The winners of the SaDPS annual exhibition competition have been announced. Unfortunately due to the ongoing restrictions brought about by the SARS-CoV-2 virus it has not been possible to display all prints at Eccles Community Art Gallery as normal.
Many thanks to our judge this year, John Riley.
Pictorial/Creative winner was "Athlete" by Ann Nissen
Natural History winner was "Robin Song" by Tom Gandy
Human Life winner was "Swinging" by Bob Stokoe
Portraits winner was "Queen Bess Contemplating" by Ann Nissen
Record winner was "Altar, Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral, Como" by Keith Barber
Open Monochrome winner was "Lily Marion" by Keith Barber
Scapes winner and Best in Exhibition was "Grand Canal, Venice" by Tony Cowcill
During these difficult times SaDPS has been trying out Zoom to carry out behind the scenes operations, for example a committee meeting held on Monday evening.
It trials prove successful the use may be expanded.
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I hope our members are staying safe and finding creative ways to keep themselves occupied during the current pandemic. I further hope that some of you are finding ways to keep your photography going whilst stuck at home. If so please feel free to share. You can do this by uploading via the members section.
Over the next couple of weeks you may begin to see some changes to the site.
On December 16th members of the club met up for our annual Christmas Meal & Social. It was great to see many of those members who joined through this year in attendance. A big thanks you to all those who came along to make the night successful once again.
Our annual exhibition for 2019 in now closed. Thank you to all those who took the time to visit. We do hope you enjoyed what you saw. If you have been inspired by it please think about coming along to one of our weekly meetings. Details can be found in the syllabus.
A number of our members have taken the opportunity of the website refresh to update the images in their galleries. These can be viewed via the Gallery page linked in the menu.
Eccles Festival took place on Saturday and our exhibition was visited by members of Salford Radio who carried out an interview with our club president, Keith Barber CPAGD, FIScT, LRPS.
The committee has approved the proposed changes to rules and how points are gained in all internal club competitions. This includes new bonuses for entering all competitions and scoring of points down to 10th place. Full details of these changes can be found in the revised club rules.
This website has now moved to the more secure https format and has undergone testing to try and ensure there are no glitches. Should you experience any problems please contact the web administrator.
Some time ago SaDPS retired it's forum due to low activity levels set against high maintenance coststo keep it going. Following testing on another site using the Simple Machines Forum engine it is now back. The SMF format entails much much less work to keep going so post away.
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