The following updates have been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message.

1. Events/Diary:-
Details of two Club events, at Ashington (starting in February) and at Stokesley (early March).
(Posters are attached for Club Secretaries to display on Club Notice boards please).

2. Directory Updates:-
Another update to be noted, especially by Programme/Syllabus secretaries please

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The latest edition of PAGB E-News is now available by clicking here.

In this issue:

2 AV Awards Consultation
3 Diary of events
4 Edinburgh P.S. – Celebrating 150 Years
5 Advertisements
6 How do you receive visitors?
7 NEW Recorded Lecture – PAGB Awards
8 APM Frequent Questions and Answers
9 David Stout & Paul Sanders
10 Example – "Judges & Lecturers Requirements"

You are invited by Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club
to a talk by Ian Cameron of Transient Light.

Ian will present some of his magnificent landscape images,
most taken in Scotland but some from more exotic locations.

You can visit Ian's website at www.transientlight.co.uk

You can purchase tickets online using Paypal at the club's website
and they will email your tickets to you.
Or if you would rather pay by cheque please print and complete an application form.
Tickets are £5 per person. SPECIAL OFFER - buy 9 tickets and get the 10th FREE.
All ticket numbers will be entered into a draw for a copy of Ian’s book Transient Light.

TICKETS ARE GOING FAST AND THERE IS ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER LEFT.
REMAINING TICKETS WILL BE SOLD ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS.

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message.

1. Competitions/Club Championship Page:-
Information regarding 2012 rules and entry forms has been posted on the NCPF Events page and the Competitions/Club Championship pages .

2. Diary:-
Information of two future “mini” Tours to the Federation Area in November 2012 and March 2013 added. Also a substantial amendment to the Western Area’s Steven le Provost Lecture.

Sunday 29th January 2012

A reminder to book early, the majority of tickets have been purchased already, but there still some left. Check out the “NCPF Events Page” on the NCPF Web site to get your tickets.

Preparations are well in hand for the 2012, NCPF Spectacular, to be staged in the Tyne Suite at Newcastle Novotel, on Sunday, January, 29th. Our presenters for this whole day, celebration of photography are from Ireland, Des Clinton, FRPS, FIPF, MFIAP and just north of the Border, Rod Whelans, FRPS, MPAGB, HonPAGB, MFIAP and Ann Greiner, MPAGB, all of whose work is respected throughout the UK and abroad.
There will be two presentations in the morning followed by a hot carvery lunch, and then a further two during the afternoon. Mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments are also provided.
Members will be pleased to learn that surprisingly, we have been able to hold the same £25.00 ticket price (£13.00 excl. lunch) due to the generous sponsorship of ‘FOTOSPEED’ who will be in attendance with, no doubt attractive event offers.
A Grand Raffle featuring valuable prizes has always been a feature of these occasions and hopefully, 2012 will be no exception.

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:- www.ncpf.org.uk

1. Diary:-
Additional Executive and events dates, details of forthcoming Ashington Co-op Exhibition, and Western Area event in March 2012 (Poster included for Club Secretaries to display on Notice Boards please)

2. NCPF Events:-
Page updated with brief details of 2012 events.

3. News Items:-
Yet more cause to celebrate members’ success with the results of the November PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit Adjudication and once again further recognition of Northern Focus from PSA.

Invitation to provide pictures for the NCPF We site Rolling Banner

As promised when the new NCPF website was launched eleven months ago, they would like to place a fresh set of photographs on the ‘Rolling Banner’ at the head of the web page. To do this they have to have sufficient images of the required quality. Ideally NCPF would like to post six images, each depicting one of the Six Areas – Northern, North Tyne, Southern, South Tyne, Wear and Western. They do have some in stock, which were donated last year, but would like more to conside and are therefore inviting members to submit suitable images to the webmaster for consideration.

Each image should clearly depict a feature of the Area concerned and if used a credit will be placed as with the present set of images. Each image must be 1000 pixels by 260 pixels and set at 300 dpi please (the resolution will be reduced for the web site). Remember this banner is the NCPF shop window and needs to be the very best to show to the world. The images should be emailed to the webmaster by no later than the 15th December 2011.

Updates to the NCPF Website

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via:- www.ncpf.org.uk

Knowledge Base:-
Following a suggestion from Copeland PS, the recommended Conditions etc for Booking lecturers and Judges has been added to this tab, together with a downloadable PDF version of the Booking and Reply forms to be found in the PAGB handbook.

News Items:-
Two news items have been posted this week; with reports and pictures from both the North Tyne Area Print Battle and secondly Southern Area clubs results from the NYSD Annual Competitions.

