This Week

External Competitions

Your Club Needs You!

Members’ News

Competitions & Exhibitions

Diary

PAGB News

Around the Web

Beginners’ Course

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Contents

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WCC NEWSWorcestershire Camera Club Editor: w-news@worcscc.uk

Susan Brown FRPS EFIAP-B will be

presenting a selection of her more

recent works, mainly coastal

prints.

Susan’s photographic interest

spans some 30 years. She exhibits

widely in UK and abroad and pub-

lications include ‘The Coast’ by 5

Arena members. She specialises in

long-exposure work at the coast

but has wide-ranging interests.

Header image Ruth Bourne LRPS

This Week

Digital Group

We meet this week on Thursday,

18th February at 7.30pm at the

Claines Royal British Legion,

Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester

WR3 7RL.

As you probably know, Martin's in

Cuba and will be back just before the

Digital Group meeting.  Martin asked

Clive to run the meeting in the usual

format so Clive will present some-

thing of interest then follow up with

a review of images contributed for

sharing, comment, suggestions and

improvements.

Clive would like to in-

clude some items 'by

request'.  If you would

like him to run through

any Photoshop methods,

image processing or

workflow aspects,

please send your re-

quests to:-

clive@crhfoto.co.uk

Images:- Home (left) and Drifting (below)

by Clive Haynes FRPS

External Competitions

The PAGB ‘GB Cup – Nature’ competition was held on Saturday. This is a National competition where the

standard would be very high. We finished 43rd out of the 96 clubs entered with a score of 119 – tying with

Cheltenham Camera Club in the same position. It was very close in the middle region as only 2 points

separated the 20th and 43rd positions – I feel this was a pretty good result.

Well done to everyone whose images were entered - especially to Duncan Locke who had our highest score

of the day with 14 for his wonderful ‘White tailed Eagle’ and Bob Tunstall who had 2 images scoring 13.

21 images were submitted and scored, but only the 10 highest scores counted towards our final score of 119.

Worcestershire Camera Club – PAGB Nature Cup – Individual Scores

NB: The Open section of the GB Cup was run on Sunday so these results will be in next week’s WCC News.

Advance notice:-On the subject of External competitions – the Midland Counties Photographic Federation will be holding

their ‘Print & Projected Image club championship’ on April 16th at Braunstone. This club will be entering

both sections - so we will again be asking you to help us get together the best entry possible.

It is possible to get tickets to attend this MCPF meeting. This kind of competition is vastly different to a club

competition so for anyone whose work is being entered and has not attended one of these sessions it might

be of interest to you.

Anyone interested – please let me know.

Judy Knights , External Competition Secretary

N01 - Toucan Mashpi - Jeff Steady - 10N02 - Foraging Ursus Americanus - Eric Williams - 10N03 - Goldfinch on Teasel - Michael Hadley - 10N04 - Arctic Fox - Les Bailey - 11N05 - Amethyst Deceivers - Bob Tunstall - 13N06 - Glasswing Butterfly - John Burrows - 11N07 - Polar Bear - Duncan Locke - 12N08 - Little Owl - Bob Tunstall - 11N09 - Carder Bee - Douglas Gregor - 11N10 - Milvus Milvus - Eric Williams - 9N11 - Aurora Reflection - Paul Mann - 11N12 - Grey Heron Nesting - Michael Hadley - 9N13 - Red fox - Douglas Gregor - 11N14 - Black Headed Gull Courtship - Eric Williams - 11N15 - Cloud Forest Wolf Spider - Jeff Steady - 10N16 - Robin in Apple Tree - Brian Eacock - 10N17 - Ophrys Apifera - Duncan Locke - 12N18 - Sea Lions at Play - Jeff Steady - 10N19 - Robin in Flight - Douglas Gregor - 8N20 - Dunnock in Flight - Bob Tunstall - 13N21 - White Tailed Sea Eagle - Duncan Locke – 14

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Your Club Needs You!

Our club has an enviable reputation for producing excellent nature images and the Annual Nature competi-

tion is one of the season’s highlights. Last year, there were 57 PDIs and 40 prints entered into the competition

that was held on a very enjoyable evening. Today, we are half way

through the hand-in period for this season’s Nature competition

and with just 10 days to go, we have rather fewer!

This is to remind you that there are

just 2 more opportunities remaining

to submit prints, on Tuesday 16 and

Tuesday 23 February at the regular

club meetings.

Competitions are an important part of club life and it would be very disappoint-

ing if the number of entries for this prestigious competition did not increase

substantially.

