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H2 NEWSLETTER

Welcome to members and friends of
H2 Photographic Society

H2 now operates on a hybrid model with meetings alternating between Zoom & in the hall. Please check the calendar below for where the meeting is and the zoom invite/location details.

(Exciting news - we are restarting face-to-face meetings from 3 March. More information in this Newsletter)

Figs by Leslie Hughes

NewsFlash - We Can Meet Again

On 27 January the government stated that many of the restrictions imposed due to Covid-19 were being dropped. They are further relaxing regulations on 21 February.

Your committee have been careful to give another couple of weeks or so but, subject to no rise in infections, we are re-starting our hybrid programme with our first face-to-face meeting at Much Hadham Village Hall on Thursday 3 March.

Put the date in your diaries, guys :)

(We do request members not to attend if they have any Covid-19 symptoms, please)

Guess 2 by Jo Cleall
(Answer: part of a jig-saw puzzle)

This Week is Macro

So from this week our programme theme moves from B&W to Nature. And there is a flower practical and a presentation on photographing garden wildlife coming up in the weeks ahead.

This Thursday, however, we have a macro practical where we will be looking and learning about how we can use our cameras and lenses to make small things look big(ger).

Please note this is a virtual evening over Zoom; pour yourself a drink and settle down in a comfy seat at home and enjoy.

Guess 3 by Paul Major
(the answer's at the end of this Newsletter!)

Guess What...Last Week

Last week we had a fun evening guessing what things were.

Members had been asked to create images of prosaic articles but taken from unusual angles and unorthodox compositions. The rules were, "There are no rules".

Fascinating to see what members contrived; they ranged from the spout of a sanitiser bottle, to a 'thingumajig' that cleans a carpet.

We show a couple of entries in this Newsletter - can you guess what they are?

Isolation by Paul Tatman

FINGERS CROSSED H2 MEMBERS

This Sunday (13 Feb) is the East Anglian Federation (EAF) projected digital image (PDI) Championship. H2's entry of our 25 images will be pitched against 30-something other clubs from the EAF region.

We have sent out details of the event on a separate Newsletter with the entered images, titles and authors.

Fingers crossed

We Would Love To See Members' Successful Images

H2 Photo SHOWCASE is where our club shows its work "to the world". It allows everybody access to see H2's best work.

If members would like the chance to have their best work featured on SHOWCASE, please upload your competition-winners and your commended images to the club's H2 Flickr page. This will allow Warren, Geoff and Jonathan to view them.

Who knows, they may even choose them!

Take a look at our SHOWCASE by clicking here

Three Wave Watchers by Jonathan Saull

The Zoom invitation for all our meetings is below.

All are welcome to come along; members & non-members alike.

Zoom Invite

Topic: H2 Club Evening
Time: "Doors" open at 07:30 PM for 7:45 Start
Every week on a Thursday

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82906584413?pwd=dnFuRG9LUzBzU0hlSFZ3NDAzYkluQT09

Meeting ID: 829 0658 4413
Password: 927576

Help Found!

A huge thanks to Lynne Fletcher for volunteering to take on the programme admin for next year. I am hugely grateful for her stepping forward to take this on.

Chris (Shepherd)

Cool Companion by Lynne Fletcher

Physical Meetings
(Good news! We are re-starting our hybrid programme with our first face-to-face meeting at Much Hadham Village Hall on Thursday 3 March)

Thinking of joining? Feel free to pop along for a warm welcome

Meetings are Thursday evenings 7.45p.m. to 9.45p.m.

Much Hadham Village Hall
Oudle Ln
Much Hadham
SG10 6DQ
United Kingdom

There is a carpark and entrance at the back of the hall.
(Note: do check our programme - we now run a hybrid model with meetings at the hall alternating with virtual Zoom meetings)

Google Maps

What 3 Words: reward.code.bumps

Entrance Fees

£3	Members
£5	Couples
£4	Guests

Congrats Revisited by Warren Martin

Much Hadham Parish Magazine Needs Our Images

The Editor of our local Parish Magazine would love to see more of our images of Much Hadham and its environs to go on this year's front pages. Images can be as straightforward or as creative as we like to make them.

