New CACC Role for Amanda Wright

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Congratulations to Amanda Wright, EHHPS Portfolio Secretary, on becoming Federation Competition Officer for the CACC.  

Amanda explains: "This basically means I will be collating all the entries of both prints and PDI's, with the help of Ania, from clubs across the CACC for The Inter-Federation Competitions and Exhibitions event which happens once a year.  Once we have all the images a small selection team then choose which 10 images to put through to the 4 Inter-Fed comp categories (colour prints, mono prints, colour PDI's and Nature)."

Workshop: How to Win Photography Competitions

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EHHPS's own Amanda Wright is one of three renowned judges who were asked what they look for in an award-winning image.  

Built on their feedback, Trade Secrets Live (Amersham Studios) have constructed a workshop entitled 'How to win Photography Competitions.'  The workshop will be run by John Humphrey - a recent well-received speaker at EHHPS -  and Simon Ellingworth.

Amanda has negotiated a discount for EHHPS members - please email her for details.

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Rosebowl: Second Round Results

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Tuesday evening’s second round Rosebowl competition was well attended by EHHPS, with Karen Helle, Dennis Durack, Mike Roberts, and Kristin and Paul Mason making the effort to join external Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright for the 120 mile round trip to Witney, who were hosting ourselves and XRR.

Our group was at times perplexed by judge Alan Copeland’s comments; certainly several of our images which had been successful on previous occasions were marked down for this competition.   Our highest score was 18 which Karen achieved with “Last Kiss of Summer” (although Alan was concerned that there was no actual kissing involved) and Paul with “Hung Up On Him”.

In the event, Witney stormed to victory with 273 points, 25 points ahead of EHHPS, with XRR second on 262.

We very much look forward to redressing the balance when we host the next round against Field End PS, Croxley CC and Woodley PC on the 9th of February in the Town Hall.

Amanda Wright

We're Older than we Thought

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We thought - as our website claims - that EHHPS (or at least the original Ealing Photographic Society) was founded in 1892.  However, after some research and assistance from the Borough Archivist, Dr Jonathan Oates,  it turns out we are a couple of years out.  A notice in the Middlesex County Times for July 19th 1890 reads:

"Ealing Photographic Society. - A meeting of those interested in this society will be held at the Victoria Hall on Thursday 24th inst., at eight p.m. to approve rules, enrol members, and elect officers for the year.  The provisional committee invite the attendance of all those who have taken an interest in the subject."

The following week’s newspaper reports on the meeting, and gives the names of the committee, including that of the first President, Mr H.W. Peal whose photograph, taken in 1891, is in the Borough Archive.

We will add a History page to this site in the near future.

Chiltern Imagez Print Exhibition 2016 preview

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A number of EHHPS members have entered prints into the Chiltern Imagez event.  We have received this reminder from Stan McCartin:

"We have had a good entry for this exhibition and I would like to remind you of the Preview and Commentary by this year's selector, Jay Charnock FRPS, this Sunday 4th December at 7 for 7:30 until 9pm.

This free event will be held at Imagez Camera club, Weston Turville Village Hall, School Approach, Main Street, Weston Turville, HP22 5RW.  There is ample free parking at the club.  "

More information here

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RPS Successes for John Clare

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EHHPS member John Clare, LRPS, has had a double success at the Royal Photographic Society this month. First, his photograph 'Delhi Chai Seller' was chosen as one of just 30 images in the RPS Travel Print Exhibition and is currently on show at RPS HQ in Bath.

Then his image 'Pyramids and Sphinx' was chosen as the Travel Group 'Image of the Month'. It is now the Facebook group's cover page for November

John was also interviewed for his local TV station in Chiswick.

EHHPS Success in the North West Fed. Competition

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From Jane Arnold-Foster and Amanda Wright:

Round D1 of the NW Fed competition took place on Monday 17th October, hosted by Hemel Hempstead.  Ealing were up against Hemel and Chesham, and the judge was Mark Buckley-Sharp.

The scores were:

Prints:

  • Hemel 109
  • Chesham 101
  • EHHPS 106

Digital:

  • Hemel 104
  • Chesham 105
  • EHHPS 109

Totals:

  • Hemel 213
  • Chesham 206
  • EHHPS 215

An excellent winning start for EHHPS.  Notable scores were:

  • Karen Helle: 20 and a star for 'Last Kiss of Summer' (Digital)
  • Shaun Hodge: 19 for 'Left Hanging (Digital)
  • Mike Lloyd 19 for 'The Fighter' (Print)

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Lawrence Graham-Leigh

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Sad news from Amanda Wright about Lawrence, who ran 'Artmaster Gallery' used by many in EHHPS for picture mounting and framing:

"It is with great sadness that I have to announce that Lawrence Graham-Leigh passed away on Friday evening. Although the FB drive to raise money for desperately needed treatment was surpassed, sadly it came too late as Lawrence was by then too ill. He leaves behind a wife and four year old son and was a true gentleman who would always go the extra mile.

