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8th March 2010
Official Opening of the Annual Exhibition
Monday, 8th March, 2008 marked the opening of the 8th Photographic Exhibition of Nantwich Camera Club. The event was well attended by club members, contributors and helpers at the head of whom was our President John Dodd. There was also a good attendance by local dignitaries including the Mayoress, Edith Williams and several members of the Museum Trust.

John was introduced to the guests by Mrs. Stone, a Trustee of the Museum and John in turn introduced Mrs. Christine Widdall, AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*, President of the Lancs and Cheshire Photographic Union. John gave a vote of thanks to Anne Wheeler, Curator of the Museum for her help yet again in staging the exhibition. John also thanked Wray Douglas for his sterling work in coordinating all the entries and supervising their display.

Christine thanked him for the introduction and went on to compliment the members on the quality of their work and to say that she was pleased that there was an inclusion of film prints. Whilst she herself now works in digital she is anxious that printing, which seems to be bowing to PDI's should not be lost because of the archive interest in years to come will also be lost should prints disappear. She also said that she had opened the Southport Society Open Exhibition this week and recommended it to anyone who might like to go along.

There were many compliments from non-members on the quality of the work on display and satisfaction by the members on how well the prints looked en-masse.
 
 

5th March 2010
Annual Exhibition Opens Saturday 6th March
This years exhibition of 75 prints and a 100 PDI presentation opens to the public on Saturday 6th March 2010. The exhibition will be held at the Nantwich Museum, Pillory Street, Nantwich. The official opening takes place at 3pm Monday 8th March, by L&CPU president Christine Widdall AFIAP,DPAGB,BPE 3*. All Nantwich club members are invited to the opening. If you wish to attend, could you please inform the museum so they can monitor the numbers.
The Nantwich Museum is open Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am to 4.40pm.
It's your exhibition, please support it.

27th February 2010
The L&CPU Annual Print and Projected Image Competition
The annual L&CPU print and projected image competition is fast approaching. The competition is open to all fully paid up club members. Your entry must be submitted to the club competition secretaries by
30th March 2010. Any entries submitted after this date will not be accepted. Please click on the link below to read the general rules, guidelines and the sections within the competition. All labeling of prints/slides is done by the club's competition secretaries. If you wish to enter, could you please also download and complete a members entry form. This is not an official entry form, it is to help assist the competition secretaries in compiling the club's entry for the competition.
 

16th February 2010.
4th Club Competition, Judged by John Royle CPAGB
The 4th club competition of the 2009-2010 season took place on Tuesday 16th February and was judged by John Royle CPAGB. To read a full report and view the top placed images, please visit the "competition page".

3rd February 2010
Paul Topham's workshop from Tuesday night, on how to "Replace Skies around difficult subjects", has now been added to the "Downloads" page.

19th January 2010.
3rd Club Competition, Subject "Dereliction" Judged by Malcolm Price.
The 3rd club competition of the 2009-2010 season was the set subject competition. This year the subject was "Dereliction". To read a full report and view the top placed images, please visit the "competition page".

16th January 2010
Club Exhibition 2010

This year’s exhibition will now commence on Saturday March 6th and run to Saturday May 8th. Although the exhibition will be available for public consumption on the Saturday, due to timetable commitments the official opening will be delayed until 3pm, Monday March 8th. I am very pleased to announce that it will then be performed by Christine Widdall, who is the L&CPU’s president elect.

It is intended this year to display about 75 prints, as last year’s presentation proved to be a little overcrowded. We are also discussing with the museum showing an AV presentation of DPI images. We also intend to hold an Open Day during the exhibition, probably Saturday 24th April, (between 11am and 4pm) when it is hoped volunteer members will attend the museum to meet with other visitors.

Print Submissions
Members are each invited to submit 7 or 8 prints – these should reflect their current work over the past 2 seasons but please do not submit prints previously exhibited at the museum in 2009.

We are inviting up to 8 prints to ensure that we end up with enough – assuming that more than 75 are submitted, obviously we may need to return some, as we did last year.

If any member cares to submit one or two prints larger than club competition rules normally allow, say up to A2, these will be considered; however there will be insufficient space for too many.

