Newsletter – Week 2

Published on January 18, 2011 in Bulletins by Shiraz Ziya. 0 Comments

PhotoSoc* Elections and AGM

We’re holding our elections this Friday (the 21st) at 6pm in L/037. All committee positions are available: chair, secretary, treasurer, equipment secretary, darkroom secretary, social sec, webmaster, press and publicity officer and ordinary members.  PhotoSoc is a really exciting society and there is a wide range of opportunities to get involved – whatever you want to do! If you’d like to run but can’t make it to the AGM, email your name, the position you’d like and a few lines about yourself to photosoc@yusu.org and we’ll read it out.

PHOTOGRAPHERS REQUESTS

Taming the Savage

We’re a York Uni band and we’re looking for someone to take pictures of our gigs. Entry fee will be paid for you + a friend. We’re regularly playing gigs on campus and around York including Big Bang in freshers week with Marina & The Diamonds and we’ve been played several times on BBC Introducing. Please contact us by emailing tamingthesavage@gmail.com if you’re interested.

COMPETITIONS

James and PhotoSoc* Competition

This term is annual James College and PhotoSoc* Photography Competition!  This is the biggest university photography event of the year, where photographers with any amount of experience can enter. The categories are:

  • Taste
  • My life in York
  • Portraits
  • Phone pictures, to be judged by the public on the night!

There are cash prizes, and there’ll be a prize-giving drinks reception where your work will be displayed.

You can find more details and past winners at http://www.york.ac.uk/colleges/james/news-and-events/photography-rules/

The deadline is Monday Week 4.  It’s open to all current University of York students, so get taking photos!

- PhotoSoc x

Merry Christmas!

Published on December 25, 2010 in Bulletins by Shiraz Ziya. 0 Comments

Hope everyone’s having a great holiday!

There are two important things coming up, the James photo competition (get snapping!) and elections for a new committee.

Big Photography Competition

Next term is the annual James College and PhotoSoc Photography Competition!  This is the biggest university photography event of the year, where photographers with any amount of experience can enter.  The categories are:

Taste
My life in York
Portraits
Phone pictures, to be judged by the public on the night!

There are some great prizes, and there’ll be a prize-giving drinks reception where your work will be displayed. You can find more details and past winners at http://www.york.ac.uk/colleges/james/news-and-events/photography-rules/
It’s open to all current University of York students, so enter!

Elections

We’ll be having our elections combined with the AGM next term!  There are plenty of positions open:

Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

Press and Publicity

Equipment officer

Darkroom officer

Webmaster

Ordinary members

So, come along and get involved.  Details of the date and room to follow.

Merry Christmas, and see you in the New Year.

- PhotoSoc x

Disposable Camera Winners!

Published on November 30, 2010 in Competitions by Shiraz Ziya. 0 Comments

Congratulations to Rënitrix, Lois, Oli, Will and Rob!

You have each won £10 of camera and equipment rentals. See all the entries at www.tinyurl.com/34sz9ky and if you would like the prints (for free) email photosoc@yusu.org.

PhotoSoc Competition with the Yorker
The winner of this weeks theme ‘Beginnings’ will be published tomorrow in the Yorker! All entries will be displayed on our Flickr page.

We’re really happy that members are using our Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/groups/yorkphotosoc!
It’s a really good platform for critiquing one anothers work and getting tips.

Also find us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204207061

Disposable Camera Social Photos!!

Published on November 7, 2010 in Information by Shiraz Ziya. 0 Comments

Hey there Photosoc’ers,

For those who haven’t checked out our Facebook page recently, we now have your processed photos from last week’s social.

Login in to Facebook or follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/37zm7ma

- Photosoc x

Illuminating York Trip

Published on October 29, 2010 in Bulletins and Competitions by Shiraz Ziya. 0 Comments

See the city lit up and take some beautiful photographs. Meet tomorrow at 8pm in The Golden Fleece on Pavement Street.

York Minster:

  • This year’s main event returns to York Minster with a spectacular work forty metres tall, featuring music, poetry and images focused on the 15th century Rose window and the South Transept. Highly-acclaimed British projection artist Ross Ashton and sound artist Karen Monid will present ‘Rose’, a specially commissioned artwork, which will transform the Minster’s Rose window into a breathtaking vision of colour, light and shape.

Dean’s Park:

  • Impossible Theatre present Lightweight’, their four metre high sphere, lit with intense translucent colours that cause the structure to glow and pulse. Video and animation cast shadowy figures that glide magically around the globe.
  • Also from Impossible theatre, is ‘Chroma-Van’, a unique colour and light experience with a personalised colour reading housed in the comfort of a re-modelled caravan. Soak in pure colour and witness the curious perception effects that surprise and mesmerise, captivating all who enter.
  • The Ice Book is a pop-up book that comes to life in front of an audience’s eyes as if by magic. Possibly the smallest show in the world made from sheets of paper and light. Each page unfolds an animated miniature world, telling the story of a princess luring a man into the woods to warm her heart of ice.

Treasurer’s House:

  • Tagtool was a huge success last year and it’s back. OMA International and Big Draw participants build on the theme ‘unifying light’ to produce a vibrant, colourful display of live, animated drawings. Watch colourful drawings unfold before your eyes, and between 20.00 and 21.00 even have a go yourself!

British Heart Foundation photography competition

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) invites you to enter its second annual Red for Heart digital photo competition. There are lots of fantastic prizes to be won! The theme for the competition is Red for Heart and the only rule is the colour red must be incorporated into your photo. You don’t necessarily have to feature hearts, but think about heart as a theme and what that means to you. As we are celebrating our 50th birthday in 2011 the picture could capture an element of celebration. We will also ask people to include a supporting statement of what heart means to them (no more than 100 words). The winning images will be used to launch National Heart Month in February and published in the Independent on Sunday. The competition is open to photographers aged 16 and over, with fantastic prizes that include a once in a life-time opportunity to shadow an award winning Getty Images Photographer and a Canon EOS 60D DSLR camera kindly donated by Warehouse Express. Plus lots more!

How to enter: Each entrant can submit up to three digital photos. The fee is £10 for adults and £5 for students. All entry fees will go towards BHF’s life saving work. The competition closes on 9 January 2011. For full details of how to enter visit bhf.org.uk/redphotos

Best Wishes, PhotoSoc x