This Week: Yes, you are in the right place! Our new heading banner was composed by Dianne Owen FRPS from previous Images of The Week. Thank you Dianne.
Rules and Forms for the L&CPU KO in November are HERE.
Other additions; Welsh International (External Competitions) and new websites for Morecambe, St Helens (Clubs)
Last Week NEW! - L&CPU Judging Seminar - EVENTS
Crewe PS 2010 Exhibition and Photo Day added EVENTS. Wilmslow Guild PS National Competition Success - NEWS - Whitby Club Exhibition -Sale PS Exhibition - EVENTS - Guernsey Salon and Swansea added - External Competitions. Irwell Vale have changed their website address - CLUBS. Preston PS have told us that they have updated their website - and very striking it is too - worth a look. Kendal PS have sent their programme - I am happy to include programmes here for clubs who do not have a website, they will be on the Clubs page.
The L&CPU Annual Exhibition closed on Saturday 21st August. You may still like to download the CATALOGUE.We hope you had a chance to visit. These prints and others will now tour the clubs as the FOLIOS. Each print folio comprises up to 60 prints, many with a commentary. Your members can get a close look at the work and you can use them with the commentary, as the basis for discussion or as a mini exhibition. If you would like to join the folio rota email Jon Allanson, our folio secretary.
This week we can add another club to our President's tally as she has been to the opening of St Helens CC 2010 Exhibition.(NEWS)
Being the L&CPU President is a hard but hopefully rewarding task and sometimes even offers a few privileges! You can find out what happened when Christine Widdall had a behind-the-scenes view of the Haworth Gallery in Accrington. Thanks to Harry Emmett for sending this in - and an opportunity to ask you to please do send in items like this for us all to enjoy. (NEWS)
In Events we have added Bolton Digital PS's Annual Exhibition. Bolton Digital were a new club in 2009 and are growing steadily - as is the case with many clubs. Chester PS have sent details of their popular annual event - hosting the RPS International Projected Image Exhibition - wonder how many L&CPU names we will see featured this year? (EVENTS)
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Exec. Committee Meeting, Euxton |
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L&CPU Knock-Out closing date for entries |
20th November - |
L&CPU PDI Knock-Out Competition & Exec. |
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PAGB Merit Award Adjudications at Wilmslow Guild |
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Exec. Committee Meeting |
PAGB DIARY
| 30 September 2010 |
Deadline for April 2011 PAGB Awards in Prints & PDIs |
| 1 October 2010 |
Deadline for PAGB Inter-Fed PI Competition entries (Hosts N&EMPF) |
| 2/3 October 2010 |
PAGB Exec Meeting - London |
| 23rd October 2010 |
PAGB Inter-Club Print Championships 2010 |
| 15 Novmber 2010 |
PAGB GB Cup 2011 entries due |
| 27/28 November 2010 |
Awards for Photographic Merit - Prints and PDIs - (Hosts L&CPU) |
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LECTURERS & JUDGES
Your club's new L&CPU 2010-2011 Directory should now be with you (July 2010). Don't forget your PAGB Handbook too - vital reference and a source of further lecturers and judges details.
Please remember that we have a BOOKING FORM on the Downloads page. The J&Ls are not properly booked without it.
Extra copies of the L&CPU Directory (£3) and the PAGB Handbook (£8) are available.
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Additions and Corrections
CORRECTION: New lecturer Graham Currey's address is 13, Broomfield Rd.
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EARLIER NEWS - Monday 2nd August - PAGB e-Newsletter 32 has arrived, with full club scores at the PAGB Inter-Club PDI in July, new recorded lecture about judging, the entrants for the Inter-Club Print Championships in October and much more here. Also added; St Helens CC Annual Exhibition (EVENTS).
Sunday 1st August - The new L&CPU Directory has been posted to clubs - your details of the L&CPU clubs, lecturers, judges and the L&CPU Exec Committee. Changes will be logged here, where you will also find how to obtain extra copies.The Clubs data is being updated to the new Directory details but remaining changes are mainly just start times.
We welcome three NEW CLUBS; Irwell Vale PC, Roby Mill Community CC and Whitworth PS. We wish them every success
and look forward to seeing those names on our competition lists and being of service to them!
