This year the price is £2 per print entered and you can submit up to 15 prints. Although the categories remain the same as previous years you no longer categorise them! For more information go to the KCPA website and go to Information->Competitions.

The closing date is the 14th January so prints to Iain ASAP please.

www.kcpa.co.uk

The society is looking to put another order together for Nomad photo boxes.

If anybody is interested the latest price list is available on the link below.

www.sittingbourneps.co.uk/documents/nomad.pdf

Could the people that ordered the cut mount board please try and bring the money along for the next meeting. Just to remind you:

Dave 30
Elvy 30+
Graham 30
Heidi 10+ (You could be let off)
Iain 30
Mick 30
Rodger 20
Su 20
Colin 6
Andy 10

1st Little Ray of Sunshine - Iain Blacklock
2nd Steps - Su Flood
3rd It's a Dog's Life - David Blackburn

The full results are available in the Members' area.

First round DPI results released for members on the link below.

www.sittingbourneps.co.uk/Documents/DPI%20Competition.pdf

Congratulations to Elvy and Heidi for their first, second and third places in the first round of the Digital Projected Image competition. The top three places were as follows.

1st Stormy Start - Elvy Helman
2nd Way Home - Elvy Helman
3rd Happy Hoverflies - Heidi Shreeve

Hot on the heels of our attack on the social networking sites, you can now follow Sittingbourne Photographic Society on Twitter.

You do not need a Twitter account to view the clubs tweets.

twitter.com/#!/sittingbourneps

For those of you that have not noticed the link on the bottom of the homepage we now have a Facebook page. If you have a Facebook account please feel free to upload your own images and post comments.

Please note that the page is publicly available so don't go posting high quality versions of you images if you don't want them appearing on the cover of the next BBC Wildlife magazine under somebody elses name!

You do not need a Facebook account to view the page.

www.facebook.com/sittingbournephotosociety

Seaford Photographic Society are holding a prize raffle to be drawn at the KCPA Projected Digital Image competition at Detling Village hall on Sunday 27th November 2011.

The prize is an Epson R3000 A3+ Printer worth £699.99.

Tickets are £2.50 each or 3 for £5. For entry forms and details follow the link below.

www.seafordphotosoc.co.uk/KCPA/PRIZE%20RAFFLE.pdf

This competition will be hosted by Seaford Photographic Society on Sunday 27th November at Detling Village Hall starting at 2pm. Admission is £3.

The competition is open to any KCPA club and costs £1 per image to enter. There is a maximum of 6 images per author.

The competition will be judged by Carol Speight ARPS DPAGB, APAGB.

The closing date is 7th October 2011 and further details can be found on the KCPA website or on the link below.

www.seafordphotosoc.co.uk

The KCPA website has been updated with the addition of a new members' area. The password for access to the area was provided at the society's evening but mail the website on the info email address if you want it.

www.kcpa.co.uk

Parkwood Camera Club are having Jon Gray as a guest speaker on November 14th at 8PM at the 44Two Club, Featherby Road, Gillingham. ME8 6AN. Jon has been a self employed photographer for over 30 years with experience in fashion and advertising. Clients include BP, Dunlop, The Telegraph, PArker Pens, Saatchi and Saatchi and many more.

10 places are available to Sittingbourne at £2 each.

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Unfortunately, the library has since come back to us and told us we cannot hold the exhibition after all. We would still be interested in mounted prints that can be used for the Ross Cup this year. The closing date for entries is just a few days after the season starts so a selection would have to take place immediately if we are to enter this year.



David Blackburn has spoken to Sittingbourne Library and they are prepared to allow us to have another exhibition there.

Anybody interested in submitting prints should get them to Iain Blacklock by the 7th September. There is only space for about about 24 prints. Apologies for the short notice but we have only just found out about their availability.

Kent Crisps have teamed up with Kent on Sunday to find the places and landscapes that represent ‘Kent’ to its readers.

The hand cooked crisps, made from Kent-grown potatoes, already feature the flavours of the county in their bags of Biddenden Cider Vinegar, Ashmore Cheese and Onion, Sea Salt and Oyster Vinegar and Sea Salt crisps and now they want you to capture your favourite snapshot of the county.

It could be a scenic corner of the Weald or the bustle of a coastal town that best represent Kent to you.

Over the next four weeks Kent Crisps are looking for photographers of all ages to head out and be inspired by the ‘Garden of England’ in summertime.

Judges are looking for creativity as much as technical ability and the winning entry will receive £250 of Jessops photography vouchers, plus supplies of Kent Crisps and tickets to Quex Park in Birchington. Second place prize includes £100 Jessops vouchers with three runners up each receiving £50 of vouchers plus Kent Crisps and Quex Park tickets.

The closing date is August 31 and Kent on Sunday will publish a selection of the best entries. Photographers may submit a maximum of five images.

To enter the competition send a CD or memory stick containing your photographs to ‘Kent Crisps’ photo competition, Edwards Harvey, The Mill House, Hollingworth Court, Maidstone, Kent ME14 5PP.

Email the website using the email address on our Contact Us page to get the full terms and conditions mailed to you.

Congratulations to Richard Walton for winning this years Print League. The top three spaces this year go to

1st Richard Walton
2nd Elvy Helman
3rd David Blackburn

The complete set of results can be found by going to the Members' area and clicking on the Print Results link.

A reminder that this years Cesar Challenge is early (7th and 8th of May)

The corresponding competition is on Monday 26th September at Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham.

Click on the link below to see a map of the area in this years challenge.

www.sittingbourneps.co.uk/Documents/Cesar2011.jpg

Congratulations to Elvy Helman for winning this years DPI League Competition. In second place was Steve Burtrand and in joint third place Su Flood and Mick Butler.

The full results can be found in the Members' area by clicking on the DPI Results Link.

The definitive date for the judging is Monday 26th September 2011 at Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham.

The event will be judged by Glyn Bareham.

The challenge takes place on the weekend of May 7th and 8th in London following the Thames from Greenwich Park to Battersea park.

The selection panel needs prints and digital submissions for the 3-Way battle with Favesham and Sheppey. We need 15 prints and 15 digital images.

The competition is being held on the 16th March at Faversham Camera Club.

If you have had high scoring prints in the last few league competitions we would be grateful if you could bring them along over the next two weeks.

Iain

SPS came 6th in the Malling Battle of the Prints with an overall score of 100 points.

The club scores were:

1st Parkwood and Sevenoaks 111
3rd Bexelyheath and Dartford 106
5th Staplehurst 104
6th Sittingbourne 100
7th Gravesend 99
8th Malling 93
9th Reflex 89

Parkwood were declared the competition winners for receiving the only 20 out of the two first place clubs.

Our entries and scores were:

Snarl by John Murray - 16
The Violinist by Steve Beard - 17
Dockland Memorial Revisted by Graham Parker - 18
Blue Door by Su Flood - 14
If Looks Could ... By Dave Blackburn - 18
Rosel's Bush Cricket Nymph By Elvy Helman - 17