NEWS

Whitchurch comes Second in the Mold, 7 way knock out competition 20-02-2012

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Great result for WPS against Marchwiel

Visit the results page for full details.

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24-1-2012 Steve Lloyd with

“Verities and Balderdash” Joined us at the club.
For me it was one of the most enjoyable evenings so far this season. His images although weren’t straight photos seem to capture the atmosphere and energy . Truly inspirational. The AVs he showed at the end were amazing, the choice of music almost seemed to have been written just for his AV. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. I wish he had a website I’d like to look at his work again. Picture opposite

Results now available for the

Set subject competition "Decay" 15/11/2011

now available. Visit the results page or click here

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1st Nov

This was a well attended Informal meeting discussing the recorded 6 way competition.
It was a great evening and very helpful. It was good to hear different members ideas about the images.

1st Nov WPS V Nantwich at Nantwich for results visit results page

25/10/2011 Open Competition

First of the seasons Open competitions. Some fantastic images. Well done to everyone. full results will be available soon.

"6 Way Battle"

The members watched a recording of a competition we entered against 5 other clubs:-Bridgnorth Shropshire PS
Oswestry Longmynd Herefordshire.

The competition was held at Shrewsbury.

M C for the competition was Mr Steve Jackson from Shropshire Photographic Society who made the evening complete with his friendly and entertaining comments.

The judge was Mr Gary Jackson from Stourbridge Photographic Society a very knowledgeable judge.

The standard of entries in the competition was very high, and from the start it was anexciting battle.

By the end Bridgnorth had 5 of the 10 top scoring images and was a clear winner. We finished third a respectable result in view of the high standard of competition.

For full results Please see

Competition Results Page

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Recently Malc chatted to Kate Tebby from Shropshire Radio, about the club and the 50th Anniversary competition. The chat was braodcasted today Sat 15th Oct on the
Eric Smith's Saturday Breakfast show.

Click here to listen.

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"Summer Gems"

A good turn out for the Summer gems evening and some very interesting images. It was great to see the members recent images and some from the new members work .

"Dr Dayus Lectrure"

4th October 2011

The evening titled
"Introduction to Creative Photography"
By Mr Tony Winfield.

www.tonywinfieldfineartphotography.com

A very informative evening at the club.
With nearly 30 members at the meeting including a few new ones.
The talk started with a brief discussion on Art in photography. Using the artists imagination to create a pleasing image.
Followed by the different types of photography. A record shot where you are taking an accurate record of the subject and the more artistic photography which adds more creativity to the image.
We then watched the first of 3 Projected AVs (Audio visual) about "Weird and Wonderful photographs". The Av depicted a dream with some stunning moody images put to music.
Tony then showed us some images and discussed their merits with lots of helpful tips and ideas.
We then discussed different filters that are available to enhance your photographs.
Tony then showed us a stunning Pictures to music AV showing the different styles of images.
We then looked into how to improve our images and use different programmes on your computer to add finishing touches to the photos.
Tony finished the evening with images to music called
"Dare to be Different"
These images were stunning, encouraging us to be creative with our Photos.
We all left the meeting with many ideas and enthusiasm for trying to be more creative with our photography.
Next meetings on 11th Oct "Summer Gems" members bring along images taken this summer and we discuss and help each other with any advice we may need.

Norman Land has contacted Ian to invite members of WPS to
visit their club on Wednesday 28th Sept. They are having a visiting speaker David Moulton "Space Photographer" who apparently uses an SLR camera to get some amazing images.It sounds a very interesting evening Malc and I are definately going. Meetings there start at 7.45pm for 8pm venue The Piercy Hall. Marchweil Wrexham just off the A525.

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We had recently emailed Radio Shropshire to see if they could advertise the competition for the public that we are running to start the celebrations of our 50th Year. Completely out of the blue they rang this morning 23-08-2011 and after 2 minutes chat with the producer Malc was on the radio talking live to Jim Hawkins.

Click the link below to listen.

Malc talks to Jim Hawkins on Radio Shropshire

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Nantwich show Exhibition was a great success.

