Coming Up at Croxley Camera Club This Spring

April 2019

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Thank you to everyone who entered the SB Cup and Landscape Cup last week.

We had a great show of images and two worthy winners in Mike Brankin and Stuart Craig.

Congratulations also go to Rod Lacey, Anthony Highet, Vanessa Lacey, Archi Bagworth, Gordon Calder and Cat Humphries who all received commendations for their images.

There's no meeting this week due to the upcoming Easter weekend so we look forward to seeing you all on Thursday 25th April when Tom Chesterton will be leading us on a walk around the Chess Valley.

Meet outside the Community Club at 7.15pm.

We have had to make some changes to the club programme - please see below for details

Landscape Cup - WINNER

Landscape Cup - Highly Commended

Landscape Cup - Commended

Coming Up...

25th April

Photowalk around the Chess Valley. Meet outside the Community Club at 7:15pm.

2nd May - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!
PDI of the Year

PDI's scoring 18, 19 or 20 in the PDI League competitions have automatically been entered into the PDI of the year. You can see your entries in Photo Entry.

Our judge will be Kathy Chantler from Imagez.

9th May - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!
Mindfulness and Photography with Andrew Scriven

TICKETED EVENT: Free to Members. Visitors £5

A talk not to be missed! Croxley is very pleased to welcome Sony Imaging Ambassador and Digital Photographer Wildlife Photograph of the Year winning Andrew Scriven to talk about how he uses mindfulness in his photography.

You can see more of Andrews images on his website.

Thursday 16th May at 8pm

Nominations and Questions for the AGM will be required by Monday 6th May. This will allow for the committee to be prepared in advance.

A question and nomination forms will be available at the next meeting.

The Members Choice Vote will also take place on this night, with drinks and nibbles, so we're trying to make the AGM a quick and easy process.

All of the current committee are prepared to be nominated to stand for the next year, and we welcome new nominations to strengthen the skills within the committee or as co-opted parts of the team. Help with publicity, marketing, event organizing, and booking judges or speakers would be very much appreciated.

If you'd like to volunteer, please speaks to the committee.

23rd May - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!
Print Competition: Open & "Shadow"

30th May
Jon Gray

TICKETED EVENT: Free to Members. Visitors £5

Professional Lifestyle, Fashion and Advertising Photographer with over 40 years experience will be giving us a masterclass.

You can see some of Jon's images on his website.

SB Cup - WINNER

SB Cup - Highly Commended

SB Cup - Commended

TICKETED EVENTS

In order to raise funds for the club funds, some of our high-profile talks will be advertised in the local press and to other clubs.

These events will remain FREE to members. Visitors will now be charged £5. Tickets will be available on the door.

Say Hello!

It can be hard venturing to a club for the first time, not knowing who is who and what the meeting is about. To make it a better experience for visitors we are introducing a team of Welcomers to greet members and visitors at the door on club nights.

You'll be the friendly face of the club, introducing visitors to the committee and to other members.

Thank you to David for volunteering to be our first Welcomer, and also to George, Denise and Ant who have also offered to make our members and visitors feel welcome at the door.

If you'd like to help, please let Steve know and he'll add you to the rota.

Print Competitions

Open & "Shadow"

Entry Deadline Changed
Now 23:59 Saturday 18th May

Members can enter up to three images for each competition. If the competition is over-subscribed we will remove your 3rd preference and then your 2nd preference if needed.

All images which score 18 points or more will be featured in this newsletter and on our website unless you select "Do Not Publish" when you upload your image through Photo Entry.

Remember that the author name and image title will be AUTOMATICALLY added to the images after the competition so please make sure you spell everything correctly and no offensive language in the titles.

Competition Handbook - Available to Download Here

Set Subjects for 2019-2020

PDI Competitions

Open & "Sky" - September 2019
Open & "Colour" - October 2019
Open & "Heat" - November 2019
Open & "Closed" - March 2020

Print Competitions

Open & "People at Work" - October 2019
Open & "Patterns" - January 2020
Open & "Urban Life" - March 2020
Open & "Forms in Nature" - May 2020

All of the themes are taken from the RPS monthly competitions so check out their website for a bit of inspiration!

Croxley Camera Club Committee

Chairman: Steve Bailey
Vice-Chairman: John Flynn
Treasurer: Rod Lacey
Secretary: Cat Humphries

Committee Members
Anthony Highet
Vanessa Lacey
Stuart Craig
George Purchase

You can e mail the committee directly about any aspect of the club

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Club meetings are held at 7:45pm each Thursday (except August)
at Croxley Green Community Centre, which is at the end of Community Way
(entrance behind the New Road library). For satnavs, use postcode WD3 3SU.