8th Holland International Image Circuit 2012

The organization of the Holland International Image Circuit invites you to participate in the:

8^th Holland International Image Circuit 2012.

FIAP Patronage
PSA Recognition
RPS Patronage
UPI License
ISF Label
Fotobond Auspices

There are 5 International Salons in the Circuit and the Circuit is open to amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. Each participant may send maximum of 4 photographs to each section.

14^th Tribute to Colour 2012
8^th Image Salon Delft 2012
8^th Int. Image Salon Oldenzaal 2012
8^th Image Contest Wageningen 2012
6^th Rainbow Challenge Rijen 2012

Sections: CPID Open, CPID Monochrome PTD Travel

Entry fee: 1 section € 45 (US$ 60), 2 sections € 50 (US$ 65) and 3 sections € 55 (US$ 70) and a program of discount for clubs.

Closing date: January 7, 2012.

High quality 5* catalogue and PayPal payments.

All information at www.hollandcircuit.nl

Questions to info@hollandcircuit.nl

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October Monthly Assessment

A report is now on line for our first Assessment.
Click here to read it











John May's winning image

Print and Digital Images of the Year Trophy Reports

Margaret's reports are now on our web site. They come with some of the images seen during these two events. More would be welcomed.
See these reports on a) POY2011 and b) DIOY2011
Congratulations to all who took part and especially the winners.

RHS Photo Comp

For those of you who like competitions have a look at this one. It sounds pretty good to me.
Click HERE

41st Havant National Open Exhibition

The 41st Havant National Open Exhibition is now open for entries.

Categories and entry fees (£5 per section) remain the same as last year. There are 3 print sections:

1. Colour
2. Monochrome
3. Nature

and 2 PI sections:

1. Open
2. Nature

For full details please see our website www.havantcameraclub.co.uk
The key dates are:
Closing date: Tuesday 27th September 2011 

Selection date: Saturday, 8th October 2011 

Preview Evening: Friday, 11th November 2011

The selected images will be on display at the Meridian Centre in Havant from 12th-20th November 2011.
We hope you will support your local exhibition and look forward to receiving your entry.

Jean Brooks, Exhibition Secretary, Havant Camera Club

Viewfinders' Photographer of the Year Trophies

A report on this is now on line HERE

Have a look.

There are two Trophies.

For Prints the Stan Matthews Cup - joint winners Sheila and Terry.

 and

For Digital Images the Stan Webb Trophy - one winner Peter.

New Forest Lavender Competition

Further information of this interesting competition.

Terms of entry see HERE

New Forest Lavender Competition

I am emailing to see if your camera club would be interested in our photograph competition. We are a small family run lavender farm in Landford near Salisbury and are offering the chance for photographers to vist our farm between the 13th and 17th of July 6am to 8pm to take photographs. The lavender field will be at its best for this week and we are looking for people to take pictures of either the lavender or the garden there will be a prize for the best picture. if you are interested then please let me know and I will send all the details to you.

Kind regards

Debbie

New Forest Lavender

RPS DI Group Thames Valley Centre

RPS DI Group Thames Valley Centre: next meeting Sunday 22 May 2011

Morning: CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Don Byatt ARPS EFIAP MPAGB BPE4*

A digital talk showing how to be creative in the camera and afterwards in the computer.


Afternoon: THE ANNUAL PROJECTED DIGITAL IMAGE COMPETITION

Judge: Don Byatt ARPS EFIAP MPAGB BPE4*

IMPORTANT: RULES CHANGE - SEE COMPETITION GUIDELINES www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/Pages/rules-guide-pdi.html

New filename requirements, new submission deadline, and new email address to send to. There are prizes!

For further details, please see our website (www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk). The meeting will be held at the usual location, Coopers Hill Community Centre, Bracknell, and doors open at 10 am for 10.30. Don't forget your pack lunch.

As usual, we advise booking your place at this meeting. Cost: Season Ticket holders FREE, otherwise £5.00 for members of the RPS Digital Imaging Group; £10.00 for all others. Details via the booking page www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk/Pages/booking.html on our web site.

We look forward to welcoming you there.

Roger Norton
centreorganiser@rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk
www.rpsdig-thamesvalley.org.uk

Natural History Trophies

Margaret's press report is now on line for you to read.  It has images of the winning Projected Images.
To see the report click HERE

Basingstoke Camera Club 2011 Annual International Projected Image Exhibition

Basingstoke Camera Club Annual International Projected Image Exhibition - Closing Date 7th March 2011

I thought you would like to know about the 2011 Basingstoke Camera Club Annual International Projected Image Exhibition. Photographers can enter up to five images in each of up to four entry classes: Open, Nature, Portrait and Monochrome. The Exhibition has been running for many years and is very successful, with about 1500 images entered last year. We accept only digital submissions and have a very easy to use online submissions website. There is, of course, no requirement for the images to have been taken with a digita l camera - scanned images would be just as welcome. Paypal may be used which means that the whole process can be carried out without resorting to paper entry forms or CDs!

