Covid has meant that we have had to make a number of adjustments to how the Annual Competition is managed this year. The club will not be accepting prints this year, so instead there will be an increase in the number of digital entries you can make. Beginners Normally, you would be entering up to 10 colour prints, 10 mono prints and 10 digital images on an open subject, as in the bi-monthly competitions. This year, you can enter up to 15 colour and 15 mono digital images You don't have to enter both sections if you don't wish to, so if you choose to enter one section only, it will be up to 15 images, on an open subject. Advanced Normally you would be entering 10 colour prints, 10 mono prints and 10 digital images. Having had to lose the prints, you can now enter up to 30 digital images. This being the Annual, the Advanced section is divided into sections, of which there are now 7, as we decided at the last AGM that mono digital images should be a section in their own right, as they are in NEMPF and the salons. These are: Creative Pictorial Photojournalism Portrait Record Monochrome Nature You can distribute your chosen images across all seven sections if you wish, or just choose two or three - the choice is yours. Normally, if you wanted to enter all your digital images in one section, that was fine, This year, with 30 images which could be potentially entered by one person into one section, please enter your work in a minimum of two sections, just for the sake of the judge! Since one of the sections in monochrome, which is any subject but in a single colour, this should not be unnecessarily restrictive! And finally ... some notes on what the sections mean.....

Speaker Dianne Seddon ARPS CPAGB BPE3, will make a welcome return to the camera club on 4 March, with an interactive evening on creative photography. The meeting will be in two halves: First half, Dianne will be be taking us through light painting. Dianne will be bringing all the gear, but she asks that members should ensure that they know how to: 1. put lens into manual focus 2. know how to use bulb mode if they have it 3. be able to set the camera into a 30 second exposure time. We will have a quick refresher on this at the start of the studio night 26 February Everything else will be run through on the night. This is a practical night, so please bring cameras and tripods to this meeting. If members don't have a tripod, perhaps they can organise to share with somebody. In the second half, members are asked to bring a 'creative' print or dpi - it doesn't need to be something wonderfully complicated, the idea is that is a 'teaching' session, as Dianne will look at them critically and helpfully! Dianne will look at what we are doing with a view to give help and encouragement, but will also develop ideas and make suggestions for working more creatively. Bring as many creative prints as you like - they don't have to be mounted - the more we bring, the more we will be able to learn from Dianne!

The Camera Club is exhibitiing a selection of work, featuring entries from our recent Annual Competition. This is to be held at the Scunthorpe Baths Hall, Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe, DN17 7RG, and will run from 6 January through to 31 March 2017, with no entry charge. There will also be a change of work mid February. The Baths opening times are:- Monday to Friday ….. 10.30 - 4pm The official opening to be performed by Brian Gromett Vice President of the LPA at 7pm Wednesday 11 January. Please enjoy the exhibition and if you like what you see and feel that our club may be for you; come along and see what we're all about!

29 August Just a reminder that on 29 August we are going to be looking at the panels that members have been working on through the summer, with a view to entering them for POTY later this year. Or NEMPF for that matter. These need to be sets of three (or more) prints linked by a common theme, colour or monochrome

Speaker Andrew Chandler will visit the camera club for the first time on 22 November.A Hull-based professional photographer. Andrew is recognised as one of the area's leading freelance photographers. Andrew will be present an illustrated talk entitled 'Around the World in 80 Images' Even though I've travelled previously in Nepal, nothing quite prepared me for the assault on the senses on my arrival in India, my first destination in January 2017, made even more spellbinding by its diffuse light and colour. The challenge now has been to choose the very best images from nearly 12,000 to represent my time behind the lens...

This year members of Scunthorpe Camera Club did very well at the LPA Individual Digital competition which was held at Nettleham village hall on Sunday 22nd January commencing at 1.30. The judge for the day was Gary Langley DPAGB BPE2 This particular competition is for anyone who belongs to a camera club that is affiliated to the LPA. The competition consisted of two sections, the Open, and the Creative Joyce Campling came first in the Open section with her image 'WIld Flamingo Feeding'. Third place went to John Naylor with 'Puffin with Sandeels'. Club members also had two images Highly Commended...

The Camera Club is exhibitiing a selection of work, featuring entries from our recent Annual Competition. This is to be held at the Scunthorpe Baths Hall, Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe, DN17 7RG, and will run from 6 January through to 31 March 2017, with no entry charge. There will also be a change of work mid February. The Baths opening times are:- Monday to Friday ….. 10.30 - 4pm The official opening to be performed by Brian Gromett Vice President of the LPA at 7pm Wednesday 11 January. Please enjoy the exhibition and if you like what you see and feel that our club may be for you; come along and see what we're all about!

Congratulations to John Naylor who recenly won our 'Two of a Kind' themed compeitition. His wining entry was a stunning image of grey seals. Runner up was Barbara Scott with 'Keeping warm in winter' John now has the task of choosing a theme for our next themed digital competition in March