Hon.Editor rod@creative‐camera.co.uk  

 

Issue 73, March 2017

SPF INTER-CLUB PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP 2017

CHAMPIONS - John Logan Trophy - CARLUKE CAMERA CLUB

Best Colour Club – (SPF Gold Medal) - Dumfries C.C. and Edinburgh P.S.

Best Monochrome Club - (SPF Gold Medal) - Carluke Camera Club

2nd placed Dumfries CC and 3rd placed Eastwood PS had already pre-qualified for the 2017 PAGB Print Championship by reaching the final in 2016, so, 1st placed Carluke CC and 4th placed Dundee PS will be invited to represent the Scotland at the 2017 PAGB Print Championship.

Once again, we are grateful to our event main sponsor Paper Spectrum. www.paperspectrum.co.uk

Individual and Club Award

Winners 2017

Arctic Tern over Luskentyre by Tom Langlands Dumfries Commended

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It was great to see such a good turn-out at the SPF Print Championship judging held on Sunday 19th February 2017 at Stirling University.

Our three Judges have changed in the past two months with two late cancellations due to health issues. We wish them well in their recovery and are grateful for our two replacement Judges for stepping in to the job at the very last minute.

Joan Blease MPAGB EFIAP ARPS from Warrington PS, L&CPU Richard Speirs DPAGB APAGB from Morton PS, NCPF

Dave Symonds FRPS EFIAP Newton Stewart, SPF

Full individual scores have been sent to the Club Competition Secretaries who completed their Print Championship entry. The final Club placings are available to download at http://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/spf-print-championship

Top 10 in each competition

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SPF CLUB ENTRY TO THE SCOTTISH SALON

Special awards for Scottish Residents to win in all 6 sections Club Competition and a Trophy for the Best Scottish Club

- One person from a Club must organise and submit all the entries using our Online Entry via the Scottish Salon website not the SPF website. Remember you will need to register as a new user.

- Please select “enter as a Club”, to get the discount price and the Club points. - Visit the Clubs/Groups area of the Scottish Salon website for full details. - All Catalogues and results will be sent to the Club/Group organiser. - Reduced Entry Fees for Club entries are - £1 per print or digital image (PDI) - Clubs must enter a minimum of 20 photographs to be eligible for this price. - CLUB COLLATION FORMS FOR 2017, TO GIVE YOUR MEMBERS, ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE

SCOTTISH SALON AREA OF THE SPF WEBSITE http://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/scottish-salon

Hand-In and Collection of Prints To save on postage, Clubs can use our SPF network to get their prints to and from the Salon. There can be no extension to the deadline this year, so please ensure your entry is entered and sent to arrive by 17th April.

HAND-IN. Entries can be dropped off at Carluke, or to other members of the Salon Team who will be doing the sorting, right up to the Closing Date - Please contact the person of your choice as soon as possible to make sure they will be able to take the entry to Carluke.

Members of the Salon Team that you can deliver to are - Robert Fulton or Tom Bell (Cumbernauld), Joe Prior (Glasgow), Jim Pollock (Larkhall), Allan Gawthrope (Aberdeen) - all before 15th April - They can all be contacted via the SPF Executive area of the SPF website. Prints can be returned the same way.

RETURN. Ensure you select 'To Collect/Warwick' option on the online entry system, and drop Libby an email via the Scottish Salon website to plan to have your prints returned by collection, or via the SPF network. Please write on your entry form or put a note in your box who you would like to collect your prints from. Please be aware that this will be after 15th July.

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Best Colour Print. Morning Mist on Lochaber by Brian Clark, Dundee PS

Highly Commended. House of Cards by Janet Russell, Carluke CC

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RENFREWSHIRE INTER CLUB COMPETITION This annual photographic competition between seven Renfrewshire photographic clubs was held on Friday 10th February 2017, hosted by Paisley Photographic Society. The other participating clubs were Paisley Colour Photographic Club, Eastwood Photographic Society, Gryffe Camera Club (Houston) Kilmacolm Camera Club, Greenock Camera Club and Inverclyde Camera Club.

The competition was judged by the President of the Scottish Photographic Federation, and international exhibitor, Hunter Kennedy from Carluke. Each club submitted 8 PDI which were projected onto a screen and awarded marks out of 20. Paisley Colour PC ran out winners with 148 points 2 ahead of Eastwood PS in second, but with the consolation of winning the best individual image in the competition, were third. Hunter remarked on the high standard of the images and of his difficulty in separating out a top image.

Photo 1. Left to Right Hunter Kennedy judge, Stuart McCann top Image, Pat Cook Paisley Colour PC top club, Charlie Moor Competition Coordinator and Iain McFadyen of Paisley PS. Photo 2. Top Image – “Alice” by Stuart McCann

 

                 

  

  

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FACEBOOK GROUPS YOU MIGHT ENJOY

https://www.facebook.com/groups/photodistinctions/

Not officially supported by the PAGB, or anyone else, but useful all the same for those in pursuit of Awards for Photographic Merit – and other distinction advice.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKPhotography/

General chit chat about the Camera Club scene and other things of photographic interest.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/i2Workshops/

The World-Famous Printing & Photoshop Workshops with Libby Smith and Rod Wheelans https://www.facebook.com/groups/262095147272799/

Usually lots going on the Facebook page of the Yorkshire Photographic Union. Contact e-news if you have a DB page to promote.

