Pieve di Teco (Italy)

For further information on the proposed centre for photography in Pieve di Teco (Italy) please follow the link below:

www.arcitalia.com/pcp/pcp.htm

Below is a link to my photographs, some of which may offer further insights into our area.

www.arcitalia.com/fotoarc/fotoarc.htm

patrick malone

arcitalia.com

Image Editing Tutorial - Focal Plane Effects

Image Editing Tutorial - Focal Plane Effects Make everyday scenes look like tiny intricate models with this fun Photoshop technique Click here to see the full tutorial

1st December Meeting, PAGB Review

1st December Meeting

Come along to see the PAGB - Review of last year's entry and discuss the club strategy for the Sharow Competition.

Meeting Monday 1st December at 7:30pm at the HUGH RIPLEY HALL RIPON (Upstairs)

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Ripon Photographer's Award

David Morland , a member of the Ripon Photographic Society was this week made a Licentiaship of the Royal Photographic Society in Audio/Visual display. This is great honour and privilege for David as he had to take the appropriate examination in Audio visual by presenting a 10 minute display of his work before a panel of 6 highly critical judges who assessed every detail.
It has taken David two years to prepare his display to reach the high standard necessary to pass the examination. Now he can proudly use the letters LRPS after his name.

Jim Griffin

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24th November Meeting, The Animals of the Masai Mara by Andrew Linscott

24th November Meeting

Come along to see Andrew Linscott's lecture on "The Animals of the
Masai Mara"

Also don't forget to bring along your entries for Transport & Travel comp.

Meeting Monday 24th November at 7:30pm at the HUGH RIPLEY HALL RIPON (Upstairs)

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You are only as good as your last Backup

Its good to backup

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Digital Photography School Digital Photography Tips for You

You're only as good as your last Backup - Backup Tips and the Chance to Win a Hard Drive By gtvone on From the Forums Want to win a Hard Drive for Backing Up your Images? Read on to find out How. Ever lost something that you loved? I have, I lost a necklace that my very first girlfriend gave me - I was fourteen at the time I think, All I remember is that she used to cry during "Listen to your heart by Roxette" I know, that's touching… Anyway, I lost the necklace that she'd given me for my birthday. I realize that I couldn't "Back that up" but I still remember how it made me feel… Things that you can backup include your digital photos and the rest of the contents of your computer… These days drive space is cheap and easy to set up, but unless you follow some golden rules there is almost no point. Erin from Fabrik dropped me an email with her ten points to a good backup for you all to try, I'll post them below. Win a G-Drive Q 1TB That isn't the only thing that Erin came up with, Oh No!..G-Technology have kindly donated one of their G-Drive Q 1TB external drives to us as a prize for this weeks DPS ASSIGNMENT. The topic for this week is going to be "Drive" You can translate that any way you would like, but to catch my eye you're going to need to be creative and trying your very hardest! Here are Erin's ten tips to a decent backup… 1. Reliability - Select a storage solution that has a good reputation, and is built to last. For example, to ensure reliability, all G-Tech drives come in an all-aluminum enclosure (no plastic), which acts as a heat sink, keeping the drive cool. Heat kills drives. 2. Capacity – Select a drive with enough capacity so you have room to grow. Rule of thumb is to by 2x to 3x the amount of space you'll need. 3. Connectivity – Future proof your investment. There are many solutions on the market, such as the G-Drive Q 1TB that come with USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA interfaces so you can be sure to connect with any system today, as well as in the future. 4. Local Backup Software – Mac users prefer to use Time Machine (it's a beautiful app and is very simple). There is a plethora of PC backup software tools available – Arcsoft, EMC Retrospect and more. Any of them will do fine. The important thing is to just do it. 5. Online Backup – For added protection, in case of fire, theft, or other natural disaster, it's wise to keep a separate copy of your most important stuff offsite, and available online. Solutions such as Fabrik Ultimate Backup offer 2GB for free of online backup space. If you want to upgrade, it's only $4.95 per month for unlimited capacity. 6. Develop a Backup Schedule - Good backup software will require you to set an automatic backup schedule once – on a day or time that's convenient for you; daily, weekly or monthly. You just simply set it and forget it. Rule of thumb, backup weekly at a minimum, or as often as you save/store important work or irreplaceable files to your hard drive. 7. Back up Everything - Today you can easily back up all of your hard drive data. No need to spend time sorting through every file or folder. Again, invest in a storage solution that's twice the size of your internal hard drive, to give your system room to grow. 8. Rotate Backups – Even though they're secure, some people are not comfortable using an online backup service. If this is the case, give yourself added protection. Use two drives and rotate one offsite. You should always, always, always have two copies of your most important stuff…did I say "always"? 9. RAID it – Solutions like the G-Raid Mini (it will ship w/RAID 1 later this quarter) or G-Safe solution provide RAID 1, mirroring. Whatever gets written to the first drive is automatically copied, or "mirrored," to the second, so if anything should happen to either disk, your data is still there. 10. Don't procrastinate – Unfortunately, the need to back up data is often a lesson learned from a bitter experience. Don't let it happen to you. Thanks Erin! I work in IT and (All jokes about a missing necklace and a bad eighties pop song aside) have seen "Disaster" happen, The company I work for, due to documented budget cuts wouldn't replace a piece of hardware, and as a result we had a massive failure of one of our nine tb disk arrays and lost just over a million documents, now, you may only lose a couple of hundred photos, but if you'd had that backup in place you would have lost nothing and you wouldn't have that sad face on! Join us in the DPS FORUMS this week for the assignment and win yourself a fantastic, award winning G-Drive Q 1TB Sime Comments

