RPS Advisory Day

The large hall at Foxton was filled with photographers yesterday, all (well, many..) agog to find out what the advisors would make of their panels of images for LRPS and ARPS submissions.  Each panel gets complimented, criticised and sometimes adulated by a panel of three wise men, all Fellows of the RPS.  This was only an advisory day, so rather more relaxed than a judgement day, but nevertheless an arduous task to organise, admirably handled by the Eastern Regional organiser for the RPS, Ian Wilson, with the principal assistance of Ann Miles,  but helped on the day by a crew of up to 20 individuals, each with an allocated task.  My task was to operate the sound system and to take photos for use later by the Eastern regional branch of the RPS

The vultures gather….

Pre-flight checks from Ian with his usual demonstration of Wandering Hands!

Richard Walton waiting to hear what he's posted onto Facebook..

Print handlers all ready with their white gloves

An introduction to LRPS and ARPS using a sample panel from Richard and Roger Force

It was this long….

We're off...

Ian records a supplicants panel after the Advisors have shuffled the order

Richard scrutinising some images...

Mike Harris listens intently as his panel is examined and declared to be ready to go

Roger giving reindeer impressions..

And now for some A panels - one of the first came from Barry Badcock and was declared to be excellent

Ian discussing his daughter's panel with Richard..

One of the applicants reads his Statement of intent for his panel...

Ann Miles called upon to help with this ARPS panel...

Will Cheung in full flow...

Another Statement of Intent../

The last panel of the day for Richard..

And Ian winds up (the day that is)