This week's meeting
The talk by Kevin Mitchell has been postponed until January. Instead, we have a workshop evening: Phil Taylor will demonstrate the advantages of the Affinity processing software, followed by David Chedgy doing likewise for On1 Photo Raw. In addition, Phil has had a tremendous idea which he will present to members at the start of the evening. As a teaser, what he is proposing is a completely new venture, and one which may well appeal to members who (like me) are less confident in their photographic skills - come and listen!

Competition hand-in date
Remember that midnight on Friday is the deadline for submissions for our next competition, digital, on the theme of Travel and Places (see https://www.fromewessexcameraclub.com/2018-19-set-subjects.html for the definition). The competition will be judged on 7th December by Clive Greenland, LRPS, QGPP.

Frome Salon of Photography 2018
The selection took place last weekend, and Mary Maynard and her team worked wonders for two long days, and then ensuring that the results were published in record time.
Visit https://www.fromewessexcameraclub.com/salon.html to be dazzled! Special congratulations are due to Alan Denison, with not one but two commendations in the Open Colour class.

Diary Date
Next Monday, 19th, sees the first of this season's battles, the Calne Multi-Club.
Please come along if you can to Beversbrook Sports Facility
Beversbrook Road, Calne, Wiltshire SN119FL. 7 for a 7.30 start.

 And Now for the Next Battle - WCPF DPIC
The Battle Sec requests members to submit up to 4 images each, please note images to be in by 1st December 2018 at the latest.   Western Counties Photographic Federation -2019 Digitally Projected Inter-Club Competition DPIC. The Battle Sec requests images to be in by 1st December 2018. images sized to 1600 x 1200 dpi saved as srgb. Max length of image title is 35 spaces including spaces. ( Each club is required to enter 18 images with no more than four images from one photographer and no more than five nature images. For Nature Definition see WCPF website http://www.wcpf.org.uk/pages/useful-info..php )
Please note, A photographer cannot represent more than one club. 

Christmas is Coming....
.... and our Club Christmas meal is scheduled for Friday 14th December, at Beckington. As before, Eynon Catering will feed us, and there will be quizzes and other fun. Attached to this e-mail is the menu. Please let Criss have your bookings and choices as soon as you can. Precise costs to follow, but likely to be similar to last year's.

This Season's "Best of the Best" Competition
.... isn't until next May, but it's worth bearing in mind. For the first time, there will be separate Print and Digital trophies. Any image in the top five in internal competitions this season will be eligible to compete (digital from digital competitions, print from print competitions). Stan Wilson has managed to find a rather special judge for this: Leo Rich, ARPS,DPAGB,HonPAGB,EFIAP/g. Hang on to your pics if you're lucky enough to qualify!  

FWCC Holiday in Cornwall, June 2019
Just one double room remains unlet. If you might be interested, please look at the attached flyer, and talk to Andrew Washington at the Club, or contact him on andrewwashy@gmail.com.

Photoshop Course at Frome College
Please see the attached proposal from Frome College. If you might be interested, please let me know (fwccsec@gmail.com). But - bit of a spoiler here - hang on until you've heard Phil's idea on Friday.

​This Week's Meeting
One of the highlights of the year! Our three eminent Salon selectors will be talking about and showing us their work. 

Change to Programme

The meeting on 16th November is no longer as billed in the Handbook: Kevin Mitchell's talk has been moved to January. Instead, the evening will be a workshop and demonstration of the photographic programmes Affinity and On1 Photo Raw, led by David Chedgy.

The Calne Multiclub Battle 
Monday 19th November at the Beaversbrook Sports Centre, Calne SN11 9FL. 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. We had nearly a 100 images submitted for the battle which had to be whittled down to 10 in total. The selection committee worked tirelessly to select the images that they hope will score 17 or above, to be in with a chance of being in contention to win the competition. We came second last year. Come along and cheer on the troops - it is always an enjoyable evening.