Digital Photography Tutorial - Image Compression

Digital Photography Tutorial - Image Compression Find out why your camera has different quality settings, and how they affect your pictures

Click Here to read the tutorial

Pictorial 2008 Digital Entries

Here are the digital entries which came top in the 2008/9 season Pictural Competition.

1st 03 Easter Day Ian Whittaker (Best Overall)

2nd 25 Straw Hat Kathryn Carter

3rd 19 Newby Hall Diane Bowes

HC 23 St Mary's Frosty Morning Ian Whittaker

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Proposed photography school in italy

How about this for an adventure, go for it lads and lasses.

Jim

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From: patrick malone <patrickmalone@virgilio.it>
To: jimandbetty4@btinternet.com
Sent: Thursday, 13 November, 2008 4:51:05 PM
Subject: Fw: proposed photography school in italy

We are hoping to draw enquiries from anyone who might be interested in initiating and running a proposed photography centre in Liguria, Italy (Pieve di Teco). Outline details are attached. If you wish to know more about us please go to www.arcitalia.com.

Patrick Malone

17th November Meeting, Natural History Competition

17th November Meeting

Come along to see the results of the Natural history competition.

The competition is kindly being judged by Paul Miguel, you should have a look at his website at http://www.paulmiguel.com

Meeting Monday 17th November at 7:30pm at the HUGH RIPLEY HALL RIPON (Upstairs)

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Annual Exhibition 2008

Our Annual exhibition was held at the Allhallowgate Methodist Church in their new hall, a great place.. An early start by volunteer members ensured that over 100 visitors enjoyed a superb display of 94 of the members prints. The Visitor Vote for best print was won by none other than Dorothy Morland, well done that gal. Bill Forster was the lucky visitor to win the print. Photo shows President Sarah Harrison holding the print, supported by some members.

Your new weekly online photo competition

Dear Ripon City Photographic Society,

We'd like to introduce you to photoenter.com. Our newly launched weekly online photo competitions are fresh and unique.

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If you have enjoyed your photoenter experience and the above sounds appealing, we would appreciate it if you'd forward this email to your club members.

As an introductory offer, the first 200 emails that we receive at invites@photoenter.com with the word "free" in the subject line will receive a free competition entry voucher.

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10th November Meeting, AV Review

10th November Meeting

Come along to see and review all your AV work.

Meeting Monday 10th November at 7:30pm at the HUGH RIPLEY HALL RIPON (Upstairs)

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Annual exhibition is on Saturday, November 1st at the Allhallowgate Methodist Church.

Hello to all members, signed up, possibles and lapsed.
My name is Jim..the photo society sectretary.

To remind all that our annual exhibition is on Saturday, November 1st at the Allhallowgate Methodist Church.

We would appreciate as many prints from each of you as you can carry, bring to next Mondays meeting (27/10/08) Any subject accepted. At the meeting there will be a tutorial and practical session on how to mount and present prints, not only for competitions but so you can display at home.Just bring prints the card will be provided.
Any person who can't attend either send prints with a friend or drop them off with me

If anyone can help on the day we will be setting up from 8am
Jim