18th - 24th July on 17th July - we had the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick. Wigan 10 lost the Final to Smethwick PS by ONE MARK. Also separated by one mark in the PLATE COMPETITION were the other two L&CPU competing clubs;
Chorley PS (100 and 4th in the Plate) and Oldham PS (99). The full club results are here. PAGB e-Newsletter 31 is here featuring some of the PDI Championship images - detailed results will follow. (Also an interesting opportunity to judge for Australian clubs!).
Congratulations to Wigan 10 member Roy Rimmer for gaining a silver medal for Whippet Race, judge Malcolm Kus's choice. Wigan 10 also take a PAGB silver medal as Runner-up Club.
3rd July DELEGATES MEETING - AWARDS - ANNUAL EXHIBITION OPENING: On Saturday 3rd July a packed house at Kirkby Gallery was the first to enjoy our beautifully staged ANNUAL EXHIBITION. Prior to that they had heard the glad news of a further reduction in membership fees (£3.05) from our Treasurer, Gordon Jenkins APAGB - this will include the valuable new Trustees insurance. The reduction is possible because of a further increase in membership this year (5% again), well done to you all for not just getting but keeping your new members! A large number of Award winners managed to attend and were warmly congratulated by us all.
Please enjoy Ed Roper's pictures of the happenings and do try to get your members to visit the exhibition - it really is a great tribute to club photography in the North West and is bound to inspire them.
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George Smethurst
George Smethurst left the Executive at the AGM in February. He had served on the Executive Committee for over 20 years and during that time he carried out two important roles... those of Folio Secretary and Exhibition Secretary.
As Folio Secretary, George was responsible for arranging the folio routes and later accommodating the changes that clubs sometimes request, arranging for commentaries to be made, the paperwork associated with the job, distribution of the folios and then dealing with the inevitable problems that arise from time to time during the forthcoming year.
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As Exhibition Secretary, George was responsible for locating suitable venues and carrying out negotiations with curators, arranging for the hanging and taking down of the exhibitions, compiling and distributing catalogues, arranging publicity and invitations to openings and providing refreshments for those attending. All of this takes a great deal of time and organisational skill and George carried out all of these tasks with dedication and attention to detail. You will also remember that this was during the time when we actually hung all the 360 prints that are in the folios!!
George was an obvious candidate for President but, although he was asked on more than one occasion, he always declined, preferring to work in the background and contribute in his own special way.
He finally decided to step down from the EC at the AGM in February – his input to our meetings is missed but we understand his reasons and we wish him well for the future.
George has already been appointed to the Roll of Honour, but we also wanted to show our thanks for everything that he has done for the Union over the years and so I was delighted to present him with a commemorative salver as a token of our appreciation. Christine Widdall, L&CPU President, 3rd July 2010
9th June 2010: PAGB Inter-Federation Print Results (L&CPU only). Every year each of the Federations sends entries for this national level competition. Our results are just back; 7 acceptance in the mono section and 10 acceptances with 3 ribbons in the colour section. Good to see some new names among those and, with 15 for Cheetah Chasing Gazelle for Austin Thomas, there is obviously more news yet to tell!- We were 4th in the colour prints and 6th in the monochrome - see PAGB Page. PAGB e-Newsletter 30 is now here with the full results
PAGB e-Newsletter 29, devoted to copyright issues is available on the PAGB page.
Wednesday 19th May - PAGB e-Newsletter 28 added (lightweight version!)- Report on PAGB AGM & Exec Meeting, Rod Wheelans Hon PAGB MPAGB MFIAP FRPS FIPF is awarded JS Lancaster Medal, Trustee Liability Insurance, Gordon Jenkins to produce PI CD, FIAP matters, advice on preparing PDIs. More additions to Events page; Hebden Bridge Exhibition (TPU club) and the RPS Comtemporary Group have a day with Martin Parr and John Darwell.
Saturday 1st May: The Executive Committee meeting is reported here. We have new PAGB distinctions to celebrate, including the rare MPAGB for Kathryn Scorah LRPS DPAGB ABPE of Wigan 10 on the NEWS page.
David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB - 1934-2010
We regret to announce that of one of the great servants of the L&CPU - David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB - died on Sunday 18th April. The picture above shows him at one of the L&CPU Centenary Exhibition openings. The exhibition was the crowning glory of his work with the Federation which spanned nearly 40 years. It was only a couple of weeks ago that we posted here his book which accompanied the exhibition - very thoroughly researched as was typical of David.
