Stratford Photo Group

FIAP Gold Medal awarded to Doug Watson

October 08, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Stratford Photo Group member Doug Watson has just been awarded the FIAP Gold Medal and Presidents Plaque in the 58th. Dum Dum Salon 2015 in Kolkata, India, for his image Happy Memories. Doug was also awarded "Best Entrant of the Salon" with a total of five images accepted. Congratulations to Doug for this excellent achievement.

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SPG Critique and SPG Mono Group Web Forums launched

October 05, 2015 • Leave a Comment

The club now has two new facilities, free to use by club members. Two web forums have been developed, one for general use and one specifically for the use of the Mono Group. A presentation was given at the clubhouse on Tuesday 29th. September by David P Howard, Webmaster, and it is reproduced here as a pdf. The forums are for: Posting images an...

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New Mono Interest Group to launch on 6th. October 2015

October 02, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Stratford Photo Group launches its Mono Interest Group at 19.45 on Tuesday 6th. October at the Clubhouse. The session will include presentations on: What makes a good mono image? A brief introduction to treating a mono image Print versus DPI for mono images Examples of mono images The way forward for the Mono Interest Group For further detai...

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The new 2015/16 season starts Tuesday 8th. September 2015

September 07, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Autumn is nearly upon us and the new club photographic season is about to commence. An exciting programme has been put together for your entertainment and elucidation. This starts on Tuesday 8th. September at 7.30pm at the Clubhouse with a "Show and Tell" evening, or "What I got up to in the holidays". Bring a few images on a memory stick and sha...

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FIAP Distinctions Awarded

June 09, 2015

FIAP Distinctions awarded - report by Dick Prior Last week I received 2 envelopes in the post from FIAP. One of them had a hand written label addressed to me containing John Harding’s EFIAP/b certificate sent to me to deliver personally to his widow Trish and the other was my EFIAP certificate. Stewart and I visited her on Wednesday (3 June) to...

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Outstanding Photofolio 2015 Successes

May 12, 2015 • Leave a Comment

SPG Successes in Photofolio 2015 by Dick Prior We entered 15 PDIs and had 5 accepted (33%). We entered 15 Colour prints and had 9 accepted (60%). We entered 15 Mono prints and had 4 accepted (27%). This was overall a 40% acceptance rate, which was an outstanding result against a probable average in the region of 25-30%. This shows that the resu...

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