Report by Mia Hello everyone This week was donated to the Annual PDI competition, which is broken down into 5 categories namely Nature, Portrait, General, Landscape and Monochrome. This gives a vast amount of diversity for the those competing. Well done to all those category winners; your images were splendid. A great night was had… Read More »
Tuesday was a fun filled evening with a Quiz about photography, book characters and film intermingled with a photo sharing opportunity. Thank you to Vince for organising the event and letting me be your right hand girl in the presenting. Well done to our winners both team ‘The have nots’ and ‘The A team’; next… Read More »
This set subject “Abstract” was widely interpreted by the members and, as it was an open competition, all images competed on an even basis. 51 excellent images gave our judge, Bob Webzell, a real challenge and he ended up with seven images scoring a well-deserved 20. From these he then anguished over choosing the “Best… Read More »
Once again we were treated to a show of the best of the year’s images – some new, some previously entered. This gave our judge, Tony Baverstock, a few tense moments in deciding between some excellent high scorers in each class to declare the best in class image. Nevertheless decisions were made and the worthy… Read More »
Report by Mia Tuesday night was another one of our fantastic print competitions. The displays were filled with perfectly mounted mountain scenes, intricate insects and what seemed to be an image mounted on part of a park bench! Our judge Walter Benzie was knowledgeable and inspiring! Fantastic to learn some new tricks and techniques! Well… Read More »
Report by Mia Prints and pencils! This print competitions was dominated by the lovely Chris Burstow’s quest for colour and excitement. We we’re taken on a trip around the busy mind of this wonderful judge and speaker and shown techniques and point of views to inspire! Fantastic work winners your images were brilliant and vibrant.… Read More »
Club members showed off their creativity and editing skills this week to provide us with a very entertaining evening of manipulated images. There were a good number of entries and the range of ideas, all based on the same images, was inspiring and many raised a laugh. Scoring was by a show of hands for… Read More »
Our final PDI Merit Competition of the year was Judged by Ken Scott who gave us all some valuable critique and inspiring ideas to take home for future use! Another excellent number of entries and once again a very good standard of images for the judge to work through. Several 20s were awarded but in… Read More »
Our second print competition was a great success with Malcolm Bull’s insightful comments on our images. The atmosphere was warm and welcoming for the visitors and there was a good round of applause for our winners. Malcolm’s comments on each photo were interesting and he made a particular point that we should be careful of… Read More »
Happy 2019! To get things rolling this year we opened with a “Members Present” evening. Thank you to Kathie, Mia and Liz who displayed three diverse presentations. Topics included personal camera journeys, explanation on zoom bursts and a trip to Romania to aid charity work. Great presentations, good atmosphere and a lot of excitement for… Read More »