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A good turnout for the 2008 Exhibition and Assembly, Brian welcomes a large crowd of YPU members to the annual assembly at Northlight Gallery, Holmfirth on Saturday. This years Exhibition and Assembly has been hosted by Holmfirth Camera Club, the Exhibition will continue until the 18^th of May, for more information on the Exhibition and other planned events by Holmfirth, visit the event website. www.photo08.com If you haven’t been yet it’s well worth a visit. To see the winning images, and the results from Holmfirth follow this link Holmfirth results 2008 A good showing for Selby in the PAGB Great British Cup Competition Selby had a great result in the first PAGB Great British Cup competition. Selby came 5^th in the small club competition. For more information see the attached report or visit the PAGB Website GBC report Judge the Judge! In order to maintain the quality of judging throughout the YPU, your Executive needs feedback. Have you had a new judge that did well? New judges on the supplementary list need two good reports to move on. Was your last Judge too severe? or just plain bad? We will never know if you don't tell us! And now you and email the forms, download the forms to your computer here Downloads

Winning image from April competition The winning image from the April competition was “Alnwick Castle, evening reflections” by Phil Haigh of Halifax PS. Well done Phil and well done everyone who submitted images and those who voted, it was a very close run competition this month. Phil’s web page is now up, follow the link to see some more of his images. Phil Haigh The May competition is now open with images entered by YPU members. Please vote for your favourite. If you would like to enter The June competition, it is open to all club members with a prize of having your own gallery on the YPU website. For more information and this month’s competition, follow this link: May Competition March Newsletter The March 2008 Newsletter is now out, if you don’t have a copy and would like to read it, you can download it by going to the downloads page. Downloads If you have any news for the next edition contact our editor Erica Oram on the link below. Email Erica PAGB 2008 Slide Folio The PAGB 2008 Slide Folio is available, free of charge, to clubs from 10^th November to 23^rd November 2008. These are judged as the best slides in the UK, and I’m sure that your members will want to see the slides. If you would like to book the Folio please contact Pat Reed. Email Pat Member Clubs’ Websites Visit the Clubs page if you want to see which clubs have their own website CLUBS PAGE

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11^th May 2008

Formed in 1899 the Yorkshire Photographic Union is the oldest regional federation of  photographic clubs and societies in  the United Kingdom.

The Yorkshire Photographic Union are members of the The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain.

The Union exists to provide an organisation of camera clubs and photographic societies throughout the region.

Clubs vary from the major clubs of the towns and cities, localised clubs at the workplace or specialist clubs such as the Yorkshire Monochrome Group or the Yorkshire Medium Format Group. 

Through the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain the benefits of a wide variety of lectures are available.      

In addition the YPU organise day and weekend seminars on a wide variety of photographic topics.

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