Hi all,

Here are the details for the fast approaching Cesar's Challenge competition. Apologies for the delay in getting onto the news but we have been having problems getting hold of the digital details to publish.

We are pleased to announce that the designated lunchtime meeting place (for Saturday 5th June) is...

The Badgers Watch
South Coast Road (A259)
Telscombe Cliffs
Peacehaven
BN10 7BE
Situated on the white cliffs, East of Brighton Marina (PeaceHaven)

I have attached their lunch menu as an Adobe pdf file.

Their website address is shown below.

Also, some of you may like to take photos on the Sunday 6th June. As there is no designated lunchtime meet, you are welcome to phone Glen Diamond on 07813 038702 to find out if an impromptu lunch has been arranged.

Free Parking is available at the Withdean Stadium where there is a regular park and ride bus service. Bus tickets cost around £4 and are transferable all day long on any of the Brighton bus services. That carpark is not available in the evenings.

Free Parking is also available at the new Brighton Marina - although the signs may suggest a 4 hour limit, there is a rumour that the time limit is unenforced.

Whatever the weather - we'll be there! - Please encourage your photographers to take part in this unique challenge.

The corresponding competition will be "off the cuff" judged by Glyn Bareham on Monday 4th October at:
The Walnut Tree Club
Medway Road
Gillingham
Kent
ME7 1NL

The menu and map information is in PDF format on the links below.

www.vintageinn.co.uk/thebadgerswatchpeacehaven/

The vice chairman of Faversham Camera Club has arranged for Epson to come to the Faversham club on Tuesday evening 1st June, with printers, papers, inks etc on a demo night. SPS members have been invited and if anybody wishes to attend please phone Richard Cornelius on Faversham 01795 535351 for details.

Congratulations to Su Flood for winning the Print of the Year competition with Rush Hour.

Congratulations to Richard Walton for taking 1st and 2nd place, and to Steven Beard for 3rd place in the fourth round of the league competition last night.

1st It's Good To Talk - Richard Walton
2nd Next - Richard Walton
3rd BOKE-AJI - Steven Beard

Also, congratulations to Richard for winning the league overall this year. The final scores are:

1st Richard Walton - 97.50%
2nd Steven Beard - 95.63%
3rd David Blackburn - 94.38%

Well done to all three of you.

A complete results sheet is available in the members' area in PDF format and I will bring some printed copies to the next meeting.

Our thanks go to Chris Parry for judging the set subject (Statues) and panel competition this year.

The results for the set subject were:

1st - Canadian Vimy Ridge - Rita Howes
2nd - Freddy Mercury - David Blackburn
3rd - Museum Facade Details Brugges - Sam Pellatt

And for the panel competition the results were:

1st - The Band - Iain Blacklock
2nd - Doors - Betty Mitchel
3rd - Dungeness - Andrew Spreadbury

Congratulations to Andrew on his third place after only recently joining the society.

Apologies for the delay but I have finally added the round 3 competition results. You can view them in the Members' area.

Hi all,

In preparation for the digital competitions we are running I am upgrading my colour calibration suite to handle projectors. As a result I have a Spyder 2 Suite for sale for around £50 if anybody is interested. It will calibrate CRT and LCD monitors including laptops.

Iain

For anybody interested in coming to the Folkestone battle on the 15 March, it will be held at Folkestone Camera Club who meet at:

St Georges Church
Audley Road
Folkestone
Kent CT20 3QA

www.folkestonecameraclub.co.uk

Congratulations to the club for winning the Five Way Battle yesterday at Parkwood!

The results were:

1st Sittingbourne with 219
2nd Reflex with 207
3rd Parkwood with 195
4th Sheppey with 191
5th Malling 188

With special congratualations to John Holmes taking the overall winning image with Blue Jays.

For a full list of results follow the link below.

www.321web.co.uk/pcc/html/5way-results-2010.html

The club needs more entries for the Folkestone battle on the 15th March. In total we need 15 prints and 15 digital images. Folkestone has asked if we can size our digital images to 1400x1050 rather than 1024x768. Could you mail me (Iain) up to 3 images and I would like to setup a meeting with the selection panel towards the end of the month.

The judge will be Chris Shore.

Contact me for more details or to answer and questions.

Could you please bring any print you would like to put in for selection for the Malling Battle of the Prints on Wednesday. We need a total of sixe prints with a maximum of two per author. Apologies for the lateness of the request but we only received the entry form last Wednesday.

The Malling Photographic Society have set up a discussion forum which they are inviting anybody join. At the moment Malling and Invicta have areas of the forum specifically designated for them and the option to create an area for us is also being offered. Use the link below to register and use the forum. The forum is also on our Links page.

mallingphotographic.forumotion.com/forum.htm

Hi all, unfortunately I couldn't make the evening last night and I wanted to ask for some more entries for a digital projection competition at the end of the month. If you have anything you would like to submit for selection please email me (using the club email address) your files sized to 1024 x 768 pixels.

Thanks, Iain.

Congratulations to Steve Beard for taking first and second place in the second round of the Print League Competition. Congratulations also to Colin Waters for picking up third place.

1st - Anglepoise Lamp - Steve Beard
2nd - .44 Magnum - Steve Beard
3rd - Into the Blue - Colin Waters

Sadly, only Sam entered slides but this does mean he got 1st, 2nd and 3rd place by default!

The link below will open a PDF results sheet.

www.sittingbourneps.co.uk/Documents/Print%20Competition2009.pdf

Unfortunately Roy King will not be able to give his talk on Wednesday 3rd due to his health.

Phil Callow FRPS, who was due to give us a talk but was snowed off, will be stepping in for the evening instead.

I would like to share my experience of trying some wildlife photography with you. If you have 15 minutes to kill then I hope you enjoy my tale of woe.

Iain

www.ibimages.co.uk/Pages/wildlifestory.html

Tonight's meeting has been cancelled due to the weather

The closing date for the KCPA Exhibition is Sunday 24th January. Can you please ensure that you provide me with you entries no later than 13th January so that I can complete the entry paperwork and get the club's entries to the KCPA in time.

The categories for the the exhibition are:

Slides (50mm x 50mm mounts) -

Nature
Portraiture
Record
Pictorial

Prints (400mm x 500mm mounts)-

Nature
Portraiture
Record
Monochrome Pictorial
Colour Pictorial

You may enter up to 4 entries in each category. The entry fee is £1 per entry. You can download entry forms from the KCPA website (linked below) and I will have some available on the 6th January.

The exhibition itself will be held between the 24th April and 27th May 2010 at County Hall, Sessions House, Maidstone, Kent.

Good luck!

Iain

www.kcpa.co.uk/downloads.htm

Thank you to Richard Walton for judging last night's internal Landscape competition. His constructive comments and excellent judging (I would say that I won) made for an enjoyable and informative evening.

The results for the slide and prints are as follows.

Slides

1st Glen Garry in Winter's Grip - Sam Pellatt
2nd Old Faithful "Letting Off Steam" - Su Flood
3rd Padley Gorge - Sam Pellatt

Prints

1st Broken Barges - Iain Blacklock
2nd Sand's End - John Whorlow
3rd Two Trees - John Whorlow

Many thanks to everybody that entered the society's first ever digital projected image competition. Our judge, Roger Force, had 60 images to cast his excellent judging eye over and the winners of the evening were

1st - Blue Jays by John Holmes
2nd - Ghosts by Su Flood
3rd - Orange Tip Butterfly by Elvy Helman

Congratulations to all three of them. You can view the complete set or results on the link below.

www.sittingbourneps.co.uk/Documents/DI-Results-Nov2009.pdf