Thursday 26th January 2012 saw us holding our annual Members Choice competition, with 28 prints and 45 projected images on offer, the members had their work cut out to choose their top six images.
After a good viewing of all the work on offer we finally came to the member’s overall top images for each genre, the winning images are as follows…
Ken Monkhouse died on the 16th of January 2012, aged 73.
He was one of the three Founder members of the Nottingham Outlaws Photographic Society, and its first Chairman. During his time with the Outlaws he also held a number of other positions on the committee, namely Secretary, Programme Secretary, Vice Chairman and Members Secretary. It was he who found our first venue and our current venue, he coordinated our marketing media, collected and delivered our images for battles with other clubs and for exhibitions, and manned the first exhibitions that we held.
He played a major part in setting out the policies, competition rules and club programme, forging links with other photographic clubs, securing our acceptance into NEMPF, manufacturing the clubs first annual trophies and the individual (keepsake) trophies. In short, Ken was instrumental in setting the basis of the club that we know today.
He leaves behind two daughters, Melanie and Keren, son Ian, and granddaughter Molly to whom we would like to convey our sincerest and heartfelt condolences.
He was an inspiration to many people, and a lovely man. He will be sorely missed and is a great loss to our Society.
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I am pleased to say that there have been quite a few prints and digital images acceptances for the club into the 2012 NEMPF exhibition, with over 2600 submissions this year competition for a place has been stiff & the scores required for acceptance are high.
A total acceptance of 17 photos from NOPS which equates to 12.5% of total images NOPS submitted were accepted
Congratulations go to the following members:
Rick Martingdale
1x Monochrome print
Chris Newham
1x Colour print
1x Monochrome print
Ian Pinn
1x Colour digital
1x Colout Print
2x Monochrome Print
Scott Wilson
1x Colour digital
4x Colour print
Jonathan Dudley
1x Monochrome digital
Lester Woodward
1x Colour print
2x Natural History Digital
Michal Tekel
1x Colour digital
Well done to all those who had images acceptances and better luck for next year for those of us that didn’t.
Congratulations to Les who won last months competition.
Les has decided that being a gadget freak the theme will be ‘My Favourite Gadget’, this does not have to be top studio product images but Les is expecting a bit of creativity even if it’s taking a shot of your latest fab camera through a mirror.
The level of entries last month was disappointing so please get out there, take some shots and give Les plenty of entries to select from, either email your image to Les or send a link to it’s location on Flickr or other photo sharing site. Good luck.
Congratulations to Jonathan who won last months Chrirman’s challenge, Jonathan has chosen “Something about me” for this months subject.
Jonathans definition of this is: That being self-portraits, but it must contain an aspect of your life which tells a story. This could be a hobby, your job, places you like to visit, etc.
For inspiration just google “self-portrait ideas”, there are loads online. I hope to receive an entry from everyone, that way I can put a name to a face for every one of you, as I am pretty bad at remembering names at times 
So get out there, take some shots and give Jonathan plenty of entries to select from, either email your image to Jonathan or send a link to it’s location on Flickr or other photo sharing site.
Congratulation’s to Scott who won last months competiton with his puffin shot.
Scott has chosen ‘contre jour’ as the subject…. A picture taken into the light.
So get out there, take some shots and give Scott plenty of entries to select from, either email your image to Scott or send a link to it’s location on Flickr or other photo sharing site.
Congratulation’s to Chris Newham who won last months chairman’s challenge although it wasnt difficult as he was the only entrant!
To encourage a wider selection of entries Chris has selected (live) Animals as this month’s theme, so no stuffed animals etc.
Either email your image to Chris or send a link to it’s location on Flickr or other photo sharing site.
Let’s hope Chris gets plenty of entries to select from, get clicking.
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Congratulation’s to John (flick) Purchase who won last months chairman’s challenge, John has selected HDR for month’s theme.
Either send your photo to John or tag it on flickr with NOPSCCMAY2011