Congratulations to Roy Lambeth

On Sunday 26th April at the SPF League Finals that took place in St Mary's Hall, Overton Roy Lambeth's print of a Blue Damselfly achieved a Highly Commended status. The judge was Barry Mead DPAGB, FRPS

FREE Ink Cartridges

I have 2 x Jettec E80 colour ink cartridges and 3 x Jettec E79 black inks.
They free of charge and they are compatable to Epson T026, T027.
Many thanks
Terry

Dear Member,
Please read the messages below.

If you have any prints that you would like to be taken please let me have them on or before Tuesday 19th May.
Regards and keep snapping

Terry

From: Chris Neill-Griffin
To: spf.sec@southernfed.org.uk
Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: SPF: Important & Urgent information regarding the May Quarterly Meeting


It is now getting round to that time of year again when there are several bits and pieces to do before the summer break.

Firstly, please send a mixture of your members Monochrome and Colour Prints with your club rep to the Quarterly Meeting on Thursday 21st May, (those eagle eyed amongst you will notice that it is the Thursday and not the Wednesday 21st as accidentally published!).

The 2009 PAGB Inter-Fed Print Competition and Exhibition is coming up and without your support we cannot enter, it is also one of the best opportunities for your members to have their work shown in such a large national competition, all accepted work will be shown throughout the 15 PAGB Federations. [A maximum of two Mono and two Colour prints per member please, and they must be mounted on 40 by 50 cm (or 50 by 40) mounts which should ideally be not more than 4mm thick (if they are the PAGB reserves the right not to display them), prints must not have Velcro attached to the back which could damage other prints, and cannot have been entered into any previous PAGB Inter-Fed Competition and Exhibition, a member/club can only support one Federation in a year.]

An SPF selection committee will then choose the best work to go forward and represent us nationally, PAGB Certificates and Medals are awarded for this competition so if you have some excellent work, please let us enter it, and you could have a chance of winning.

Secondly, if you have someone in your club who is interested in working to maintain and improve the work of the Federation ask them and nominate them! We have one new member on the Council, Les Lloyd and he is already making great progress in constructing a NEW website for the SPF, if you haven't had a chance to have a look follow this link http://www.southernfed.org.uk/newWeb/spf/Home.html

And finally, thank you for reading all this, please make sure you are aware of all that is going on within the Federation.

Also don't forget this SUNDAY 26th April, is Finals Day at Overton, a great day remember to bring your Best Slide and Best Print from the League, and see some of the excellent work the Federation has to offer! We hope to see you there.

Thanks again,

Chris Neill-Griffin

Programme Changes

From the latest Minutes there are some programme changes to note. These are for the 16th and 3oth June and 14th and 27th of July. See the programme HERE to see details.

Camera Repairer Request

Hi,

I work in the Salisbury/southampton area and need to find somewhere to get a digital camera repaired without going to an expensive place like Jessops. If you or one of your members know of somewhere local then perhaps you could email me on daverigg@btopenworld.com

Regards

Dave Rigg

Important News about the SPF Web site

We are fortunate to have Les Lloyd join the Council and he is already working with Trevor to redesign our website. You will see the front page is very different than previously and we have many good ideas for improving on the old website. Please take time to visit the new site and see how it is developing www.southernfed.org.uk/newWeb/spf/ I would like to say this is in development stage and you will see if you visit the site regularly that it is being phased with all new information in the new format but with the old information still available in the old format, the new site is being built in parallel to the old site which we hope to switch off in a few weeks time, so I ask you to be patient, but to let our secretary have your comments on what you see and any content that you would like added, such as a club exhibition or major event.

We will also be having a gallery of images included within the site and will display winners of the League and Championships so you may even see one of your images on the site at some point. We are also considering including a small ads section, if there is enough interest for people wanting to sell equipment.

The new site will be very easy to navigate and we hope you will all use it a lot more to find out the information including; Club Reps meetings, competitions, Newsletter and also what events are happening around our region.

Don't forget all our sponsors are advertising on the website do please use them and let them know where you saw their advert - the money generated from these sponsors directly works to keep your subscriptions lower.

Look forward to seeing many of you at our next event - Finals Day,

Lynn Lambeth, President.

News

This is your new NEWS section of the Viewfinders website. Here those invited can upload information they want to show. This can items for sale or invitations to enter exhibitions or to remind you of forthcoming SPF Events and so on.
I have been running a system like this for Salisbury CC for 18 months or so and it has been very successful. It is the first place members look to see if there has been a late programme change for instance.
Peter