HPS Notices

The committee hopes the programme for 2007-2008 will be of interest to both members and visitors. Our speakers will cover a wide range of subject areas, presenting images in a variety of forms: traditional prints (monochrome and colour), slides, digitally-projected images and audio-visual sequences. To improve viewing, speakers are increasingly using digital projection to present their work, showing also a number of prints with which to demonstrate their skill in printing and presentation.

A highlight is a visit by Dr. John Brackenbury of Cambridge University whose specialty is insects in flight. This meeting is being hosted jointly by ourselves and Harrogate Naturalist Society; we expect a full house.

In November we shall be giving a presentation to Normanton Photographic Society and I hope that as many members as possible will contribute to the images shown on that evening. Also in the same month we shall be holding digital imaging seminars.

Specialist groups (Slide Portfolio, Print Portfolio and the digital imaging group, Imagine) meet in members' homes and offer opportunities to show work in progress and receive constructive comment from participants. Newcomers may find this helpful in improving their photographic techniques and getting to know more society members.

An important part of the society's activities are club competitions. The monthly competitions, open to all, are intended to encourage members, especially those new to the Society, to show their work. The annual competitions have categories covering a wide range of subjects and methods of presenting images, from traditional prints and slides to digitally projected images.

In the New Year, we will be trialing a project called 'Vox Pop' in which members will submit print images for assessment by their peers rather than external judges. The intention is to give members confidence to enter club competitions.

This year, a panel of photographs will be displayed to help members to identify the current committee and their responsibilities.

CLASS	WINNER	TITLE
Portrait and Figure	Frank Vallely CPAGB	Dominican Monk
Record	Joe Kehoe	Norman Crypt, St. Mary's, Lastingham
Monochrome Pictorial	Walter Lewis	Restless Sea, Slea Head
Darkroom Self Processed Traditional Print	Eric Downer	Waiting for Summer
Natural History	Peter McLean	Me and My Mum
Photo-Journalism	Marian Frith ARPS	The Ringers
Outings	Richard Bown ARPS	Window on Bradford
Colour Pictorial	Bill Hume	Sunset at Luskentyre
Creativity	Frank Vallely CPAGB	A Monastic Mystery
Sports and Pastimes	Malcolm Davies	Alone
Set Subject	Marion Frith ARPS

CLASS	WINNER	TITLE
Portrait and Figure	Len Downes	Venetian Mask
Record	Len Downes	Auditorium, The Sage
Natural History	Frank Vallely CPAGB	Orange Tip Butterfly
Photo-Journalism	Jim Counter	Allerton Park Horse Trials
Outings	Peter Manning LRPS	Bradford Through The Glass
Pictorial	Mike Joyce	Sunrise on Rannock Moor
Creativity	Peter Manning LRPS	Heaven and Earth
Sports and Pastimes	Jim Counter	Loppy Lugs
Set Subject	Peter Manning LRPS	Harrogate Turkish Baths

CLASS	WINNER	TITLE
Applied	Frank Vallely CPAGB	Sparrow Hawk
Outings	Richard Bown ARPS	How Stean Rocks
Pictorial	Frank Vallely CPAGB	Warm Light on Cold Rocks

An exhibition was held at The Gilbert Scott Gallery, Tonic Art Space, Leeds General Infirmary during the summer of 2006, which was a great success. View selected images.

Members are encouraged to display prints at meetings by arrangements with the President.

If you have a suggestion relating to the Society, please put it in the Suggestion Box and it will be discussed in Committee.

Any HPS member wishing to have their work shown in the web site galleries should provide me with digital files in either Photoshop PSD, TIFF or JPEG PC format on floppy, ZIP or CD media. Please resample your work to 72 ppi and if saving to JPEG use a high quality compression in progressive mode. I will thumbnail all images for use on the web site at no larger than 250 x 250 pixels and return your original material otherwise unsaved. Please do not send your images by email. Thanks for your participation.