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TuesdayThis week is ‘chiefly yourselves’! Wewelcome Leigh Preston FRPS this week ashe joins Clive Haynes FRPS to give us aninformative and enjoyable evening ofimage assessment where each picture isinterpreted, feedback is offered and adeeper understanding gained.    We inviteand encourage both photographer(s) andaudience to participate in the discussions.

All members are invited to submit up tofour PDIs and/or four prints. Please ensureyour name is part of the image title andput PDIs in a folder with your name.  If wehave  a large entry we will select work fromeach person's set to ensure everyone has atleast one PDI and/or print assessed. In caseof query, please contact Clive.Please arrive early if bringing images.

WCC Photonews

    Worcestershire Camera Club Editor: w-news@worcscc.uk

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Header image Martin Addison FRPS

Contents

This weekGB Cup & competitionsMembers’ imagesClub exhibitionsCompetitions & exhibitionsDiaryRead all about it

Contemporary Group

We meet on Thursday 1st February at 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion,Cornmeadow Lane, WR3 7RL.

All members welcome.£2 inc refreshments.  Bar also available.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of theContemporary evening is the friendlyresponses to, and communal discussions  ofwork shown.     All images are appreciatedfor their author's intent and are interesting,surprising, informative, thought-provokingand inspirational.    As a group, ourimaginations are taken for a ride byexperimental technical approaches,    on-going pictorial themes explored, metaphorsvisualised    and the strangeness of lifearound us just waiting to be photographed.Tessa will share a set of images taken inBhutan where hands and beads show thepeople's devotion to Buddhism.  Clive willbe exploring how uninspiring,unwelcoming and lacking in character ahigh street in local small town can be.  Thisany-town, anywhere, blandness isrepresentative of the wider malaise causedby shopping chains, corporate facades,generic designs, plus empty premises,closed pubs and 'To let' signs. As usual wehave some examples from 'outside sources'to enrich our understanding of the variedand fascinating approach of 'Conceptual andContemporary  Photography'.

Members' WorkWe look forward to showing members'work and doubtless there will be the usuallively discussions and interesting positiveanalysis to enrich our WCC CPG evening.Please let Clive know if you are contributingimages (prints or PDI).  It would further helpif PDIs are JPEGs, maximum 1600 x 1200

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pixels, in a folder with your name on. Thisformat makes it much more efficient  on thenight and when putting the gallery ofimages together for the CPG Newsletter.

Tessa & Clive.

Blandcester C Haynes FRPS

T Mills FRPS

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GB Cups Results and External Competitions

Worcester triumphs in the Nature Cup!

As was announced last week, we were joint 2nd with Wigan 10 –this is a fantastic result in a national competition.

Our final score of 133 comprised our 10 highest scores taken fromthe 21 images entered:   these 10 scores are listed below.  Thewinner of the competition – Chorley PS scored 137 – so we werenot far away! – 88 clubs entered the competition!Unfortunately I have not been sent the complete set of scores.

Phermone Testing  -  Barrie Glover 15Wild Dog Pups  -  Eric Williams 15Male Kestrel  -  Bob Tunstall 14Barn Owl Hunting  -  Barrie Glover 14Fallow Deer in full flight  -  Colin Nash 14Beautiful Demoiselle   -   Duncan Locke 13Whooper Swans  -  Duncan Locke 12Golden Snub Nosed Monkeys  -  Duncan Locke 12Thornicroft Giraffes  -  Eric Williams 12Kingfisher   -  Bob Tunstall 12

In the GB Cup – Open – as expected we did not fare so well

ending up joint 36th with a score of 158 out of the 76 clubs

entered – Arden were joint 46th  !!

The scores for the 15 images entered are below:-

Relics of Industry -  Bob Oakley       11Flash Dance  -  Janet Sprason 11Next Year It’s Spain  -  Judy Knights   11Megapolis    -  Clive Haynes   9Tulip Staircase   -  Lee Newton     10Patterns within the Shell  -  Judy Knights 9Standing Tall  -  Jayne Winter 11Wheelie  -  Martin Addison 9Roving Eye  -  Alex Isaacs 12Sky Scraper  -  Paul Mann 12Passing Through   -  Ruth Bourne 11By Moonlight   -  Janet Sprason 11A Grand Mother’s Love  -  Judy Knights 9It’s All Relative  -  Malcolm Haynes 11I’m Only Looking  -  Paul Mann 11

Judy  -  External Competition Secretary

Support your club!

(Notice the poster image credit!)

