Club Programme 2011

	September 2011
19^th	‘Welcome Back’ and members (old & new) registration. Please bring a selection of photos for our popular ‘Why I Took This’ session.
26^th	Image of the Year, plus the results of the Annual Competition.	Judge: David Eastley, ARPS
	October 2011
3^rd	Beyond the Basics – Photoshop Workshop.	Speaker: Gavin Hoey
10^th	Natural History Photography – Presentation and advice.	Speaker: Chris Coates, DPAGB
17^th	League Slides & Digital Image Comp 1 – Open Subject.	Judge: Stewart Coward
24^th	‘Travels with my Camera’.	Speaker: Clive Dickson
31^st	League Print Comp – Open Subject.	Judge: Bob Webzell, Arps
	November 2011
7^th	How to take portraits without a studio.	Speaker: James Barry
14^th	League Slides & Digital Image Comp 2 – Open Subject.	Judge: Nick Wiseman
21^st	How to attain the LRPS and beyond.	Speaker: Walter Benzie, ARPS
28^th	League Prints Comp 2 – Subject ‘Red’.	Judge: Ken Scott, ARPS
	December 2011
5th	Natural History Comp.	Judge: Chris Coates, DPAGB
12^th	‘It’s a Knockout!’. Club Evening – bring prints, both old or new.
	January 2012
9^th	League Prints Comp 3 – Subject ‘Movement’.	Judge: Mike Chambers, ARPS
16^th	Wedding Photography – A Professional Approach.	Speaker: Tony Hollman
23^rd	Annual Christmas Dinner
30^th	League Prints Comp 4 – Open Subject.	Judge: John Boots, ARPS
	February 2012
6^th	Ballooning in the Land of the Thunder Dragon.	Speaker: Dave Billing
13^th	League Slides & Digital Image Comp 3 – Subject ‘People’.	Judge: Eric Burchall
20^th	Print & Slide Battle. Lewes V Uckfield	Judge: Keith Gibson
27^th	League Prints Comp 5 – Open Subject (ties in with LRPS talk on November 21^st last year)	Judge: Walter Benzie, ARPS
	March 2012
5^th	Creative Workshop	Speaker: Jack Casement, ARPS
12^th	AGM – All Welcome

2. The Club Committee shall consist of four officers: Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. There shall be up to six other committee members.

3. The Committee must be elected or re-elected each year at an Annual General Meeting.

4. There shall be three categories of membership: Honorary Life, Ordinary and Junior. Junior members must be under sixteen or undergoing full-time education.

5. The Club financial year and membership runs from 1st April to 31st March. Subscriptions shall be fixed annually and paid that year.

7. An Extraordinary General Meeting may be called at the request of at least a third of the membership. Two weeks notice must be given and the exact business must be stated.

8. The Committee have the power to decide on any matter on which the rules are silent.

2. There shall be an Annual Competition of the current Club year’s work judged at the end of the Season. Entries shall number up to five images made up of prints or slides or a combination of the two.

3. There shall be a Natural History Competition each Season. Entries shall number up to three prints and/or slides. Work to be no more than five years old. Wildlife subjects must be of animals, birds, flowers or plants, which are wild. No domesticated animals or birds, cultivated flowers or plants are eligible. “Escapees” are also ineligible, however wild they may be!

4. There shall be a League Table Competition for prints and slides based on the six highest marks achieved by each member in any Season. In the event of a tie the seventh highest mark shall decide the result. Work to be no more than five years old.

5. Members may submit up to two prints or four slides in any League Competition.

6. Any one entry may be submitted for only one League and Annual competition but may be resubmitted for any other competition.

8. All marks shall be out of twenty per entry. Authors shall mark their own work zero when Club judging.