and thanks to all our members who contributed PDIs and Prints so we could assemble our entry. October was rounded off with a third meeting preceded by Brian leading a short and very useful workshop for five members on producing Audio-Visual sequences. We then welcomed ****** Thurs 26th November Audio Visual Evening Presentations of up to 5minutes. Please bring yours on a memory stick. The best will be judged by the audience

4 Guest Speaker Huw Alban with his talk The Emotional Landscape. Huw s philosophy and mind set is influenced by emotion a key to his insight. He is a very unusual photographer a photographic impressionist, technical perfection is secondary to him. His desire to stop, pause and look at an image; creating images that people stop and look and engage in finally producing an emotional reaction. Photography is what you feel and not what you see quoted Gosling. Huw demonstrated his feelings and moods beautifully using light. When judging competitions he comments on what he likes and not what is the laid down rules. He is drawn to monochrome because it is an enabler to enhance the mood, he believes colour is a distraction. Keep all your bad images, one can only learn from them. A thought provoking evening making the audience think, Huw s images conveyed the mood before he even spoke about them. Reminders to Members: WCPF Annual Digital Competition will be at Exeter again in February. We did much better than we expected last year so would like a strong entry. We need entries by the end of November so we can compile our entry before the Christmas deadline. We relied on the club s back catalogue last year so need lots of new images to choose from. We need a total of 18 images, with no more than 4 per photographer. Do upload up to 6 images via the website. Number of nature images is unrestricted this year and will use the PAGB definition for nature images. The DPIC 2016 terms and conditions can be found via the website Competitions: Set Subject for the third round, in February, of the Shuffell Trophy is Open but in Monochrome eg black and white, sepia etc. Annual Subscriptions We hope you have all paid your subscriptions now and look forward to settling in to an exciting new year. Only members may enter competitions. Workshops: The new season gives us an opportunity to organise these according to members needs, so please tell us what you want covered. We can do either short one-to-one sessions or larger groups so please tell us! Website: Please log in (details in this newsletter header) to the website for all our latest news and links to events elsewhere. Photography news: Stephanie Adams a member of Blandford Camera Club has advised us of an event on the 29th November, Print Workshop - Capture to Output. If any of our members are interested they can contact Stephanie at Blandford Camera Club. More details are on Places are limited and payment is required in advance. This sounds an excellent day. Looking ahead Thurs 10 th December The Shuffell Trophy Prints and PDIs 2 nd Round Subject Open, Judge Norman Carey Thurs 17 th December Christmas Party fun competition with images taken with mobiles, tablets or small automatic compacts, NO DSLR or bridge cameras! Please mark 28 th April in your diary for 2016 STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne A freelance photographer who specialises in wildlife and landscape photography including images of the Antarctic for the BBC series Life in the Freezer. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

5 Shaftesbury Camera Club DECEMBER 2015 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday Merry Christmas to you all with Peace, Joy and Happiness in the New Year The Ladies and Gents PDI competition was judged by Colin Gogerty who had a very difficult time trying to separate the two sides! At half time the men had the edge but some excellent 10 s from the ladies in the second half left the men trailing by ONE mark. The final scores were Ladies 204 and Gents 203 with four 10 s apiece. There was no bribery or movement of monies! There were some good quality and high scoring images which Colin marked with humour and insight. He felt several would benefit from cropping and suggested returning to an image again to see if more cropping would help. Thank you Colin, we appreciate your comments of help, criticism and compliments. Our Audio Visual evening which was organised and projected with our new Optima projector by Brian Tarling was very successful with 12 members participating and producing very varied AVs. The soundtracks varied from music through speech to fireworks. The audience voted for their favourite and the winner was Val Saxby with a beautiful presentation of the wildlife in Bushy Park, second was a new member Gareth Ayre with Autumn with colourful local scenes (welcome Gareth, we look forward to seeing more of your work). Karen Green came third with In the Garden - well presented and colourful with very amusing credits. Great interest and complimentary comments from the floor. A popular evening - we look forward to next year and thank you Brian and Chris for organising and setting up our new Projector. Meeting Dates 2015 Thurs 10 th December The Shuffell Trophy 2 nd Round Prints and PDIs Subject: Open Judge: Norman Carey ****** Thurs 17 th December Christmas Party Fun competition with images taken with mobiles, tablets or small compacts, Please bring a plate of food to share ***** MERRY CHRISTMAS BEST WISHES FOR 2016 Photography news: Val Saxby has had her wonderful image of a Deer with a Jackdaw on it s rump published in The Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mirror excellent Val, well done. Look on our web site to see it and read how she made it. CALENDARS for sale 8 each through Sue Boddington 100% of the sale proceeds will go to Bowel Cancer UK and the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust.

