Unlike the old group the new one is not private but public, though membership is by invitation only. If you are sent an invitation to join and accept you will immediately become a member. If you haven’t received an invitation you can still join the group by visiting the group page at http://www.flickr.com/groups/hpsclub/ and clicking on the Join This Group. You will be presented with a page with a message form for requesting membership.

Simply send us a message asking to join, including your full real name as we may not recognise your chosen Flickr name. When we receive the request we will confirm that you are a club member and grant your request for admission.

Once you are a member you can start posting images to the group’s pool and taking part in discussions in the group’s forum. Although the group is public and non-members may view the images in the group pool, we have chosen to keep the discussion forum private so that only members can see it. You need therefore not be worried that outsiders will be able to read anything you post there. Image posting to the group pool is restricted to one image per day for each member, to ensure that a single member will not be able to post a large number of photos and flood the member’s photos gallery on the web site with their images.

If you don’t already have a Flickr account and would like to join the group simply go to http://www.flickr.com and click on the Sign Up button. You will be able to create a new Yahoo account (did you know that Flickr is owned by Yahoo?) from scratch or by linking with your existing Google or Facebook account. If you have an existing Yahoo account but not a Flickr one you should be able to log in (instead of signing up) with your Yahoo account and a Flickr account will be created for you. Once you have a Flickr account, go to our group and follow the instruction above to join.

We hope that this new group will be of benefit to you and that you will not only post your images but also use the discussion forum to get help with all those technical and creative questions for which there is never enough time to get answers at club meetings. In particular we hope that this group will give our country and international members a forum to interact with the club when they are not close by and able to attend meetings.

• Amendment to the number of images submitted for competition and evaluation
• Standards for submitting images

In order to promote the submission of prints, JJ van Heerden of PictureWorks has offered a prize to be handed out at the end of 2012, to the member who submits the most prints during the year.  The prize is a voucher for a canvas print of one of your prints!

As we intend getting into Evaluation and Judging in a big way in 2012, the number of submissions for evaluation will be restricted to ONE image per member (either a print, or a projected image). In so doing, we will be able to give every submission the time and evaluation it deserves.

1. Maximum image dimensions are 1400 pixels wide and 1050 pixels tall, which equates to 1,470,000 pixels or 1.47 megapixels.
2. Images that are too small do not project favourably and images should therefore be at least at least 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels tall, which equates to 786,432 pixels or 0.79 megapixels. Images smaller than this may be excluded. 
3. Image files must be no larger than 500KB (kilobytes) in size.
4. Image submissions must be received by no later than 10pm (22h00) on the Sunday preceding the meeting. Should a submission be received later than this, the email header will be checked and the submission will be allowed only it the sending date is before the deadline.
5. Images should preferably be attached to emails as attachments rather than being embedded inline within the email.
6. The attached image files must be named according to the guidelines presented in the How to submit digital images for competitions and evaluation evenings page. It is not acceptable to give your image files another name and provide the correct name in the subject or body of your email.

The onus is on members to ensure that their images adhere to these standards. Failure to adhere to the requirements may result in your images being rejected and excluded from the competition or evaluation. Remember that you can check that your attachments were sent correctly by viewing the sent email/s in your email program’s sent folder.

Set Subject

1	2	3
Where Witches Meet	Contrasts	Private Moment
George Frangs	Roger Lee	Peter Höhsl

Open

1	2	3
Wings In Motion	Radical Arums	Fuschia
Rosie Burton	Nettie Warncke	Chris Joubert

The full list of projected image scores can be found in this PDF document

Set Subject

1	2	3
San Fire	Child’s Play	Helderberg Fire
Paddy Howes	Marthinus Retief	George Frangs

Open

1	2	3
Pieter	Red Riding Hood	Stunt Flier
Hannes Botha	Noleen Kutash	Roger Lee

The full list of projected image scores can be found in this PDF document

Set Subject

1	2	3
Old Old Money	Angel Lite	B Grade Horror
George Frangs	Paddy Howes	Steve Crane

Open

1	2	3
Bridge	Sydney Skies 2	Papa Doupolous
Roger Lee	Florian Breuer	George Frangs

The full list of projected image scores can be found in this PDF document

You will find a link to download the program on our Resources page under the heading Monitor Calibration.

You can make sure your images will be displayed in the order you want by adding prefixes to the file names; when displaying images we sort them by name so this will make sure that they are sorted correctly. Numbers usually make the best sorting prefixes although alphabetic prefixes, or a combination can work too. If you do use numbers make sure that you pad them with leading zeros; for instance if you have from 10 to 99 images, prefix the first nine with 01-09 rather than 1-9 as 10_Title sorts before 1_Title.