First part of the 4-part theme competition, the first part being “Autumn” and we have been inundated with leaves and waterfalls! Congratulations to James, Richard and David for First, Second and Third places respectively!
1 .James Moore
2 - Richard Squires
3 - David Gardener
Another fantastic set of images in this years competition with 46 entries, which means a total of 138 images were presented. The judge was looking for a combination of technical merit and artistic impression and how each image stands up, along with how each panel works together.
First place goes to Richard Lawrence for “Young Holly”, second place went to Richard Squires for “The Encounter” and third place was taken by Bina Fellowes for “Who got the joke”… all worthy winners!
1. Richard Lawrence
2. Richard Squires
3. Bina Fellowes
This year’s “Chairman’s Cup” theme was set last year as “The Working Farm”, the key part being that the image should show some form of work being performed.
This year’s winner was Helen Moore who took a fantastic shot of a farmer caring for his sheep, second place goes to Tim Gilbert for a long exposure showing a combine harvester at work, and third place was Richard Lawrence with his stunning black and white shot showing the farmers collecting their hay in the dead of night.
1. Helen Moore
2. Tim Gilbert
3. Richard Lawrence
It's a new season and we're off to a flying start, with 55 entries in the Oatey Cup!
The Oatey Cup is an in-house judged competition, with members showing their best images from over the summer break. This year's winner is Janet Downes with a beautiful high-key shot of a new-born goat, second place goes to Richard Lawrence (proving that sunsets can score in competitions!) and finally third place was taken by Tim Gilbert with a shot of the Milky Way over Rame Head.
1. Janet Downes
2. Richard Lawrence
3. Tim Gilbert
The final printed competition of the year, judged in-house with one entry per-member... this is the members favourite shot taken in the last 12 months.
Congratulations to Janet for taking first place, second place goes to Richard while third place was taken by Tim.
1. Janet Downes
2. Richard Lawrence
3. Tim Gilbert
The final printed competition of the year, judged in-house with one entry per-member... this is the members favourite shot taken in the last 12 months.
Congratulations to Janet for taking first place with her ethereal forest image, second place goes to Helen while third place was taken by Andy.
1. Janet Downes
2. Helen Moore
3. Andy Birtwistle
The Bill Mammatt Cup is a competition to give more people a chance of winning, as any member who won a competition in the previous year is not allowed to enter:
Congratulations to Leslie Jackson for picking up first place, Richard Lawrence came second while Peter Fellows took third place.
1. Leslie Jackson
2. Richard Lawrence
3. Peter Fellowes
The projected images Natural History competition follows the same strict rules as the printed competition, congratulations to Richard Squires for taking the top spot, followed by Richard Lawrence and Jan Martin.
1. "Juvenile Black Bird with Blackberry", Richard Squires
2. "Solitary Bee", Richard Lawrence
3. "Fox", Jan Martin
In the club we have 2 natural history competitions, one for printed images and one for DPI.
Natural History is different to the other images in that the there are a lot of rules governing what you can and can't do to an image, if you take an image of an animal in a zoo then you can't clone out any distraction, you are only allowed to use cropping to change the framing.
Congratulation to Helen Moore, James Moore and Richard Squires for taking the honours with these fantastic images!
1. "Chestnut Crested Coronets", Helen Moore
2. "Dragonfly India", James Moore
3. "Great Tit with Spider", Richard Squires
Monday evening saw us taking on Saltash and Ivybridge camera clubs in a fight to the death (ok, perhaps not quite to the death!) in the yearly 3-way club battle!
We have not won this competition for several years and we decided to make extra effort this year and it paid off! The competition is split into 2 parts, projected images and prints.
Projected images were judged first and we came first out of the 3 clubs.
For the printed images, we came second behind Saltash but we still had enough points to take the overall victory!