The Competitions Page on the Website
The winning images from last week's competition can be enjoyed, but some are still missing. If you can fill a gap, please send your picture to 
fwccwebmaster@icloud.com

London Camera Exchange Workshops
Damien Demolder is running a series of workshops in Bath. They seems to be good value. Visit 
 https://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Events/?Show=DAMIEN-DEMOLDER-EVENTS

WCPF MEMBERS' EXHIBITION 2019
Entries are invited for this. Please see attached pdf.

See you on Friday!

​This Week's Meeting
The first Print competition of the year will be judged by Mike Hendon, LRPS, from Bath. There has been a bumper entry of 67 images for him to judge.

Thankyou
to the many Club members who turned out for the Camera Fair on Sunday, especially to those who were there at 7 a.m.!

Frome Salon of Photography 2018
has now closed for entries, with takings well up on last year's. There will be an opportunity at next week's meeting (9th November) to see presentations from the three very eminent Selectors who will judge nearly 5,000 Salon entries over the ensuing weekend. Please pencil in Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th, and come along to Beckington if you can.

Mount-Cutting Service - a Special Offer for Members

FWCC member David Weeks has e-mailed to say that he is able to supply a mount cutting service to club members. During last Friday’s meeting our speaker suggested that getting a mount cut could cost £8.00 per mount.Some local shops charge even more. However, as a picture framer with a small business in Warminster, David is able to supply at a cost of £3.50 per cut mount in any colour - overall size 400 x 500. If you are interested, please talk to David at the Club, or contact him on dj.weeks@btopenworld.com.

Talk by Paul Naylor
There will be a talk about marine photography by an award-winning photographer on Monday 5th November at West Monkton. Please see the attached poster.

​Frome Salon of Photography 2018
Remember, entrants to the Salon benefit from the most expert possible appraisal of their work, and the chance to be rewarded with the classiest certificates of any Salon imaginable - all for free if you are an FWCC member. But you have only a few more days to take advantage of this benefit: the Salon closes for entries at midnight on Sunday 28th October - THIS SUNDAY! And when you think you have finalised your entry - just check that you really have.

This week's meeting
After the action and excitement of last Friday and Saturday, a complete contrast: John and  Di Tilsley's talk, entitled Photographing in Cold Places, promises to be enlightening and intriguing - and beautifully illustrated.
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.

The Camera Fair, this Sunday
8.30 - 1 pm at the Cheese & Grain. Free entry for members. If you can lend a hand, please come and help from 7am onwards (NB - the clocks go back!). If you are helping, please collect an FWCC STEWARD badge from me when you arrive. Also NB - Sunday parking charges now apply, alas.

The Calne Selection, a Message from David
Please note the following ten images were selected to represent the FWCC Club Entry for the Calne Multi Club Battle on Monday 19th November. We had 93 images in total and after two hour's deliberation whittled it down to these ten images: Helicopter - Joel.Baxter;  Dance! - Alan Denison; Bude Sea Pool, High Tide Storm - Mary Maynard; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao - Loveday Powell; A Boy and his Lion - Joao Diniz Sanches; Nightmare in Whispering Woods - David J. Chedgy; Waiting - Craig Morris; Red Stag Rutting - Andrew Washington; Launched - Alan Denison; Spiky Flower - Loveday Powell.
The following images were very close to being selected, but were just pipped at  the post: Elephants at Ambrose - Martin Bax; Dunnock - Andrew de Mora; Loving Blues -  Sheri o’Reilly; Cleveland Pier - Jon Durrant; Evening Conversation, Luxembourg - Mick Yates; U Bein Bridge,  Amarapura, Myanmar - Stan Wilson.
Congratulations to them all.

A Request for Stourhead Images
from John Parfitt :

"I’m looking for approximately  5 images of Stourhead. The brief is for different seasons and showing iconic features. The resolution must be such as to be capable of being printed at  approximately A1. They will be hung in a prestigious location which I’m not able to disclose until after the selection is made.
There will be little or no licence fee but where they will be hung should be reward enough – it would look good on a photographer’s CV.
If there is an interest, could they email me a low res version of the image to (john@thebetterpicture.com), with the subject Stourhead Images 2018."


