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The H2 Newsletter

Mono Competition

Last night was the first ever competition for H2 and what a great start it was. The Tony Perryman monochrome print competition was very ably judged by Tom Peck who carefully walked through our images offering detailed and informative critique on each one.

As a trial we videoed the judging for members who were not able to make it that evening the video will hopefully appear on our YouTube Channel when I finish editing & uploading it.

The Eventual Winner was Stan Chippett with his image "Greek Arch" and here he is being presented with his prize (one of Tony's beautiful sculptures) by the artist himself.

The full results were:

Stan Chippett	Greek arch	1st
Jeffrey Sinclair	st Aldhelm chapel font	2nd
Chris Shepherd	Shard view	3rd
Jeffrey Sinclair	Knowlton church	HC
Dave Woods	Sea shell study 1	HC
Dave Hobbs	Hands of time	HC
Stan Chippet	buttermere	HC
Jo Cleal	feather	HC
Paul Radden	returning home	C
Jeffrey Sinclair	kimmeridge bay	C
Paul Major	lone figure at jokulsarlon iceland	C

Thanks to Shirley and graham for doing the teas and to Paul Radden for doing the vote of thanks.

Greek Arch by Stan Chippett

Mailing Images for Competitions

There is an adage in warfare "no plan survives contact with the enemy" and programming is similar. Most people managed to use the mail handler without difficulties but I have now updated it to handle the issues that did come up:

AppleMail is now supported
Only 1 email address is used whether it is print or dpi (it works that out for you)
It will accept the competition subject or description as the email subject

Hopefully that should make things easier for those who had problems this time.

St Aldhelm chapel font by Jeffery Sinclair

Close Up Evening

It certainly looks like I missed a great week on the close up evening judging from the lovely images on our Flickr group everyone seemed to have a great time and produced some really interesting images. I have added a few in the newsletter but please pop over to the group and see the rest for yourselves.

Shard view by Chris Shepherd

Bubbles by Paul Radden
(from last weeks close up evening)

David Lukey's Exhibition

H2 member, David, is about to have his first exhibition this month as part of the prestigious London Photo Show. The venue is the Barge Gallery at the Oxo Tower on London’s Southbank and will run from Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 October 2019. Take a look at the website (shown below); it would be well worth a visit to see David's images as well as the other exhibitors' photographs.
Well done David.
For more information visit https://londonphotoshow.org/

She's coming by Stan Chippett
(from last weeks close up evening)

Social Media

The clubs WhatsApp group is a great way of keeping up to date with what's going on. If you would like to be added to the group email chris@shepherdpics.com with your phone number & I will set you up.

Save The Date
Sunday 27th October 2019

Epping Forest Meet 2019
Details Soon

New Rules for Competition entries

Please be aware, the hand-in process for all competitions has changed.

Prints need to be handed in a week before the competition as previously, but a digital copy of the image must also be submitted via email.

Digital Images need to be submitted a week before via email (no more bringing cards & memory sticks in).

How to Submit Images via Email

First prepare images following the guidelines for projected images.
Create a new email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk
Set the Subject of the email to the name of the competition from the lists below.
Attach your files and send them

You should get a reply within a few minutes telling you if your entry has been successful.

Example
To enter the Up Close Critique Evening competition we send an email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk with the subject UpClose with our pictures attached to it.

Email Subject	Competition Description	Last Entry Date	Type
UpClose	Up Close Critique Evening	31/10/2019	Print
InTheDark	In then Dark Critique Evening	24/11/2019	DPI
NaturalHistory	Natural History Competiton	12/01/2020	Print
Portrait	Portrait Competiton	23/02/2020	DPI
DpiOfTheYear	Projected Image of the year Competition	07/06/2020	DPI
StillLife	Still Life Competiton	29/03/2020	Print
Water	Water - Critique Evening	17/05/2020	Print
PrintOfTheYear	Print of the year Competition	31/05/2020	Print

Any problems please drop me a mail: chris@shepherdpics.com

Pholcidae or more commonly known as a "Daddy Long Legs" by Mark Edwards

H2 Membership fees due

For those members who haven't yet done so, as the new photographic year has commenced, everyone needs to pay their yearly subscription and fill in a membership form.

You can find the form (including details of how to pay by cheque or banks transfer here.

Message On behalf of Stevenage Photographic Society

We have a very special lecture from Antony Penrose, who will talk about the photographic life of his mother, Lee Miller. His talks have been highly recommended to us by members of photographic clubs in the Southern Counties region and as we're not aware of him having lectured in our area we think the talk may be of wider interest than our own membership.

Monday 21st October 2019, start time 7.45pm - 10pm.
'Backstage at the Lee Miller Archive' and 'The Legendary Lee Miller', by Antony Penrose.

Tickets can be purchased from the Stevenage PS website for £5 each.

Please visit stevenagephotographicsociety.org.uk for more information.

Photographic Opportunities this weekend

Raúl Cañibano: Chronicles of an Island
The Photographers Gallery Soho

Life though Extraordinary Mirrors
The October Gallery

Dates for your Diary

Thursday 17 October: Talk
Thursday 24 October: EAF Exhibition
Thursday 27 October: Epping Forest Meet
Thursday 31 October: Print Critique Evening

Meetings begin at 7:45pm.

Club Calendar on Google Calendar

Quest photo workshops 2020

Quest (Colin Southgate & Tom Peck) have some super locations to visit next year, both local and further afield (Iceland, Skye, Yellowstone, Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Coast among others), .

Check out the Quest website www.questphoto.co.uk with more information.

Find Us

Meetings are Thursday evenings 7:30 for a 7:45 start

Address:

Much Hadham Village Hall
High Street,
Much Hadham,
SG10 6BP

Free parking to the rear of the hall.

Directions