DON’T FORGET
Enrolment evening is Friday 6th September 2019, 7.45 pm at Beckington Memorial Hall. There will be a slide shows of members work, refreshments, and an opportunity to see the programme of events that have been planned for next season.
 
Jenny Powell
In the past we relied on volunteers to provide refreshments at break time, but in practise it often meant that members would miss part of the talks or competitions, and it was often difficult to find volunteers to fill the rota. To solve this problem, in a completely new venture, we have engaged Jenny Powell to provide refreshments on club nights. Jenny is a lady who lives in Beckington and was looking for a volunteering opportunity that would enable her to meet new people so it’s important that we make her welcome. As she is also willing to make cakes and biscuits to go along with our teas and coffees, and will use our donations to finance this, although I know that most members make more substantial donations for their drinks and homemade cakes, the committee are suggesting that we make a minimum donation of at least 50p each at break time.
*please don’t forget to bring your own cups!
 
Club outings
Our Social Secretary, Michelle de Mora has come up with a fabulous programme of events throughout the season starting with the Longleat Sky Safari on 13th to 15th September. More than 150 hot air balloons will take to the air over this weekend offering an excellent opportunity for some stunning images. In the past these outings have included a good mix of beginner/less experience members and the more experienced members offering good opportunities for the sharing of photographic knowledge and skills, enabling us all to improve our photography. If you are interested in this first event please let me know and I will pass your name on to Michelle.
 
Christmas at Stourhead
Another event that we will probably need to book up soon is the Christmas at Stourhead event, several members have expressed an interest but until we know if we can get together a group of at least 15, Michelle will not be able to start exploring possible dates. If you think you would like to go along please let me know and I will pass names on to Michelle. If you want to know more go to nationaltrust.org.uk/stourhead
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​MOST IMPORTANT
Don’t forget that enrolment evening is Friday 6th September 2019, 7.45 pm at Beckington Memorial Hall. There will be a slide shows of members work, refreshments, and an opportunity to see the programme of events that have been planned for next season.
 
Competition themes
The first competition of the season is the Kingswood Salver and this years’ theme is Flowers. Whilst members took some stunning shots at Rosemoor, it was a beautiful day and the lighting was quite harsh. The Frome Show will be coming up on Saturday 14th September (apologies, I put the wrong date last week!) and this is an ideal opportunity to take photos of competition standard blooms in soft lighting. What is required is 5 photographs from 5 different photographers, and looking at the website it seems that the most successful entries have a theme running through them, so if you want to enter it might be an idea to get together with other members to plan a shoot.
 
Develop Your Photography Group -Affinity photo course
Phil Taylor will be running an all-day course on Affinity photo Basics on Thursday September 12th 10:00 to 4:00pm At Buckland Dinham village Hall –. There are just 5 spare places, so if you would like to join let him know soonest. The course is open to all who intend to rejoin FWCC in Sept. Each participant will be asked to bring their own laptop complete with a working copy of affinity photo + some RAW and jpg images they would like to work on. In the morning he will cover the Affinity RAW development module and in the afternoon look at improving or changing backgrounds, which will include some layers and masking.
There will be a small charge to cover costs.
 
Christmas at Stourhead
For the very first time Stourhead gardens are going to be illuminated after dark for the Christmas period. Attractions include a Tunnel of Light, illuminated with 100,000 pea lights, a fibre optic lawn, laser garden, fire garden. The price for entry is £18 if booked in advance, but there are group prices for 15 or more. I suspect this might be something that will get booked up quickly, but Michelle de Mora has agreed to organise this, if enough members are interested. Several members have already expressed an interest so if you think you would like to go along please let me know and I will pass names on to Michelle. If you want to know more go to nationaltrust.org.uk/stourhead
 
The Great Dorset Steam Fair
David would like me to remind you that this is on from 22nd-26th August and is a great place to take photographs.
 
Finally, Harvard would like to thank all those who turned up for the evening shoot at Bristol on 11thAugust and he hopes you enjoyed it, despite the rain there have been some great shots on the club Facebook page

Competition themes
The first competition of the season is the Kingswood Salver and this years’ theme is Flowers. Whilst members took some stunning shots at Rosemoor, it was a beautiful day and the lighting was quite harsh. The Frome Show will be coming up on Saturday 14th September (apologies, I put the wrong date last week!) and this is an ideal opportunity to take photos of competition standard blooms in soft lighting. What is required is 5 photographs from 5 different photographers, and looking at the website it seems that the most successful entries have a theme running through them, so if you want to enter it might be an idea to get together with other members to plan a shoot.
 
