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Rosy Burke has again this year been asked to judge photographs for the 2011 Country File calendar.

With other previous winners they judged 60,000 photos and gathered 3,000 for John Craven, Jo Brand and Chris Packham to pick their favourite 12 for the calendar pages. Last year the calendar raised £800,000 for Children in Need. It was great fun but an extremely long day with breaks for interviews and strolling the Custard Factory street like 'dragons'!

Just to let you know there may be a tiny bit of her on the telly on Sunday evening (19 Sept) which starts at 6.30 on BBC1.She went filming with the BBC in Birmingham a few weeks ago with 7 other past winners to help judge the BBC Countryfile Photo Competition as last year.

Jane Ryman has won the much sought after position of “Apprentice Mate” at Photo Training4U. Jane will learn the art of Wedding Photography from the Photo Training4U Master Photographers. Her training will be documented and shown on video for others to watch her progress.

Michael Butterworth had one of his images used in an article in The Lady magazine. You can read the article at Grunge-Free Gathering.

Mike completed his second exhibition this year, the first from February to March 2010 at the Michael Heseltine Gallery at Chenderit School and the second was a special 2 hour exhibition at Cornbury Park for the Witney Breakfast Club's Cornbury Festival Special.

Mike was selling his pictures in aid of Katharine House Hospice. With the sale of 9 images at each exhibition Mike was able to donate £360 to the hospice.

Jem Hayward photograph of Hook Norton Village was awarded Overall Winner in the Science Oxford 'Oxfordshire Landscapes' photography competition this year.

The images from the competition will be displaying at Science Oxford Live between 23rd November and  9th January, to coincide with us hosting the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. The winning and shortlisted photos  are available on the Science Oxford website

Jem said of his image that it is the one on the Hooky website - not seen at BCC as I felt it wasn't up to our usual standards!  I may well  enter it into something now, particularly if we have Philip Joyce to  judge!

Beverley Gull's photo has won second place in the National Piers Society Annual Competition. The remit was: "Why its Seaside Pier gives the town a special identity". The full results can be found at National Piers Society website.

Rosy Burke, was invited to be on the pre-selection panel for the 2009/10 Countryfile calendar. Rosy, as a previous winner, when along to the BBC in Birmingham for the day in August to join two other winners to help select the final 3,000 photo entries for the final judging. This was no mean task as there were originally over 31,000 entries into the competition. The final selection of the 12 images for the calendar went on air in the Countryfile show at 7:00pm Sunday 20th September on BBC1. The judges are John Craven, Jo Brand and Chris Packham. The sales of the calendar go the BBC Children In Need appeal which raises £320,000.

Michael Butterworth had three of his photographs, taken at the 2009 Cornbury Music Festival, featured on the front and inside cover of the Oxford Journal in July. In June Michael also had three more pictures published in the Oxford Mail, two days running, from Commotion '09 a charity fun day/music festival near Chipping Norton.

Joe Bowes entered 'Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2008' supported by the UK's leading Tourist Agencies. The final judging of all shortlisted images in the Take a view Awards has now been completed. This year again saw some stunning photography and the judges had an extremely hard, but enjoyable, task. One of his images has been Commended by the judges and awarded a place both in the Awards book and as part of a plasma presentation at London's National Theatre. The Sunday Times Magazine will carry a feature on the Awards on 26th October. Winning images will also be on the Take a view website after the opening of the exhibition. The exhibition is free and runs from 18th November 2008 until the 17th January 2009.

Toly & Valentina have participated in The Annual Print Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society Thames Valley Region 2008. Thames Valley Region is the biggest of 18 RPS regions in UK.

Together they entered 6 prints (3 from each of them). All received high marks and Toly’s “Golden Eye” was voted the best print for the region for this year. We all would like to congratulate them both on their achievement.

At the Horton Photographic Competition in May 2008, there were over 800 entries for their competition and  five members of the club had entered. In each class, judged by the sponsor of that class (and so not a camera club judge-type person!), there was a first prize and two highly commended. Given the size and quality of the entry members did very well indeed.   Sylvia Perks - first in Buses, Bikes and Boats; Alan Sergeant - highly commended in Flowers, Fungus and Trees; Tony Clear - highly commended in Christmas/New Year and John Holt - highly commended in Churches and Chapels.