RIP Lawrence."

EHHPS Success in the Ron Wake Competition

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From Amanda Wright:

Last night was the Ron Wake selection at Harrow for which Ania kindly took in images on my behalf. Seven clubs enter 7 prints each, one per author and 20 were to be selected by judge Roger Reynolds.

EHHPS had 5 images accepted which I think is a first!
Huge Congratulations to

Dennis Durack with I give up
Ania Taylor with Autumn Shades
The Fighter by Mike Lloyd
Time To Go by Michael Jaworski
Form by Paul Paul Mason.

The final of the Ron Wake competition is on Tuesday Sept 6th at Harrow.

EHHPS Exhibition at Questors Theatre

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The next EHHPS exhibition of prints will be in the ‘Grapevine’ bar of Questors Theatre in Mattock Lane, Ealing from the 2nd to the 22nd of June.

We estimate there will be space for around 24 prints provided we optimise the mix of portrait and landscape formats so, depending on demand, the opportunity is likely to be limited to one or two prints per member.  Hanging will take place during the day on Thursday 2nd June. On this occasion the framed prints will be hung by wire/cord from the picture rail so frames should have suitable mounting eyes.

The theatre is happy that we attach suitable ‘For Sale’ labels, and also place a sales list on the nearby noticeboard.

Clearly time is short to organise our selection of images. Please contact Amanda Wright via email or phone (07740 303730) with any queries on hanging.  Amanda will also co-ordinate requests for space  - please provide her with titles and pricing for your images.

EHHPS Trip to Highcliffe and Infinity

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Amanda Wright penned:

On Wednesday May 4th. Kris and Paul Mason, Phil Dean and myself trundled down to the New Forest for our Annual Highcliffe jaunt. We headed straight to the New Forest taking snaps of the scenery and ponies of course, had a fab pub lunch, more snaps then headed to H & I. The judge this year was Mike Burbeck an RPS judge from Somerset. His vocabulary was varied and comments were mostly accurate, even if he did miss the point on the more creative images. It was a close run thing but EHHPS finally won the day by 1.5 points! Our top scorers in print were Paul Mason with 'Form' and 'Statuesque' by Shaun Hodge both scoring 10 (top marks) Karen Helle with 'Searching For Heathcliff' and Shaun Hodge's 'Cape Vulture' both scored 9.5.
In PDI's 'Pink Dahlia' by Ania Taylor and 'Savannah Elephant' by Amanda Hodge both scored 10 with 'Musing' by Kristin Mason and 'High Flyer' by Shaun Hodge scoring 9.5
Congratulations and big thanks guys!

Still time to book for Highcliffe!

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On Wednesday May 4th a group from EHHPS will be travelling down for our annual friendly competition with Highcliffe, shooting on the way down, with photographic opportunities including the New Forest and the Coast.  We will be  staying over, and shooting on the way back, arriving back in Ealing in time to vote and attend the 'Match a Digi' competition on Thursday - a two day Feast of Photography.

For more information, please contact Amanda Wright.

Restrictions affecting traffic access to Longfield Avenue

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Those who drive to Club nights at the Town Hall, particularly drivers who use the car park off Longfield Avenue, should be aware that Ealing Council is introducing access restriction affecting Longfield avenue.

As of Monday 18th April:

Drivers will no longer be able to turn left onto Uxbridge Road from Longfield Avenue.

Motor vehicles will no longer be allowed to turn right from Uxbridge Road onto Longfield Avenue.

Further information can be found here.

Artisan Exhibition Update

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Our exhibition of prints which opened at the Artisan Café on the 19th January runs until 19th April 2016.

We will be changing over some of the prints on Tuesday March the 15th so if you missed out first time around, now is your chance.

Prints, which should be framed and fitted with mirror plates, should be no larger than 50 x 40 cm. - smaller would allow us to display more.  When selecting your images for display, please consider that this is a public cafe and the manager has asked that we do not display nudes or anything which may be deemed offensive to such an audience.  As previously, Amanda is able to offer advice on image selection and assistance with framing if required.

A small group of volunteers is requested to hang the prints, starting at 4.30 p.m. This will include drilling the mounting holes and making good previous drillings.

Please bring your framed prints to the Café. If you are unable to do so, please arrange to get them to Paul or Karen in good time.

Artisan is at 32 New Broadway, Ealing W5 2XA. See here for a map.