Next Meeting

The subject for the Society’s May Competition is ‘It makes me smile’ after
which Mike Buxton will give a talk ‘British Nature Photography’. Anyone
interested in photography is invited to attend the meeting which will be
held in Great Casterton’s Church Hall on Thursday 17th May

Competition Subjects

Bamboozled by any subject this year?

Wondering what to submit for  ’It makes me smile’ ?

Wonder what maniac chose the competition subjects???

Well now is the time to make your mark with YOUR choice of subjects for next year. Suggestions by email to comp_sec@stamford-photosoc.org.uk please

Dropbox Gallery.

Have you discovered the Dropbox Gallery feature yet? It’s the quickest and easiest on-line gallery that I have discovered and is ideal for sending batches of pictures to other people without any need for them to have special software or to sign up to any service.  Open Dropbox, in Photos folder make a folder for the new gallery, in this case Demo Gallery

Drag or export some suitably sized pictures into it, between 1024 and 2048 pixels long side works well.

Go up a level to see the folders again, right click on your new folder and select “Copy Public Link” from the Dropbox submenu.

You now have the link copied onto the clipboard and you can past it into an email or any other application

This is the link for my new folder

https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/46890278/1/Demo%20Gallery?h=200f43

The actual address can, of course, be hidden within a link in the usual way.

April Meeting (Charirman’s article in Mercury)

At first glance Rural Decay, the April Competition subject for SPS members,
might appear to just produce images of old barns and broken windows but
members proved to be as inventive as ever with their pictures and we were
treated to an amazing and varied set of  scenes which were actually qite
difficult to judge. Yes there were old barns and the like but amongst the 80
or so pictures on view were excellent shots of old farm equipment, old
wooden wheels and elderly vehicles interspersed with the changing scene in
foreign climes.
David Harris from Empingham achieved first place in the single print section
whilst Barrowden’s John Hillier won the Panel section. The meeting, which
was attended by five potential new members,  concluded with a display of
images that had been selected for exhibition by the North and East Midlands
Photographic Federation (NEMPF) last year.
The subject for the Society’s May Competition is ‘It makes me smile’ after
which Mike Buxton will give a talk ‘British Nature Photography’. Anyone
interested in photography is invited to attend the meeting which will be
held in Great Casterton’s Church Hall on Thursday 17th May

Note: – April winners’ pictures are now on the website.

April Meeting: Revised Details

• Competition: Rural Decay
• Followed by: RPS Exhibition (projected images). Wildlife talk is the topic for the  May meeting.

Exhibition

Thanks to all for your help with the Exhibition which it would seem was well received.

SPS  Exhibition 4 – 13 April

Next  Club Meeting : 19th April 2012

Diary Dates April

Tornado and Thomas Locos

News Roundup

Website Banner Picture

Folios

Spyder Calibration Kit

Screen

Calendar 

Peterborough Photographic Society

PPS’s 2012 Exhibition of Prints and Projected Images will be on display at the St. John the Baptist Church – Church Street from the 20th until the 31st of March 2012 Daily except Sundays from 10am – 4pm.

Calke Abbey

British Wildlife Photography Exhibition

Dates: 10 March to 1 April 2012, 11:00am to 4:00pm

Price: Free event (normal admission charges apply)

An exhibition in the Riding School celebrating British Wildlife, showcasing talented photographers of all ages.

This event is free so please support it.

We have been able to organise a new studio session with the use of a full studio lighting system for an evening courtesy of Derek Harrington.

Next Meeting : Thursday 16th February. 8:00pm Casterton Church Hall

Competition Subject: Open

Followed by Galapagos Interlude by John Hillier

Exhibition in Stamford Arts Centre
4th April to 13th April

Bring any image you would like to submit, any size, any format.

Alternatively you can upload the images to the SPS shared dropbox in
the exhibition submissions folder. Please make sure that the filename
includes your own name.

The aim is to include an image from all members who wish to
participate.

A selection will be made to form a balanced and varied exhibition.

“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 16^th 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

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.