Develop Your Photography Group -Affinity photo course
Phil Taylor will be running an all-day course on Affinity photo Basics on Thursday September 12th 10:00 to 4:00pm At Buckland Dinham village Hall –. There are just 5 spare places, so if you would like to join let him know soonest. The course is open to all who intend to rejoin FWCC in Sept. Each participant will be asked to bring their own laptop complete with a working copy of affinity photo + some RAW and jpg images they would like to work on. In the morning he will cover the Affinity RAW development module and in the afternoon look at improving or changing backgrounds, which will include some layers and masking.
There will be a small charge to cover costs.
 
Christmas at Stourhead
For the very first time Stourhead gardens are going to be illuminated after dark for the Christmas period. Attractions include a Tunnel of Light, illuminated with 100,000 pea lights, a fibre optic lawn, laser garden, fire garden. The price for entry is £18 if booked in advance, but they are group prices for 15 or more. I suspect this might be something that will get booked up quickly, but Michelle de Mora has agreed to organise this, if enough members are interested. If you think you would like to go along please let me know and I will pass names on to Michelle. If you want to know more go to nationaltrust.org.uk/stourhead
 
Finally, for all you bird photographers out there, I know members have taken some fantastic images of puffins over the years and the RSPB are looking for your help. They are running a Citizen Science project to find out how the diets of puffins are changing and how this has contributed to their catastrophic decline in recent years. What they are looking for are photographs of puffins with beaks full of fish. They can have been taken any year, so long as you identify that year, and all they need to be able to see is the beak and food clearly. So if you are interested in taking part in this project please visit the RSPB website at rspb.org.uk/projectpuffin
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​This week’s Camera Club news

Frome Festival
If you have signed up to be a photographer for the Frome Festival you should have received
an email from David with a link to the closed Facebook page. It is important that you access
this page so that David can organise who will be attending which event.
There is still time to sign up for some of the trips planned for this summer:-
Rosemoor Trip – there are still some seats left for this trip, but please let me know before
the 12 th July if you are interested.
 
Speedway
This is planned for 7 th August, the price is £18 per person, food included.
Warner Bros. Studio tour – The making of Harry Potter.
This would be on the 21 st August at 4pm. The price is £45 per person and only hand held
cameras are allowed.

Zoo trip
This is proposed but no date set yet, the price for Bristol Zoo is £15.
 If anyone is interested in these trips please contact Michelle de Mora
Bristol Harbour Evening Trip – Sunday 11 th Aug.  The plan is to take reflections and night
shots in the harbour and surrounding area.  Leaving Frome 18:00, car shares to be arranged.
Rendezvous in the Grain Barge, Hotwell Road , Bristol, BS8 4RU. There is parking there
although it is pay and display. The Grain Barge can be the base for the evening as it also does
food. From that area you can take photos of SS Great Britain and it’s a 10 min walk to take
pictures of Clifton suspension bridge. Members can also get help taking night time pictures.
If members are interested, please reply by email to me and I will then forward on to Harvard
who is organising.
And finally –
South Devon Salon 2019
Entries for the South Devon Salon, hosted by Newton Abbot Photographic Club, are coming
in thick and fast. The closing date for entries is Sunday 14 July 2019.  Don't miss out, get
your entries in now, only 11 days left! This is the link to enter:   http://www.newtonabbot-
photoclub.org.uk/pages/salon-2019.php

This week’s meeting
Penny Piddock, DPAGB, AFIAP, will judge our triptych print competition. This is the final competition of the season, so watch the website afterwards for the P and C league results!
Best of the Best, Print and Digital
Next week’s meeting (the Tri-battle with Norton Radstock and Frome Selwood) is the hand-in date for eligible entries for the new David Chedgy Best of the Best Digital Cup.
Prints eligible for the Patrick Emery Best of the Best Print Cup will the judged cold on the night of the competition (17th May).
The judge will be Leo Rich, DPAGB, APAGB, EFIAP/g, ARPS.
Photographs which were placed in the top 4 in this year’s internal competitions are eligible. You may enter those from the 4 dpi competitions for the David Chedgy Cup, those from the 4 print competitions for the Patrick Emery Cup (i.e. no crossover from digital to print or vice versa). Premier and Club Classes compete together, so potentially we can have 36 entries for each Cup. Take your chance!
Next Year’s Committee
The nomination sheet will be up at the meeting this week, and for following weeks until 10th May. Please give this some thought: the Club at present is thriving, but continued success depends on a strong committee. Check the website for officer “job descriptions”, and ask yourself whether you might enjoy joining the team.
Lacock Positive Camera Club Annual Exhibition
This will be held over the May Bank Holiday, Sunday 5th and Monday 6th May.
At Lacock Village Hall, 10 am – 5 pm. Free entry, and refreshments will be available.
As well as nearly 100 prints, the Club will be show-casing  photographs which have achieved National  and Regional awards. Images from Phil Selby and Sue Power will be on show, as will those of Philip Male,  including his September entry in the 2019 BBC Countryfile Calendar.
See you on Friday.
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