6 Shaftesbury Hospital would like a display of framed photographic Prints in the Hospital. If anyone is interested in displaying their work or even wishing to sell, please contact Babs Reminder to Members: Competition Deadlines. Shuffell Trophy Round 2 (subject Open) (although the trophy is awarded on cumulative marks you can still enter the second round as a stand alone competition) Deadline for PDIs to be uploaded and Print titles ed or uploaded is FRIDAY DECEMBER 4th WCPF DPIC, This is a competition for all clubs in the Western Counties Photographic Federation with a whole day s judging at Exeter in February. Last year we came a very commendable 20th out of 47. We will be compiling our entry from competition images submitted in the last year but if you have other images you wish to be considered for our entry of 18 PDIs please upload them by Sunday DECEMBER 13th The Chairman's Champagne Challenge at this years' Christmas social is for images taken on a phone, tablet or 'point and shoot' small camera. Just one per member please! You can either upload as usual through the website or, as a special concession as it can be difficult to rename/resize on some phones and tablets, your unnamed/sized image to champagne@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk. Please add the title AND what it was taken on into the body of the message. Deadline Tuesday 15th DECEMBER. We will have the images on continuous loop in the committee room with a voting grid for your 50p. Looking ahead to 2016 In January we have three meetings all with excellent speakers Thurs 7 th January Guest Speaker: Bertie Gregory. Bertie is a 21-year-old exciting and aspiring professional wildlife photographer, film-maker and presenter. In 2012 he was named Youth Outdoor Photographer Of The Year and most recently, his film West Coast Adventure has been nominated for the Youth Award at this year s Wildscreen Panda Awards Thurs 14 th January - Guest Speaker: Eva Worobiec Subject: Working in Themes Eva is a trained linguist who developed her love of photography as a corollary to work, Her most significant photographic work appeared in Ghosts in the Wilderness: Abandoned America, a shared project with her husband Tony. Thurs 28 th January - Guest Speaker: Bob Gibbons. Bob has been described as one of Britain s best naturalists. He has written about 40 books to date, on many aspects of natural history and photography. He has led numerous tours to many European destinations as well as the Himalayas, Costa Rica, Namibia, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. Please mark 28 th April in your diary for 2016 STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne A freelance photographer who specialises in wildlife and landscape photography including images of the Antarctic for the BBC series Life in the Freezer Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

7 Shaftesbury Camera Club JANUARY 2016 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday Happy New Year to all Members and new Members of Shaftesbury Camera Club. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and this year will be full of Joy, Light, Health and Peace, and don t forget photography! Meeting Dates 2016 We need to report the sad news of the death of Tony Elsom one week before Christmas Tony was a stalwort member of our club from when we were at the Shaftesbury Art Centre, and joined our new Shaftesbury Camera Club in We give our thoughts and sincere condolences to Rita and family. His funeral service will take place in Stalbridge Parish Church at 1.30pm on Friday 8th January, after which there will be a reception and afternoon tea at The Grange Hotel, Oborne. Our Shuffell Trophy 2 nd round was judged by our friend Norman Carey from Blandford who enjoys coming to Shaftesbury because he likes a club that smiles. Norman said he always reserves an extra half mark or so for the prints and PDIs which he likes! Norman is always full of enthusiasm and entertained us with his stories. Top Prints with 10 marks were KA Green Little Red