The friendly photographic society
Huge thanks to everyone that joined us for our recent studio session, especially the very talented Beth Christie who donned her dance gear and provided us with some terrific images such as the one below. Everyone will agree that Beth did a wonderful job!
And our next studio session has been confirmed for 18th February – . Intro to Studio – Session Five – The Character Study.
Details in the website’s event list.
Head on over to the Gallery page to see the winning & held-back images from this week’s trophy competitions. Congratulations to everyone concerned.
Triptych Cup
| First | Gordon Calder | Violin Solo |
| Second | Fin Simpson | Three Times a Lady |
| Third | Rod Lacey | Lincoln Cathedral |
| Commended | Gordon Calder | Female Study |
| Commended | David Eckland | Read, Steady, Go |
Nature Cup
| First | Alan Rhodes | On the Prowl |
| Second | Steve Bailey | Chinese Water Dragon |
| Third | Mike Brankin | Natural Creeping, Crawling Climbing Tree |
| Commended | Steve Bailey | Resting |
| Commended | Ian Bennell | Gannet Love |
Our first trophy competitions of the season were held at the club. ‘Nature’ and ‘Triptych’ were the themes for the challenge. Another great response of entries from our talented members with a total of 76 Images for judging, it was a very challenging night for the visiting Judge Alan Taberer. The standard was very high with some well thought out compositions for the ‘Triptych’ and some further wonderful Images presented in the ‘Nature’ section.
Congratulations to the winning authors for their successful Images
Alan Rhodes – Nature
Gordon Calder – Triptych
Thanks to everyone who entered the competitions, making the well attended night really enjoyable.
Steve ?
Intro Session Four – ‘The Dancer’
Our very own Beth Christie steps in front of the camera as we explore a more advanced lighting set up to capture striking dance poses and movement.
Date: 21/01/2020
Spaces available: 5 remaining
Cost: £15 per person
Contact Anthony for more information: anthonyhighet@hotmail.co.uk
I’ve added a new League Tables page to the website’s top menu. As requested by the membership I’ve made it password protected. I’ll ask Cat to send an email with the details.
To set expectations, this is just a screen grab of the scores spreadsheet, so it’s not particularly clear. Will think of a better presentation going forward, but wanted to get this out now as people have been asking for it!
George
This week we hosted the 2nd round of the Rosebowl competition. Other competing teams visiting were Buckingham, Woodley and Witney along with our own representation of Images. There were a total of 60 Images shown for judge Peter Prosser to critique and score.
It was great to have such an array of really good Images shown and to appreciate the levels being achieved at other clubs. There were some really creative and well thought out Photography shown.
It was a high standard and understandably the scoring was very close, with most of the Images having already scored 19 or 20 in their own club competitions.
Our congratulations go to the ultimate winner on the night ‘Buckingham CC’.
Steve
A fitting end to the year, celebrating Christmas with our annual seasonal social evening. A great night with a few quiz’s (thanks George), great food and drink (thanks Vanessa, Denise and Alan) and a Photography themed raffle ( thanks Rod and all that donated prizes).
A really good relaxed social evening with plenty of opportunity to talk together about our shared enjoyment from photography. We look forward to the second half of our season starting on 9th January 2020!
Merry Christmas to all
Steve
The main subject of this weeks meeting was to review the recently carried out members survey, where an opportunity was given to every member to give valuable feedback to Influence the running of the club. An excellent PowerPoint presentation was lead by Cat Humphries, reporting the responses to each category. Overall we had received very positive feedback from the survey regarding all aspects. All of the comments and additional ideas were welcomed and will be reviewed by the committee to ensure we have an all encompassing programme within the club.
The full details of the survey are available to read in our newsletter and will be shortly published on the website.
A good evening which was completed with a couple of excellent members Av’s shown to an appreciative audience.
Steve
This season we joined the North West London Federation Inter Club Competition. Which selects a number of camera clubs to compete, Initially in a league of 3. Last night we hosted our third round at Croxley. We had visiting clubs Watford and Wycombe in the three way challenge which Involved both prints and pdi’s being shown. The Judge for the evening was the experienced Peter Prosser at the well attended event.
Some great Images were shown by all of the competing clubs. Unfortunately the points did not favour us on the night and in the final tally Watford cc were the overall winners. However valuable experience was gained for the club from entering this competition and we look forward to the fresh challenge next season.
Steve
Please take a moment to complete the Member’s Survey.
The results will be published on December 12th at the Member’s Forum night.
Thanks – Steve, John, Cat, Stuart, Ant, Rod, Vanessa & George