Anita has found this information about the route of Le Tour when it visits Cambridge on 7th July – just be ready with a fast shutter speed because you won’t have long to catch them as they fly by.
PDF Files:
Also:Interactive Map of the stage.
Change of Date
Please be advised that due to the Baptist church needing our slot on the 16th of June we will be meeting one week later. The date of this meeting will now be the 23rd of June and not the 16th.
We are also going to be holding our 5th exhibition on the Willingham feast weekend which will be the 4th and 5th of October. You enter 2 photos, the 1st to be from one of our assignments from the past year and the 2nd to be any subject of your own choice. We will give you details of where to send your photos, and when the cut off date is, in the near future.
Finally, we are coming up to a change of the gang of 4. If you think you may be interested in helping to run your club for the next 6 months, then please talk to one of the current gang of 4 – who are Fred, Tony, Symon & Anita.
Kindest regards,
Anita
Urban Photographer of the Year
As Stephen mentioned at the March meeting, here is the link to the website for the Urban Photographer of the Year 2014.
The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day.
The Competition opens on 17th March and entries can be accepted until 8th August.
If you win, Stephen wants a credit.
British Wildlife Photography Awards 2014
Your chance to win a prestigious award, with a cash prize of £5,000 and reach millions through national exposure. Help raise awareness about British wildlife and celebrate our natural heritage.
See the website for details. Closing date is 3rd May 2014.
New Format Competition
Starting from the March meeting, the new competition will be:
Your Favourite Photo
Your single monthly entry must be submitted as a 6×4 print of a photograph which you have taken in the previous 6 months.
The monthly winner will be decided by the blind voting system which we have been using. At the end of the year, in December, all the monthly winners will be put together and an overall winner will be chosen by our judges, Francis and Stephen.
The overall winner will win a prize: 6 months free membership.
the hours
You’ve probably heard about 365projects, where you take a picture a day for a year. I’ve done it twice now, and I’m taking a break, although I do miss it a little. If that seems a little daunting, here’s another idea for photo inspiration: thehours.
This website is a collective project in which a group of photographers, who met on Flickr, each post a single image every month, taken during a particular hour of the day. We’re starting in January 2014 with 7am (so images posted that month will be taken between 7am and 8am) and then moving through the day by an hour each month.
There’s no need to publish your photos, although there is a Flickr group associated with thehours website if you want to join in.
Newsletter
The current gang of four – Tony, Fred, Symon and Anita – have just finished a year of duty. As there were no offers of a new gang of four we are all willing to carry on for the next 6 months.
We had our group meeting to discus the next 6 months, both Francis and Stephen attended as well as Chris and Andrew. We hope that we have set you some interesting and challenging subjects. These may be tweaked a little as we have asked a couple of visitors to talk to us about their work.
Exhibition News
I’m sure you will all agree what a great exhibition we had this year. It was our 4th exhibition and the photos that were on display were a very high standard indeed. We have discussed having another exhibition in the spring – the dates we have set aside for this are April 12 & 13 2014.
Please give us your views on having a Spring Exhibition.
Field Trips and Workshops
We are currently looking into different field trips & workshops. We feel there is an opening here for another member of the club. It has been suggested that if we knew what was coming up in other villages/towns then we could organise our own field trip.
We are looking for a member who could research events and send them off to Derek who could put them onto our website. If this is something you may be interested in then please do talk to one of us.
A Few “Thank Yous”
We would like to thank you, the members, for supporting your club and contributing to each assignment.
A big thank you to Derek who updates our website and keeps it running; also to Colin who each month supplies the Willingham News with our subject of the month.
We would also like to say a very big thank you for the support and advice that Francis and Stephen gives each and every club member.
Agenda
The events section shows the dates and subjects for the next six months. Please remember it’s your interpretation of the subjects, however abstract that might be.
Please may we also remind you that you should only supply 3 images for each subject matter, not forgetting to label them with your name, subject & number (1,2,3).
Our new print competition for 2014 is: Select a photograph from Google Images or Flickr, then recompose and photograph as your own. You must show the original & yours, 6×4 prints only.
We haven’t forgotten about our green screen photography, would you like this to be a non-club Monday night?
Anita
CEN Photographer of the Year
I did enter for this competition – but failed miserably!
However, this link to the slideshow of winning photographs might be of interest to club members. Certainly a very different take in some cases, and an exercise in Photoshop in others.
Colin Brown
Adobe Offer
I know that many of our members use Adobe Photoshop. I personally use Lightroom and Elements but I was considering upgrading. Adobe want their customers to switch to their subscription product called Creative Cloud which gives you access to all of their tools for a monthly fee – but quite a large one!
They have just announced Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography. This gives you Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 (plus some online storage and website publishing facilities) for £8.78/month (£105.36/year). This compares with the price of £102.57 for Lightroom 5 and a monthly fee for Photoshop of £17.58 (they really don’t want you to buy Photoshop outright anymore).
Here’s the link for more about CC Photoshop Photography. Sadly, they do not offer commission.
This price is only available until December 2nd 2013. I don’t know what the price will be after that.
Composition Rules
The notes from Francis’ presentation on Composition are sadly too large to post directly on the site, but can be downloaded from Google Drive via this link.