Runninghood, Mike Harding Burial Chamber, Karen Green Don t move or I ll have you and Val Saxby with Bald Eagle. Top PDIs were KA Green Tower Bridge, Mike Harding Storm Clouds, Val Saxby Lots to Say and Karen Green This is Nice. There was a large range of images which kept Norman very busy. Our Christmas party was a great success. The Hall was already beautifully decorated by the members of The British Legion (for which we thank them) and our members provided a wonderful selection of sharing food for members, partners and guests 35 in all. The Champagne Challenge winner was Claire Thapa with Taj Mahal using her iphone well done Claire! The 50p votes raised 17 while the very good raffle raised 62. There was much merriment and chatter. Photography news: 2016 Photographic Convention & Trade Show at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel, Edgware Road W2 1JU. Free Trade Show January. To register for tickets & full details: Shaftesbury Hospital would like a display of about TEN framed photographic Prints for the Foyer of the Hospital. They have various dates free so If anyone is interested in displaying their work perhaps for sale, please contact Babs Brian Tarling has very kindly offered the use of frames - a donation to Brian if you sell them! Thurs 7 th January 2016 Guest Speaker: Bertie Gregory Bertie is a young exciting and aspiring professional wildlife photographer, film-maker and presenter who graduated in Zoology. ***** Thurs 14 th January Guest Speaker: Eva Worobiec Working in Themes Eva has worked with languages and developed an interest in photography, as a corollary to work. She gained her Associateship in 1987 followed with a Fellowship in ***** Thurs 28 th January Guest Speaker: Bob Gibbons The Perils and Pleasures of Nature Photography Bob has been described as one of Britain s best naturalists, leading many tours all around the world. He has written numerous books on aspects of natural history and photography.

8 Looking ahead Sunday February 7 th Western Counties Photographic Federation DPIC at Exeter We have entered this very competitive inter-club competition again this year and hope to improve on our satisfactory 20 th place of last year (48 clubs entered). Log in to our web to see the list of our entered images. If you would like to go and watch the judging there is further Information on the WCPF website at Tickets ( 6.00) are available at the Corn Exchange Ticket office: or Do speak to Val as perhaps lifts can be shared. Thurs 11 th February The Shuffell Trophy for Prints and PDIs, 3 rd Round. Subject: Open in MONOCHROME. This is the final round of our cumulative points competition for photographer of the year which will be judged by Graham Ireland. DEADLINE for entries is Saturday 6 th February. PDI's must be uploaded via the web with Print Titles either via the upload or ed. Wed. 24 th February Competition with Boscombe Camera Club away. A return match in which we hope our revenge will be sweet as we lost by 3 marks last season! Thurs. 25 th February Guest speaker Mike Weeks. An evening of portrait photography. Please bring your cameras. All lighting and relevant equipment provided. Is Thurs. 28 th April in your new diary? STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne Ben has been a freelance photographer since 1984 specialising in wildlife and landscape photography along with a wide variety of other outdoor subjects ranging from oil spills to fell-running. Working in many parts of the world he is best known for his images of the Antarctic in the book of the BBC series Life in the Freezer. His images have also been published in National Geographic. Geo, BBC Wildlife and many more. Winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2007 and an Hon. Fellow of the RPS. Reminders to Members Workshops: We organise these according to members needs, so please tell us what you would like covered. Cameras? Processing? Printing? Mounting? Composition? We can do either short one-to-one sessions or larger groups so please tell us! Do check our web site regularly as it has all the latest news, including a piece on how Val got her Deer and Jackdaw in three national papers! Please note you need to log in to see the full competition results, newsletters, etc. It also has a lot of useful club and photographic information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. Log-in details are given at the top of this newsletter! info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

