Editor: Derek Godridge with contributions from the TEAM:
PCC News – Penryn Fair Day 24th August – Paul Cooper
The Penryn Camera Club exhibition at the Penryn Fair on Saturday was the best ever with around 300 folk coming to view. Over 250 voted for their favourite image selected from last year's competition winners and our photographers' own favourites.
The winning ticket pulled out from the raffle was for Mark Quilter’s delightful print entitled “Snowy Morning”. The print was delivered on Saturday evening to the highly delighted Margaret who was visiting from Taunton along with her daughter Gail from Penryn.
Photo Credit: DeeGee– Margaret and her daughter Gail
Our “Penryn Project” corner (not part of the above) was extremely popular. The club members have been taking pictures of things in Penryn that catch their eye. Folk lingered and chatted on our images with many favourable comments.
The club is still very proud of our Kingswood Salver success last year and we had a small corner showing the five images used and what the competition is all about.
Derek Godridge LRPS AFIAP ran his usual photo shoot of families, pets and costumes and more than 20 people bravely offered themselves up for scrutiny and everyone has had a digital copy sent to them. There was a lot of fun and much laughter from that corner!
Photo Credits: DeeGee – Shirley Richards, Allen Burton, Yvonne Warner and Karen Milan
The club wishes to wholeheartedly thank everyone who assisted in bringing our exhibition to fruition, for setting up the stands, prints, digital displays and projects. Also a big thank you to those members who invigilated throughout the day and made our visitors welcome and hungry!
Photo Credits: DeeGee – See no pasty, smell no pasty, eat my pasty!
Finally, this year PCC is supporting the Falmouth fire service, Three Peak Challenge. The club contributed £25 and club members and the public contributed another £85 bringing the days total to £110. 100% of that has been passed to the firefighters.
PCC Programme - Changes to Dates (Apologies from Karen – but it happens!)
– Please amend your programme accordingly
• September -5th - First Night back – VERY IMPORTANT- PLEASE ATTEND
o Our Treasurer Lizzie will be happy to receive your Subscription Payment.
o The previous fee is being held at £35 and payment can be made in cash or by BACS or by Card bank card payment with a small additional fee of a total £35.70.
o Introductions/ Competition Rules Amendments.
o PhotoEntryDemonstration
• Thursday 12th September – VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE ATTEND
o PhotoEntryDemonstration/MountingDemonstration
• Thursday 26th September- Bring best 3 -Scavenger Hunt
o Images on a memory stick please
o John Yarrow will show you the Summer Photo Entry Images.
• Thursday 3rd October - Alan Coxo Digital Slide Show Presentation
• Thursday 5th December
o Interclub Competition with Truro CC at PCC
• Thursday 13th February
o Barry and Angela Thompson’s Presentation
• Thursday 6th March
o Interclub Competition with St. IVES at PCC
The Penryn Project
We hope you enjoyed looking at the 15 mounted prints which were shown at Fair Day and for your information it is a continuous project which has been so successful we plan to expand shortly. So, we encourage you to keep taking those special photos and keep sending them to Paul for uploading. Watch this space ;-)
Penryn Camera Club Summertime Series Competition – John Yarrow
Hi, the final competition of the Summertime Series, 'Forms in Nature' closes at midnight on
Saturday 31st August.
35 Penryn Camera Club members are registered with PhotoEntry but, over the Summertime
Series so far, only 22 members have submitted an image. If you haven't already done so
then please enter an image this week. The whole purpose of the Summertime Series is to
get as many members as possible comfortable with using the new system.
I am available to help anyone finding it difficult - email, text, phone or even a home visit -
whatever is best for you. Let's all be PhotoEntry savvy before we meet in September.
Kind regardsJohn @ john.yarrow032@btinternet.com or T: 01872 521182 or M: 07832 485717
PCC Social News – Karen Burton – T: 07724 344420
Wednesday 3rd September - Bonython Visit
-Meet in car park 10.45. Tour starts at 11.00am! Pay on Entry.
Any problems please call Derek on 07788590131 as I am unable to go now
sadly. Derek also has two seats free if anyone needs a lift !
Royal British Legion-Penryn
We have been asked by the local RBL if any of our members would be willing to help out with selling Poppies this year at Asda. It usually is a 2 hour slot and you are able to sit down by the door at Asda. It can be a bit chilly so you might want to wrap up.
You do not need to “sell” poppies, as it is not allowed to rattle the bucket, like the old days! People just come to the table and make their purchase with cash or there is a card reader which is easy to use. It is fantastic how generous people are.
Please let me know if you think you may be able to help RBL out this year. Kburton281@googlemail.com
Summer Outings – Only a couple left!