Would each member making a submission kindly also provide a jpeg file of each image, sized as per club
Pdi recommendations – these could be e-mailed to me, or by way of a CD or flash drive.

AV submissions
I will be collecting PDI type submissions from which we will create a loop AV presentation. Further details as to exact specification to follow, but could I ask for 10 each please.

Display Cabinet
The museum has asked if any members have material suitable for the their display cabinet,such as old equipment or photographic memorabilia, If anyone has anything, please let me know.

Timetable
I started collection of submissions last week and would be very grateful for entries as early as possible as there remain only 7 weeks to fully prepare for the exhibition!

It is intended for the exhibition to open on 6th March, but we will have early access to the museum to hang the prints. I will be asking for a few volunteers for some assistance nearer to those dates.

Contact details
I can be contacted on 01829-730212, or by e-mail at wraydouglas@btinternet.com


Further to my bulletin yesterday there are some updates:

Prints: Will everyone submitting please also let me have the date ( approx month & year) and location.

Also, the museum would like to make prints available for sale, for which it would take a 30% commission. I have agreed that this would be subject to the consent of each individual author, so if you want to sell any or all of your submitted prints, would you kindly also let me have a suggested price (gross, ie to include commission). We would make it clear that copyright and reproduction rights were retained by authors, and that as most prints were digitally produced, longevity could not be guaranteed. If you don't want to sell, that's fine, just let me know and I'll label each print accordingly.

Pdi's: Andrew Charlesworth has come up with a great suggestion: he will provide me with a CD with all competition dpi's from last season to date, from which I can make a selection. However if anyone wants to make an individual submission, that's fine also.

Best regards

Wray (Events Secretary)

 
Click on link the below to download a printable version of the Exhibition information


Exhibition Information

6th January 2010
Changes due to bad weather.
Due to the bad weather conditions, Simon Watkinson, ABIPP was sorry he was unable to travel from his home town in Buxton! to present his lecture "Digital Imaging with Lightroom". Simon was looking forward to coming over to Nantwich, so he has now been rescheduled for Tuesday 9th March 2010, which replaces the "Hands on Workshop". Another problem due to the weather conditions is that members were unable to submit their entries for the "Dereliction" competition. The competition secretaries have agreed to take entries up to next Tuesday (12th January). If you are unable to attended next Tuesday and would still like to submit an entry, please contact Andrew or Bryan and arrange a convenient time when you can drop your entry with them.

31st December 2009
"Dereliction" Competition Entries.
The entries for the "Dereliction" competition are due in on the first meeting back in 2010, which will be Tuesday 5th January. Members have been asking how many entries do we need to submit. At this point the only answer is to submit your entry to the club competition rules, which states, 4 print entries and 4 PDI entries in your priority order from 1 to 4. Depending on the total number of entries received, these may be reduced by the competition secretaries to a suitable number for the judge to cope with.

30th December 2009.
"Saddleworth, through my lens", by Christine Widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*
Supporting The Christie Hospital Manchester
 

Christine Widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3* has published a book about her local area. The book all about the village and surround area of Saddleworth has a forward from top UK landscape photographer, Joe Cornish. Christine has put a small mark-up on the book, which she will be donating to the Christie Hospital Manchester, the local cancer specialist hospital. If you’ like to support this cause, please click on the image below to visit Christine's website. Thank you


16th December 2009.
Inter Club Battle with Sandbach, Judged by Christine Widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*

The annual Nantwich and Sandbach battle took place at Sandbach libuary and was judge by Christine widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*. For a full report, please visit the "Competitions" page.

8th December 2009.
2nd Club Competition, Judged by Tony Redford.
The 2nd club competition of the 2009-2010 season took place on Tuesday 8th November and was judged by Tony Redford. To read a full report and view the top placed images, please visit the "competition page".

