This year the Chairman's Competition was titled "The Beauty of Cornwall" where we were tasked with creating an image that says "Cornwall" in a single shot, and we were not disappointed with the creativity shown by the club members!
1st place went to James with his shot which incorporated multiple Cornish elements, 2nd place went to Helen with her Poldark themed shot and 3rd place goes to Peter with a shot from our glorious coastline... congratulations to you all!
1. James
2. Helen
3. Peter
First week back and we're straight into action! This week sees the return of the Oatey Cup, a competition judged in-house which allows the members to show some of their best work they've achieved of the summer.
Andy took first place with his stunningly detailed shot of a rose, followed by Tim in second and third places. Highly Commended was Richard L with his head shot of a Golden Eagle, and Andy taking Commended with Roche Rock.
1. Andy
2. Tim
3. Tim
Here's the last photowalk video from the season, down to the beach near Polhawn Fort at the end of Whitsand Bay.
A short video of our photo-walk around Looe, the weather was rather uninspiring but there was plenty of creativity shown by members of the club!
Some videos featuring created during some of the photowalks in 2017, enjoy!
Our first attempt at making a vlog video during the Minions Photowalk!
The first photo-walk of the season and what a way to start... after a weekend of constant rain that finally finished about an hour before we met, the moors gave us all the moodiness it could conjure, "pea soup" is an understatement and we could barely even see more than a few metres!
Still, the eight hardy-souls who ventured out onto the moors all had high-spirits and we were determined to make the most of it. After a short stop at The Hurlers we made the trek over to Goldiggens quarry where we played with some long exposure shots.
Good job there is a path to the quarry and back as we could well have been lost on the moor, but at least we came home with the same number of people as we started with... result!
The end-of-season meal again saw us gathering at The Cheesewring in Minions, and we received fantastic service from them as we have in years past. I think it's fair to say that no-one went home hungry!
What a great end to the season with winners collecting their trophies in a great atmosphere.
The Oatey Cup
The Chairman’s Cup (A summer event)
The Rapson Cup
Monochrome Competition
The Harry Wiltshire Shield
Haworth Cup
The John Armstrong Salver
Bill Mammatt Cup
Ken Beard Trophy
Tony Briard Trophy
Brian Price Cup (Series of 4 competitions - Mechanical, Food, Winter, Patterns)
Some big "thank yous" for going above-and-beyond go to Yvonne for her sterling work sourcing the clubs many speakers, Andrea for baking cakes and keeping us all fed all through the year, to Andy and Tim for helping run the club behind the scenes and of course to Richard for completing his first year as chairman!
The final speaker evening of the year and we've ended on a belter! Jon Wyatt is a professional photographer who's career started with skiing photography in mountains from around the world but in recent years he's moved on to more creative works, producing works in a number of different projects.
I highly recommend having a look through his portfolio of outstanding work.
Congratulations to Tim for winning the final competition of the club year, with a fantastic shot of the River Tamar complete with bridges and swans!
Well done to Jon for second place, and third place goes to Helen!
