Bolsover Camera Club
www.bolsovercameraclub.org.uk
History
Bolsover Camera Club was established in 1951 and endeavours to promote and provide support for Photography in and around the area. We recently celebrated our 50th anniversary and with a grant from the lottery funded.
The new equipment, which was used in a Millennium project –
‘A Thousand Years of Historic Bolsover’.
A small group of keen photographers, we meet every Friday - September until late May. Our evenings embrace competitions, workshops, studio evenings and internal lectures. Guest speakers talk about their photographic techniques & experiences, and members receive constructive criticism of their own work.
Bolsover Camera Club members range from very experienced workers in colour and black and white conventional photography, to enthusiastic beginners and we currently have around 35 members. In keeping with other clubs, some members exhibit traditional darkroom images, whilst other members have changed to computer enhanced digital methods. Digital workers are well represented within the group.
The club participates in photographic competitions, and exhibitions both locally and nationally. We are very active in knock out competitions and participate in the annual NEMPF club slide championship. We have had several winers in these competitions and have represented the Federation twice in the last four years at National level
Why not call in at one of our meetings, you will find the group friendly and helpful with advice on all aspects of photography.
Bolsover Camera Club Competition rules 2011-2012
General
Members are expected to observe the spirit of the rules and the competitions.
The interpretation of the rules shall be the responsibility of the competition secretary whose decision shall be final.
Members must be fully paid up in order to enter any competition.
An image may be entered only once into the current seasons competitions in any form. It is acceptable to enter the same image in other forms in successive years.
A winning image may not be used again in the same form in successive years, however an image that has not won competitions may be used within reason in successive years.
Winning images are of course eligible for POY competitions.
A panel entry consists of 3 images in print or projected media but not mixed. Prints to be card mounted but open to creative presentation within a club context. Panels for outside competition / exhibition will be governed by the rules of that competition.
Closing dates for competitions are advised in the programme and are announced. The club would appreciate cooperation in ensuring that entries are available for logging in advance of the competition night and every effort be given to making them available one week in advance. This is particularly important with projected images and these will not be accepted on the night.
Prints may be brought on the night providing titles have been provided in advance.
Digital entries and entry forms for all categories may be provided to either Phil or Dave by email (see programme) or 1 week in advance on memory stick or disc.
The comp sec has the right to remove entries on a fair basis from the bottom of the entry form in the event of an unmanageable quantity being received. In this connection its important your choices are listed in order of preference.
If a competition attracts only one entry, there will be no award made but the entry may be carried forward to the next round or receive comment only.
Prints must be card mounted on a board no larger than 500 x 400 mm.
Digital images must be resized to 1024 x 768 pixels and verticals must not exceed 768 pixels high. Fill the remaining area with black to assist presentation. They should be high quality j pegs in SRGB colour space at 72dpi. If you are unclear on how to resize, ask for an explanation sheet on how to do this in photoshop software or elements.
Section a and b applied to the bi monthly competitons.
There will be a section A and a section B for new members or less experienced photographers. A new member may choose either section but may not reverse the decision.
Entries for each round will be marked from 20 and any member winning 2 rounds in the year will be promoted to section A. for 2011-2012 there will be an amnesty for newer members to choose section B.
Bi monthly competitions.
Competitions to be held in the following classes.
- Colour prints and panels.
- Mono prints and panels.
- Projected images and panels.
- ALL ARE OPEN SUBJECT
Members may submit up to 6 entries in each class of which 1 may be a panel.
There will be 2 prints competitions and 2 projected image competitions in the season.
A section B will be available for new members or less experienced workers.
John mountain competition (open subject) digital projected.
Members may submit 3 entries and the entrant with the highest aggregate score will be the winner.
All images marked out of 20. In a tie, the judge will select the winning entry.
John Culpin natural history competition.
The competition will be for projected images in even numbered years and prints in odd numbered years.
A maximum of 6 entries will be accepted and a single image will be chosen as a winner.
Brian Fawcett landscape competition (digital projected)
All entries must be completely new work and three images may be entered. A single winning image will be selected.
This competition may be judged remote from the club at the time of the POY competitions. If you wish to use an entry from this competition in the POY this should be clearly indicated on the entry form.
Images of the year and photographer of the year competitions.
Awards will be made as follows.
Print of the year
Projected image of the year
Photographer of the year.
All of the above awards will be made from a single competition entry and will be judged away from the club and results announced on presentation evening.
The entry will comprise of 4 pieces of work of your choice from any of the current years competitions. From these entries the judge will select a best Print and best Projected image for the awards.
All entries will be marked from 20 and the photographer with the best aggregate score will be awarded the photographer of the year.
The judge will have the right to choose in the event of a tie or choose to have more than one winner.
To enter you must be fully paid up with subscriptions, and have entered a minimum of 2 of the years competitions (any competition). The entries must be from the current years competitions.
Bolsover Camera Club Constitution
(Revised June 2005)
1) Name and Aims
The club shall be called Bolsover Camera Club and membership shall be open to all, irrespective of age, gender, race, physical ability, religious or sexual persuasion.
