January Chairman’s Report

“Stamford & Nearby” was the subject for the Society’s first Competition of 2012 and , out of the many images on view, the ones submitted by Michael Jarman from Barnack were judged to be the best. He not only achieved top marks in the Individual Print section but was also placed first in the Group of Four images competition. Many excellent and ‘different’ shots of Stamford were shown and members’ pictures will  be submitted to Walkers Books for consideration for use in the 2014 Stamford Calendar.

After the competition – and a lively discussion as to where many of the pictures had been taken – Society Secretary Dave Baxter gave a talk on ‘Street Photography’ followed by one on the production of an Audio Visual show by Crowland-based member Simon Hinchliffe.

The next meeting of the Society will take place on Thursday 16th February at 8 pm in Great Casterton Church Hall. There is no formal topic for the competitions that night so members can chose whatever images they want. Society Chairman John Hillier from Barrowden will conclude proceedings with a talk titled  “Galapagos Interlude”.

Anyone interested in photography of whatever skill level is invited to attend and further details can be found on the updated web site www.stamford-photosoc.org.uk or from Dave Baxter 01780 751 849.

Studio Lights Session

Studio Lights Session

Thursday 2 February

Unfortunately this has been cancelled

Stamford Calendar

The Dropbox folder for January competition and other calendar submissions is now open. Remember that this year’s calendar is Stamford and District, not just Stamford as in the past. It’s worth noting that Walker’s won’t use any image with identifiable people in it.

Welcome to SPS

This site is now running on the new webhost. It will allow us to store many more pictures and provide extra facilities.

The main changes are:

  • the front page for SPS news is in blog form so old posts will still be available and new items can easily be added.
  • the competition winners pages have been consolidated into a single page for each year making it easy to see all the competition results. Results for 2010 and 2011 are available.
  • the Flickr group has been brought into more prominence on a page of its own showing a slide show of the last 20 posts to Flickr.
  • comments can be left on individual pages as appropriate.

For now, the old style site is still available but no longer maintained. Please click here if you need to visit it.

December 2011 Meeting: Chairman’s report

For its last meeting of 2011 the subject for the members’ competition was ‘Detail’ with John Hillier from Barrowden scoring top marks with an image taken at ArtdeJardin at Wing whilst Michael Jarman from Barnack succeeded in the Panel Section with four excellent images of assorted mechanisms including a 1933 Leica. These results meant that David Harris from Empingham won both the WALKERS CUP for the highest overall ranking in the Society’s League for Individual Prints and also the GEORGE CUP for achieving top marks too in the Panel of four prints section during the year.

At the meeting members also submitted work for the Print of the Year Competition which was judged by Alan Fox from Stamford, the SPS Chairman from 1996 until 2009. He chose a stunning portrait image taken by St. John Burkett from Barnack who was awarded the BURGHLEY CUP.

 

 

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Next Meeting

The Society’s next meeting will be held on Thursday 19 January in Great Casterton’s Church Hall commencing at 8pm when the competition will feature images of ‘Stamford and Nearby’ which could potentially be selected for use in Walkers 2013 Stamford Calendar. Two short sessions on ‘Street Photography’ by Stamford-based Dave Baxter and ‘Making a DVD sequence’ by Simon Hinchliffe from Crowland will follow.

Members will soon be making preparations for the Society’s next Exhibition of their work which will be held in the Arts Centre during April.

The SPS welcomes all local photographers whether experienced or not and anyone interested should contact Dave Baxter