There are two constraints however: firstly the images need to be in colour and, secondly, they need to be portrait format. It's a great opportunity to see our images in print.

Please email images - file size, 5MB or larger - to Paul (Major) on this address

Beach Huts at Osea by Marie King

Do Join Us For Our 2022 Season

Our packed programme has already started with a mixture of fun activities, talks, practices and competitions. Whether you enjoy photography as a hobby and wish to improve, or you are more advanced, we would love you to join us. Take a look at our programme by clicking here.

And do get in touch

To contact H2PS click here

Staverton by Paul Simpkin

H2 Programme

Here is our programme for the next few weeks.

Programme as Google Calendar

17-Feb-22	Zoom	Macro practical
24-Feb-22	Zoom	Taming the Chaos Speaker: Kieran Metcalfe BPE1*
03-Mar-22	In Hall	Flowers Practical
10-Mar-22	Zoom	Photographing Wildlife in your Garden Speaker: Roger Hance FRPS AFIAP DPAGB BPE5*
17-Mar-22	In Hall	My Top 10 14-Mar-2022 - Hand In For League Competition Round 3
24-Mar-22	Zoom	League Competition Round 3 Judge: Sally Sallett ARPS CPAGB AFIAP BPE3*
31-Mar-22	In Hall	Disposable camera challenge 28-Mar-2022 - Hand In For Natural History Competition
07-Apr-22	Zoom	Natural History Competition Judge: Peter Jones ARPS DPAGB BPE3*
14-Apr-22	In Hall	Smartphone Photography Speaker: Jeanette Lendon 11-Apr-2022 - Hand In For Panel Comp
21-Apr-22	Zoom	Panel Comp Judge: Lorraine Robins
28-Apr-22	In Hall	Smartphone Photography Practical Hand In For Disposable Camera Challenge
05-May-22	Zoom	AGM
12-May-22	Zoom	Creative Composites Speaker: Glenys Garnet
19-May-22	In Hall	Disposable camera Challenge reults 16-May-2022 - Hand In For League Competion Round 4
26-May-22	Zoom	League Competion Round 4 Judge: Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE*5 23-May-2022 - Hand In For Smartphone Critique
02-Jun-22	In Hall	Smartphone Critique
09-Jun-22	Zoom	People in the Landscape and Outdoor Activities Speaker: Nigel Forster
16-Jun-22	In Hall	Whats In The Bag 13-Jun-2022 - Hand In For DPI of the year critique
23-Jun-22	Zoom	DPI of the year critique
30-Jun-22	In Hall	Outdoor Practical 27-Jun-2022 - Hand In For DPI of the year
07-Jul-22	Zoom	DPI of the year Judge: Kylie-ann Martin EFIAP, BPE2,CPAGB, LDPS

Committee Minutes

If you want to keep up with what our committee is discussing you can find all the details here.

Brown Booby by Alan Palmer

Rules for Competition entries

Prints need to be handed in a week before the competition (but as we meet every other week it is actually 2 weeks in advance), a digital copy of the image must also be submitted via email.

Digital Images need to be submitted 10 days before via email

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 Portrait competition we send an email to dpi@h2photo.org.uk with the subject Portrait with our pictures attached to it.

Email Subject	Competition Description	Last Entry Date	Type
Guess	Guess What this is	09/02/2022	DPI
LeagueComp3	League Competition 3	14/03/2022	DPI
Panel	Panel Competition	11/04/2022	DPI
LeagueComp4	League Competition 4	16/05/2022	DPI
Phone	Smartphone Critique	23/05/2022	DPI
DpiCritique	Dpi Of The Year Critique	13/06/2022	DPI
DpiOfTheYear	Dpi Of The Year	27/06/2022	DPI

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

Follow the red arrow for the answer to Guess 3 above. Did you guess?