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lt .. is a bit' 1ate t,o wish y,J1.1 a .Ha:)py Chr-lti'"~mas~ b1..:.t there is still to wish you a Happy Ne~ Year, and lots of st0aming in 1980. 11 0 ".1h"' c--e-=>,C••'") wil~L bJ...... of.C- to a' 0r,·ooo' r-tart "n.. April w1"th -··'--_--1pore;1tico c-1.:,vL. ., • .J.. n • our Titeum Proficiency tests - f~rt~er deteil: lQter on ~n this newsletter. time 1
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wer;:; ~nte-c.estcJ in the possibili.ty of wri.ting to If anyr:n,~ eL::::c wcL1 ld li!ce to do thio i ;oul~ they pl~ase l~t me kn~w ar~so~D~$ possi~le? Thon I can make all the ~rrangements at once. I have already wrltteh to the American it will society, bu~ the Lond 1 ·n pc2t is so bed at the moment that probably ·::,c1.kes orne t Lme to get a reply. Po:; ting the letter just before Ch:c"':'.otmas won't have helpea, eitt1er~ The Ameri9aas wtll probably put a YJ.OtE:: :i.ri '.:,heir r:1ag:aztn-e askLng fur p,-ssible C?.rre~;pondents, and it will months b~~ure we manage tc put ceopl~ in touch w~th each be 3eve~3: othe:?'.'. Sei don't lose hcipe, th5.hgs .::i.Y'eunder v:ay, V•-~ung J\.[;]crican
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T>::rc •Nt=ren 1 t qui-1:e o.s :n.::.r:r entrj_es fc,r the ph0tographic E1S we tl''td hoped., In p~_rt.i.cr.~lar, there wer2 no blacl:..--and-•whi.tc -'7.t a::..l; :-:·o the.::'e are no pr1ze~=' j_r., those classes. The pictures come in ,'VE:'::'e ver'r good, though, 2.r:.d it was hard v:ork to pick they are~ prize" i.n!1ers. 0
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,Tenn i~,.:-P.r;s photo wo.s of Burrell 391b ,,:',::bor;ah 11 , • a single-crank comp0l'!.1d 9gric~Jt'Jr'al c,v:;I.ne br..1i.lt :'..n 1922 2nd cy:ned by K.Ellwood" It was at tne Bro 1•1 ght0:1 :½:all G..s.meFair; havi.ng dri•✓-en there under its own r,teorJ. J.._:ter ret1.1rning the same way. it had travelled for fourteen hours 1n a s in.gle c'lc:,y,. • • photo, with the engine well-positioned. Same of This ~~3 an excelle~t 1;-1::esl~ o: the canopy, missing, or the at.her ent,r~.es h& :. p2::'t of a rear else part of the chimney had got chopped o~r. ~ know ho~ easy this is to it is, ~hen you have taken enormous do .. accidentally. and how infuriating care to ,p;et th'= • pi.cture right,, when the fij_m comes bac:-c from the developer wi-th the edges of each negat-ive not printed l Cor._'3:ratulations to Jennifer for surmount,ing all these b'osta.cles and producing a lovely photograph, B~ian 1 s picture ~as very different. He had taken a shot of the,lineup of showman's engines at Stourpaine in 1978. Almost all of them were in steam'.. and t,here were a nµmber o:.· peo.pl_,e walki.ng aroL;nd and looking at tl.··:.T', This is another i.mportant pointpeople in pictures should be cioing :30m2·':-hin§;· o:c looking at the moin ob.ject of interest, _Qot staring at the camera·, ur .less of cour:se you inten-_~ed to take a photo of auntie with c1n engine in the backgr·ound. We asked Dick Blenkinoop, editor of "Steaming" and a first-class -phc;togra.phe1bims~lf, (many of you v✓ ill 1 know his ser:'.t:s 01' books, =Th2 Steam Sc2ne 11 ) 1 to help with the judging, ari4 he sa:i.d that you could :r·eally smel.l the smoke i.n Brian's picture. l'..7e11 dor..e Brian! 1
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