AV News 175 - February 2009
Great Yorkshire AV Weekend
Tony Collinson & Bill Barr
Bill - I am a member of Carluke Camera Club (go on get your map out or type
ML8 into multimap) and my interest in photography is Audio Visual.
I have often wondered what the standard has to be and what went on at
an RPS Distinctions Day so I decided to take a trip to Bradford on Sat 22nd
Nov. With over 4hours drive to get there I decided to go and make a weekend
of it, arriving on Friday evening and staying until the Sunday when it finished.
This was 'my first time' in Bradford and at a Distinctions/AV weekend. The
distinctions days are normally run in conjunction with an AV day so on the
Sunday you have another full day of Audio Visual entertainment.
Tony - Saturday saw an entry of seven applications for distinctions, three
for the Licentiateship and four for the Associateship. As always there were
those who were successful and those who were disappointed. Three
applicants achieved recommendation for the Licentiateship and one for the
Associateship. The RPS distinctions chairman, Robert Albright presided over
the adjudications and the panel of six (left) deliberated the entries. For
anyone considering applying for distinctions these events are invaluable in
gaining an understanding of the standards required by the panel.
Bill - Each author's sequence is shown and the judging panel are taking
notes. They then retire to another room to deliberate, and compare notes
whilst the candidate whose sequences we had seen sits and sweats it out!
Although I was only there viewing I could feel the tension and atmosphere for
these candidates, waiting to see if they are going home on a high or a low.
So when the next Distinctions day comes around, get yourself along to it, you
will be seeing AV sequences at the top level.
Tony - Sunday morning commenced with
the retiring Regional Organiser, Stuart
Clarke (right) recounting some of his
experiences over the past years. Stuart was
presented with the much coveted and rarely
awarded Dobson Henry Medal by Keith
Scott FRPS, National Chairman of the RPS
AV Group as recognition of his 'Outstanding
Contribution in the Audio Visual Medium'.
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