Wednesday, 30 June 2010

8th July - Malden Camera Club Meeting

Due to unforeseen circumstances our scheduled speaker Glyn Edmunds has had to cancel.  However Dave Mason will give a digital presentation on street photography from various European locations called "Sequential Images". His website is www.davemasonimages.com

Photographers' rights campaign spawns lens cloth launch

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Rules on photography in public places have been spelled out in black and white on a photographers' lens cloth set to be given away with Amateur Photographer (AP) magazine's 10 July issue.

Link to AP article

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Surrey InterClub Slide Competition 2011

After the success of this years Surrey InterClub Slide Competition, with 14 clubs taking part, a second competition is planned for 2011.

Date:- Saturday 15th January, 2011

Time:- 5 p.m. for 6 p.m. start

Venue:- Molesey Methodist Church Manor Road, East Molesey.

Judge:- Ron Tear ARPS, MPAGB

The rules will be the same as this year i.e.

1. Each club must submit 8 35mm slides mounted in glassless Gepe type mounts. No individual can submit more than three slides.

2. All images must be film based and produced in camera. No digital manipulations whatsoever is acceptable.

3. Images must not have been submitted to a previous SPA competitions.

You will be competiting for The Surrey Plate, won last year by Richmond and Twickenham P.S.

There will be a small entry fee in the region of £7.50 per club.

Photography news, reviews, comment and features | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

The Guardian has an interesting page devoted to photography with lots of news and food for thought

Photography news, reviews, comment and features Art and design guardian.co.uk

Life on the canals of Coventry and Oxford | Society | guardian.co.uk

Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden took these photographs of working life on the canals in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford Canals opens at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, on June 26 and runs until August 30

Life on the canals of Coventry and Oxford Society guardian.co.uk