We had a stand in the Town and country Marquee.
It was a very busy and hot day.
Barb and I arrived at about 7.15 am and started setting up. We had recently bought a new display stand which we lent the club for the day, it was the first time we had used it, so we were keen to make sure it worked ok. Paul Hardern arrived next with his images and framed prints he dropped these off and went to work at the show. He was the shows official photographer for the day.
We set the stand up and were pleased with the results. We had designed, printed and laminated lots of signs to put on the stand to try and make sure the stand had maximum impact. We also wanted to get the message out that it is the clubs 50th anniversary year and the club is holding a photo competition for the public. Chris and Marian arrived and bought us very welcome cups of coffee before they went to explore the show. Paul Hayward, John Edge and his wife Angie arrived mid morning . We then took it in turns to man the stand and have a look around the show . We had a successful day talking to lots of people and accepted many complimentary comments about the images on show. We had several people showing an interest in joining the club, lets hope they come along to the meetings! We also sold a few ex competition prints. We started packing up at about 6pm very warm and tired and were on our way home by 7.15 pm. A very long hot day but very enjoyable.
Thanks to Paul Hardern for getting the Stand for the club.

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We are trying to put together a "50 years of the WPS" book.
We are looking for any Old photos anecdotes comments,
suggestions and contributions - particularly old photos. Any
contribution would be very much appreciated.

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The first of our summer meetings was a great success.

We all enjoyed catching up on the clubs news. It was a good opportunity for members having any problems with cameras computers Photohop to get some help.

The next meeting is on July 5th at the new time of 7-15 for 7.30 pm  Look forward to seeing you there.

The Meeting Room Beacon Church

5 Post Office Court,

St. Johns St Whitchurch

SY13 1Q

Audlem Arts and Crafts weekend Success..

WPS Held an exhibition at Audlem Arts and Crafts Festival over the late May bank holiday. It was well attended and everyone seemed to enjoy looking at the clubs work. Thanks to everyone who came along to help.
Many thanks to Ralph Warburton for this opportunity.

Well Done to Alan

Alan Heath's image "Bonelli's Eagle with Prey" has been selected to represent the Midland Counties Photographic Federation in the forthcoming Photographic Alliance Inter federation Championship.

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Great News...Thanks to Kate and the Beacon Church we can now meet on June 7th July 5th August we are organising an outing and Sept 6th before the regular season starts on Sept 27th.

The meetings are at The Meeting Room Beacon Church 5 Post Office Court, St. Johns St Whitchurch
SY13 1QT  at 7-15 for 7.30 pm start

The Presentation evening was a great success..

Mike Ralph professional photographer from Whitchurch joined us and presented the seasons trophies. Many thanks to him.

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Results of the End of Year Comps are now available

See results page for details

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Some of our members met for a walk around

Colemere Lake.

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The club now has a newsletter.
Click on this link ..WPS NEWSLETTER

A copy will be available at the meetings.
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Great news for Whitchurch Photographic Society!!

Members Peter Cooke, Chris Goody and Alan Heath submitted images to a judging panel for the Midlands Counties Photographic Federation's   MidPhot 2011 annual exhibition.      This is the most Prestigious competition the club members enter. See results page for details

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08-03-2011

"It's a Knockout" Club Competition

A great win for Abigail . See results page for details

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Tuesday 01-03-2011

Images to music competition.

1st "Smoke on" by Paul Hardern

2nd "Ben" by Barbara Lander

3rd "Light" by John Edge

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Monday 28-02-2011

The 3 way competition against Wrexham and Oswestry was a very successful evening.

We took the lead after the first half with the prints. Whitchurch 138 points Wrexham 122 points Oswestry 117 points. We had 2 of the top marked prints "Female Kestrel with Prey" by Alan Heath scoring 20/20 and "Burners On" by Paul Hardern 19/20

In the digital images the scores were closer Whitchurch 134 points Oswastry 132 points and Wrexham 122 points.

Final scores-

Whitchurch 272 points

Oswestrty 249 points

Wrexham 244 points

For full details please see Results Page

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Tuesday 22-02-2011

We had a very well attended and entertaining evening with Margaret Salisbury FSITTP as a guest speaker.
One of the coutries leading photographers and one of only 100 in the world to reach the highest standard qualification with the Royal Photographic Society.
Margaret started the evening talking about how she started in photography
doing Black and white (Monochrome) only and then as digital cameras arrived she changed to colour. Margaret specialises in Landscape photography.
With lots of hints and tips on how to achieve that special picture.
Margaret then moved on to show us photographs from a trip she had taken to Garna. Showing how the day to day life was for the village people, and how she had used her photography to record it. the images showed people going about their day to day lifes and not just posing for the camera. A truly entertaining evening and a wonderful chance to see some outstanding work.
One of the most memorable pictures was a group of children smiling, Margaret cropped the picture to show just their smiling faces and beautiful eyes.
Our next meeting is a competition for all members "Pictures to music"
Members can show images on any subject and display them to music.
Always a fun and interesting evening.

