October 5th Blackburn & District Camera Club Feniscowles Methodist Church Hall Preston Old Road Blackburn BB2 5EP W 足 www.Blackburncameraclub.co.uk
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Contents Club Meetings How to find us
Autumn Programme
Competition Calendar L&CPU News
Communications
This Weeks Cover Image
Kyoto By Bob Singleton
News Events and Activities
From Blackburn & District Camera Club
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Editorial Staff Pixel Editor Lee Johnson Pixel Xtra Editor Bob Singleton Editorial Assistant Barry Noon Blackburn & District Camera Club
President Jim Cunningham Vice President Judith Marr President Elect/Treasurer John Murray Secretary Bob Singleton Competition Chair Roy Pickering Publicity & Communication Chair Lee Johnson Programme Chair Jim Cunningham
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Next Meeting
October 8th
We meet each Monday evening (except Bank Holidays) at 7:30pm at Feniscowles Methodist Church on Preston Old Road Blackburn BB2 5EP
Annual Lecture and Extravaganza Guest Speakers and Judges
Rod & Margaret Smith
The Art of Photography Plus Inter club competition Each club will present a total of 4 digital images by 4 different authors Rod & Margaret will judge and critique them
The marks will be totaled and the winning club announced
How to find us We meet each Monday evening at 7.30pm (except Bank Holidays) at
Feniscowles Methodists Church on Preston Old Rd, Blackburn . BB2 5EP.
Autumn/ Winter Programme 2012 October 15
Results of Activities Competition Judge: Peter Madeley
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Lecture Bob Dennis will present a tutorial entitled “Towards Better an elected member of the L and CPU and is an excellent speaker.
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Nov
Battle with Atherton
Landscapes”. Bob is
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Elimination Competition Judge Bob Singleton
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Members' Evening: A chance to look at the accepted entries to the “2011 Guernsey Salon” , a national competition in which our Club had six acceptances. This will be followed after break by an Open Forum – a chance to bring images for critique, sort problems with editing software etc.
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Dec
Entry Night: President's Prize Theme: "By the Sea" Lecture: Ray Wilson and Eddie Garside from Blackpool will give a talk entitled “AV Our Way”
Results of President's Prize Competition judge: Jim Cunningham
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Members' Evening:
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Free and Easy with a presentation of Member’s best images taken in 2012. Please bring along up to eight of your best images.
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President's Evening
Competition Calendar 2012 Oct 15
Results of Activities Competition
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Elimination Competition Judge Bob Singleton
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Results of President’s Prize Competition – judge: Jim Cunningham
Nov 12
Entry Night: President’s Prize Theme: “By the Sea”
Next years competitions Themes
Including President's Prize there are 4 themed competitions next year. Following the vote at last weeks meeting the THEMES will be as follows:
Dawn & Dusk
Running Water People at Play
Small is Beautiful We will let you know which theme attaches to which competition when the calendar is finalised and released in the Autumn
Image sizes
No changes are planned in respect of Prints
Our current DPI sizes are smaller than those used in the external competition we enter as a club and the committee are considering rule changes for next year. That is competitions entered after 1 January 2013. However if you are preparing images now for next year please be aware of the change and work on larger images. The final rule changes will be announced later in the year and ratified at the AGM. For the time being we suggest that you work anticipating a new size of 2000px on the long side of the image
L&CPU News CHESTER PS have Colin Prior to give their 125th Anniversary Lecture
L&CPU Archive Gallery
You can now view nearly 400 photographs from the L&CPU Archive online! This exciting new facility is the result of a great deal of work by our Archivist Garth Tighe assisted now by Jon Allanson. This is just one project they are working on to popularise the wonderful material we have in the L&CPU Archive. You can browse these photographs and quickly see that line, form and composition have always been the keynotes to a successful image.
Other Events
L&CPU APM Mentoring at Warrington on 28th October. There is also the PAGB Print Championships tickets are going fast at £5 each. MCPF, RPS, Holme & District, and Chester PS talks are all listed on the EVENTS page. And don't forget the RPS PI International presented by Chester PS at Chester Zoo in November.
Guy Edwards
Award winning Landscape Photographer and participator in the 2020Vision Project Guy Edwardes is coming to the NCPS on Tuesday 9th October, 7.30 for 8pm To be held in the Poynton Theatre. Situated off Georges Rd Poynton Cheshire SK12 1JY. Tickets are £10 each To reserve a ticket and for further information please contact North Cheshire Regards, John Royle For fulll details please visit the L&CPU Website http://www.lcpu.org.uk/
Communications Bookmark these links Web
www.blackburncameraclub.co.uk
Facebook page
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Forum
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If you have any suggestions about how we should improve club communications please write to me. Secretary@blackburncameraclub.co.uk