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Official Opening of the Annual Exhibition
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.
Annual Exhibition Opens Saturday 6th March
The Nantwich Museum is open Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am to 4.40pm.
It's your exhibition, please support it.
The L&CPU Annual Print and Projected Image Competition
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.
4th Club Competition, Judged by John Royle CPAGB
3rd Club Competition, Subject "Dereliction" Judged by Malcolm Price.
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)
Exhibition Information
Changes due to bad weather.
"Dereliction" Competition Entries.
"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*
2nd Club Competition, Judged by Tony Redford.
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.
1st
place "Provencal Tree"  by Wray Douglas |
2nd
place "Red Kite"  by Wray Douglas |
Inter Club Battle with Whitchurch, Judged by David Hollows CPAGB
Upcoming Event, "Landscape & Nature Photography Techniques" by Guy Edwards.
For more details and tickets, please call 0151 343 1551.
Exhibition by Club Member
***The New Season Starts on Tuesday 8th September***
News Update from DarBro Computers
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
The Annual 2009 L&CPU Competition Results.
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.
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