9 Shaftesbury Camera Club FEBRUARY 2016 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday We were treated to three excellent speakers in January. The first was Bertie Gregory, a young (22) aspiring professional wildlife photographer, film-maker and presenter. Bertie led us from his childhood passion for rivers and obsession with underwater photography through the 2020 Vision project on Urban Life for Wildlife which showcased his work on the Peregrine Falcon. After graduating in Zoology Bertie landed a job with National Geographic assisting Steve Winter in South Africa filming leopards using a drone. He then showed us work from some recent photographic projects: scuba diving in the Red Sea; Rock paintings in Columbia; urban leopards in Bombay; and the magic of the Sri Lankan jungle. His latest project for National Geographic was a return to the west coast of Vancouver Island following the Black Bear and Coastal Wolves. A happy, amusing and rich journey in a rubber dinghy where he produced some fantastic aerial photography using a drone, proving that the key to good wildlife photography is the time one spends getting to know the habitat and character of the animals. Bertie produced a wonderfully animated talk which kept us fascinated and certainly on the edge of our seats. His scariest moment was going through customs!! Our second guest, Eva Worobiec enlightened us with her talk Working in Themes. She and her photographer husband have travelled extensively photographing images on a theme. She showed American Diners, Motels and old cinemas at various stages of decay and by zooming in close, catching interesting angles and detail. Meeting Dates 2016 Thurs 11th February The Shuffell Trophy 3rd round Subject: Open in Monochrome Judge Graham Ireland DEADLINE for entries Sunday 7th February *********** Wed 24th February Boscombe Camera Club An away competition where we hope revenge will be sweet: we lost by 3 marks last time! *********** Thurs 25th February Guest speaker, Mike Weeks. An evening of portrait photography. Please bring your cameras. All lighting and relevant equipment provided. Another of her themes was Coastal structures, with lighthouses, piers with inconsequential posts producing great images. Eva also showed us landscapes from Spain. She is a little scared of taking portraits but enjoys street photography, questioning the accepted rules and angles, preferring to depend on intuition. Many of her photographs - or parts of them - have been sold very successfully through agencies for book covers. Eva gave us some new thoughts and ideas for our photography together with some good tips and composition. We thoroughly enjoyed her excellent images. Our final speaker was Dr Bob Gibbons FRPS on Perils and Pleasures of Nature Photography. He has been described as one of Britain s best naturalists, leading tours all over the world and having written numerous books on natural history and photography. Bob presented a brilliant and amusing evening with many useful ideas and was not shy of showing us some amusing mistakes. He uses a wide angle lens for most of his work and usually a tripod. He explained his techniques for controlling light with diffusers, backlighting flowers and trees and painting with light. His Flower images were exquisite, both as close ups and with the natural beauty of flowers enhancing landscapes. His bird and insect photography showed the importance of being at the right place at the right time. His travels were very exciting and were presented with much amusement and aplomb. Thank you for your expertise and an enjoyable, informative evening.

