Chairman's Newsletter July 26 2009

Dear Member,

An enormous thank you goes to John and Margery May for the showing of their AV's last Tuesday. We saw examples of their work from some of their very early productions upto the latest from a recent holiday.

John's simple, laid back approach came over so well and he answered the questions very well. The two tutorials from Barry Beckham showed just how simple it was to put together a basic AV in 'Pic2Exe'. If you are one of the lucky people who got a copy of the disc please make one extra copy to pass onto other club members.

George Marsh produced a 109 page printed copy of the 'Pic2exe' help file, he has lost it!! If you know of it's whereabouts please let George have it back.

Weymouth Library.
Saturday I took the opportunity to pop down to Weymouth to see the PAGB print exhibition. This display of 150 prints tours around various venues and will be at Weymouth until the end of the month.

Some thought provoking work is there to be seen, some makes me think " how can I get to that standard" and some "I wonder what the judges saw in that" others just made me think "I could do that".

Tuesday 28th
Bar-be-que at George & Margaret Marsh's home. The 5 day weather forecast gives a hope for a break in the rainy weather for Tuesday, so fingers crossed. George will have the 'barbies' going from 6:30pm ish, so bring your own food and drink, chairs and tables if you don't want to sit on the grass. Should there be any doubt on the weather front please ring 01794 301285 to check.

For those who have not been there before the directions to Georges place are - from the A3057 ( Romsey to Stockbridge ) take the turn to Mottisfont, pass the abbey entrance, and turn right just pass the social club into Oakley Road, stay on Oakley Road for about 1.8 miles, this is a narrow country lane, as you get to the top of a gentle rise Pittleworth Cottages are on the right. Please park as close together as possible, car sharing is a good option.

We hope to see many of you and your families on Tuesday if not then I wish you a happy holiday break, and hope to see you all at Stockbridge for the exhibition.

Have a happy snapping time

Terry

1st PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championship

"The first PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championship at Warwick on 11th July was a very successful day and, being the first of this format, it was gratifying to see it happen without any problems on the day. Peter Cheetham and his team deserve our congratulations and thanks, especially for all the preparatory work carried out beforehand, without which the outcome may have been very different." Don Langford President

Here you can see how SPF Clubs fared - Highcliffe & Infinty and Southampton.
Click HERE

Bits and Bytes

There is a link to a spreadsheet that resides in Google Docs [aka the Cloud] that shows the meanings of most of the manifestations of bits and bytes such as Megabyte. This is in very simple terms but almost everyone will find something they did know before.
LINK

PAGB e-News Issue 15

This issue contains the following
Page 1 Contents and Information Notes
Page 2 e-news
Page 3 What is the PAGB?
Page 4 Federation Websites
Page 5 Inter-Fed Print Exhibition venues
Page 6 Order form for the Inter-Fed Print Exhibition CD
Click HERE to see a PDF version

PAGB e-News Issue 14

This issue tells all you need to know about all those letters following photographers name such as CPAGB.
Click HERE to see a PDF version.

Programme 2009/10

Next season's programme of events is no on line.
Just click on 2009/10 on the menu bar or
Click HERE

PAGB e-News

Click HERE for e-News.
Currently we have not seen this newsletter so we cannot say whether it is worthwhile.
So try it out.
Rod Whelans says
"Hi All

Could you please take a minute or two to answer the QUESTIONS on Page 2 of the attached e-news.

I would like to make e-news as good for you as I possibly can and I always welcome your suggestions for improvement. I would also like to get your views about including advertising or specially negotiated offers. (We will never allow these to overwhelm the newsletter nor will we divulge your e-mail).

The next issue in a day or two will feature a report from the PAGB Inter Club PDI Championship at Warwick.

Can I please remind you that I am very happy to include anything that would like to publicise provided it is of interest beyond your own Federation area.

Rod Whelans

The PAGB is very happy for you to forward this e-news to interested parties or you may print it off for display at camera clubs or other venues. Please do not alter it other than resizing if necessary.

We would encourage you to invite interested people to register with rod@creative-camera.co.uk to get their own copies. I am happy to add all of your clubs and all of your club members!

Butterfly Evening

The gallery of those images sent in are now on line. Go to the Programme 2008/9 and scroll down to the Event on 30th June. Here click on the REPORT.

Chairman's Newsletter

Dear Members,
Welcome to this my first newsletter as the clubs chairman.
It was a well attended AGM last night and your committee for the year 2009/10 is :-
Chairman...........................Terry Jamieson,
Vice Chair..........................Mark Koernich,
Secretary...........................Martin Brown.
Treasurer..........................Andrew Kirby,
Property Officer...............John Walter,
Publicity.............................Margaret Kirby,
Internal Comps Sec..........Jillian koernich,
External Comps Sec.........George Atkins,
Programme Sec................Pat Ball.
New members coordinator......Malcolm Richardson
Committee members....... Keith Bamber, and Colin Carey.
SPF Rep............................ Jack Whitemore.

As you can see this represents a great mixture of experience and new blood for our club.

For those of you who could not attend I made the following committment to the membership.
"I am well aware that I have a hard act to follow with Jack's tenure as chairman, I will work as hard as is possible to continue to foster the much envied friendliness of our club, to look at improving the camera and the presentation of images skills of all of the members by whatever means possible. To get/badger more members to present their images for inclusion in league, inter club and SPF competitions, and in particular the clubs website.
Where possible to enhance the clubs image within the local community and the photographic world."

Photo opporntunities coming up:-
Saturday 11th July Romsey Towns Beggers fair, lots of chances to get your images for the Les Fredericks Trophies!!!!
Tuesday 14th July, Southampton and Romsey will see parades and church services for our local regiments return from active service.
Again more people working!

Les Fredericks trophies for next season:-

Prints - People working, and
PDIs - Stormy weather.
You have got six months to get your images, go for it!

Next week is the print critique evening with our 4 club judges so bring along up to 5 images (good or bad! ) and see if their different styles of judging stack upto how you see an image.

Those of you who attended last weeks butterfly walk, have you sent an image to the webmaster yet?

Regards and keep snapping!

Terry