The purpose of the club is to provide a forum in which any person with an interest in the art and practice of photography may meet in a sociable and friendly atmosphere to exchange views and opinions and talk with like minded people about their interest. It is hoped that members may thus find encouragement, inspiration, advice and fellowship through participation in the club's activities and so enhance their skills in, understanding of and enjoyment of photography.
2) Membership
Membership of the club implies an undertaking to comply with and to
abide by the rules contained in this constitution.
There shall be four categories of membership.
Ordinary Membership: of the Club shall be determined by payment of
the due subscription.
Family Membership: Payment by over 18s, pensioners and
unemployed of the appropriate subscription allows for one family
member. A family member may attend all of the normal meetings and
take part in the activities of the club but is not entitled to vote at the
annual or extraordinary general meetings.
Life Membership: Conferred on existing members in recognition of
special services to the Club.
Honorary Membership: Conferred on non-members in recognition of
special services to the Club. Honorary Membership may be
withdrawn at the Annual General Meeting if agreed by members.
Honorary Life Vice Presidency: Conferred on existing or past
members in recognition of outstanding services to the club.
Nominations for Life Membership and for honorary posts must be
submitted to the committee and elections made at the Annual General
Meeting.
All members except Honorary Members shall be eligible to vote at the AGM and any specially convened meeting in accordance with Clause 7 of this constitution. See also clause 12
3) Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting shall be at the end of the season each year and 21 days notice shall be given by the Honorary Secretary to all members.
Motions to be discussed at the AGM must be pre-notified in writing to the secretary with the appropriate notice to be determined by the secretary.
4) Officers
The officers to be elected at the Annual General Meeting are:-
Vice President
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
Programme Secretary
Competition Secretary
External Competition Secretary
Publicity Officer
h) Equipment Officer
i) Two NEMPF delegates
j) Projectionist
k) Auditor
1) Two Trustees
5 Executive Committee
The affairs of the club shall be managed by a committee consisting of:-
The President who shall take the chair
The officers of the club as set out in clause 4a) to 4i) of this
constitution and
Up to four members who shall be elected at the Annual General
Meeting
The Honorary Life Vice Presidents
The immediate Past President together with
f) Any other member who the Committee consider has an expertise which will help it in its deliberations provided that the number of persons co-opted shall not exceed one third of the Committee itself.
6) Eligibility
With the exception of the Vice President, all officers and committee members are eligible for re-election each year
The Vice President shall take over the duties of the President if the President is prevented from carrying out his/her duties and shall become the President in the year following his/her election.
7)Special Meetings
Special meetings may be convened by the President or on requisition signed by at least one quarter of the members stating the object and sent to the Secretary at least fourteen days before the date proposed.
8) Quorum
At Committee Meetings, four shall form a quorum and at General Meetings, 30% of the membership.
9) Secretary's duties
The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all Annual, Extraordinary General and Committee Meetings and conduct the correspondence of the Club.
10) Treasurer's duties
The Treasurer shall collect all subscriptions and all monies due to the Club after the authorisation by the Committee. He shall, at the close of each Club year prepare an income and expenditure account and balance sheet for that year. The accounts so prepared shall be audited by the Auditor appointed by the Annual General Meeting.
11) Subscriptions
The Annual General Meeting shall fix the subscription for the ensuing year. Subscriptions become due at the first meeting of the season.
12) Subscription default
With the exception of Life Members and Honorary Life Vice Presidents, no member may vote at any meeting nor enter any club competition until their subscription for that year has been paid. The name of any member whose subscription is more than one year in arrears may be removed from the membership list by order of the Committee.
13 Voting Rights
At the Annual General Meeting and any Extraordinary General Meeting. The President may not vote except to exercise a casting vote if necessary. Honorary Members may not vote. All other members have full voting rights (except as in (12) above)
In Committee the President has the casting vote when necessary and Honorary Life Vice Presidents do not vote. Other elected members have full voting rights.
14) Selection Panels
The Annual General Meeting or any Special Meeting may appoint members to serve in panels to select entries for competitions and exhibitions. The panels so appointed may invite other members from time to time to assist in the selection of entries.
15) Competition Rules
Competition rules shall be fixed each year at the Annual General Meeting.
16) Equipment Officer
The Equipment Officer shall be responsible for all the equipment owned by the Club and use of it by members. He shall be responsible to the trustee for an inventory of the equipment and shall present such an inventory to the Annual General Meeting.
17) Trustees
The Trustees shall have all the Club's assets vested in them. The position of Trustee shall be a lifetime appointment except where a Trustee wishes to relinquish the position.
18) Alterations to the Constitution
No alteration to the rules in this constitution shall be made except at the Annual General Meeting or at an Extraordinary General Meeting.
19) Termination
In the event of the Club ceasing to exist, its assets shall be realised and the monies paid to a charity agreed by the remaining members at the time the Club ceased its activities.
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