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Another great news came through.

Ian Pinn  has got 4 of his pictures accepted into 1st Cork International Salon of Photography.

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Last Friday night many of NOPS members, old and new met at The Wheatsheaf in Burton Joyce for the club’s Christmas meal.
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Here we have a relatively new member of the NOPS family entering a competition held by a very large and well known company.
The competition, held on a monthly basis, declared this image the winner for December.
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As a kid I loved taking photos when on holiday with a Kodak film camera.  When at college I got a Zenith E 35mm camera and started using the college darkroom to develop black and white.  At that time the meadows area was being redeveloped and I tried to record some of the old buildings and the people around them before they disappeared.  I also did a series of black and white shots of the RC Cathedral (fondly known as ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’) in my home town of Liverpool.  I lost all of these prints and negs later on when we were flooded.

Like so many people, I left photography when I got married but took it up again in the 1980′s when we had kids and I bought a new 35mm camera.  When digital cameras came along I got a Canon compact and soon after a Canon 350D SLR. I found I was far more successful with digital cameras and I enjoy messing around with Photoshop.  I joined the Outlaws Photography Society a few years ago and this helped my photography to take off.  I have upgraded to a Canon 7D and a bag full of lenses and other stuff, the main purpose of which seems to be to make the camera bag even heavier (back to those creaking knees again!).

I mostly do landscape work and have been encouraged by a few successes in club competitions. I have recently been attempting some arty processing such as my “Victorian Prospect”. I also enjoy challenging my photography by entering competitions with themes that I would not otherwise tackle.  Without the challenge of club competition I would not have spent time filling party balloons with water, freezing them and creating pictures of  “Ice Planets”.   Portraits are always a challenge but I have learnt something from watching others in the club.  The moral of this tale is come and join us, enjoy the company and let your photography grow!

John’s gallery:

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It’s always great to see somebody from our club to win a competition.This time Ian Pinn our chairman for 2013 won the online competition in Healthy Living magazine. (more…)

Our own member John Purchase has been selected as one of  20-25 strictly  Olympus photographers from all over the world involved in Olympus new lens photobook. His picture “Crazy paving…” has been chosen for the category “Best of 60mm macro”.

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Over the last couple of months our members have been putting together their entry for the NEMPF 2014 exhibition, this is always a frantic time with many questions flying around…

What should I put submit? Will it get accepted? Does it look better as a print or PDI? etc etc etc.

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Originally, this was suppose to be a review to a completely different book. But I had a delivery on Saturday….
Yes, all my notes about previous book went to one side, and I had to write few lines about this beautiful new addition to my photographic library. The title of the book is “Before they pass away” by Jimmy Nelson.

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1st November saw our annual inter-club battle with Melbourne Photographic Society.

In previous years this has always been a close run battle, so we felt that we needed to put on our A game to make sure we had any chance of winning.

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Well I’ve enjoyed photography for as long as I can remember, I have to thank my late uncle Ken, who used me as a model and then introduced me to the magical world of black and white developing.  I carried on my love for post processing at Uni, they had a really professional lab that us students could use, using my first proper camera a canon T50.  I only dabbled with photography for a number of years until the dawn of the digital age, in the early days it was very disappointing  the image quality was rubbish, as some of my old 2 megabyte images show all too clearly.

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