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September 2012
Friday 14th September
President's Night
People and Mountains of Upper Mustang, Nepal - the Forbidden Kingdom
Boyd Harris
Friday 21st September
Achieving Distinctions
Adrian Lines ARPS DPAGB BPE3*
Wednesday 26th September
Critique night:- Bring 10 images on memory stick for constructive, friendly help from members attending.
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Friday 28th September
An open evening with Newton Village Hall
Images from the Edge - Brian Anderson
Hand-in for the Pictorial Competition
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October 2012
Friday 5th October
Inter-Merseyside Competition
Judge: John Smith CPAGB APAGB
Wednesday 10th October
Beginners Tutorial:-tell us what you want and bring a laptop. 'How to' on levels, RAW, colour balance etc. No previous knowledge needed.
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Friday 12th October
Members' Night
Friday 19th October
Pictorial Competition
Judge: Colin Douglas, ARPS, AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE4*
Hand in for the Open Competition - unmounted A4 prints & projected images
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For information on how to prepare and send digital images click here
Wednesday 24th October
Coast and Countryside images. Bring a good number so we can start the process of selection for the exhibition
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Find out more about Coast and Countryside
Friday 26th October
NO MEETING AT NEWTON VILLAGE HALL
Night Photography - venue TBA
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November 2012
Friday 2nd November
Develop an interest in A/V
Howard Gregory and Suzanne Walker ARPS
Wednesday 7th November
Competition: Letter R-the title must start with the letter but the subject can be anything. Send 4 digital images to Diana 24hrs in advance using the special email.
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Friday 9th November
Open Competition
A4 Unmounted Prints and Projected Images
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Judge: John Dougherty, APAGB BPE1*
Friday 16th November
Showing of accepted and award winning images in the Hoylake International 2012
Wednesday 21st November
Critique : bring your shots taken on the October main group night-out.
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Friday 23rd November
F32 and be there early!
Steve Lewis ARPS
Supported by Stephen’s famous ‘Big Box of Prints’, in this presentation Stephen discusses his approach to landscape photography, his use of large format cameras, and the technical and aesthetic qualities of the images. As the discussion usually centres on new images produced in the previous twelve months this talk has become an annual event with a number of clubs.
An Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, Stephen has been photographing the landscape of Britain for over 25 years. Closely associated with the Snowdonia National Park in particular, his knowledge and understanding of the area have allowed him to produce images unrivalled in their portrayal of the ephemeral light and wild atmosphere of that special part of the world. His work is an intimate and lovingly crafted celebration of wild landscapes. Stephen is a contributing photographer to various image libraries, inlcuding the Photo Library of Wales and This England. He hosts photographic workshopsin Snowdonia and around the U.K, and is a regular speaker at photographic societies. His first book, "Private views of Snowdonia"was published in 2005. Stephen is also a long-time member of the Snowdonia Society, a charitable trust which campaigns on issues affecting the national park. The society publishes a regular magazine, which often features Stephen's work. Stephen's commercial work is undertaken using digital capture and workflow, based around Nikon cameras. For his personal work, Stephen uses, and is a keen advocate of large format cameras used in conjunction with transparency film. He feels that the outstanding detail and superb tonal quality LF cameras produce is the perfect vehicle for the light, colour, tone and texture which characterise his work. "The real beauty and wonder of our landscape lies in the details: the shapes textures, tones and, above all, the light. Bring these to the fore, give them context, and you are one step closer to finding the true heart of the landscape, when it will whisper its secrets, and allow a glimpse something truly magical." |
Hand in for the Man-made competition
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Friday 30th November
An Asian Odyssey
A Newton Village Hall Open Night
Trevor Davenport ARPS DPAGB BPE2*
A two part talk beginning in India then to Nepal and finally Cambodia. Part 2 will be in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. The images are from several trips Trevor made to the far east in the past three years and include portraits, landscapes, places and people from these countries and with a few oddities and laughs along the way.
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December 2012
Wednesday 5th December
Competition: Black and white with one colour
Send 4 images to Diana at least 24 hours before
Friday 7th December
Man-made competition
Judge: Jeremy Malley Smith LRPS BPE2* CPAGB
Hand in for A/V competition
Friday 14th Decembet
Audio Visual Night and
members' social evening with Bebington PS
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January 2013
Friday 4th January
Selection of images for Wirral Trophy
If you wish your images to be selected for the Wirral Trophy please email them to hpscomps@gmail.com
The selection will be made by a vote of members
Wednesday 9th January
The Tutorial - How to make Creative/Altered Reality images has been postponed until 6th February. Instead bring some photographs taken this summer and we can have a critique evening
Friday 11th January
Shapes Competition
Judge: Pamela Vosse
Friday 18th January
L&CPU Colour Folio
Hand in for Illustrative Competition
Wednesday 23rd January
Competition: Vanishing Point
Send your 4 entries to Diana at least 24 hours before
Friday 25th January
Exotic Wildlife
Sheila Davies, DPAGB
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February 2013
Friday 1st February
More Photoshop and Lightroom
Gordon Jenkins APAGB
Wednesday 6th February
Friday 8th February
Illustrative Competition
Judge:Sheila Tunstall
Friday 15th February
Newton Village Hall Open Night
Ferries, Fun Fairs, Towers and Teapots -
The story of New Brighton
Ken Pye
Wednesday 20th February
A four letter word!
Can be 4 on one or 4 separate images
Friday 22nd February
Members' Night
Three or four members will give illustrated talks
Hand in for Altered Reality Competition
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March 2013
Friday 1st March
Bebington Salon
Bob Dennis CPAGB APAGB AFIAP BPE3*
Wednesday 6th March
Competition - Abandoned
Send your images to hpswng@gmail.com at least 24 hours before
Friday 8th March
Retrospective - an evening of chat, tips and fun
Ian Stewart DPAGB
Friday 15th March
Altered Reality Competition
judged by Adrian Lines ARPS DPAGB BPE3*
Wednesday 20th March
Close up demo
Margaret and John will show you how to set up and take backlit images of plants. Bring a camera and tripod if you have one
Friday 22nd March
QUIZ NIGHT
organised by Barry Quatermass CPAGB
Hand in for the Annual Competition
Postponed due to snow - now on 12th April
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April 2013
Wednesday 3rd April
HOLIDAY SNAPS
What sort of pictures do you take when you go away - can be local or exotic.
Bring between 10 and 20 and be prepared to talk about them
Friday 5th April
London Salon of Photography
The aim of the London Salon is to exhibit
only that class of photographic work in which there is
distinct evidence of artistic feeling and execution
Friday 12th April
QUIZ NIGHT
organised by Barry Quatermass CPAGB
Wednesday 17th April
AGM for the Wednesday Night Group
Come with ideas and suggestions for next year's Wednesday Night Group' s programme
Friday 19th April
L&CPU Nature and Illustrative Folio
Images from last year's L& CPU's Annual Exhibition
SATURDAY 20th APRIL - 0930 am start
Annual Print Competition
Judge Chris Kay ARPS
Friday 26th April
ANNUAL PROJECTED IMAGE COMPETITION
Judge: Tony Duffy, ARPS
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May 2013
Friday 3rd May 2013
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND AWARDS EVENING