• Wednesday September 4th at 11am – Trip to Bonython Helston TR12 7BA
o (On road to the Lizard)
o Garden tour and tea etc £16
o Ring Karen To Book
• Sunday September 15th - Sunday Roast @ 12.30 prompt
o Trelowarren Arms, Budock Water
o £16+
o Places Limited - Ring Karen To Book
PCC Diary Dates
• Thursday September -5th - First Night back – VERY IMPORTANT- PLEASE ATTEND
o Our Treasurer Lizzie will be happy to receive your Subscription Payment.
o The previous fee is being held at £35 and payment can be made in cash or by BACS or by Card bank card payment with a small additional fee total £35.70.
o Introductions/ Competition Rules Amendments.o PhotoEntryDemonstration
• Thursday 12th September – VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE ATTEND
o PhotoEntryDemonstration/MountingDemonstration
• Thursday 19th September- PhotoEntry Hand-In for President’s Award
o Reminder - ONLY PAID UP MEMBERS CAN ENTER
o Kingswood Salver – Paul Cooper
o VeniceTalk–The3!
• Thursday 26th September- Bring best 3 -Scavenger Hunt.
o Images on a memory stick please.
o John Yarrow to show you the Summer Photo Entry Images.
Cornwall Photographic Alliance (CPA)
Saturday 9th November 2024 - Nature and Wildlife Competition
o Burrell Theatre, Trennick Lane, Truro TR1 1TH
o Hand-In closing date 21st September
Saturday 15th February 2025 - Charles Hosken Competition
o Burrell Theatre, Trennick Lane, Truro TR1 1TH
o Hand-In closing date 14th December
Saturday 17th March 2025 CPA Inter-Club Annual Competition
o Burrell Theatre, Trennick Lane, Truro TR1 1TH
o Hand-In closing date TBA
Western Counties Photographic Federation (WCPF)
Saturday 5th October 2024 10.30am - WCPF Annual General Meeting
o Afternoon Talk by Paul Mitchell on the 6th PAGB Master of Print Exhibition
o Clyst St Mary Village Hall, Exeter EX5 1AAo AGM Reports and Details here https://www.thewcpf.com/wcpf-agm
o Two club delegates are invited but all are welcome
Items For Sale
This fairly new section is for any member wishing to sell surplus Camera equipment.
Please Note - The club cannot be held responsible for the condition of any item offered so please ensure you give a full description and allow the potential buyer the opportunity to fully inspect the goods for sale.
From Barry Thompson
Item 1 £10 Four Pix Pro lighting grids. Each with a different grid spacing, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 6x6. Grids can be used to create a spotlight effect. They are often used for a hair light or a backlight when you don't want your light to spill into the frame of the camera and you just want to create a narrow beam of light to highlight a certain area.
Item 2 £15 A pair of König (KN-LS10) 2 Metre Professional Black 3-Leg Light Stand for photo lamps or speed lights (electronic flash) with carrying bag, boxed.
Item 3 £10 One Lastolite umbrella, 80cm when open. Black, silver and white. The black/silver is removable to create a white shoot through, as new with carrying case.
Item 4 £10 One Bowens umbrella, 90cm when open. Black, silver and white. The black/silver is removable to create a white shoot through, as new with carrying case.
Item 5 £10 One Bowens umbrella, 90cm when open. Black, silver and white. The black/silver is removable to create a white shoot through, as new with carrying case.
Item 6 £5 One white shoot through umbrella ,100cm when open.
Item 7 £5 One white shoot through umbrella, 80cm when open.
Item 8 £5 One silver umbrella 80cm when open.
Item 9 £15 Three Elinchrom reflectors, two 20cm in diameter and one 15.5 cm diameter. The reflectors can be fitted with a wide range of accessories such as honeycomb grids, barn- doors, diffusers, etc.
Item 10 £20 One Elinchrom Triflector, three part photographic reflector with stand. Triflector frame and reflector panels all collapse into a single portable bag. Ideal for portraiture.
Item 11 £15 A pair of Elinchrom snoots a traditional accessory for producing a small, tight (15°) spot of light with a hard-edged shadow. Exit diameter 8cm. Gallery location: https://tinyurl.com/25d4z44k
Additionally; Apple MacBook Air, colour Rose Gold and is in pristine condition, it has been encased in a protective sleeve since day one. It has not been used on a daily basis, only used whilst away on holiday to backup photographic images, hence the battery charge count is only 84, this means it has been charged only that number of times since purchase.
£280 - Full details and pictures can be seen here: https://tinyurl.com/2bkczeru
From Wendy Bate - Now surplus to requirements, before advertising, giving Members a chance first.
Panasonic Lumix. FZ 1000 Bridge Camera. ( Boxed).
25-400 zoom 16x Optical Zoom. 20’1, megapixels. Electronic View Finder. 3-inch Articulated LCD. Battery charger and leads. 2 Lumix Batteries. Camera strap.( unused). Remote Control, unused and Boxed. UV Filter. In original case. Large Panasonic FZ1000 manual.
New average price £700 - Accept £475 for the lot.
All in good condition and carefully looked after.
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Also selling,
Canon EOS 5D manual.
Duracell Camera battery, (Canon NB-10L boxed).
Small Table Top Tripod. ( unused).
Lens soft pouches x 2.
Jessops Ball and Socket Head. New ( unused) in original case.
Open to offers for these items.
Contact, Barry Thompson, Wendy Bate or the Editor for contact details.
Newsletter contributions and improvement suggestions are always welcome.
Note: There is no such thing as a stupid question !
But there is such a thing as a stupid answer!!
E.g. “I told you that last year?”
All the best from Derek and the Team!
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