IMPORTANT REMINDER - We are at Frome Rugby Club, Gypsy Lane, Frome BA11 2NA this Friday.

This week Richard Price is giving his talk ‘Micro to Massive’ which he describes as “An evening of two halves. First we examine the world of macro - what is it? How can I do it? Ideas and inspiration from bugs to droplets. Part two we explore the depths of space and Astro photography. The opportunities that can be found, after dark and the amazing things you can do without specialist kit.”
Check out his work on https://www.freedomphotographic.com/
 Guy Edwardes talk
The DVD of Guy Edwardes talk is ready and Jon Durrant will bring it to Club on Friday. He has agreed with Guy that it will only be seen by Club members. Several of you will want to see it, so it may take a while to pass round. None of the content can be copied as he has given his word to Guy.  
Improving your photography – Critique Evening – Thursday 12th March
David Chedgy and Alan Denison plan to run a number of additional 'critique' evenings each year in the same manner as the evening that was run in preparation for FSoP19. The first meeting will be on 12th March so please register your interest in attending with Alan Denison or David Chedgy by 10th March.
Preparations for Tri-Battle
Although the Tri-Battle with Frome Selwood and Norton Radstock is still some way off it is worthwhile having a look at the Themes listed on the club website for inspiration for your prints and DPIs. Hand in date is 1st May.
Brick Lane photoshoot
This may have to be postponed until the situation regarding coronavirus becomes clearer.

More good news. The club competed last weekend in the Warminster Annual Inter-Club battle, and beat 6 other local clubs to come first. Special congratulations to Andrew Washington who received the 'Best in competition award. The images are on the club website alone with a photo of a proud David Chedgy accepting the club award. Well done everyone.
This week’s meeting
This week is members critique evening, bring along no more than 3 of your DPIs (on a memory stick) or prints, tell us a bit about your photography and receive feedback from other club members.
WCPF Members exhibition
This is for individual club members with online entry which members do have to complete by 7th March through the WCPF website http://www.wcpf.org.uk/pages/members-exhibition-2020.php . Our WCPF representative and is also an assistant MPIX member and will collect prints to take to the selection weekend on 21/22nd March. The venue for the exhibition is Bovey Tracey Golf Club TQ13 9NG and will run from 3rd-17th May.
Mifsuds Photographic
Mifsuds, who regularly come along to the club Camera Fairs, are currently offering 10% off all new and used stock. Order from Mifsuds.com using the online discount code: DISC10
FWCC Distinction Print Group
Don’t forget to speak to Bill or Loveday if you want to join the Distinctions print only group which has its first meeting on 4th March.
Brick Lane trip
After the success of the January London trip, Harvard Dallibar would like to know if anyone is interested in a Brick Lane photo trip on 4th or 5th April. If you would like to go along either contact me or Harvard.
Upcoming events
Don’t forget that the hand in date for the club open print competition is 21st February. The competition will be judged on 13th March and the judge is Julie Kay.
Upcoming battles
The Tri Battle is being hosted by Frome Selwood this year on 13th May 2020. It's at Frome Cricket club, starting at 7.45pm. Please see the subjects sheet attached, there are no restrictions on how many members may hand in for consideration per subject. Tri battle images, can be either print or DPI, (DPIs should be the normal Digital competition size). Please hand prints to the Battles Secretary and send DPIs.
Name format should be: Name of subject_Members name_Club number.

Great news from the 2020 WCPF DPIC Competition on Saturday. The club had an excellent result – runner up – which will mean that we go forward, with the winners, Dorchester Camera Club, to represent Western Counties against all the other club federations in the UK at the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain championships in June. Well done everyone.
This week’s meeting
This week is the club open digital competition. The judge will be changed from Cynthia Jory.
Club Competition Questionnaire
You should all now have received my email about this. David Chedgy is collating all the responses so please return your voting slip to him by Sunday evening 16th February at the latest.
Tripod
Sadly new club member David Laycock has had a disaster with his tripod and asks if any member has a reasonably priced tripod for sale. Contact me if you have and I will pass it on to David.
FWCC Distinction Print Group
Following last year’s success we realise how useful such a group can be to the club and its members. Loveday and Bill are prepared to run another one this year. As they are unable to cater for lots of members just wanting to improve their photography they will still need to restrict the number to prospective distinction seekers, understanding that it may be some time off for some. (The club already runs an ‘Improve your Photography group’)
They aim to start off with a bi-monthly meeting but adding more as and when members are getting close to their adjudications or assessments. These distinctions will cover PAGB, RPS and other bodies.
It is not possible for them to fairly be assessing DI’s as it requires a calibrated projector. (This will be dealt with in another club group.) Therefore they will restrict their group to prints only, requiring all members to actively take part by bringing work each time. Our first meeting will be on the 4th March at Loveday’s studio and will run from 7-9pm.
Topic - To discuss members’ requirements and expectations. By all means bring some prints along and with time allowing you can make a start.
Brick Lane trip
After the success of the January London trip, Harvard Dallibar would like to know if anyone is interested in a Brick Lane photo trip on 4th or 5th April. If you would like to go along either contact me or Harvard.
Upcoming events
Warminster CC inter-club print battle 2020 – this is being held on Saturday 15 February at the Lakeside Centre, Warminster Pleasure Park. Doors open at 1.15pm. Tickets on the door £5 to include a finger buffet and tea/coffee. Members encouraged to come along as it's a great insight into how battle images are critiqued and scored, plus you get to see some great images.
Don’t forget that the hand in date for the club open print competition is 21st February. The competition will be judged on 13th March and the judge is Julie Kay.
Upcoming battles
The Tri Battle is being hosted by Frome Selwood this year on 13th May 2020. It's at Frome Cricket club, starting at 7.45pm. Please see the subjects sheet attached, there are no restrictions on how many members may hand in for consideration per subject. Tri battle images, can be either print or DPI, (DPIs should be the normal Digital competition size).Please hand prints to the Battles Secretary and send in DPIs.
Name format should be: Name of subject_Members name_Club number.