30th November 2009
Chester PS Inter-Club Competition judge by Gordon Jenkins
The Chester Photographic Society Inter-Club Competition was held on 17 November 2009 and was judged by Gordon Jenkins. Nantwich came second, scoring 30, beaten by only 1 point by joint winners, Hoylake and Heswall, with 31 points each. Wray Douglas's "Provencal Tree" (see below) won the Colour Print section and his " Red Kite" (see below) took second place. 'Provencal Tree' was also awarded Print of the Night, so congratulations are in order to Wray.
Competition was fierce with many excellent prints, both colour and mono, and the judging had to be 'firm but fair' because of the high standard. Gordon Jenkins congratulated the club and photographers concerned.
Click on the images to see large view
 
1st place
"Provencal Tree"

by Wray Douglas
2nd place
"Red Kite"


by Wray Douglas

3rd November 2009
Inter Club Battle with Whitchurch, Judged by David Hollows CPAGB
The first inter-club battle of this season was against Whitchurch, judged by David Hollows CPAGB. To read the battle report and see the overall scores, please visit the "Competitions" page.

6th October 2009.
1st Club Competition, Judged by Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/p
The 1st club competition of the 2009-2010 season took place on Tuesday 6th October and was judged by Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/p. To read a full report and view the top placed images, please visit the "competition page".

6th October 2009
Upcoming Event, "Landscape & Nature Photography Techniques" by Guy Edwards.

For more details and tickets, please call 0151 343 1551.



17th September 2009
Exhibition by Club Member
On Thursday 17th September, Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB opens his own photographic print exhibition. The exhibition titled, "Images and memories from the canyons of Utah and Arizona" will be held from Thursday 17th September to Wednesday 14th October 2009. The exhibition is on show in the Nantwich bookshop cafe, located on Nantwich town square. If you are unable to visit the exhibition, click on the image below to view the exhibition online. By clicking on the image you will be re-directed to Andrew's own website.
 

6th September 2009
***The New Season Starts on Tuesday 8th September***
On Tuesday, 8th September we will be beginning our new season with a Meet and Greet evening. At this meeting all members can enrol and discuss the new programme which is on this website. It is also an opportunity for anyone who feels that the Camera Club might be for them, to come along and take part in these discussions without any obligation to join, thus getting an understanding of the club and its aspirations. They can take a week to reflect on what they have heard, return on 15th, when one of our most respected speakers, Irene Froy FRPS, MPAGB, Hon.PAGB.EFIAP will be addressing us, she truly is a delight, and then make the decision whether to join us.

30th June 2009
News Update from DarBro Computers
Hello Again
I am extremely pleased to announce that Epson have agreed to loan us an Epson Pro 3800 printer. They will be supplying the media/inks and an engineer to set up the colour profiles. We would be honoured if you would advise your fellow members to visit DarBro for a test of their favorite print. All they have to do is bring along their photograph file on a memory pen and if they wish a sample print from their own printers for comparison. The program being utilised will be Photoshop CS. They can even bring along their own specialised media to see how it compares. This will give you an idea on what this printer is capable of at no expense to yourselves.
You are welcome to come anytime between 9am and 5pm on Tuesday 7th to Thursday 9th. If you can’t make it during our normal working hours please contact us and we will make arrangements to meet you after hours.

We would love to see you and your members next week.

Best regards
Bronwen Pretorius
FINANCIAL & MARKETING DIRECTOR
DarbroComputers Limited


18th May2009
The Annual 2009 L&CPU Competition Results.
The annual 2009 L&CPU competition results have now been published. Nantwich Camera Club submitted a total entry of 76 images into the Print, Slide and Digital sections. From the entry, 5 prints and 8 slides have been selected for the folios (the digital selections have not yet been made). We would like to thank all those members who submitted entries for this competition. The club entry gave us an overall club score of 211 points, which placed us in 24th position in the "Overall Club Performance" result. For more results from the annual L&CPU competition, click on the links below, or visit the L&CPU website.
 
 


8th December 2008.
Results of the Chatwins Photographic Competition.
 

Below are the comments/results from Edward Chatwin.

Thank you for all the wonderful shots of the Bakery. It has been a pleasure looking through them all, and very difficult in deciding the winner. However for first place I have chosen the picture "WRD03" and the 2 runner ups are "AC05" and "AVE09".

Thanks again for all your support and please pass on my thanks to all involved.

Regards, Edward.


Click on any of the images below to view the complete entry and the awarded images.
 


Winner
"WRD03"
by Wray Douglas

Runner up
"AC05"
by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB

Runner Up
"Ave09"
by Bryan Averill

 


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