BORDERS DIGITAL CHALLENGE 2012
The Club is going to need 12 great photos for this competition. I am sure they already exist in your files so please sort some out and get them to me by 17th February so Pete and I can make a final selection. Remember it's digital files that are required (JPGs) not prints.

NEXT MEETING 7th March - "MOREBATTLE"
The next challenge is to represent some aspect of the village. We are hoping many of these will go straight into the Morebattle Archive together with any other images that you may have 'acquired'. We should by then have a digital photo frame that will display in the village shop.

THIRD COMPETITION
Eleven members entered images in this competition, "Winter Landscape" and "Transport"
Norman Dodds of Kelso Camera Club and 'Fotoscape' was the judge. Results below.

BORDERS EXHIBITION 2012 - 29 February 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! The next major competition is the Borders Exhibition, hosted by Selkirk Camera Club. Here is an outline of the rules.
The full rules and entry form can be dowloaded from the Selkirk CC website (click here).

Images for Projection. Categories: Landscape, Flora and Fauna, General. General must contain only images that do not classify into the other two categories.
Exhibitors can have a maximum of two images per category.
The CD supplied by contributing clubs should have three folders, one for each category, containing the relevant images, which will be projected as submitted.
All images to be sized @ 1024 by 768 pixels (screen size) and a resolution of 72 dpi.

Images should have the authors name, title and club name attached, these will be read out during the judging at the Exhibition.
Images can be in colour or monochrome.

Print Categories. Maximum mount size, 16 by 12 inches.
Colour: Maximum of two prints per category.
A1 Landscape, A2 People, A3 Flora & Fauna, A4 General.
Monochrome: A maximum of two prints per category.
Two categories: Landscape or General.

.Images and prints are to be lodged with Selkirk CC or posted direct to Chris Morrison.
10 Muirhouselaw Cottages, NR Maxton, Melrose. TD6 0RH. To arrive no later than fourteen days before the Exhibition date.
Projected images cannot also be exhibited as prints or visa versa.

The main item on the agenda of the December meeting was the results of the first CLUB COMPETITION of the 2011-12 season.
The subjects were 'Animal Portrait' and 'Stripes'. The competition was well supported with entries from 12 members. Results below.

After the display of the competition entries Pete gave a brief tutorial on the subject of successful cropping.

LIDL - Why not have a go at creating your own photobook using Lidl software. There is a Christmas offer on at present which means that you can get a 26 page, 8"x 8" booklet for £4.32 (incl. p&p). I've made one and the quality is pretty good considering. If you want to see it give me a call. - (offer lasts until the end of the year) - Dick

EXHIBITION and PRINT COMPETITION
Well done everyone! A great exhibition - probably the best yet. The Print Competition was judged by Bill Hume of Kelso Camera Club, the results were as follows:

LANDSCAPE - 1st Helen Cessford 'Open-air Opera' - 2nd Dick Warren 'Little Langdale' - 3rd Dot Halliday 'Roughting Linn' - 4th Paul Syme 'Cessford Castle'

FLORA & FAUNA - 1st Sarah Little 'Chaffinch' - 2nd Dick Warren 'Young robin' - 3rd Loraine Murray 'Wild Rose' - 4th Moira Wight 'So I hear better with four ears!'

GENERAL - 1st Dick Warren 'Bowmont Forest' - 2nd Moira Wight 'Distant Drums' - 3rd Ann Syme 'Wedding kiss' - 4th Sarah Little 'Ewe with lambs'

Open-air opera - Helen Cessford

Our third Club competition was judged by Christine and Gordon Swalwell of Galashiels Camera Club. Gordon kindly attended our May meeting to explain his decisions. The membership present found his comments both revealing and welcome. Winners are shown below.

It was agreed that our July meeting will be devoted to the printing and mounting of prints for the Festival Exhibition, and the OCTOBER meeting will be when we view all the 'REDUCTIONS' entries. (please note that 'REDUCTIONS' will now be in October, not September as previously stated.)

The Borders Photographic Exhibition is a Border-wide competition organised by Selkirk Camera Club. It was originally organised by the first Kelso Camera Club before that club folded about 13 years ago. (There's a new one now!)

This year four of our members submitted entries for 'projected images', John, Archer, Pete and Dick. Only Dick entered 'prints'. Dick was awarded 3th place in the general category with 'Trapped Leaf and also received a 'highly commended' for the landscape 'Cessford Swell'.

Trapped Leaf

Cessford Swell

MOTION
1st. Dot Halliday
2nd. Frances Common
3rd Pete Jameson
4th. Sarah Little

WINTER SHADOWS
1st. Pete Jameson
2nd. Dick Warren
3rd. John Common
4th. John Anderson

After The cancellation of the December meeting we managed to get together for the January meeting. This was chaired by John Common in the absence of Pete J. The challenge was 'Fleeting Moments' . Questionaires were handed to members.

BLACK
1st. Pete Jameson
2nd. Jo Brandreth
3rd,. Dick Warren
4th. Sandra Redhead

'Bad Hair Day' - Pete Jameson

'Bearing up!' - Dick Warren

December meeting has had to be postponed. The floor in one of the rooms in the Institute is being relaid - and the other room is needed for storage of materials. (It was hoped to use the Village Hall as a backup - but there's a problem there too!)

A new date will be organised as soon as possible.