A Request for Professional Portraits
Joy Osborn is a professional model living in Frome. She needs to update her portfolio, and is suggesting a win-win arrangement. She says:
"The ideal situation would be if there is no fee either way – i.e. that I get some great new photos for my portfolio and for my agencies to include on their websites, and for the photographer to gain something for their own use. My portfolio with both Source and Mustard is now about two years old so needs an update. If there is a photographer in your membership who might be interested, I’d be very happy to meet informally to explore the possibility of a shoot – when we can both share the sort of work we have done to date and decide whether this would be a mutually beneficial opportunity." 
If you'd like to contact Joy, please do so direct on joy.osborn@zen.co.uk.

Paper Offer
Chas Hasley, a stall-holder at the Camera Fair on Sunday, has contacted Loveday to offer Epson packs and the Nova Jet Pro packs of inkjet paper at special rates. His list is quite long, so I am forwarding his e-mail separately.Please let him know direct if you'd like some.


A Date to Look Forward To
Declan Burge at the Cheese and Grain e-mails to say that the wildlife TV cameraman and presenter Gordon Buchanan (Family and Me, Planet Earth 2, Animals with Cameras). The evening will give audiences an opportunity to hear personal recollections of Gordon's globe-trotting travels as he delves into his world of weird, wild and wonderful wildlife, all illustrated with his own film footage and photography. At the Cheese and Grain, 7.30 pm on Wednesday November 7th.
Ticket links:  http://www.cheeseandgrain.com/event/animal-families-and-me-with-gordon-buchanan/ 
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIql1ZpHovs 

And Listen to the Band!
This Saturday at Beckington, from about 4.30 till 6.30, rock band The Helm will be playing for you to practise live photography under lights. Another very good reason to charge your batteries. Please sign up at the club on Friday if you wish to attend. Look for the guys playing on www.thehelmband.co.uk

Sixty Members
We're glad to say that our membership is steadily growing. And, very pleasingly, of our 11 new members, no less than 7 entered last week's first competition of the season. What is more, they took the top 3 places in the Club Class! Congratulations to Joel Baxter (1st & 3rd), Sheri o'Reilly (2nd) and also to João Sanchez (4th & 9th). The rest of us Cs are going to have to up our game, clearly! 
Well-deserved Premier Class winners were Andrew de Mora (1st), Mary Maynard (2nd) and Alan Denison (3rd). Visit https://www.fromewessexcameraclub.com/dpi-opening-oct-2018.html to see all the scoring images.

Have you seen an Old Git's Hat?

A serious question. Tom Fahey's hat, proudly stating that "Old Gits Rule", precious because his daughter gave it to him, has gone missing. It seems he left it at Beckington one Friday evening recently and that someone took charge of it for him. But who that someone was, nobody can remember. If you have it, then please do bring it along on Friday and give it back to the Old G.... Sorry -  to Tom in person! He'll be so very grateful.

An Invitation
Tony Gervis FRPS, an eminent and widely travelled photographer, will be speaking at Calne Camera Club on Monday 22nd October.  Examples of his work may be found on his web site at www.tonygervis.com. This promises to be an excellent evening and Calne look forward to seeing some FWCC members  at the Lansdowne Hall, Derry Hill, Calne, SN11 9QY.


And, speaking of Calne ....
.... David has had an amazing 100+ submissions from which he and his team will choose the 10 most suitable entries for the Multiclub battle next month. He will not be in a position to announce which the top 10 photographs are until Thursday, so we shall hold next week's newsletter back for a day, to bring you all the news.

Don't Forget
Your Salon needs you! FWCC members enter for free, and you still have time left. Visit https://www.fromewessexcameraclub.com/salon-info.html
The Salon selection weekend (10th - 11th November), like the Camera Fair (28th October), needs all hands on deck. If you can help at either event, please don't be shy about coming forward.
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