10 Photography news: Watch this space for our results from the Western Counties PDF Competition DPIC. Judging is Sunday, 7th February 10.30am 4.30pm at the Corn Exchange, Exeter. Ticket office or via the Corn Exchange website There are just a few left. ILMINSTER OPEN PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION Mon 11 April - Fri 29 April This exhibition showcases photography as an expressive fine art medium, and welcome entries from photographers who use diverse and experimental processes as well as those who produce traditional fine prints. More details on Shaftesbury Hospital would like a display of framed photographic Prints in the Hospital. If anyone is interested in displaying their work or even wishing to sell, please contact Babs We have been offered a window of two months from July to September Advance Notice Bradford Abbas Shield The set subject for next season s 5-club competition is CORNERS. Get thinking! If any members are well into facebook, would you like to help look after our rather basic page? Looking Ahead: Thurs. 10 th March Competition with Salisbury Camera Club at home. 12 Prints and 12 PDIs per club. Subject Open with judge Rob Barron. Thurs. 24 th March Guest speakers Mike Harding and Karen A Green. An in-house evening given by club members. Thurs. 31 st March The Shaftesbury Camera Club PDI Shaston Challenge. Clubs: Wareham, Wincanton, Pimperne and Shaftesbury. Subject: Open. Judge: Rob Barron. We will have our second raffle for this season. Thurs. 14 th April The Overseas Challenge. Subject Open 24 PDIs per club Judge Tony Oliver. Our annual competition with Waikato Photographic Society in New Zealand. STAR NIGHT Thursday April 28th with Ben Osborne Ben has been freelance since 1984 specialising in wildlife and landscape photography along with a wide variety of other outdoor subjects ranging from oil spills to fell-running. Working in many parts of the world he is best known for his Antarctic images in the book of the BBC series Life in the Freezer. His images have also been published in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife and many more. He was winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2007 and is an Hon. Fellow of the RPS. Tickets available with priority to Members and their Guests from Thurs 25th February. Any remaining tickets will be available to all on a first-come first-served basis from Thurs 31st March. Tickets: 6.00 (members) and 8.00 (guests and public) including refreshments. To reserve/purchase tickets please phone or starnight@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

11 Shaftesbury Camera Club MARCH 2016 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday We welcomed Graham Ireland as our judge for the third and final round of The Shuffell Trophy open Monochrome Print and PDI competition. Graham was very thorough and gave detailed and helpful comments on texture & lighting for each image. When confronted with powerful pieces, they should be scrutinised closely for any cover-ups or problems! Top Prints with 10 were Mike Harding with Shipwreck and Stalbridge Church, David Lampard with Wastwater in March, Karen A Green with No Barrel of Laughs and Barbara Harrison with Poppy Seed Heads. Top PDIs were Val Saxby with Sleepy Tiger Cub and Wet Otter, Barbara Harrison with Goatsbeard Seedhead with Shadow, KA Green with Where is my Ball, Don Rossi with On the Bend and Claire Thapa with Take it easy. Thank you Graham for bravely taking on this marathon task!! A successful return match at Boscombe Camera Club gave us a score of 206 against their score of 200 well done Shaftesbury and thank you Boscombe for your hospitality in which we were each given a free Raffle ticket and came away with a few prizes! An evening of portrait photography with our Guest speaker Mike Weeks and his assistant Sasha was well attended by eager members complete with their cameras. Mike brought a lot of equipment to demonstrate his techniques for portrait lighting and to impart his vast knowledge on diffusing sources of light, changing angles of light on the subject, feathering techniques, using brollies etc. This was all very technical but once you have the basics, it is great! 90% of the work is gaining a rapport with the subject, which for us was Serena - a very patient and persevering model who accepted all our cameras invading her space. Thank you Mike, Sasha and Serena for an excellent and different evening. Meeting Dates 2016 STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne Members have priority to purchase tickets including their guests until 31st March Tickets are 6.00 for members Guest Tickets 8.00 pp - including refreshments. ***** Thurs. 10 th March Competition with Salisbury Camera Club at home. 12 Prints and 12 PDIs per club. Subject Open. Judge Mike Weeks On Sunday February 7 th four of us set off to Exeter for this year s Western Counties photographic federation DPIC competition. It proved to be a very interesting day with some really stunning images on show. If you like to see quality exhibition quality images I would recommend a visit next year. A fuller report is on the web with a Link to all the best images. As a club we scored a total of 191 marks exactly the same as we did last year. This year we came 34th out of 56 so overall not too bad. Our top scoring images gaining 12 marks each were: Aurora over volcano Gareth Ayre Pentre Ifan burial chamber Wales Mike Harding Red deer stag Val Saxby Tower Bridge Karen A Green. Well done to everyone in the team on producing some really lovely images. If anyone would like to know more about entering exhibitions/salons do please speak to Val at the club. ****** Thurs. 24 th March Guest speakers Mike Harding and Karen A Green. An in-house evening by club members. ****** Thurs. 31 st March The Shaston Challenge. Wareham CC, Wincanton CC Pimperne CC & Shaftesbury CC. Subject Open. 12 PDIs per club. Judge Rob Barron. And our 2nd raffle for this season.

