Category: News

First	Anthony Highet	The East Pier
Second	Arron Dowdeswell	That Wanaka Tree
Third	Amanda Culley	California Mountain Sunrise
Highly Commended	Jim Forder	Fjord

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First	Steve Bailey	The Railway Man
Second	Gordon Calder	Partial Eclipse
Third	Gordon Calder	Bodacious
Highly Commended	Steve Bailey	Sinister Character
Highly Commended	Jim Forder	Jack of Ragged Victorians

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Steven joins us again on the 7th to tell use about being a Judge, Jury and Executioner on the judging circuit!

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The video of the post processing workshop evening is available in the Members area, as are the files Ant’ & George’s used in their editing sessions.

The images for the Post Processing Challenge are also available in the Members area too.

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Advanced

First	Cat Humphries	133
Second	Gordon Calder	132
Joint Third	Mike Brankin	130
Joint Third	Alan Rhodes	130

Intermediate

First	Rudi Mehta	125
Joint Second	Martin Leipa	123
Joint Second	David Eckland	123
Third	Kenneth Coombs	122

Promotions to Advanced League

Club Average	17.14
Rudhi Mehra	17.86
Nigel Rand	17.86
Martin Leipa	17.22

Rules

1. Positions in the Advanced and Intermediate leagues are determined by member’s top 7 scoring images across the open and set subject competitions.
2. The club overage is calculated as the total number of points awarded by judges in the open and set subject competitions divided by the total number of PDIs entered by members, across all three leagues.
3. Members average is calculated as the total number of points they have been awarded divided by the total number of PDIs they have entered (not the top 7).
4. Member from both the Intermediate and Beginners leagues who exceeded the club average are promoted to the Advanced League
5. The Beginners league positions are determined by the top 8 scoring images across both PDI and Print competitions, so cannot be calculated until the remainder of the Print competitions have taken place.

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Thursday club evenings are now taking place as live video conferences and are open to all members to join. See either the newsletter or the website blog for details of what’s happening each week.

To simplify joining the online Zoom meetings, all future Thursday club evenings will use the same reoccurring link which is available in the Members Only area

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Unfortunate the Corona Virus situation has affected the club as our Community Centre has closed in accordance with the government guidelines.

In addition the Committee has taken the decision to suspend all club portrait events until further notice.

However the good news is we’re moving our Thursday club evenings online!

We’ll be using the “Zoom” video conference service, which is very easy to use. The Committee used it earlier in the week and it worked very well indeed across both Windows and Apple devices.

We’ll have to see how it works in practice, but as of now we intend to hold the published programme events as-is, except virtually instead of in the Community Centre.

Cat’s latest newsletter has the connection and setup arrangement for our first online club meeting this Thursday:. Read it here.

This Thursday Stuart is leading our first online workshop – Portrait of Britain – You be the Judge – Click this link to join!

Looking forward seeing you all there.

George

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We are thrilled to announce that model & dancer, ‘BOou’ will be joining us for our next advanced studio day.  Working in pre-booked hour long slots, you will create your own lighting, choose Bou’s outfits and direct her accordingly.  Be confident, be bold and create something unique! 

Not sure about the cost?  Buddy up with a pal and share a slot, max 2 photographers per slot.

NB:  Techincal support available throughout the day.

Location: West Herts College

Available Spaces: 6 slots available, 2 hours MAX booking subject to availability.  Time slots will only be released when spaces are filled.

Cost: £65:00 per hour (Payment is needed in advance to secure your place)

Contact: anthonyhighet@hotmail.co.uk

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Huge thanks to everyone that joined us for our recent studio session, especially the very talented Beth Christie who donned her dance gear and provided us with some terrific images such as the one below.  Everyone will agree that Beth did a wonderful job!

And our next studio session has been confirmed for 18th February – . Intro to Studio – Session Five – The Character Study.

Details in the website’s event list.

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