RECORD MEMBERSHIP:
President David Trout announced that our membership numbers are now the highest in our long, (118 year!) history.
WILL CHEUNG EXCLUSIVE
Programme Secretary Paul Ritchie announced an exciting extra event in the programme: a lecture by Will Cheung FRPS on Saturday 13th November at County Hall. For full details see the separate entries on this Blog.
ASSIGNMENT GROUP
Next week members of the group will be showing pictures from the eight outings so far, ranging from Paddy’s Hole to Barford Racing.
The next review meeting, to show and discuss the results of the Tall Ships 2010 outing will be at: Durham Gilesgate Sports College & Sixth Form College, 22nd September, 7 to 9 pm
Directions: From the Prince Bishop roundabout, Durham City centre, take the A690 towards the A1. At the next roundabout, take the 3rd exit, A181 Gilesgate. After the Esso garage on the left, go over the pedestrian crossing and turn immediately left into Churchill Ave. At the bend, turn right into Roosevelt Road. Cross over Bradford Road and the college is straight ahead. The meetings are in the stand-alone building to your left.
All members with Tall Ships 2010 pictures are invited to attend – you just need to bring along at least one A4 print.
Photo Tony Griffiths.
DPS EXHIBITION AT THE SAGE GATESHEAD
Due November, Alan Stott is organising an exhibition of prints in the Explore Music Library in The Sage Gateshead. Members may well remember our previous one in 2007 celebrating Brass music. This one has a wider interpretation of the theme “Music”. Will interested members please email Alan with an indication of how many pictures you plan to put forward. Any member can still take part. Recent work is preferred.
BIG MEETING MEMORIES of 2009
An exhibition of prints by DPS members will be on show at Bowburn Community Centre, Saturday 11th September 10.00 to 4.00, as part of the Bowburn Banner Group’s Heritage Open Days 2010 – “A Celebration of Miners’ Lodge Banners”. At least 40 banners from the Durham coalfield will again be gathered specially for this year’s Heritage Open Days weekend event. It includes some rarely-seen examples from both before and after nationalisation in 1947, as well as more recent replicas and community banners.
Photo Bob Bach.
SUCCESS FOR DPS MEMBER LES TRAVIS
For the third time, Les has won the top prize for best photograph at the Newton Aycliffe Show.
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