10 FELLOWSHIP PANELSTO VIEW at Duke of Wellington, Kenton Lane, Gosforth on Sunday 22 January 2012 at 2 pm.

This is a unique opportunity to view 10 recently successful Fellowship Panels from four Categories – Visual Art, Nature, Travel, Professional and Applied. Presented by Roy Robertson Hon FRPS and Sandy Cleland FRPS from the Distinctions Advisory Board.

Cost £10 including tea/coffee/biscuits

Please book with Treasurer Brian Pearson ARP. Send a cheque made out to RPS Northern Region to 2, Waterloo Place, North Shields. NE29 0NA. e-mail:- brianpearson41@btinternet.com

Please note food is available all day from 12 noon at the Duke of Wellington. The post code is NE3 3BQ. Parking is spacious and at the back of the building

An update on the previous item - I have just received this from one of our club members:

I've just read your Blog. I had such a call about two months ago. As it happened my computer had been running very slowly for a while and Bryan had been to fix it.

The call came at 8am when I was still in bed. They told me that they were Microsoft (R & D sticks in my mind) and that my computer was in danger of crashing and that I should go to it and they would talk me through it. I told the caller (Indian I think ) that I couldn't do that at the time and he said he would call back. A couple of hours later I rang Bryan and he advised me to have nothing to do with them..I had another call from them the next day. I could only hear odd bits of what the caller was saying and I said so. Another person came on the line and I told him that I wasn't interested so he said he would hand over to the Senior Floor Manager. She more or less repeated what had been said before; that I had downloaded some programs that had infected the computer and it was going to crash. I asked how they knew but I don't remember being told. In the end she said, "Well it's your computer. Have a nice day and keep smiling."

I've heard nothing from them since then. It certainly pays to be very cautious and have a suspicious mind.

A friend of mine has sent me the following e-mail. I have checked the Microsoft website and this story does appear to be true. This particular friend is very knowledgeable about computers and the e-mail I had from him was genuine. As a test I replied to him and got a sensible reply!

He said:

I have just had a call from a guy claiming to be from Microsoft who said that they had been receiving lots of reports from my computer that it was about to crash and I would lose all my data and, wait for it………….even my IP address. He sounded really genuine and even had the same voice of a guy I spoke to many months ago regarding a problem I did have. He wanted me to connect to a web site whereby their engineers could remotely connect to my computer and sort out the problem. He had my name, address and even email and I could so easily have fallen for it but would never have let anybody remotely control my computer if I had fallen for it. So be aware. This is the latest scam to hit the market. If they get in they will nick all your credit card details and other stuff.

If you are using Windows 7 to be safe please turn off REMOTE CONTROL by going to START > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > REMOTE SETTINGS (top left hand corner) and turn off ALLOW REMOTE ASSISTANCE CONNECTIONS TO THIS COMPUTER.

I also heard a similar story when we were staying in Worcester last week.

The latest update to the NCPF website which can be accessed via www.ncpf.org.uk includes THREE new items this week in the NEWS section:

i) firstly a number of our members are deserving of our congratulations,
ii) secondly results and pictures from the Western Area Battle and finally
iii) a report from the NCPF Awards Presentations.

NB: Item i) includes one of our own club members

Please click on this link to see Issue 52 of e-news from the PAGB.

www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en52131111PrintChampAPMAV.pdf

IN THIS ISSUE

2/3 Inter-Club Print Championship 2011
4 Inter-Federation PDI Competition 2011
5 Awards for Photographic Merit in Audio Visual
6 Featured Federation Photographer & Notices
7 Public Liability Insurance + Next Issue

Whitby Photographers, their lives and their photographs from the 1840s
* Published 20 October 2011
* 208 pages A4 – over 260 photos & 170 illustrations
* An Ideal Christmas present
* £15.95

The lives of Whitby’s resident photographers have been incredibly varied, and in the course of preparing this book much new fascinating detail has been discovered about them, their work, and, in some cases, their illustrious clients, such as Lewis Carroll, and also about the history of Whitby.

Some started out life as jet workers, joiners or clock makers, a few trained as photographers, others developed their knowledge as amateurs to forge a new career. Some were successful, others went bankrupt, some had tragedy in their lives, some became well-known and most led lives which have not been investigated before.

The book starts with the pioneer William Stonehouse and his photos, followed by others such as Wallis, Waller and Dawson. New information has also been found on the most famous photographer of Whitby, Frank Sutcliffe, with new insights into his life and work, his travels abroad and a few of his letters, even the link between him and Beatrice Potter. For some photographers, such as Tom Watson and John Ross, this book expands in much detail on previous studies, but for most of Whitby's many photographers it is a journey of fresh discovery into their lives and work.

