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Tuesday WCC DiplomaWe welcome landscape photographer BillAllsopp, ARPS with his PDI presentationLight is Everything. Bill starts off by lookingat the work of Belgian pictorialist LeonardMissonne who said ‘light glorifieseverything, it transforms and ennobles themost commonplace and ordinary subjects.The object is nothing, light is everything’.We then go on to look at many differentkinds of light and hopefully see there is nosuch thing as bad light.

Come along and enjoy a visual feast…

WCC Photonews

    Worcestershire Camera Club Editor: w-news@worcscc.uk

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Header image: Paul Mann ARPS CPAGB , Manhattan

Contents

This weekWCC ExhibitionsThree CountiesYour picturesFlipboard magazineDiaryCompetitions & exhibitionsPAGB newsMalvern in monoDeer, deer…Kenyan SafariBritish Wildlife CentreSpecial offerAnd finally…

AV Group

We meet on Thursday 23rd November at7.30 pm at the Royal British Legion,Cornmeadow Lane, WR3 7RL.

All members welcome! You are invited tocome along, bring finished AVs or work inprogress as usual to share with the group.

This month you are also asked to bringalong your bright ideas for the Christmascelebration evening!

£2 with refreshments, £1.50 without.

Bar available.

External Competition secretary Judy will bewaving the flag for us at this event inGloucester on Tuesday. (Details in thisnewsletter). Whilst this clashes with ourclub night, some of you may wish to joinJudy  to offer support - please contact JudyASAP if you’ve not already done so as she isalso arranging car sharing.

Take a peek at the new Diploma successespage on the website. Quite a few more

members have Diploma work under way

and we look forward to seeing more suc-

cesses soon.

If you haven’t already signed up to have a

go, why not take a look

and see if there’s

something to tickle

your fancy or give you

a new challenge?

There’s something for

everyone, beginner or advanced.

WCC Exhibitions

Don’t forget this Tuesday is the deadlinefor pictures for the CrownGate exhibition.All members are encouraged to submit!Full details on mounts and labels on p2 of23rd Oct Photonews.You have another week to ferret out orprint a submission for the Swan….

Three Counties

Your pictures - reminderWanted – New images for Inter-club Competitions!

Early in the New Year we will again be entering the GB Cup – a national PDI competition organised by the PAGB.  There are 2 sections tothis competition - Open & Nature and we will be entering both. Naturally we have access to images entered into our ‘Internal clubCompetitions’ but we would really like to have additional work from other members. This will enable us to expand the ‘Selection Pool’so our entry can be made the strongest possible.

If you would like to help the club in this way please send me – say, 5 images that fit either or both of these categories.E-mail address : e-comp@worcscc.uk Looking forward to hearing from you!

WCC Flipboard magazineRather than including lots of links in the newsletter as previously, we now collate interesting galleries and articles on photography in theWCC Flipboard ‘magazine’. You can join and subscribe for free and join in by ‘flipping’ articles in from the web when you come acrosssomething interesting. Email the editor to be added as a contributor.

Here’s a selection of recent ‘flips’ to whet the appetite, from Photoshop tips  and the latest Lightroom tool(as demo’d by Martin last week) via the vintage mean streets of  New York and an octogenarian’s creativeself-portraits to a rubbish project and a day in pictures around the world…  Do take a look.

Competitions &exhibitions

Bebington 2018 entry closes 22nd

November. Entry form & rules.  (BPE)

The Societies’ open competitions close 30th

November. Win a year’s free membership.Celebrating Nature - enter up to 3 imagesfreeGoing Places Travel & Tourism photo compfor NovemberThemed Portraits November competition.

Solihull Open - print and PDI. (BPE)  Closes16 December 2017.

Reclaiming our Future - closes 23rd Feb2018. A Midlands event - free to enter.

BBC November themes● Rooftops: 14 November● Restricted: 21 November● Cleaning: 28 November

TPA  Calling all street and/or documentary'togs... Life on the Streets. Free to enter.

DiaryNo Man’s Land at Impressions Gallery,

Bradford to 30th December. Why not take  aphotowalk round the excellent City Park,visit the National Science & MediaMuseum or take the Heritage trail to Little

Germany. Festive Streets on 2/3rd Dec.

Claire Carter invites us to a private view ofher landscape photography exhibition at

Ludlow Photospace - on November 25th,when Ludlow Christmas Fayre is on, or aquieter day on Saturday 2nd December 4 -6:30pm, when there will be live bluesmusic by Jack Brett and his band, and thecafe will be serving wine and refreshments.

The exhibition runs January 27th Wed - Sat.10am - 5pm. Christmas closure 25th Dec -2nd January.Experience the Northern Lights via an AVand find out "Where I Stand".

Worcester lights switch-on Thurs 23rd

November 4pm.

Wychavon Christmas lights switch-onevents in Droitwich Spa, Evesham andPershore on Saturday 25 November withall towns offering free parking from 2pm.Stalls, entertainment, food, drink andspecial Christmas guests as the towns’streets light up.  Broadway has free parkingSat 9 December from 2pm. More info here

National Portrait Gallery Taylor-Wessingportrait exhibition. 16 November 2017 to8 February 2018  Enter the prize draw.

2-3 Dec Croome Christmas market - alsoother Christmas themed events.(Pleased to see my Croome Santa shoot picsare still popping up!)

PAGB e-news 195

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Malcolm and Clive in Malvern - in mono

Great Malvern StationFrank and Lisa

Part 2 of Malcolm and Clive’s Malvern photowalk. You can see their colour images from the day again here.

Malcolm Haynes

Early morning train

Mobile commuters

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Clive Haynes FRPS

Sunlight, shade & textures Wheel shadows

SubterraneanThe porter’s corner

The passage of time

Les Bailey  visited Bradgate Park  last month.  “There for a day, hence the differing light, I followed one herd of about 50 for 3+ hours in the hope of a fight orsome action.  A couple of stags approached the herd, but after a bit of running about just sloped off. The stags with the damaged eye might be the samebeast, taken in two different places; that eye must hurt…”

Les Bailey

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Deer, deer…

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Kenyan SafariMike HadleyA first sample of Mike

Hadley’s Kenyan safaripictures. He says “Thecheetah had just lost her fivecubs the previous day to apride of lions, so she movedand was desperate for food.”

Grey-headed kingfisher

Black-backed jackal

Cheetah with kill

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Creative Cloud offerAdobe - 20% off Creative Cloud until 24thNovember

Black Friday special:  Save 20%  on theentire collection of Adobe desktop andmobile apps, from essentials likePhotoshop CC to next generation tools likeAdobe XD CC. You also get built-intemplates to jump-start your designs andstep-by-step tutorials to sharpen yourskills and get up to speed quickly. It’severything you need to create,collaborate, and get inspired.

All plans & offerPhotography plan.

British Wildlife Centre

Maddy Pennock LRPS sent in these four delightful additions to the BWC collection.

And finally…A parting shot from Les Bailey.  I am assured no harm came to the photographer!if you've never seen a Polar Bear standing on its hind legs, you just don't know how big theyare!  At least ten feet, or should that be three metres?  I don't think bears bother about metricor Imperial…