The 8th UK South East "Will somebody please start a new thread" gossip thread

Welcome to the Official Thread for the South-East of the UK. Please feel free to wade in and contribute and perhaps attend one of our meets, as listed below

Previous Threads: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven.
Official Facebook Group here.

Battle of the Clubs
POTN SE UK members have entered into a "Battle of the Clubs" competition hosted by DSLR USER Magazine. Anyone interested in joining in the competition please click here.

The Great SE Feast: Click here for the thread where Adrian is organising a get-together meal to put more names to faces. Probably a few photos too.

Next Meet
Pending.
Date: Pending.
Details: Pending.

Future Meet
Kiev/Chernobyl/Pripyat​.
Date: August 2010.
Details: See separate thread.

Previous Meets (click for pictures)
First meet images - 08-Jun-2008.
Kew Gardens Meet - 02-Aug-2008.
London Wetlands Centre Meet - 23-Aug-2008.
London Night-time Meet - 08-Oct-2008.
Blean Woods Meet - 25-Oct-2008.
Scotney Castle Meet - 09-Nov-2008.
Cambridge Meet - 26-Nov-2008.
Rye Meet - 04-Feb-2009.
Roller Girls Meet - 07-Feb-2009.
London Wetland Centre Meet - 08-Feb-2009.
Hellingly Lunatic Asylum Meet - 24-Mar-2009.
Hellingly Lunatic Asylum Meet - 05-Apr-2009.
London Meet - 19-Apr-2009.
Mini Groombridge Meet - 22-Apr-2009.
Rollerderby Meet - 25-Apr-2009 1 | 2.
London Overnight Meet - 14-Jun-2009 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5.
London Strobist Meet - 04-Jul-2009 also 1.
Sandwich Strobist Meet - 11-Sep-2009.
Donna Nook Seal Meet - 20-Nov-2009 to 23-Nov-2009.
The Great Snow of Dec-2009. (We weren't all together for this one, but we were in spirit.)
British Wildlife Centre Meet - 28-Dec-2009
London Night Meet - 20-Mar-2010
Rochester Meet - 04-Apr-2010
Wildlife Heritage Foundation Big Cat Meet - 23-May-2010

UK South-East Shot of the Year Competition 2009. Competition is over and the results are in.

If any of these details are incorrect or need amending, please drop me a PM.

Welcome to the Official Thread for the South-East of the UK. Please feel free to wade in and contribute and perhaps attend one of our meets, as listed below

Previous Threads: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven.

Official Facebook Group here.

Announcement
Chaps, racing season is rapidly approaching, for those that are serious about covering some motorsport rounds this year please drop me a mail: span style="color:#006699;"photo@swaffs.co.uk with:
A summary of any track photography experience, I'm not expecting you to be ace, just have at least done some motordport work before and have some reasonable kit, I'll be able to provide training and some kit to borrow.These will involve some travel (UK). I may not be able to join you at all rounds and you would be attending under my company name.
I potentially have events every weekend this year, and would work on a sales commision basis, (I allready have a very well established sales site where all the riders visit often. There are a few contractual commitments to uphold (and these get the media passes!). I will arrange trackside access for you.
I'll be working hard on this over the next week or so (i.e my holiday this week is giving me some time!), so please let me know your interest ASAP. this is full days work, sometimes full weekends, and there could be hundreds of bikes at each meeting, so it's not a jolly. But the sales can be worth it.
If I get anough interest then it might kickstart me into setting up the onsite printing facility. which would potentially be much more finacially attractive.
-If you are hoping to cover some events of your own this year and looking for gaining trackside access, and an established site for selling images, I would be happy to set up a photograhers logon on my site, and assist with trackside passes (sometimes these need to be apid for to the event organiser) you can then sell through my site.
WWW.SWAFFS.CO.UK

Upcoming Meet
British Wildlife Centre: All Access Pass
Date: Being discussed in the thread.
Details: Please see this thread for all information.
Please contact Lee for more details.

Upcoming Meet
WHF Day
Date: Sunday 23rd May
Note: There is a specific thread for this meet here.
The normal price is £99, and as long as we get a group of no less than 10 and no more than 15 we can get the price for £73 per person (for events booked prior to 31st December 2009), includes VAT, services of dedicated guide all day, buffet lunch, tea / coffee / soft drinks, afternoon tea and cakes.
Members attending so far: Pete, Pete Symes, Laurence, Steve, Rob, Mark, Lee, Jon, Mike, Adrian, Kay and Rich.
Please contact Adrian for more details.

Previous Meets (click for pictures)
First meet images - 08-Jun-2008.
Kew Gardens Meet - 02-Aug-2008.
London Wetlands Centre Meet - 23-Aug-2008.
London Night-time Meet - 08-Oct-2008.
Blean Woods Meet - 25-Oct-2008.
Scotney Castle Meet - 09-Nov-2008.
Cambridge Meet - 26-Nov-2008.
Rye Meet - 04-Feb-2009.
Roller Girls Meet - 07-Feb-2009.
London Wetland Centre Meet - 08-Feb-2009.
Hellingly Lunatic Asylum Meet - 24-Mar-2009.
Hellingly Lunatic Asylum Meet - 05-Apr-2009.
London Meet - 19-Apr-2009.
Mini Groombridge Meet - 22-Apr-2009.
Rollerderby Meet - 25-Apr-2009 1 | 2.
London Overnight Meet - 14-Jun-2009 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5.
London Strobist Meet - 04-Jul-2009 also 1.
Sandwich Strobist Meet - 11-Sep-2009.
Donna Nook Seal Meet - 20-Nov-2009 to 23-Nov-2009.
The Great Snow of Dec-2009. (We weren't all together for this one, but we were in spirit.)
British Wildlife Centre Meet - 28-Dec-2009

UK South-East Shot of the Year Competition 2009. Competition is over and the results are in.

Woohoo! Love the title

Well Pete said it, I felt it should be immortalised.

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9698711
Well Pete said it, I felt it should be immortalised.

Indeed! Wonder how long it will be before everyone else finds the thread

Change those sigs everyone!

Aha! There you are.

<snort>

nice title! Have fun guys!

kskitt wrote in post #9698713
Indeed! Wonder how long it will be before everyone else finds the thread

Presumably straight after they discover the old one is locked.

got all panicked then and wasn't sure where everyone went!

Anke wrote in post #9698715
Change those sigs everyone!

Ooo yeah i forgot about that - must add new lens to sig list

How do i add the link to the thread so that it covers it with writing - so http:// etc becomes "South East Thread"

Ahh, here you all are....

Ah that's better.. Everybody's welcome btw!

First post ammended with the details from post one on thread 7.

Checking in!