AV News 180 - May 2010
Editorial
J ill K B u n tin g CPAGB & J o h n S m ith APAGB CPAGB
Hello and welcome to the May edition of
your magazine.
We are very pleased to see that our
Chairman Keith, is out of hospital and back
with us again.
At last the Spring seems to have finally
sprung with a few days of decent weather.
We hope that you were busy during the long
Winter months making your sequences to
enter into the forthcoming Internationals. You should have recently received
details and the booking forms for this prestigious event. If not, then check out
the website for details.
The past few months have been somewhat busy for your editorial team,
both in our attending and taking an active part in the various AV events. These
also coincided with a change of editorial address, see the inside back cover
and please make a note in case you need to write to us.
In an attempt to make subscribing to this magazine a little bit easier,
especially for those readers living abroad, we have recently set up a new
email address which is: subscriptions at avnews.org.uk Using this
address your email will automatically be seen by Brian Jeffs, the AV Group
Secretary, Keith Brown, the AV Group Treasurer and ourselves.
We have a bumper crop of letters in this issue on the subjects of video in
AV and also sound. There are also a couple of important ones on the subject
of the RPS Distinction Assesments, which we are sure that you will read with
interest. One thing that came out of John's recent chance discussion with the
President of the RPS, Mrs Rosemary Wilman Hon FRPS at the NEC is the
need for good communications and we hope that steps will be taken to ensure
that this is improved in the future.
The cancellation of the April Distinctions Assessments which were due to
have been held at the Hilton Hotel in Bath surely cannot be just put down to
a lack of communication as we advertised this event in the February edition.
Maybe a number of the points raised by some of the Panel members in their
letter on page 16, could possibly throw a little light on the reasons for the lack
of applicants and the subsequent cancellation of the event. Whatever the
reasons the problems highlighted need to be addressed .... and quite soon so
that the October Assessments are a viable event.
The sound and picture copyright debate continues, as does the concerns
regarding the Government's proposed legislation on 'Orphan Images'. The
RPS has been taking the lead in representing the views of all photographers
at Government level.
Please keep your letters and articles coming in so that AV
workers around the world can keep up to date with all the
latest AV News.
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