Should you have a query about entering this competition please contact Eric

at e-comp@worcscc.uk or contact Clive at any time.

Here’s a reminder from the Rules - why not browse your archives and see what you have to enter?

Nature photography depicts living, untamed animals and uncultivated plants in a natural habitat, geology and thewide diversity of natural phenomena. Photographs of animals, which are domesticated, and photographs of

cultivated or hybrid plants are ineligible. Minimal evidence of humans is acceptable for nature subjects, such as

barn owls or storks adapting to an environment modified by humans, or natural forces, like hurricanes or tidal

waves, reclaiming it. Any manipulation or modification must be limited to minor retouching and must not alter the

truth of the original scene.

3 Wise Men, Valley of the Goblins Douglas Gregor

Kilve, Heather Mann

Venus Pool by Angie Hill

Northern Lights above Kirkjufell, Paul Mann

Please remember too that the CrownGate exhibition refresh is at the end of February - prints to Paul MannASAP please! Details in last week’s newsletter.

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Members’ NewsSunday was the last day of Max’s exhibition at the Hive. Unforeseen circumstances meant a slightly early

take-down of the exhibition at midday, so if you didn’t manage to get along before then you can still make a

donation here.

Photos:

Bob Brierley

Competitions & Exhibitions

RPS International Print Competition 159 is open to all and entries will be accepted from 1st March. Early birdentries by 31 March, closes 31 May 2016.

PCA SALON 2016 Closing date: 21 February 2016.Large Exhibition Catalogue – Photo book Hardcover one photo /page  format: 13.2 x 9,3’’ (34 x 24cm)

Total of 140 awards + (5x$250 + 5x$50) Patronages: PSA RPS PCA GPU

VECC 2016 closes 29 Feb. 18th National Open Exhibition.Four digital categories - Colour, Monochrome, Natural History, Experimental/Creative Images.

South Birmingham Image 16 closes 2 March.

RPS Open Photobook Exhibition for books created between 1 January 2014 and closing date 31 July 2016.

Street and Documentary images - regular magazine call. Deadline 20th of any month.

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PAGB NewsPAGB News 155 now available.

Don’t forget the WCC Flipboard magazine for a look at what’s going on

around the web…. Join Flipboard for free and follow the mag. You can

also contribute - just email the editor to be added to the contributor list

(see header for email address).

Around the Web

DiarySat 20th Feb Aelfgythe Morris side dance and procession in Alvechurch for some photo

opps.

Women in Photography meets The Photography ShowThis year, our Women in Photography: Field work panel brings together a dynamic collection of women, each

with their own perspective and experience of working within the field of photography. These inspirational

individuals will share their insights on some of the key themes surrounding women in photography on

Monday, 21 March in the Behind the Lens Theatre, from 13:00 to 14:40.

Have your work on display at the Photography Show.

12-13 March 2016 The IAC Peter Coles International AV Competition 2016 will be held at Capel Curig.

Closing date for entry was Monday 1st February 2016. Well worth a trip to view the entries - booking is

essential via marion@nwawavg.org.uk - there is limited space and it’s nearly full!

Beginners’ Online Photography Course Digital photography: creating and sharing better images

Registration for the next (March 2016) OU/RPS 10-week online course closes 19th February.It will re-run in October this year and March 2017 - registration is already open for those courses.

Successful completion of the course will lead to the award of the RPS Certificate in Photography. The

certificate is free to members of The Society who have completed the course and for a small fee to

non-members. Members will also be entitled to attend a free Distinctions Advisory Day. There are also

membership reductions/benefits.

Stewart and I took a previous incarnation of the course in 2009 (when it was just an OU course, T189)

and found it to be extremely interesting, very helpful as a pre-LRPS discipline and a good balance

between the art and science of photography.

The assignment & assessment are very manageable and not too scary! We really enjoyed it and would

recommend it. It also gave us both the confidence to put in for our LRPS. Sadly the price has gone up in

the meantime but it is a high-quality course - I still go back to re-read some of the materials. Do ask us

if you are interested in finding out more about our experience of the online course.

For full course details and prospectus, see the OU site.

The T189 module in week 3 on exposure & low light photography made

me learn quite a bit about night shots. We were on holiday at the time but

the homework was fun despite the wet weather!

This was about my first ever half-way decent night shot not taken on auto

settings and where the outcome was pretty much exactly as I envisaged. I

was very proud of myself, even though lying in the gutter!

Chartres Street, Ruth Bourne

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Last, but never least - the Committee hard at work!