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!

End of season meal

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

1. Peter Levers - Reeds Reflected
2. Jon Burtoft -  Boat Reflection
3. Tim Gilbert - Godrevy Lighthouse

The Chairman’s Cup (A summer event)

1. Andy Martin – Steam Rally
2. Jan Martin – Morris Dancers
3. James Moore - Yacht

The Rapson Cup

1. Bill Mammatt - Just Flowers
2. Bill Mammatt - Just More Flowers
3. Jon Burtoft – Colliford Trees

Monochrome Competition

1. Janet Downes – The Printer
2. Helen Moore – Zebras Drinking
3. Peter Levers – Global Warming

The Harry Wiltshire Shield

1. Andy Martin - Tulips
2. Helen Moore - Bread
3. Richard Lawrence – A Boy and His Dog

Haworth Cup

1. Jan Martin - Baby Robin
2. Tim Gilbert - Squirrel
3. Andy Martin - Bittern

The John Armstrong Salver

1. James Moore – Glaucous Gull and Catch
2. Richard Lawrence – Swallow Feeding Water
3. Andy Martin – Total Eclipse of the Sun from Western Isles

Bill Mammatt Cup

1. Helen Moore – In The Rain
2. Helen Moore – Holi-Hindu Festival of Colour
3. Jon Burtoft – Summer Days

Ken Beard Trophy

1. Janet Downes - Church
2. Tim Gilbert - Whitsand Morning
3. Peter Fellowes - Seagull

Tony Briard Trophy

1. Tim Gilbert – Saltash Swans
2. Jon Burtoft - Umbrella Beach
3. Helen Moore - Fieldmouse

Brian Price Cup (Series of 4 competitions - Mechanical, Food, Winter, Patterns)

1. Richard Squires
2. David Gardener
3. Helen Moore

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!

Jon Wyatt

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.

http://www.jonwyatt.co.uk/

Tony Briard Trophy

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!

Ken Beard Trophy

Congratulations to Janet for winning the Ken Beard Trophy with her fantastic church shot, with loads of details and clarity to be found it was a clear winner!

Also congratulations to Tim for second place and third place goes to Peter, one of our new members!

Visit from Launceston Camera Club

Tuesday saw our yearly meet-up with the Launceston Camera Club and we had a bumper crop of prints and DPIs (Digital Projected Images) from both clubs to share... it was another fascinating evening seeing work from members of other clubs and how they compare with our own photographers.

A big thank you to everyone who bought some food along and helped keep the evening running, and a special thank you to the members of the Launceston Camera Club who made the trip down to see us.

Looking forward to our return visit next year!

Bill Mammatt Cup

This week saw the results for the Bill Mammatt Cup, a competition that's dedicated to the members who have not won a competition so far this year, giving them an opportunity to showcase their work.

This year the top spot was taken by Helen with "In The Rain", Helen also took second place with "Holi - Hindu Festival of Colour", with Jon in third place and Daphne taking home the Highly Commended with "Summer Days".

Natural History Competitions

This week saw the results of our two natural history competitions, The Haworth Cup for printed images & The John Armstrong Salver for projected images.

Congratulations go to Jan for winning The Haworth Cup with her shot "Baby Robin", with second place being taken by Tim with "Squirrel" and 3rd place went to Andy for "Bittern".

The winner of The John Armstrong Salver was James with his shot "Glaucous Gull and Catch", with second place going to Richard L with "Swallow Feeding Water" and 3rd place going to Andy for "Total eclipse of the sun from Western Isles".

I think if there's one take-away from the competition it's that in future we should aim for conservative photo names!

Saltash Battle

The Saltash Battle is a annual three-way club competition between Saltash, Ivybridge and Liskeard, each year the clubs submit 8 prints and 8 digital images and all to be marked out of 20 points.

While we put up a valiant effort with two images scoring 19 out of a possible 20, including Janet's stunning "Night Sortie" and Helen's fantastic "Zebra's Drinking", alas it was not to be and we were just shy of the totals scored by Saltash and Ivybridge.

We'd like to thank the members of Saltash for making us feel welcome, and also congratulate them and Ivybridge for some amazing images!

Timelapse Evening

Another great evening at the Liskeard Camera Club! A full night including the final part to our internally judged competition, hand in for the 2 Nature Competitions, a presentation on timelapses and a look through Jon's images from Carlyon Bay... phew!

Firstly congratulations to Ruth for first place in the final of our four-part internal competition, with the title "patterns":

The overall winner of the four-part competition was our own chairman Richard, who managed a good showing at each of the four competitions netting him enough points for the overall win!

Next we had a talk on how to produce time-lapse videos, and being the brave souls we are we created a new time-lapse of the evening in a live demonstration!

Finally, Jon gave us a presentation on his images from Carlyon Bay with his own unique twist!