12 STAR NIGHT Tickets are now on Sale to members - Members Tickets 6.00 per person & Guests 8.00 per person, including refreshments. Remaining tickets will be available to all at the end of our meeting on 31st March. To reserve/purchase tickets please phone or to starnight@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk. STAR NIGHT Wild: Life and Landscape Thurs. 28th April with Ben Osborne Ben has been a freelance photographer since 1984 specialising in wildlife and landscape photography along with a wide variety of other outdoor subjects ranging from oil spills to fellrunning. He is best known for his images of the Antarctic in the book of the BBC series Life in the Freezer. His images have also been published in National Geographic, Geo, BBC Wildlife and many more. Winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2007 and an Hon. Fellow of the RPS. Do not forget World Pinhole Photography Day on April 24 th. ILMINSTER OPEN PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION April 11 th - 29 th. Dead line for entries April 2 nd This showcases photography as an expressive fine art medium and welcome entries from photographers who use diverse and experimental processes as well as those who produce traditional fine prints. Money prizes! More details on Shaftesbury Hospital would like a display of framed photographic Prints in the Hospital. If anyone is interested in displaying their work or even wishing to sell, please contact Babs We have been offered a window of two months from July to September Workshops: Can be arranged before most meetings just ask Chris or Brian if there is a particular topic you want help with FUTURE MEETINGS Thurs. 14 th April Programme Change - An evening at the Salons. - Images from recent Salons for our enjoyment and criticism. Thurs. 12 th May Photograph of the Year Competition for Prints & PDIs. Subject Open, Judge Roy Lambeth Thurs. 26 th May AGM followed by prize giving, reviewing the season s events, competitions and focusing on next season over refreshments. WANTED - someone to help with our FACEBOOK page. Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. Please note the log in box has been moved up the page. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

13 Shaftesbury Camera Club APRIL 2016 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday Our external competition was our first against Salisbury CC, a rather more established club than ourselves. The agreed rules were the usual maximum of two images per photographer but Salisbury actually limited themselves to one each across both classes, i.e. 24 individual members! We couldn t achieve this but did manage 15 different photographers. We are very grateful to our Judge for the evening, Mike Weeks who stood in at very short notice (and we wish Rob B a speedy recovery). In fact, we had seen Mike just two weeks earlier when he gave us a practical evening demonstrating his lighting skills as a professional event photographer. His judging was refreshing and humorous with good critiques although one or two images defeated him, having not been Photoshopped! After the Prints section, the scores were well balanced but Salisbury pulled into a clear lead in the PDIs to win by a comfortable 3.5 points. Salisbury have already invited us to a return match next season. Many thanks to both Mike and Salisbury for an entertaining and worthwhile evening. Club members Karen A Green and Mike Harding were the inhouse speakers at our second March meeting. Karen spoke about her travels to out of the way places by herself with minimal camera equipment but a bag full of stuff to keep herself fit. Her motto is if you don t ask you won t get and she rarely gets a refusal. She showed images going back to her Kodak Gold days and others from her recent trip to Morocco. It ****** was amusing to see Morrisons carrier bags in the Sahara which Camera Club EXHIBITION she took full of children s clothes to give away. at After the break Mike described his journey from developing his Shaftesbury Museum own black and white film in the stair well and taking a lovely From study of his first son with his parents, through a period of Sat 30 th April Fri 6 th May photographing aircraft, to landscapes, seascapes, waterfalls and, most recently, painting with light. This was all illustrated with some stunning prints. We really appreciate Karen and Mike giving us an excellent evening. On March 17 th 6 of our Prints were entered for the Newbury Challenge Plate, this competition for 8 clubs was judged by Roy Lambeth and we came an honourable 8 th, one mark behind Newbury. The Ordinance Survey CC won. Detailed results are on our web. The Shaston Challenge will be our third March meeting when we host Wareham, Wincanton and Pimperne camera clubs and will be reported in the May newsletter, STAR NIGHT Tickets are now on Sale to members Meeting Dates 2016 Thurs. 14 th April An evening at the Salons Images from recent salons for our enjoyment and criticism. This is a programme change ******* Thurs. 28 th April STAR NIGHT with Ben Osborne Ben has been a freelance photographer since 1984 specialising in wildlife & landscape photography along with a wide variety of other subjects ranging from oil spills to fell-running. - Members Tickets 6.00 per person & Guests 8.00 per person, including refreshments. Remaining tickets will be available to all at the end of our meeting on 31st March. To reserve/purchase tickets phone or starnight@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk.