​This week you all have shiny new badges. Please let me know if your badge is not in the box (there were rather a lot of members whose surnames begin with W so you might find your badge is under T instead!) And don’t forget to replace your badges back in the box at the end of the meeting, I’m a great one for losing badges if I take them home.
 This week’s meeting
For this week’s meeting club member Mick Yates is talking about his photography. His presentation is titled ‘Unfinished Stories; from genocide to hope’ and will cover his photographic journey, Cambodia history and educational progress, and with a lot about making a modern day photo documentary. There will also be a group activity so it promises to be a good night.
Camera Fair - Sunday 27th October
The club camera fair will be taking place at the Cheese and Grain in Frome. Helpers will be needed from 7am until 1pm, and if you think you could help please email Loveday. There is free entry for members of the club.
Frome Salon of Photography – call for submissions
The Salon is still open for submissions, the closing date for online entries being Sunday 3rd November. There is a wide range of categories, including mobile phone, and don’t forget a successful acceptance could count towards BPE recognition. Not only can club member submit for FREE but there are 18 awards reserved for club members only. Five members have already submitted their entries so visit the website at https://photoexhib.co.uk/fromewessexsalon/login.php and get your entries in.
Frome Salon of Photography – call for volunteers
Alan is still looking for volunteers and whatever time you can give, however small, would be appreciated. Please contact Alan or me if you think you can help.
Battles
Kingswood Salver: - we are submitting a tonal panel called ‘Natural Beauty’ and the images selected are ‘Portland Seed Head’ – Jane Wiltshire, ‘Clematis’ – Lisa Rendall, ‘Three Dahlias’ – Loveday Powell, ‘Dahlia’ – David Chedgy, ‘Cherry Blossom’ – Simon Johnson. The panel was shown at the club meeting after selection and there were many comments about how lovely the set was. The judging will take place on Saturday 16th November at Bovey Tracey golf club.
The next battle is an open one with Devizes for digital images. Hand in for selection is Sunday, 13th October at the latest, and there is a section that must be images from members not in the Premier group. Please email your images. However, it is important, if you have membership of other clubs, that you let us know whether you have designated another club for your entries. If this is so, could you please email me so that I can pass it on to the Selection Team.
FWCC Website – Monthly Challenge
Don’t forget to get your images in for Challenge of the Month, this is simply intended to be a fun challenge to get you out using your cameras. There will be a page on the website designed to show members’ best photographs of the month and there will be a theme if you want to use it as a starting point. It is not essential that you follow the theme, what we want to see is your photographs. This month there is an open challenge, so send your photograph for October, sized as for the gallery page, to Andrew but remember to title your entries and give your member number, for example, RedBalloons_FredBloggs_MN123.
 
 
FWCC Website – Members Galleries
In order to showcase the full range of members’ interests and skills, the website now contains an updated gallery, where each member can display 10 of their favourite images on a dedicate page. Six members have already submitted some amazing images but it would be great to have more, so please send in 10 of your best images, sized to 1600 pixels on the long side for landscape and 1200 pixels on the high side for portrait and please let Andrew de Mora know if you wish for your qualifications to be displayed.
 
A final reminder, there is an updated price for mounting boards of £1.50 per board, £12 for 10 boards and £8 for 5, backing board is £1 per sheet. All prices compare very favourably with local sources and David Chedgy asks that you pre-order your requirements from him to be picked up on club nights to avoid unnecessary damage in transporting the boards.

On the 11th August the WCPF held its inaugural club print competition in Dorchester. Members from DCC and the WCPF hosted the event and it was a very successful day. Fotospeed sponsored the new trophy which was won by Torbay Photographic Society.
 
Thirty-nine clubs took part in which the FWCC came joint tenth. A well deserved position seeing the competition. Congratulations to all of our photographers who scored the below mentioned marks.
You will see by this link how we compared. http://www.wcpf.org.uk/media/PrintComp/2019/WCPF%20Print%20Comp%202019%20Ranked
 
The judges were: Glyn Edmunds ARPS DPAGB EFIAP/s EPSA, Jean Brooks EFIAP/b BPE2*, Caroline Colgate ARPS APAGB

Click here to see the winning images from FWCC