Tuesday 15-02-2011

We had an intersting evening learning from discussion with each other information about different aspects of photography.

Howard suggested we visited a website http://www.crhfoto.co.uk

It was decided that as we have a number of new members and to enter the Digital and Print of the year competition on April 5th members need to have entered one other competion, a new competition is to be held on 15-03-2011 called "Its a Digital knock out" members who want to enter are asked to bring along 4 digital images.

A date has been set for the Documentry competition March 22nd 2011

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Tuesday 08-02-2011 we had an interesting evening with our chairman John Edge giving us  his views on the difference between film photography to digital, film size and dark room techniques . In the second half of the evening we had a look at the new computer programme now up and running for use in future competitions, we also had a group tutorial on Photoshop resizing and file naming with a brief look at  image enhancement. 

On Wednesday 09-02-2011 we had our Annual competition with Marchweil Photographic Society held at Marchweil. Last year we hosted the event and we were the victors and we were all keen to repeat the result. After the first half which was 10 prints from each club we were just one point ahead Whitchurch 164 points Marchweil 163 points. Next came the digital images we started very well but Marchweil ended up with the top 3 scores the result for the digital images was Whitchurch 159 Marcheweil 164 Giving Marchweil the win  the final scores were Marchweil 327 Whitchurch 323.  Norman Land the chairman of Marchweil club and all the members there made us all very welcome and although we lost it was a very enjoyable evening. Full results

The exhibition at Market Drayton has now finished although we still have an exhibition at the Heritage centre in Whitchurch.

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On Feb 8th due to popular demand there will be a meeting at the usual place usual time.

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Evening with Jon and Sue Baker

We had a very entertaining evening with Jon and Sue Baker from Wrekin Gallery on Tuesday evening (Jan 25th).They gave us a very informative and amusing talk on their wonderful landscape photography. Telling us about the places they had visited and how they had taken their images. With their enthusiasm and advice they gave us all inspiration to go out and try and get better images. With hints on how to enhance and be creative with your photographs in Photoshop.

It was a great evening enjoyed by us all. Many thanks to them both.

We were pleased to welcome a number of new members

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WPS have an exhibition in the Art Gallery of the Festival Drayton Centre at Market Drayton. Running until Feb 7th.
All our members were given an opportunity to display their work. Much of the work was new for the exhibition. With nearly 40 images on display and available to buy from the Festival Drayton centre.
Thursday evening was the Preview evening which was well attended and very enjoyable. The Evening started at 6pm giving everyone a chance to view the clubs work.We then had a short  presentation from the chairman John Edge at 7pm.This was  followed by a slide show of additional work by the members.

Click here to see images of the exhibition

Link to Festival Drayton Center
http://www.festivaldraytoncentre.com

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Due to the weather Margaret Salisbury has postponed her visit to

us on Dec 7th until Feb 22nd

A New web page for this season MMCG

The Mid Marches Camera Group

Dedicated to photography in Shropshire and The Marches.

Here you will find details of Photo Clubs in Shropshire

interested in sharing information about their own clubs,

mainly what events/speakers they are going to host in the

coming season. Hopefully we will all find something of

interest here. MMCG

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Tuesday 27th April was the Annual General Meeting

Committee members for next season are:-

CHAIRMAN and PRESIDENT:
Mr John F. Edge

Vice Presidents:
Mr A. Betteridge, Mrs J. Betteridge, Mr G. Bolam, Mr P. Evans, Mr H.W.Hilton ARPS,
Mr I.R. Oxley, Mrs O. Richards, Mr G.R. Tomkins

Secretary:
Mr Malcolm Lander

Treasurer:
Mr A. Betteridge

Syllabus Secretary:
Mrs Jean Betteridge

Competition Secretary:
Mr Fred Cooper

I.T.
Mrs Barbara Lander

Selection Commitee:
Mr John F. Edge,
Mr Fred Cooper,
Mr Paul Hardern,
Mr Ian Oxley,
Mr Howard Hilton,

The subject for next seasons, set subject competition

is "Industry"

The new Calender of Events was one of the many topics covered.

Many thanks to everyone for all their hard work in the 2009 - 2010 season.

We are all looking forward to 2010-2011 season.

Click here for the Minutes of the AGM

Click here for Competition Results:-