14 STAR NIGHT Wild: Life and Landscape Thurs. 28th April with Ben Osborne Ben has been a freelance photographer since 1984 specializing in wildlife and landscape photography along with a wide variety of other outdoor subjects ranging from oil spills to fellrunning. He is best known for his images of the Antarctic in the book of the BBC series Life in the Freezer. His images have also been published in National Geographic, Geo, BBC Wildlife and many more. Winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2007 and an Hon. Fellow of the RPS. Shaftesbury Camera Club Exhibition at Gold Hill Museum Sat April 30 th to Fri May 6 th 2016 This year we will be only showing prints which will mean that we do not have to man the room all the time. The exhibition will be a week long. It is up to each Member as to which of his/her work is to be exhibited. Every Member who submits work will be represented (last year we were able to hang all the prints submitted). Members can enter up to 6 mounted prints although the number displayed will depend on the space. Please your print titles by Thursday April 14th with your phone number, numbered in the order you wish them selected i.e. your favourite as 1 and the one you least bothered about as the last number. Bring your actual mounted prints on April 14 th club night or, if that is impossible, get them to Helen by Sunday April 24th. Unfortunately bringing them to Star Night on 28 th doesn t give us enough time to prepare for hanging on the 29 th. Please ensure all packaging including cellophane sleeves & carrier bags are named!!! We will return the prints on May 12 th which is the PDI and Print of the year competition so any that are entered into that competition can be cycled! Thurs. 12 th May - Print and PDI images of the Year Competition Subject Open Judge Roy Lambeth Thurs. 26 th May - AGM followed by prize giving, reviewing the season s events, Competitions and focusing on next season over refreshments. Winchester National Exhibition, for projected digital photographic images. The classes are: people; landscape; open; nature. Entries 1 May - 30 June per image. Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

15 Shaftesbury Camera Club MAY 2016 Newsletter Web members area: username = camera, password = thursday Shaftesbury Camera Club enjoyed a very lively session with An evening at the Salons led by Brian Tarling. Brian conducted a brilliant evening with members taking a very active part in discussing and commenting on the images. These were from recent Salons for both our enjoyment and critique. On the whole, members agreed with the Salon awards but with some worthwhile criticism and a few alternative views. This was a programme change, but thoroughly enjoyed - thank you very much Brian for guiding and educating us about judging. Our STAR NIGHT Wild: Life and Landscape with Ben Osborn produced an audience full of photographic enthusiasts, both members and public. Ben took us through the whys and wherefores of his early career, originally as a research biologist! Ben disagreed with overhandling of birds and discovered science was not for him but it did give him a love of wildlife. The BBC asked if he would photograph Life in a Freezer South Georgia. Of course he accepted - David Attenborough was also the catch! So posing with penguins and ice shelves was the order of the day. Ben welcomed and accepted the digital audio/visual merging age with great excitement. And his Antarctic images of amazing light on ice were very graphic. The Himalayas were photographed from the air during wildlife surveys in Ladakh. Then off in a helicopter to Northern Botswana filming elephants and to Savuti filming lions hunting elephants using a stabilised camera on the helicopter from a distance, with no disturbance for the animals on the ground. Next heading north to Greenland living in a tent filming for the photography tour company Light and Land with Charlie Meeting Dates 2016 Camera Club EXHIBITION at Gold Hill Museum Sat 30 th April Fri 6 th May ****** Thurs. 