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SPF INTER-CLUB PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

See the pictures at http://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/spf-print-championship

BEST OVERALL & BEST COLOUR PRINT – (Esme Smythe Trophy & SPF Gold Medal) Morning Mist on Lochaber by Brian Clark, Dundee PS

BEST MONO PRINT - (SPF Gold Medal) Lifer by Martin Clark, Kilmaurs PC

BEST LANDSCAPE PRINT - (Campbell McNair Trophy & SPF Silver Medal) Winter Scene by Peter Paterson, Edinburgh PS

BEST PORTRAIT PRINT - (SPF Silver Medal) Ziggy by Eileen Sutherland, Falkirk CC

BEST NATURE PRINT - (SPF Silver Medal) Mountain Hare by Jan Jerome, Edinburgh PS

BEST CREATIVE PRINT - (SPF Silver Medal) Perfume Bottles by Stan Farrow, Dundee PS

JOAN BLEASE JUDGE’S CHOICE - (SPF Bronze Medal) Winter Pasture by Hunter Kennedy, Carluke CC

RICHARD SPEIRS JUDGE’S CHOICE - (SPF Bronze Medal) Winter Birch by Hunter Kennedy, Carluke CC

DAVE SYMONDS JUDGE’S CHOICE - (SPF Bronze Medal) Shrimp Farm by Peter De Marco, Eastwood PS

Dave Symonds Joan Blease Richard Speirs Winter Birch by Hunter Kennedy, Carluke CC

Winter Pasture by Hunter Kennedy, Carluke CC Shrimp Farm by Peter De Marco, Eastwood PS

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Individual Awards, continued. See more pictures at http://www.scottish-photographic-federation.org/spf-print-championship

HIGHLY COMMENDED COMMENDED Sunflowers and Citrus by Gaille Gray,

Carluke CC Heaven and Earth by David Watson,

Bon Accord CC The Needle by Richard Hunter,

Perthshire PS Anticipation by Mary Gibson,

Carluke CC Hungry for the Win by Andrew Sokell,

Kilmaurs PC House of Cards by Janet Russell,

Carluke CC Alert Red Squirrel by Ian Mitchell,

Bon Accord CC Curlew Landing by Jim Moir,

Edinburgh PS Slow Day by Maybeth Jamieson,

Dumfries CC Hyper-focused by Catherine Jones,

Dundee PS

Bouncer by Maybeth Jamieson, Dumfries CC

Hound Portrait by Alistair Cox, Carluke CC

I Love Nicky by Mary Gibson, Carluke CC

Arctic Tern by Tom Langlands, Dumfries CC

Street Barber by Alexandra McOist, Edinburgh PS

Bunny Girl by Rod Wheelans, Dumfries CC

Goodbye Blue Sky by Richard Felton-Edkins, Edinburgh

Western Isles by Richard Hunter, Perthshire PS

Kestrel with Chick by Mick Durham, Dumfries CC

Male Sparrowhawk Feeding by David Wolfenden, Edinburgh PS

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AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT

LAST CHANCE TO GET ADVICE AT ……………          

 

   

Once again, the PAGB will have a stand at the Photography Show in Birmingham where we will be offering Awards for Photographic Merit 1:1 Advisory Sessions.    

We will have several APM Adjudicators in attendance to discuss any work you want to bring along (Print or PDI) and this is likely to give you a much better chance of success. For an appointment slot, please e‐mail rod@creative‐camera.co.uk saying which Club you are a member of, what day you are coming, what level you are interested in (CPAGB, DPAGB or MPAGB), and whether you are bringing Prints or PDI.  

THE LONDON SALON RETURNS TO A LONDON VENUE  

             Proud Gallery, 32 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6BP June 19th 2017 ‐ June 25th 2017 

and then at The Old Schoolhouse, Oldbury, Birmingham 

July 1st ‐ July 29th 2017  

The  London  Salon  is  a  unique  exhibition,  dating  back  to  1910  and  its  aim  is  to  exhibit  only  that  class  of photographic work in which there is distinct evidence of artistic feeling and execution”.  This is a time of great change in the Exhibition scene, but an acceptance into the London Salon still carries a considerable cachet and very few can boast of having received a London Salon Medal.  Entry opens on 4th March and closes on 17th April 2017.  Don’t miss YOUR chance to join the great photographers who have exhibited in the London Salon for more than a century.   

read more at http://www.londonsalon.org/#/home/4570200574 

More awards from the SPF Print Championship

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The exhibition will be open at the Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, from 4 - 26 March

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museumandgalleries/shirehallgalleries/home.aspx