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Monday the 8th is the Annual Digital competition where both new and old images can be entered.  The older images are usually ones that didn't do as well as expected in a previous competition or the author has made changes based on the judges comments.  Either way, there will definitely be some great images.  See you there.

Don't forget the AGM is imminent - see the News section below for details.  We are short of a few people for next years committee so if you  are interested or would like to know more simply have a chat with an existing committee member.

Recent Events
Monday the 1st was a good evening to pick to break in the new projector.  The YPU portfolio definitely benefited from not having the horrible yellow cast that the old one imparted so we saw some great digital images at their best.  However, the several seconds of lag in the audio commentary means we didn't hear them at their best, though I don't see how we can blame the projector for that.  For the printed images, these had been scanned or photographed by the YPU so were still actually projected.  Nick went through these, pausing some, skipping over others, and getting the audience thoughts and opinions as he went.  As usual there were some images that were loved and some that we felt were not up to standard but all were enjoyed.  I certainly think quite a few people went away with a few ideas for locations and future images.  Thanks for organising it, Nick.
News
 


A Winter Feast
by David Hall

AGM - Important
The club and competition rule changes that are being proposed can be found here (club) and here (competition).  Please have a read to make sure you are happy to vote them in at the AGM on Monday the 15th.

Gallery Update
David Hall has recently sent me a large number of images to update his gallery page (and his Flickr address).  I was going to use his 'Pump It Up' image as the Featured Foto but I felt I should stick to the winter theme so I went for the robin.  Take a look at the rest of his work here.

Annual Print competition Results
Les has a fabulous showing and Vera shares 3d place with John Boyd.
 

Applied
Place Artist Title
1st Les Forrester Inside Victoria Baths
2nd Colin Jackson Damsel Fly
3rd (joint) Vera Jones
John Boyd
Robin
The Mosaic Apse
Open
Place Artist Title
1st John Bickerdyke Reaching for the High Note
2nd Les Forrester Inside With 60007
3rd Les Forrester The Catwalk

If the winners could send me a copy of their image(s) for the website, maximum 500 pixels per side, I would much appreciate it.

New Featured Foto
Just to prove that someone in the club has a camera and is prepared to take it out in the snow, here is a shot of Nick trying to get a snowman to pose for him :o)  It looks like he is using a wide angle lens for a portrait shot as well - tut tut!

Les's POTW
Les has had one of his images selected as Picture of the Week by Calumet Photographic Suppliers.  You can see it here.  Well done, Les.

Brian does The Hepworth
Brian has been documenting the building of The Hepworth (Wakefield's new international art gallery) for some time now.  He has sent some of his images as a refresh for his gallery page.  If you want to see what it looks like inside (even the toilets) then take look at Brian's page
Update.  Brian has upload an A/V of his images to YouTube which you can see here.

Police versus Photography
Here is  an interesting account of a journalist having a showdown with the police over photographing the 'Gerkin' in London, complete with video.

Un-mounted A4
Congratulations to the winners - 1st Brian Holding, 2nd Trevor Bottomley and 3rd Paul Coultrup.

New Featured Foto
It's another one from John Boyd, this time one that almost made it to the medals in the 5th Clubman.  Nice foreground, John.

5th Clubman Results
Les slips a bit and platinum paper gets its first outing!  See the winning images here.
 

Print
Place Artist Title
1st John Boyd If you can keep your head
2nd David Kegel Chicago Landscape
3rd Les Forrester Size Matters
Digital
Place Artist Title
1st Bill Mahoney Panthera Pardus
2nd Les Forrester St Johns
3rd Mike Crowther Dragonflies

If the winners could send me a copy of their image(s) for the website, maximum 500 pixels per side, I would much appreciate it.

Settle Trophy
An excellent result for us!  We managed to get the highest number of points in both the print and the digital categories so romped home to a comfortable win.  Not a bad feat against such stiff competition.

DSLR User magazine
Nick is the latest to get the name of the club splashed all over Digital SLR User magazine.  His piece about his favourite lens is in this months issue.

Trevor.com
Trevor has recently created himself a web site so go here and have a look.  He said it was a piece of cake so if you fancy one, ask him how he did it.

David Noton
Les has highlighted the fact that David Noton, a top UK photographer, is bringing his roadshow, 'Chasing the Light', to Sheffield next February.  See his website for details but I know that several members already have tickets so you may want to book quickly.

Three Clubs at Pudsey
This brand new competition was won by the home side, Pudsey, with 337 points.  We managed second with 321 points and Halifax came in third with 316.

Location, location, location - part 1
I have fixed the problem with last years talk and a PDF of the full thing is now available on the 'Information' page.  I will add this years to it when I can.

New Gallery page
John Boyd is the latest to send me some images for a brand new gallery page.  Thanks, John.  His photo of Desert Orchid just edged out 'Staithes' as my favourite (must be the trip to Pontefract races) so was picked as Featured Foto.

Sunday Times
Anyone who managed to make it through to yesterdays Sunday Times magazine may have seen a selection of the winning images from the AA Sunday Times Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.  If you did you would have seen an image called 'The Climber on Curber Edge' by a certain Les Forrester!  But that's not all.  The image received a 'Highly Commended' from the judges, it will be included in the book due out soon and can be seem at an exhibition at the National Theatre starting in early December and lasting for two months.  If you are not sure which one it is, I have added it to the top of his gallery page.
Well done once again, Les.

Treasure Hunt
I have now uploaded the twelve winning images and they can be seen here.

Schools Competition
In preparation for presentations for the Schools Competition next week I have created a page with all the submitted images here.  Thank you to all those who took part and congratulation to the winners, especially Jack Hayes who had three winners.

Treasure Hunt
Congratulations to Team Adams (Shereen, Christine, Trevor and myself) on their (narrow) victory in this fun and enthralling competition.  Everyone who took part seems to have enjoyed it and I think we all ended up better photographers.  Many thanks to Nick & Debbie for organising it.  If anyone has any ideas on how to repeat it without placing such a burden on the organisers then please let one of us hear them.


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