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Our most up-to-date news can be found on the Forum
and a few additions are posted here.
There are no major exhibitions from the Club at present
but you can read about our previous events and
catch up with some current news below.

BHCC Photofringe Exhibition CONFLICT: An interpretation

The Brighton Photo Fringe is organising a large number of exhibitions this autumn in conjunction with the Brighton Photo Biennial.

BHCC has taken the opportunity to stage the largest of these exhibitions at the Old Market, Upper Market Street , from 3rd October running through until 15th November, 2008.

To link in loosely with the Photo Bienniel theme of WAR, the theme for BHCC’s exhibition is:

“CONFLICT: An interpretation”

We need many high quality prints from BHCC members to make this an impressive and memorable exhibition. Our images can be expected to be viewed by hundreds of people, many of which will be photographers or people with a strong interest in photography, not least because The Old Market is the chosen venue for the Photo Fringe official launch party!

Images need not be restricted to conflicts between people or indeed military conflict but may depict conflict of any kind. Interesting images in this regard from our members on-line galleries are, for example: Michael Grace’s ‘Bullfight’, Andy Mills’ ‘Paris Olympic Torch Protest’, Rob Tunstall’s ‘Cold Shoulder’, Dave Tormey’s ‘I love my Cannon’, Heather Buckley’s ‘Caravan of Desires’.

Submission of prints

There is a £2 entry fee per print which is refundable if the print doesn’t make it into the exhibition - so submitting extra prints ‘just in case’, won’t cost you. As usual, prints will need to be submitted in 40x50 mounts (preferably white / off white / cream colour).

I will be at a central Hove address to collect prints and your entry money on the mornings of Sunday 14th September and Sunday 21st September, 9.30am – 1.00pm. Please contact me on exhibitions@bhcc-online.org or 07770 350699 if you don’t already have the address (sent out via e-mail to members on 30/08).

Late entries will be accepted at the first club night on 23rd September, though given the short time between then and the exhibition we urge you to please let us have your photos earlier than this so that we can see how we’re doing for prints and can start to plan.

N.B. Your club annual membership subscription must be paid by 1st October to enable us to exhibit your print.

Thank you for your attention – now please, get snapping!!

Jo Stevenson

Draft BHCC Constitution Document Now Available

As you may know, a small working party of Club members has been working on a revised Club Constitution over the last few months.

The revision of the Constitution has been prepared with a couple of thoughts in mind. Firstly, later in the year we intend to submit an application for a grant from the Lottery fund to allow us to bring our projection system up to date. For the application to be successful the Lottery Grant rules require certain conditions to be met of the applying organization and this draft addresses those conditions. Secondly, it has been realised for a while that the existing set of rules are inadequate for Club’s future requirements so we have tackled some of those issues too.

The working party now feels the draft is ready for general view and welcomes any further comments from the Club membership.

You can download the draft here :- Draft BHCC Constitution 2008-v10.pdf

You can download the draft showing revisions here :-
Draft BHCC Constitution 2008-v10 showing revisions.pdf
It is a bit hard to follow but may be worth a quick look if you are interested.

The existing Rules (2001) can be found here :-
bhcc_club_rules_2001.pdf

It is expected to put this Constitution to a vote of the Club members at an EGM to be called for Tuesday September 30th 2008.

You can contact the Constitution working party with comments or questions by e-mail here :- constitution@bhcc-online.org

London Salon of Photography
Cancellation of the Exhibition at the Cottons Centre

Here is some important information from the London Salon regarding their exhibition:-

"Unfortunately, due to the problem with the glass roof in the Atrium, we cannot hold The London Salon Exhibition at the Cottons Centre this year

We are very disappointed, but these are obviously circumstances beyond our control and we hope that you will be understanding.

The Official Opening of the London Salon Exhibition at Smethwick will be at 2.30pm on Saturday July 19th at The Old Schoolhouse, Churchbridge, Oldbury. We hope you will be able to support the Salon and attend this event.

It may be possible for the exhibition to be hung earlier than this date.
Please contact Alan Millward 01217042925 for details of this."

Club visit to the London Salon Exhibition

The Cottons Centre, where the exhibition will be held, has been temporarily closed as the roof has been damaged. This means that the London Salon Exhibition is likely to be cancelled: a final decision will be made on Saturday 21 June. Once we know the outcome, we will update this note.

BHCC Exhibition - at the Calico Gallery - 14th-28th June 2008

"Pride" by David Gerrard

Our latest Summer exhibition starts on Saturday 14th and runs to 28th June

Opening times are 10am - 6pm but contact 07805 201 057
for confirmation before travelling any great distance.

The address is Unit 7 Dyke Road Mews, 74-76 Dyke Road Brighton BN1 3JD
(Near Seven Dials - entrance in Bath Street, exit to Dyke Road)

Click here for a map.

Informal Summer Get-togethers at Hove Place Pub

Over the summer period when the club has no formal meetings, why not take the opportunity to come along to Hove Place pub and have a drink and chat with some other BHCC club members.

