Alton Camera Club News

That Slide Competitions be reintroduced commencing with the season 2011-2012 ie to give members time to gain new pictures. This means that we would then have one competition involving genuine pictures not fake constructed digital images and C.G.Is manipulated to picture non-existent images. This view was expressed by our last speaker Jon Baker.
The Mono P.D.I. competition could be dropped
Result
The Slide Competition be kept for the 2011/2012 Season. No slides entered to be older that 2 years.
The Mono Pdi Competition to continue

2) That the Following competitions be changed/suspended/stopped due to low or non participation:
Face of Alton(Mary Bisset Cup)
Record Sleeve/CD/DVD/Book Cover
Innovative Photography (Merlin Hologram)
Result
Face Of Alton - Retain. Prints to be taken to outside Judge and then shown in Club (Committee decision)
Record Sleeve/CD/DVD/Book Cover - Retained. To be Judged by the Judge at 2nd PDI Competition (Committee decision)
Innovative Photograph (Merlin) - Retained. To be judged by Judge on His 'n' Hers evening (Committee decision)

3) That the 'Children in View' competition is changed to a different topic. Photography and displaying children in the current climate could be considered 'incorrect'.
The Proposal is that we retain the competition but with a different topic.
Result
To leave the present format

4) I propose that the Slide competition is suspended for the next two years. I propose it should be discussed again at the AGM of 2012-2013
Result
Withdrawn. Proposal covered under No 1

5) With the potential changes to the SPF League (ie. no prints), I would like to propose that if this is accepted, we reduce the club print competition to 3 rounds and increase the club projected competitions to 5
Result
Withdraw after discussion

6) I would like to propose that the print and projected competitions are divided into intermediate and advanced classes with cups awarded to the winners of both classes at the end of the season
Result
To form a new Class for PDIs only. Class title to be determined. (Committee decision)

7) That the the club annual subscription be increased to £30 per annum with effect from the 2010/2011 season. Equipment will probably have to be replaced in the next few years and we need to start making provision.
Result
Carried

8) That the Meadows Photo-Presentation and the (judged) AV Competitions be amalgamated. That sequences of up to 8 minutes(?) be permitted, but only those of 5 minutes or less would be able to be considered for Inter-Club Competitions
Result
Carried

June 2010 Newsletter

There is now an June 2010 edition of the club newsletter Highlight available, Click here.

Presentation of Awards 2010

Here are the talented winners from last seasons competitions. Lynn Lambeth seated in the centre

The Winners:
Alex Bisset Cup - Anne Streeter
Jack Bolton Cup (Slides) - Ron Streeter
Face of Alton - Mary Bisset Cup - Steve Emmerson
Shirley Finden Cup (Mono PDI) - Glynis Larter-Whitcher
Joyce Vincent Cup (Colour DPI) -Glynis Larter-Whitcher
Meadows Audio Visual - Anne Streeter
Norman Rogers President Cup (Children in View) - Anne Streeter
Norman Rogers Cup (Mono Prints) - Ron Streeter
Colour Prints Tankard - Ron Streeter
Dorothy Rogers Tankard (Print Challenge "Work") - Jack Cruttenden
Alton Photographic Cup (PDI Challenge "Weather" - Glynis Larter-Whitcher
Daisy Parratt Cup (Homes & Gardens) - Jane Perryman
Kay Stickland (Portraiture) - Anne Streeter
The Merlin Trophy - Not Contested
Member of The Year - Ivy Newman
Safari Shield - Anne Streeter
Best Safari Image - Steve Kirkby
Tony Berridge Cup (Panoramic Print) - Steve Emmerson
AV Competition (Certificate) - Eric Bennett

April 2010 Newsletter

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March 2010 Newsletter

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January 2010 Newsletter

There is now a January 2010 edition of the club newsletter Highlight available, Click here.

Presentation Dinner 2009

The Winners:
Alex Bisset Cup - Ron Streeter
Jack Bolton Cup - Sid Newman
Face of Alton - Mary Bisset Cup - Colin Vincnet
Shirley Finden Cup - Ron Streeter
DPI Colour - Joyce Vincent Cup - Chris Pearce
Meadows Audio Visual - Anne Streeter
Children In View - Norman Rogers President Cup - Sam Green
Norman Rogers Cup - Ron Streeter
Colour Prints Tankard - Ron Streeter
Dorothy Rogers Tankard -Glynis Larter - Whitcher
Home & Gardens - Daisy Parratt Cup - Anne Streeter
Kay Stickland - Jack Cruttenden
The Merlin Trophy - Glynis Larter - Whitcher
Member of The Year - Eric Bennett
Safari Shield - Steve Kirkby
Panaromic Competition - Steve Emmerson

Roll of Honour Citation - Jennie Pearson

Jennie Pearson has been a member of Alton Camera Club for almost forty years and in that time has undertaken such tasks as diverse as weekly tea lady to club chairman.
One of the first duties she undertook from the mid seventies right up until the end of the 2007/2008 season, with only one or two year breaks, was that of press officer. Over 30 reports a year for around 30 years, to two local papers, works out at around 1800 reports and at least half of them would have been done before the use of a computer perhaps made this task less of a chore.

Again in the mid seventies she joined the Audio Group and regularly submitted AV Sequences for the clubs annual audio visual show both individually and as a co-author. Over the last five or six years she has fronted the group’s shows given to clubs and organisations around the district.

Although Jennie’s name has never appeared officially as such she has co-edited the club magazine Highlight for over 20 years, (in fact typed most of it) until its demise just over two years ago. She now proof reads the newsletter.

For twenty-five years Jennie co-produced Presentation Evening, the club’s annual prize giving. This involved assembling work submitted by members, writing and recording scripts and over the last ten or twelve years or so, reading this script on Presentation Evening.

Since Eric Bennett was elected to the post of Programme Secretary in 1996 Jennie has acted as his correspondence secretary.

Club Weekend – This event which has become known as the Club Weekend has been organised by Jennie with her son who is manager with Truman’s Travel a local coach travel firm. These weekends were started in the year of the first Gulf War when the club’s winter holiday had to be cancelled.

Club Safari Jennie and Eric Bennett organised six or seven of these annual events back in the 1980’s Club Handbook. Although originally produced by Sylvia Cox,. Jennie has carried out at least three updates over the years.

Introductory Booklet. This booklet was produced in order that the club should have something to give to new and prospective members explaining what the club was all about. Most of the work involved in producing this booklet was undertaken by Jennie.

In the summer of 2006 Jennie did most of the work involved in drafting the club’s successful Lottery application.

The club owe her a great deal!.