Newsletter No. 49

We had a brilliant start to our new club year on Tuesday with a very motivating and inspiring talk by Ken Scott, it was also great to see so many members present on the first evening.

Stockbridge exhibition was very successful with over 700 visitors over the 3 days, this event again led to us having visitors on Tuesday who are likely to join. I am sure you will agree this makes a very successful showcase for our club and the timing is good being just before we restart our season. The committee have agreed to hold it the same time next year. Don't forget, you don't have to be an advanced worker or have a whole board to have work shown, if you want to submit just one print that is fine. In fact we are keen to show work across all levels within our club including our newer members.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
As you are aware this year we are without an External Competition secretary, therefore the committee last evening agreed that we would not enter the following competitions;

• PAGB Gt British Cup
• Southern Photographic Federation Digital Championship - November
• Southern Photographic Federation Print Championship - Feb/March

We will however enter the SPF league and the SPF Exhibition as members of the committee have agreed to sort these.

I will be collecting the prints on 14th September, if you do not wish your work to be considered then please let me know otherwise I will take all the entries but I shall also collect work on the 5th October if you have other work you would like to be considered.

I have all the digital work that has been entered in the assessments but if you want to have work from trophy competitions to be considered can you please either let me have it on disk or email to me at le_lambeth@yahoo.co.uk by 5th October.

I will also be calling on members to commit to take the prints to one of the clubs hosting in our league, this will be just a case of taking the prints along and recording the scores and letting me have the score sheets afterwards. The dates and venues are:

• 11th November - Basingstoke Camera Club
• 1st February - Ordnance Survey Camera Club- Roy has agreed to do this one.
• 10th February - Farnborough Camera Club
• 28th February - Salisbury Camera Club
• 7th April - Chichester Camera Club

We will host on the 8th March 2011.
If you are able to make a firm commit to one of these dates or if you are interested in helping the committee with this position then please contact me.

Please send your entries in by Friday for the Print of the Year - this will be judged by Rosie Armes.
Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.

If you are looking for something to do at the weekend check out Heritage Open Days website as many places are free entry Frid/Sat/Sun.

Lynn