The last date for entries to MidPhot is Tuesday 30th January.Judy is kindly collating entries for the club - please do contributean entry, even if only one - it would be 75p well spent!  See page3 of this newsletter for full details from Judy.

For those who don’t know, this is the Annual Exhibitionspecifically for members of any Club/Society in the MCPF -Midland Counties Photographic Federation.   There are Opensections in colour and mono prints, and PDIs.  MidPhot also has print and PDI sections for Nature images.  There are many trophiesto be won and judges’ medals in all the sections. all the detailscan be found in the rules.

If you've not entered an exhibition before, do have a go, it’salways an interesting experience. If you have, please continue tosupport the club and your federation! it would be great to see agood selection of WCC work in the MidPhot exhibition (which isalways well attended).

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Members’ images

Clay Cross (BPE) closes 31st January,

IPP I-phone awards  closes 31st March.

Vale of Evesham (BPE) closes 28th Feb.

Basingstoke (BPE) closes 5th March.

Win £500 lab credit with Loxley Colour.(Draw).

Win a camera or $3000 with your travelphotos.

Capture the Moment - free entry. Closes 18 April.

Money and Water. Free to enter. Closes 16Feb.

Landscape. Closes Wed 31 Jan. Win a filter.

We Care - Living to the End. Closes 31January.

RHS 2018  Closes 1 Feb.

Win a Gorillapod with TPA Exposurecompetition. Free. TPA will also choose aselection of the best entries submitted tovarious competition themes for inclusion inone of our future photographic exhibitions.The chosen images will then be printed bythe charity and exhibited at no expense tothe photographers.

Moorhen on ice, taken at Upton Warren by Bob Tunstall DPAGB BPE 4*

Club Exhibitions

Please remember to bring your framed andlabelled (and cheerful!) prints on Tuesday30th January for the Thorneloe LodgePictures for Health exhibition. See p6 of thisnewsletter for full details of labels etc. (Ifyou don’t have a frame and wish to borrow oneemail me, Ruth, ASAP.)

Paul would also be grateful for offers of

help with hanging on Wednesday 31st

January at 4.30pm.

Final hand-in for the club Print

Competition 3 is on Tuesday 6 Feb.

Competitions & exhibitions

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Read all about it…Take a look at the Flipboard magazine for a good read and all sorts of photographs,enjoyable, challenging and from all over the world.Here are a couple of recent ‘flips’ to whet the appetite…

Poetry of Place - English landscape.Black and White’s Photographer of the Year.Beyond the Edge

Diary

10 top NT snowdrop venues in the Midlands.

1 Feb 6-8pm Wilderness Preview, New Art Gallery, Walsall. Exhibitioncontinues  2 Feb - 6 May, free admission. Paintings, drawings, photographsand film works by a group of artists whose works engage with the naturalworld and our innate need for solitude, peace and open space.

Fri 2 Feb Severn Bore phototrip. See the members’ area for details.

Fri 2 Feb Free guitar recital, BMAG 1.10 pm, Round Room. Why notcombine it with a photo-opp hunt round BMAG? Test out the tea room, too!

Royal Photographic Society International Images for Science at the Hive - Fri, 02 February Sun, 18 March 2018   In an increasinglyvisual world, good images of science are often the key to unlocking the curiosity of scientific. This exhibition features 100 imagessubmitted by over 80 counties selected by an expert judging panel to form this breathtaking touring exhibition.

11 Feb 10am WWT Wyre Forest local group Walk in Chance Wood.

17 -18 February 2018 Living History at The Commandery 10:00 - 17:00Adults £5.95 Concessions £4.95 Children FREE Individual annual ticket£10.95 Worcester residents annual ticket £5Experience 2000 years of history come to life with a weekend of livinghistory encampments, military displays, vintage vehicles and more.Organised in partnership with Worcester Re-enactors. Part of the LoveWorcester Heritage Festival.Living History in Worcester is part of the Love Worcester Heritage Festival; aweek of events in heritage venues across the City from 14th - 25th February2018.

Photography Show 17-20 March 2018.  Thanks to Photography News youcan save £3 on standard adult entry (pay only £10.95) - use codePNEWSTPS18 to claim.* *Discount codes expire on 14 March 2018 and applyto standard adult entry tickets only.

IWM say - “Book tickets for either Duxford Air Festival (26-27 May) orDuxford Battle of Britain Air Show (22-23 Sept) by 23.59 on Wednesday 8February and automatically be entered into our prize draw for a chance towin a Spitfire flight with our partner Classic Wings.”

R Bourne LRPS