Buckingham Camera Club
May 2012
Wednesday 2nd May
Competition #4. PDI. Keeping Time and Open.
Keeping Time - Images for this subject should include a time piece as
the main feature. Any kind of time
keeping device including sundials, calendars, hour glasses etc.
The judge tonight is Brian Pere from Duston CC (MCPF)
Please ensure you have read ALL the competition rules and guidelines
before submitting any work for a competition.
Please contact any of the committee members who are fully conversant
with the presentation needs of the print easel, the projector and the
audio visual system.
Wednesday 9th May
SPEAKER: Alan Colgrave ARPS (Harrow CC). Television to the Photographic
Studio. Illustrated
with prints, this talk follows Alan's career from being a freelance TV
cameraman to running a
photographic studio in Central London.
http://www.theboutiquestudio.co.uk/
The main subject is portraiture and photographing people and displays
some of Alan's recent 'green
screen' work.
also on Wednesday 9th May
DEADLINE
! This is the
month for our entry to be with our twin town of Mouvaux, France - this year’s
theme is ‘Fantastic’ or ‘Fantastic Scenery’ The CD of selected images
needs to be in France by May 25th we are thus making a closing date of May 9th
to give the selection committee the benefit of two weeks to select, copy to CD
and post the Jiffy Bag ™ to France !!!
Sunday 13th May
CACC Finals day (The Rose Bowl) at Amersham: Best Panel of Prints, Audio
Visual individuals'
trophy, Rose Bowl final. Print titles by the 19th March, prints by
the 15th April at
the Championships day, AV
titles and entries to Ian Bateman by the 19th April.
Please ensure you have read ALL the competition rules and guidelines
before submitting any work for a competition.
Please contact any of the committee members who are fully conversant
with the presentation needs of the print easel, the projector and the
audio visual system.
Wednesday 16th May
PRACTICAL: Architecture would be a tricky one in the hall so we will have
a practical portraits skills
share session with models from Adrian Davies' contacts book. We should
all be full of tips from Alan Colgrave's talk last week.
Monday 21st May
The Three Bs Contest: Three way print battle for the Rosewood Award:
Banbury are hosting Buckingham
and Badby. It will be held at Banbury's normal venue, Chenderit School,
Archery Road, Middleton Cheney
starting at 7.30pm. The judge is Colin Southgate FRPS DPAGB
from Harpenden PS. Each club enters 16 prints, with a maximum of three
prints from any photographer.
Please ensure you have read ALL the competition rules and guidelines
before submitting any work for a competition.
Please contact any of the committee members who are fully conversant
with the presentation needs of the print easel, the projector and the
audio visual system.
Wednesday 23rd May
Casual evening: Tonight's theme is
Composition and Subject Selection.
The casual evening each month has a theme.
We can accept or ignore this theme depending on what else we find
interesting to discuss but there will at least be a table, demo or short
lecture on the theme to ensure the evening has a focal point.
Wednesday 30th May
Fun Competition - MACRO - returns for the second year by popular demand.
Take a weird and wonderful close up image of an inanimate object and let
the audience try and guess what it
is. The member guessing the most correct objects will be the winner.
Image requirement guidelines will be supplied beforehand.
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