If you would like to share reminiscences of David please email them to the Webmaster and we can ensure that future club members will know something of this great man.
OBITUARY by Doug Couzens & John Smith - Link to L&CPU - The First 100 Years.
The End of “Section 44”? Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows the home secretary to authorise police to make random searches in certain circumstances. It has caused a some friction between between police and street photographers.
The Strasbourg Court has ruled Section 44 a breach of our human rights http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8453878.stm This may or may not lead to changes which make street photography easier but in any case why not, as you plan for next season, think about issuing membership cards to your club? It gives some credibility if you are stopped. Many clubs have them; you could leave space for a passport photo and even include suitable wording on the back to state something about photographer’s rights. Oldham PS do this and you can see what they include here.
“The L&CPU – The First 100 Years1905-2005” was written by David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB to accompany the Centenary Exhibition which toured the region from 2005 to 2008. It was the crowning glory of David’s long service to the L&CPU and a valuable document tracing the history of the L&CPU and featuring photographs used in the exhibition. There is now a fully searchable PDF version of the book on the L&CPU page. This is the first item in our ARCHIVE section. It is accompanied by the Archive Catalogue and Centenary Catalogue and this is the start of a major section of the website.
We also have a note that Tony Riley (Surrey Fed. PAGB rep) is a professional colour profiler and has just started building a new web site – he tells us that over the next few weeks new topics will be added; have a look at the first at:http://www.imagetune.co.uk/
L&CPU BIG DAY - Can You Help? A BIG DAY is being planned for next March, possibly Sunday 20th. One vital element is the venue. Have you any suggestions? The ideal would be; capacity of 300, tiered lecture hall with projection, technical support (or full access for us to manage), catering facilities and/or dining area for coffee and lunches, car parking, reasonable cost and fairly central to the region. Webmaster
Look after your images. Among fears that any image appearing on the web is fair game for losing copyright we are grateful to the Royal Photographic Society for negotiating some assurances over this. Nevertheless it is good practice to make sure any images that you put up for public viewing have a copyright mark and your name in the metadata to help avoid them being designated as “orphan works”. Also, do read the small print when submitting images to commercial competitions or broadcasting companies and so on; you may be signing away your copyright.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT – Christine Widdall AFIAP DPAGB BPE3*
Christine received a very warm welcome at the AGM on Saturday 27th February as our new President. She paid tribute to the past Presidents and to the present Officers and Executive Committee. Regarding reform she said that she did not believe in fixing things which were not broken but that some things were “a little bit cracked” and would be getting attention.
She was pleased that we now had a swift means of communicating to the clubs what the L&CPU are doing in the shape of the newsletter, something she had pressed for in committee. We had seen today that the Officers and EC members were good communicators and she hoped that the clubs would respond by communicating their ideas and opinions back to the L&CPU.
Our new President went on to talk about three projects which the L&CPU have on the agenda. Firstly, we are looking at the ways in which we could arrange mentoring for those who want to apply for the PAGB awards. Then she asked the audience who would attend a “Big Day” if we were to arrange one. A strong response underlined the inclusion of that on the agenda. Finally she referred to the State Of The Union survey conducted in 2000 and said that another questionnaire/review along similar lines would take place, probably early next season. In 2000 Clubs had found this very useful indeed in understanding where they stand and how they might plan for the future – now was the time to look at this again.
Christine’s day was topped by her own club Oldham PS winning the PDI Challenge in the evening following the AGM. It was also the first event she presided over.
We all look forward to working with Christine in what promises to be an exciting time for the Union and the Clubs.
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The State Of Union Report - What was it?
In 2000, Rob Vince, who was then Hon General Secretary had become anxious about the falling numbers of club members and Christine was actioned to carry out a "State of the Union" research project in the form of a questionnaire, which resulted in the State of the Union Report and a follow-up Factsheet, in which members of the Executive (Keith Suddaby, Bob Dennis and David Marsh) and some of the clubs were asked to provide input. It is an excellent piece of work which still has a lot of relevance and an update will be very useful to the clubs. BACK TO TOP
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....and don't forget our new President's book on Saddleworth!
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