Club Notices

Please register before Sep 19th.

On Thursday 30th October, the club will welcome a very special guest speaker – Landscape Photographer Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world’s leading landscape photographers, renowned for his painterly approach to composition and light. With a career spanning over four decades, he has held major solo exhibitions internationally and published numerous acclaimed books, including The Making of Landscape Photographs and Seeing Landscapes. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers, Charlie is also the founder of the prestigious Landscape Photographer of the Year competition and the Light & Land photography tour company, inspiring photographers worldwide through his work, teaching, and advocacy for the art of landscape photography. You can visit his website at www.charliewaite.com.

With such a prestigious speaker, we would like as many people as possible to attend, so we would like members to please register for this event before Sep 19th, and let us know whether you wish to bring a guest. Guest places will be charged at £5 and payment will be required by cash on 25th Sep.

To register, please login to the Members Only area and use the link in the What’s On panel.

Note that in the event of over-subscription, guest places will be allocated on a first come basis.

As previously advised we will be running a single league for Prints, and a single league for PDIs next season. We will then split those leagues in two for the following seasons, with the intent to have around 40% of the participating members in the upper league in each discipline.

The league positions will be determined from Three Open and One Genre competition in each discipline. The PDI Genre is Mono (the 3rd competition of the season), whilst the Print Genre is Scapes (the 6th competition of the season).

Members can enter a maximum of two images in each competition, so 8 Prints and 8 PDIs in total. For each member, the lowest scoring entry in each discipline will be discounted in terms of final league placement – so each league will be scored from the members 7 best scores. Members entering less than 8 images will also have their lowest scoring image discounted. This is to prevent a single poor result from upsetting the standings for the entire season. As in previous seasons, new members who miss the first Open competitions may enter 3 images in the later Open competitions to catch up.

In the event of a tied score, the placings will be decided on a ‘count-back’ system – the member with the most 2-‘s, then most 19’s etc.

Competition 9 
The final competition is not part of the league scoring, but will have its own award. In a similar vein to last seasons themed “Movie Titles” set subject, we are again looking for some quirky interpretations. This time the theme is “Songs from the Seventies”. So we want images aligned to 1970s top 40 hit song titles.

Just think what you could do with Smoke on The Water, Fat Bottomed Girls or Crazy Horses.

In a twist to the norm, we will be judging this competition internally, with two of our club judges, and two (much more) normal members scoring. This may evolve further during the season…. Watch this space.

Bill and Graham