SPA INTER - CLUB PRINT AND PDI COMPETITION 2009 - 2010Second Round Results

Second Round Results

8th SPA Inter-Club Competition (Quarter finals) at Malden Camera Club

Happy Easter. there was no meeting on the 1st April, next week on 8th April Malden Camera Club is hosting  the 8th SPA Inter-Club Competition (Quarter finals) Prints: Molesey v Hampstead v Esher v Woking, Digital: Malden v Hampstead v Camping & Caravanning v Esher, Judge: Keith Evans FRPS DPAGB

SPA The second round draw for the 2009-10 Inter-Club Competition

The second round draw for the 2009-10 Inter-Club Competition is now available on the SPA website 

DPI Competition 4 March

An excellent evening with the slide entry holding up well. The judge Tong Charters from Woking Photographic Society provided valuable and constructive comments on the entries in interesting and entertaining way. I welcomed a number of prospective new members who came along to see Malden Camera Club, they appeared to have enjoyed the evening and we hope to see them again.

4 March Projected Image Competition

This week we have the first round of the Malden Camera Club   Projected Image Competition which will be judged by Tony Charters.

The Photographers' Gallery and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

The Photographers' Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists - we are the place to see photography in all its forms.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography over the previous year.
The four shortlisted artists for this year's Prize are:
Anna Fox (b.1961, UK) is nominated for her exhibition Cockroach Diary & Other Stories at Ffotogallery, Cardiff (28 July – 10 October 09), initiated by Impressions Gallery, Bradford.

Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is nominated for her retrospective exhibition Zoe Leonard - Photographs, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (1 April – 5 July 09), initiated by Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Sophie Ristelhueber (b.1949, France) is nominated for her retrospective Sophie Ristelhueber at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (20 January – 22 March 2009).

Donovan Wylie (b.1971, UK) is nominated for his exhibition MAZE 2007/8 at Belfast Exposed (27 March – 1 May 2009).

This year’s Jury is: Olivia Maria Rubio (Director of Exhibitions, La Fàbrica, Spain); Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, Design Artists Copyright Society, curator and writer); James Welling (artist, USA); and Anne-Marie Beckmann (Curator, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany). Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, is the non-voting Chair.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 Catalogue is available from our Bookshop for the special exhibition price of £17.99.

Outings Competiton

All in all a good evening which I hope everyone enjoyed. The disappointment was the lack of slides in the competition. There was a good selection of prints the winner was "Mosaic Repair" by Brian Bailey and for projected images Simon Lane won with "Over the Last". We will dicuss this years Outings at the enxt Committee meeting.

Surrey Inter-Club Slide Competition

16th January
Surrey Inter-Club Slide Competition at
Molesey Methodist Church, Manor Road, East Molesey, KT8 9JU.
5.30 p.m. for 6.00 p.m. start. 14 clubs taking part.
Judge: Chris Palmer ARPS, DPAGB, APAGB, AFIAP.

Entrance fee for members of non-participating Clubs, who are all very welcome, will be £2.00.

External Competitions

MALDEN CAMERA CLUB
Dates for your diary 2010

16th January SURREY INTER-CLUB SLIDE COMPETITION
Judge: Chris Palmer
Hosted by: Molesey Photographic Society
At: Molesey Methodist Church
Manor Road – East Molesey – KT8 9JU
5.30pm for 6pm


19th January SPA INTER-CLUB PTINT & DPS COMPETITIONS
Round One: Molesey – Kingston - Malden
Judge: Glyn Edmunds
St Mary’s Church Hall – St Mary’s Road
East Molesey KT8 0SS
Start 8pm
COME AND SUPPORT YOUR CLUB

SPA GOLDEN JUBILEE EXHIBITION 2010
Guildford House Gallery – 155 High Street – Guildford
3rd April – 1st May 2010. Open 10am to 16.45pm
(Except Sundays & Mondays)
Entry Forms from John Rowe or on-line:-
www.surreypa.org.uk/biennial2010
All entries to me by Thursday 21st January

Happy New Year

I wish all our members a very Happy New Year.

The next MCC meeting takes place on Thursday 7th January and features a talk on Portraits Liz Keevil (Kingston University).

Do not forget to bring your entires for next weeks competition; Best Print and Projected Image from 2009 Judge: Bob Turner FRPS

First Round of the Slide Competition

This week we have the first round of the rescheduled Club slide competition, Judge David Plummer. This round was re-scheduled because of the large number of entries received. This is a good indication of a healthy interest in continuing slide work with the Club.

Reminder
That all entries to the Annual Exhibition MUST be in by this Thursday 14th May

SPA 1/4 Finals at Crawley

The SPA Quarter finals held at Crawley Camera Club were well supported by Malden Camera Club, however Cheam won by a small margin. Crawley Camera Club is fortunate in having a permanent venue and a growing membership. I discussed this with members of Crawley Camera Club and a major element of the Club’s current success is the use of the Club web site to provide up to date information on all activities. The small number of members not online, provide the secretary with self addressed envelopes so that information can be mailed back to them. As I have said before one of the most important issues for our Club is to grow the membership and I see the use of the Club web site as key to achieving this. I am interested to know what members views are on this issue.

SPA quarter finals

This Thursday, 2nd April we will be going to the SPA quarter finals being held at Crawley Camera Club. As a consequence there is no meeting at New Malden.

Monochrome Print Competition

The Monochrome Print Competition was held last Thursday and was characterised by the high quality of the entries in both the standard and advanced classes. Les Worger did an excellent job casting his critical eye over the entries providing constructive comment and criticism.

One issue that did come light, is what defines a monochrome print and to what extent is colour allowed. I am actively pursing this issue and hope together with the Club Committee to provide advice in the near future.

2nd round of the Print Competition

This week we have the second round of the Club print competition, this round is one of my favourites, monochrome. I shoot in colour (RAW) and convert to monochrome in Photoshop. You can exercise great control over the conversion by controlling the way in which the individual colour channels are converted. By darkening the blues you can make the sky darker increasing the contrast against the clouds, so that in extreme you can create an almost infra-red effect. You can also simulate various black and white film effects by adjusting the colour channels when using the Photoshop curves function.

Digital Competiton Round 1

The results of round one of the Club Digital Competiton held on 26 February 2009, judged by Howard Martin ARPS have now been posted on the Club Web site.

Sony World Photography Awards

Photography Awards be inspired

Competition - Images of Club Outings 2008

On 12 March there will be a showing of pictures taken on last year's club outings.

Please submit your images to John Rowe, ideally by 5 March. You can nominate up to two prints, two slides and two digital images for inclusion in a competition for the best picture taken on one of the outings.

Projected Image Competition 26 February

The first round of our projected images competition proved a great success. Indeed so many slides and images were submitted that there was only time to judge the digital images. The entries where split into advanced and standard classes and ranged from creative abstracts to traditional landscapes. The images that particularly rook my eye was an image of a lavender field bathed in a glorious evening light by Roland Adams who managed to deal the high dynamic range of the lighting very well. The other was the creative abstract by John Horne of disembodied body parts including eyes and mouths against a chequered background.
The slide competition is being rescheduled to the 2nd of April subject to the availability of a room at the Methodist Church, since the Library is closed for repairs to the roof etc.

Photograph of tea bushes

I came across this photograph in the Telegraph. It struck me as bearing a remarkable similarity to one of the pictures entered in our Club competition. My view is the one in our Club completion is better; the ranks of tea bushes look far less shaggy and the tree is larger