These get-togethers will be on the first Tuesday of every month starting at about 8:30ish (and they might also happen on other Tuesdays too)

The address of the Pub is 37 First Avenue, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2FH

Click here for a map.

ARPS Distinctions Evening - Rescheduled

Trevor has asked that APRS candidates please note the distinctions evening scheduled for Thursday 29th May has been rescheduled to Monday 9th June. Time and place as before.

BHCC Public Exhibition - 'A Click In Time'
at The Old Market, Hove

Stunning photographs, from the cutting edge to sublime landscapes, street and macro.

Brighton and Hove Camera club has a reputation for being one of the largest and most progressive camera clubs in the country. We are renowned for being both open and welcoming, but also for our encouragement in the development of high quality and original work, through workshops, mentoring, competitions, talks and discussion.

The photographs in this exhibition show examples of work by members at all levels - from nationally known photographers to those who have just started. Cutting edge work sits alongside the more traditional, so indeed, something for everyone.

Open now and until the end of May 2008 at
Old Market
Upper Market Street,
Hove
Main Foyer, Downstairs Hallway, Bar & Waterloo Arch
11am - 4pm Daily
Tickets: Free
theoldmarket.co.uk website

The 2008 Summer Programme

The list of events planned for over our Summer break and the organiser's contact details has now been posted on the club's forums.

n.b. You don't have to have signed up to the forums to view the information posted there.

All members may attend any event (but it may be wise to contact the organiser first if you haven't already signed-up for the event).

The detail of the Summer Programme can be found here - Link to Summer Programme
and the main forum page is here - Link to Club forums

Trevor Gellard's Famous Walk Between the Piers Event

Due to popular demand, the BHCC 2007-2008 Season has been extended for one special extra event. Trevor has agreed to lead one of his popular "Walk Between the Piers" photography events.

Meet at the West Pier on Tuesday 20th May at 19:00 and don't forget to bring your camera!

All members are welcome to come along.

You can contact Trevor by e-mail here trevor@faquesgallery.com or by phone on 07860-597801

New Competition Rules for Next Season

Here is a brief summary of the announcement made at last night’s meeting of the club by the Chairman, David Miles.

The BHCC Council has decided to drop the Intermediate Group and just have the two groups:-

• Entry Group
• Old Lags (?) Group (Group name is still to be decided – suggestions on a post card ....?)

The Projected Image competitions will stay the same as this year (4 competitions with two images allowed in each and no catch ups allowed)

Slides will no longer be permitted for entry into these competitions.

The Print Competitions will change as follows:-

There will be five competitions with no speciality subject. Two prints from each member in the new combined I and A class will be allowed per competition.

There will be two competitions where the competition will have two speciality subjects. One print will be allowed per speciality subject.

There will be a new submission process for print competitions. Members will no longer be expected to submit their prints a week in advance. Instead they will bring them along on the competition evening. However, members will be required to submit a notice of their image titles in advance via the club's website or by paper form for those without web access. Further details of the new process will be made available to club members before the start of next season.

Rules for the Entry Group Print competitons will remain the same as this season.

Club Studio Night

Thanks once again to Gerry Nevill for organising the recent studio night at the ELC. Great fun was had by all.

If anybody would like to show some of their results from the evening then please upload your pictures to the club’s website using the usual competition process. We will show the pictures to the rest of the club at the next projected image competition on April 8th.

Visit bhcc-online.org/competitions , select yourself from the dropdown list and enter your membership number. Select “Studio Night” from the Competitions drop-down list.

If there are any brand-new members who do not appear on the membership list yet, please email me your name and membership number and I will add you to the database.

John Hazard
( my email address is “john at hazzy dot net” – swap the “at” for “@” and “dot” for “.” )

Latest Club Newsletter available to read
and/or download here!

The club's latest Newsletter which is full of interesting words and pictures (for example, cleaning your sensor, a brief history of the camera club, some words from our president, and much more) is now available in .pdf format and can be viewed and downloaded by clicking here. You will need Acrobat Reader (which most computers already have) installed to read the Newsletter.

There is another link on the forum where you can view and download more newsletters. There is also the chance to discuss their content and leave comments. You can reach that link on the forum by clicking here.

3rd Projected Image Competition

The closing date for submission of images to the above competition on CD and Slide is Tuesday February 19th 2008. The competition is open to all members.

If you wish to use the new image upload facility on the club's website, you have a little longer - Sunday February 24th. The web address is bhcc-online.org/competitions and you will need your membership number to hand.

SPA Exhibition Results - 11th February 2008

We have just received the following e-mail and competition results from the SPA Exhibition Committee

Dear David,

Attached are your club’s results for the SPA Exhibition in an Excel file.

I also attach a word document from Alan Barrett, the Exhibition Chairman, which includes an explanation of the excel file along with other important information.

I add my congratulations to those who have been successful.