Whitby’s Photographers, their lives and their photographs from the 1840s, is by Ruth Wilcock, a local historian and amateur photographer, who has known Whitby since her childhood. The book is extensively illustrated with rarely seen pictures of the district and its people, many never published before.

A book for all those interested in Whitby and district and who enjoy photographs.

For full details and to order copies please contact the author for any further details:

Ruth Wilcock ruth@towlard.com 01277 219598 For stockists and further details see www.towlard.com

The following update has been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed via
www.ncpf.org.uk

1. News Items:-
Results of the 2011 PAGB (Alliance) PDI Competitions have now been updated with full results and our award winner’s image.

2. News Items
More awards from PSA for NCPF Members, including two of the more prestigious ones.

3. News Items
Results and pictures from the judging of the Beamish Trophy

There remain a number of places still available for the 'Awards Presentation' on November, 13th. It is free and a fantastic chance to see the very best in photography across the Federation.
All you need to do is REGISTER, and it is now even easier. Simply go the relevant item on the NCPF Events Page and click on the active link on the download poster to contact David Ord.

WWT Photography Competition 2011-2012

Autumn heat now open - closing date 30 November 2011
Enter your autumnal photos in the Wetland Wildlife Trust's competition to be in with a chance of winning one of many great prizes.
This year's competition takes place over 12 months with four seasonal heats. During each season, we'll be looking for the best photos that represent that season.
At the end of each heat winners representing each of WWT's nine wetland centres will be chosen from each category.
When the competition closes on 31 August 2012 all regional heat winners will go through to the grand national final to be held in autumn 2012, and our Portfolio Photographer will be chosen and awarded the grand prize of a trip to Antarctica.
Click this link for more information http://photo.wwt.org.uk/

PAGB E-News Issue 51 now available by clicking here.

In this issue:
2 Great News about the GB Cups
3 Results of the Inter Federation PDI Annual Competition.
4/5 Highlights from the PAGB Executive Meeting
6 Warwick – A Personal View by Chris Forster
7/8 Notices and Adverts
9 L&CPU Mentoring Scheme by Christine Widdal
10 Invitation to the 2012 GB Cups
11 RPS Medal for Peter Brown + In the Next Issue

PLUS
4 PAGE SUPPLEMENT OF SHOW OFFERS AVAILABLE AT THE PRINT CHAMPIONSHIP

You do not have to be an RPS member to attend this weekend.
RPS Northern Region Spring Break 2012 at Netherwood Hotel, Lindale Road, Grange over Sands, Cumbria

Contact: Jane Black
Email: j.black70 AT btinternet.com
Phone: 0191 252 2870

Lecturers: Ian Hulme FRPS EFIAP, Paul Foley FRPS & Priscilla Thomas FRPS MPAGB

Prices £180 half-board per person sharing (£200 single) Deposit: £40 per person not later than 31 October 2011
In the event of the weekend having to be cancelled the deposit is returnable.
The hotel offers a special price for dinner B&B of £65 per person for Thursday 15 & Sunday 18 March. Please book direct with the hotel Tel: 015395 32552
Most of the Saturday will be free for you to explore the area.
Ian Hulme FRPS EFIAP
Ian’s boundless enthusiasm for photography began at the age of nineteen and has never waned. He was a member of the Newcastle Society for many years and on retirement he moved across to the west and joined Grange club. His photographic interests are wide and varied and despite his enthusiasm for Nature photography his Fellowship panel was of church interiors. Ian is currently carrying out meticulous research into high end compact cameras with amazing results.
Paul Foley FRPS EFIAP MPAGB makes a very welcome return to the Region with his latest work. A dedicated landscape photographer he constantly seeks to express the beauty and tranquillity of the natural world. He gained a Fellowship in both colour prints and colour slides and he is currently a member of the RPS Visual Art Panel. Paul is an active member of Arena and since taking early retirement he has organised a very successful series of landscape workshops in both UK and abroad.
Priscilla Thomas FRPS MPAGB makes a very welcome return to the Region with her latest work. She may be small in stature but she is big in energy and imagination. Her Fellowship was achieved with a panel of prints in the genre of Abstract and this encouraged her to continue down this avenue of abstract and imaginative photography.
Priscilla has published a fascinating book, with forward by Sir George Pollock FRPS, which chronicles the development [and details the method] of her work from Impressionism to Constructivism. She has lectured extensively, exhibited at the RPS and taught workshops on “Exploring the Photographic Abstract”.
Priscilla is unique and her photography is original.

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