The booking form for the 2013 Lampeter convention is now available here.
The convention takes place on the weekend of 31st August/1st September and should not be missed.
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The 2013 Welsh International Salon of Photography is now open to receive your entries. This year there are four digital sections (open, experimental, nature and photo travel) and two PRINT sections (mono and colour). Everything you need to know and an online entry from can be found here. The closing date for entries is 20th July, 2013. Further to the recent Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act a widely publicised e-petition to ‘Stop Legalised Theft of Copyrighted Works’ has reached 27,880 signatures. As a result the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have provided the following response clarifying the Act and outlining inaccuracies in some of the assumptions made about it. We reproduce that response here for your information: Abergavenny Camera Club have David Wilson, Fine Art Landscape Photographer doing a presentation at the club on the 1st July. His talk will be on Black and White Landscapes. Other WPF club members are invited to come along from 8pm until 10pm. Their venue will hold (80 maximum) so if clubs have any members interested could they email Julie Morgan email here. There is a cost listed on our programme on the website but this is an error so please ignore. This is a bit of a tome! Make a pot of tea and relax! I have not heard ‘Officially’ yet and when I do I will write to lodge our complaint about this latest news from FIAP. Apparently if you run a circuit (a Salon with two, three or sometimes four different countries) unless each country judges it`s Salon in that particular country it only counts as one country. For example, the Great British Small Print Circuit has several English Salons and one Welsh Salon within it. From now on unless we took the salon into Wales for a few days and judged it here and then returned it to Cumbria for other the Salons hold their judging it will only count as ONE country. This was on the cards for a while but what is very annoying is that FIAP are planning to backdate this rule. As I say, I haven`t heard officially yet – FIAP are notoriously slow in informing any Federation about the results of their Directory Board meetings – but I do intend to complain about the backdating as will many other countries I`m sure. Dennis Russ has told us about a new speaker, Rob Ashcroft, who specialises in macro and tabletop images. The members at Abertawe greatly enjoyed Rob’s recent presentation even though it was his first ever visit to a club. If your club would be interested in booking him, you can find out more on his website. Old Bridge (Pontypridd) PS has a Monochrome print exhibition on at the Pontypridd Museum until the end of June. Opening Hours are Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm (closed Bank Holidays). Entry is free. Full disabled access. Museum telephone number is 01443 490748. Advanced Photographer and Digital SLR magazine are hosting a 24 hour photo shoot in London. The event will be sponsored by Samsung and takes place on 21-22 June. To register and take part go here. You can now pre-order Adobe Lightroom 5 on Amazon at £103.88. With it’s big brother, Photoshop, very shortly becoming a subscription only, cloud based programme, it could be the wise choice! A new website selling second-hand camera gear, as well as new equipment, has been launched. Called ‘Camera Jungle’ it promises an ‘instant quote’ system for those wanting to sell or trade in their old gear, without them having to visit a store or ‘haggle over price’. The Surrey-based business says photographers can sell kit for cash, or part-exchange used digital cameras and lenses for other gear on the website. More details here. Gwynfa Camera Club has announced that the rules for the Pixels competition have been changed. Henceforward, instead of asking for two colour and two monochrome photographs, Gwynfa will be accepting any four images from each club entering, be they colour or mono. Clubs may therefore choose, if they wish, to enter four colour, four mono or any combination thereof. The change is intended to encourage more entrants and to cater for clubs such as Cymru Monochrome. |
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