Weekly update

Preparations for the Annual Exhibition continue. Following last week’s judging, this week’s was about panelling. Members of the Selection Committee, supported by a dozen helpers, reviewed each entrant’s panel, decided how to reduce the number of prints from 314 down to the c.280 maximum which can be accommodated in the Assembly Room and then agreed on the optimum layout. After that, each panel was wrapped in clingfilm and returned to the storage boxes, ready for the exhibition. There is no constraint on the number of PDIs of course, so they will all be shown in the exhibition.

The featured image of Battersea Power Station is by President-elect Pete Bamforth

Many thanks to all those who voted in the competition for the Coath and Edmunds Cups. Voting was very close and the lead changed hands more than once in both competitions. The result will be announced by the President during the Preview evening at the Annual Exhibition.

Tomorrow, a team of 6 Club members led by David Harris will begin photographing the 200 or so artefacts held by the Novium Museum from the Shippam’s factory, which used to operate at the end of East Street in Chichester. The object is to create a searchable record for use by historians. Shippam’s started as a family business in 1750 and was purchased by Princes Foods in 2001.