The web site for the Exhibition is:
http://www.photoexhib.co.uk/bcc
where entry forms, the rules and the online submission site may be found. All the accepted and award-winning images from the 2010 Exhibition are viewable too. The Club website is at:

http://www.basingstokecameraclub.co.uk

Many thanks for your time. I very much hope to see some entries from your members

Best regards,
Steve Bright ARPS
President and Exhibition Secretary
Basingstoke Camera Club

Cotswold Salon 2011

January 2011 Assessment report

The last Assessment report written by Margaret is now on line. To read this click HERE

Michelmersh & Timsbury News

Linked here is the Jan/Feb 2011 edition with a section on page 13 written by Margaret Kirby concerning events in Viewfinders. Be warned it is a PDF file of 2.4Mb but worth the wait since the picture shown is one of mine!  Click HERE TO READ

The SPF Digitally Projected Championship 2010 on Sunday

Sunday 21st November at Shaw Social Club, Almond Avenue, Newbury, Berks, RG14 1LU

The competing clubs are:

Alton, Basingstoke, Beaulieu, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Chichester, Fordingbridge, Havant, Hayling Island, Highcliffe & Infinity, Newbury, New Forest, North Hants, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, South Reading, Steyning and Winchester.

As always the event is hosted by Newbury CC and we are delighted that the event has once again been awarded PAGB Patronage.

Your judges on the day are all from Surrey and will be:

Mrs Jay Charnock FRPS, Mrs Ann Smith ARPS and Mrs Cynthia James LRPS.

Audience entry on the day is now free for members of SPF affiliated clubs + £1 for membership of the Shaw Social Club.

The doors open at 12 noon and judging starts at 2pm; a refreshment break will be taken at around 3pm. There will also be a substantial raffle. You will not have a better opportunity in the season to see the top PDIs from SPF clubs.

Map can be seen HERE

2nd Assessment Report

Margaret's report to the Romsey Advertiser is now available HERE but with extra pictures.

Audio Visual Evening Results

Below is part of the spreadsheet with the results from Tuesday's AV show.

We had a return of 35 papers of which two papers showed that the members had missed some of the AVs.
I numbered each paper and recorded the scores. On the two papers with missed scores, John Walter and I have calculated the average score on each of the papers and put that score in red on the spreadsheet. This in itself has now created another concern with the 5th & 6th places being so close.

I believe that in fairness to Pat (being given an average score) we should declare both AVs as equal 5th place. Which is how I have shown it on the spreadsheet. I have retained the papers and they are available should any of you wish to see them.
My thanks to all of you for allowing your AVs to be shown.
Regards
Terry

	Title	Author	Score
1	Longstock water Gardens	John & Margery May	114
2	Kierstenbosh	Steve Williams	127.5
3	Bowood House	Pat Ball	100.5
4	The Punch & Judy man.	Terry Jamieson	141.5
5	Open Day – Portsmouth	John & Margery May	113
6	New England in the fall	Steve Williams	126
7	Portland Bill	Pat Ball	111.5
8	Bulb work	Peter Read	112
9	Mottisfont	John & Margery May	112.5
9a	Salisbury Fair	Peter Read	134
10	Pumpkins Galore	Terry Jamieson	124.5
11	Vortrekka Monument	Steve Williams
12	Flying From Bournemouth	Pat Ball	140
13	In & Around Winchester Cathedral	John & Margery May	126.5
14	Autumn at Exbury	Pat Ball	115
15	African safari	Steve Williams	143
16	Hilliers in Autumn	Tony & Betty Rackham	158
17	Colour of the Wind	Terry Jamieson	146
18	Autumn at Stourhead	Pat Ball	109.5
19	The Vienna Wheel	Steve Williams	116
20	Amsterdam	John & Margery May	112.5
21	Hilliers Centenary Border	Tony & Betty Rackham	140.5
22	Broadlands Battle	Steve Williams	100
23	Bright Eyes	John & Margery May	132

October Assessment results

Margaret has written her report on this assessment for October and this can be seen HERE

Digital Image of the Year 2010

A report and results can be seen HERE

Print of the Year 2010

Margaret's report on this interesting evening is now on line.  To read this click HERE