Best wishes Rosemary

Rosemary Wilman ARPS For SPA Exhibition Committee

You will need MS Word and MS Excel to open these files.

www.bhcc-online.org/spa/B3 Brighton and Hove CC.xls
www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Results notification.doc

If you don't have MS Word and MS Excel, here are the documents in Adobe PDF format. You will need the free Adobe PDF Reader to open these files.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THOSE ENTRIES WITH A SCORE OF 12 OR HIGHER WERE ACCEPTED

www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Results notification.pdf
www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Colour Prints.pdf
www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Monochrome Prints.pdf
www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Nature Prints.pdf
www.bhcc-online.org/spa/Open Slides.pdf

Club Competition Results - up to 15th January 2008

We know nobody is interested in the club competition results, but here they are anyway!

www.bhcc-online.org/BHCC_Print_Comp_Results_01-08.pdf

You will need Adobe PDF Reader to open the file.

BHCC Publicity CD

As Colin Miller announced at a recent club meeting, we intend to produce a BHCC publicly CD containing a collection of member’s photographs. This CD will be used for various purposes but initially it is intended to be passed to some local galleries to see if we can arrange exhibitions of our collective work.

You can upload your candidate images to the club’s website using the project image competition system at www.bhcc-online.org/competitions.

Enter Your membership number on the first page and then select “Photos for Club Publicity CD” from the drop-down list you will find on the second page.

If you intend to submit prints then these will have to be brought into the club and they will then be photographed.

The closing date is still not decided but is probably to be late January. Please speak to Colin Miller or Steve Farmer if you have any questions about the CD. Speak to John Hazard if you have any difficulty uploading your images.

Camera Club Accounts!

You may not find this the most exciting of topics but in the spirit of openness and clarity, and to show that everyone can be as involved in the Club as they wish to be, the latest club accounts can be found in Adobe Acrobat format by clicking here.

New Club Competition Rules

There are more competitions this season but each member can submit fewer entries per compeition - usually just one submission. Full details can be found on the forum by clicking here

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER, OLDER, NEWS
BHCC Public Exhibition: Underexposed
at THE GRANGE, ROTTINGDEAN

The newest members of one of the most established and recognised camera clubs in the country staged an exhibition of their work at The Grange Art Gallery, Rottingdean, between 12 and 24 July 2007.

Underexposed was a collection of over 70 images from these new members, covering a range of photographic styles from landscape and natural history to street and documentary photography. Several members have been presented with Distinctions from the Royal Photographic Society.

Although the exhibition is now CLOSED, more information about it is given here.

Club Members'Acceptances
to Major National and International Exhibitions

Six of our members have had prints accepted for this year's prestigious
London Salon of Photography 2007 Exhibition. The exhibition is now open closed but was displayed at The Camera Club, Kennington, London and Smethwick Photographic Society. To view the gallery of accepted images to the Salon and find out more about the exhibitions click here.

Two of our members have had prints accepted for the 150th International Print Exhibition which was arranged by the Royal Photographic Society. There were 2,200 entries from 33 countries and of these just 120 prints were selected. Two of these were from Trevor Gellard FRPS and one was from Tony Bowall ARPS. Congratulations to both of them. This exhibition is now closed but was on display in both London and Bath. Further details can be found on the RPS website.

A little earlier in the year five of our members had prints accepted for the Royal Photographic Society 2007 Members' Print Exhibition. You can see the pictures at the bottom of this page ordered by the member's name. Only 100 prints were accepted from the whole of the RPS so the club is very well represented!

BHCC Public Exhibition
at THE OLD MARKET, HOVE

Our Public Exhibition as part of the Brighton Festival Exhibition at the Old Market Arts Centre in hove is now CLOSED. This opened on 5th May and ran until the end of the month. This exhibition featured 22 images on the theme of CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES where children were encouraged to guess the title of the book depicted in the photo. In addition to this there were about 50 other photos from club members on display.

To read about what you missed at the last show you can still click here!

Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
Distinctions
for BHCC members

In March and April this year FOUR of our members - Tony Bowall, David Gerrard, David Leach, and Howard Shaw were awarded their Associateships of the Royal Photographic Society and ALL FOUR of the panels presented were retained by the Society for teaching purposes. Also in April SEVEN other club members were successfully awarded their Licentiateships of the society.

Way back in 2006 yet another of our members - Wayne Grundy - was awarded his Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS). His complete portfolio can be seen on this site by following the link below.

In addition to this good news nine Club members achieved their Licentiateships of the RPS on 30th March (2006). All nine can now use the letters LRPS after their names.

Nine successful Licentiateships is the largest number from a single club since the RPS was formed in 1853!.

For information about these distinctions click here. To find out more about the individual club members that have just been awarded these distinctions and to see all 15 pictures from Wayne's ARPS Panel click here!

Greek Door by Tony Bowall LRPS	Dungeness Boy by Steve Boyle ARPS
Covent Garden Pigeons by Trevor Gellard FRPS	Rain 2 by Colin Miller LRPS
Lekishon and Lea by Bob Webzell ARPS

Our new Gallery and Forum

These were launched on 1 May 2007 – download a Word file that introduces them and briefly explains how to join and use them.

Links on our home page will take you to the forum and gallery – we hope Club members enjoy using them.

If you would like to register on the Club's forums, you must quote this VIP code during your initial registration: 1066