12 th May Print and PDI Image of the Year Competition Subject: Open Judge: Roy Lambeth Deadline Sunday 8th ****** Thurs. 26 th May AGM Followed by prize giving. Bring your favourite prints to discuss over a drink and nibbles Waite. Followed by filming the mild landscape of the Orkneys, a wonderful archaeological area with standing stones infused with history. Ben loves colour, texture and shapes with visits off to his favourite areas in Western Scotland, only accessible by boat. Ben prefers to explore and communicate with nature and its surrounds rather than photograph classical images. He ended a wonderful evening with images close to his home in Shropshire where his village has managed to purchase and preserve a woodland. We enjoyed your presentation Ben and thank you. Our Annual Photographic Exhibition is now on at Shaftesbury s GOLD HILL MUSEUM till Friday 6 th May. We welcome photographers, tourists and local residents. Our last Competition of the season is on 12 th May and is the Print and PDI of the Year. Members may enter a maximum of 2 prints and 2 PDIs and the deadline is Sunday 8 th May. Images can be ones used in other competitions this year or entirely new images. Upload as usual via the website.

16 The results of the Shuffell Trophy, the Print and PDI of the Year, and the award for the public s favourite image in the exhibition, will all be presented at our AGM on May 26 th. To increase the photographic element of the evening, members are invited to bring along one or two favourite prints. They can be old or new, previously used or never used in competition and any size, mounted or unmounted. Your favourite prints are not necessarily those that have done well in competition, but those (for whatever reason) that give you personal enjoyment or bring back a memory. The business part of the meeting will be commendably brief but we would welcome one or two new committee members: the job is not onerous and new ideas are always welcome. Slightly younger legs and backs wouldn t go amiss but that is not a prerequisite! Nomination lists are on the notice board or speak to a committee member. Charity Picture Frame Sale at 22d Wincombe Business Park in aid of HOPES and HOMES for CHILDREN Fri 6 th Sat 7 th May pm. Clearance Sale with at least 33% going to the charity Richard Squires a photographer of 20 years and chairman of Liskeard Camera Club offers a holiday retreat at his smallholding near Bodmin Moor for likeminded photographers who wish to enjoy the Cornish countryside, landscape and coastline. Daily rate of 40 per night: contact Richard or Julia on / , Coombe, South Hill, Callington. Cornwall PL17 7LT. This came via our website and we thought might be of interest: we have a flyer but no personal knowledge. Shaftesbury Westminster Hospital is still looking for a display of framed Prints in the Hospital. If anyone is interested in displaying their work or even wishing to sell, please contact Babs We have been offered a window of two months from 4th July to 29 th August. p.s. Brian Tarling can lend display frames for your images. Following our Exhibition at Gold Hill Museum we would love member s feed back and ideas on how we can get more members entering their work, what we can do to improve the exhibition, what went wrong (apart from the prints falling down!), what went right and anything else that occurs to you while it is fresh in our memories. Please David, Bill, Helen or info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk with your thoughts. Looking ahead in 2016/17 We look forward to welcoming members past and new for our seventh year on Thursday 22nd September, We hope you all have a wonderful summer and enjoy furthering your photographic skills. Our web nearly always has required information, but if anyone has any queries, do please ask. info@shaftesburycameraclub.org.uk Member of Western Counties Photographic Federation + Affiliated to Photographic Alliance of Great Britain