Epson Event with Mike Richards, Epson UK

Hand in for Creative Competition

The Coming of Age Roadshow - John Wells FRPS

John Wells is based in Bradford.

Supported by Permajet suppliers of Classic Fine Art papers and Ink 
Flow Systems

Creative Competition

Judge: Mike McNamee, FRPS

Mike McNamee is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer with 25 years experience in industry. He was formerly Technology Director of an international research team and also guided the corporate identity, reporting and presentation facilities of the company. A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and the British Professional Photographers Assoc. He has won a number of National and International awards and his photography is used all over the World in encyclopedias, text books, CD covers, scientific journals, calendars, magazines and newspapers. Mike has been involved with digital imaging technology since its early days, winning the Struers International Award for work on digital image analysis. He has lectured in both Europe and America on specialised photographic techniques as well as authoring countless numbers of reports, books, scientific papers and patents.

He served for 15 years on the British Standards Committee for Engineering Ceramics as an Imaging Specialist. This experience has been built into the MousePushers courses provided by Pixelmix Digital Training, which were developed over a period of two years and encompass all aspects of digital imaging technology and its use in the workplace. The courses now evolve continuously as hardware develops and software is upgraded. Mike teaches photography and digital imaging at Priestley College, Warrington, was the Editor of Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging, and is currently Editor of Professional ImageMaker, the magazine of The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP). He has recently been developing methods for using colour management techniques in digital workflows.

Meeting held at St Andrew's, Meols, United Reformed Church. Greenwood Road, Meols

Vision

Rikki O'Neill, FRPS, MPAGB

Born in 1948 in Dundee, Rikki is a self-taught artist, and by  profession an illustrator of children's books, cards, and cartoons. He  is represented by top London agent Bernard Thornton Artists Ltd.

He works in a variety of media, but has come to master and enjoy the 
freedom, as well as the assistance afforded by working in digital 
format.He is also a prolific exhibitor of creative photography.