Meeting Report

The second Print competition of the new season was held on the 1st December.  The Judge for the evening was Rosie Armes . Rosie is a member of Chichester Camera Club, lives on Hayling Island and has been photographing for about seven years and in that time has gained a plethora of distinctions.

Samples of her work can be seen at http://www.rosiearmes.com/rosie/Portfolio/Portfolio.html

She will be returning on March 1st with her talk on Ethiopia where we will be able to look forward to seeing some stunning images.

Sixty-six images were submitted for adjudication on the set subject of Close-up

Rosie provided constructive evaluation for the majority of images and marked within her beliefs of the importance of good critique rather than numerically scoring images.

For the second successive contest Martin Tomes for achieved ‘best of the night’, this time with ‘Seed Head’

Meeting Report

The venue was Wivelsfield Village hall and the competition was run by our friends at Steyning CC, and a loyal band of seven Storrington CC members turned out to see the fun.

This competition is altogether a step up from the Regnum Crouch events as there are always at least 20 clubs from East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent taking part, amongst whom there are some very good competitors.

The Judge was Caroline Colgate ARPS who judged the Regnum competition at Bognor Regis a short time ago, so we had some very detailed explanations of how she came to award her marks. She awarded only seven 20s; nine 19s  and thirteen 18s amongst over 100 images submitted.

In the first round Eastbourne got the only 20 and so led for a very short time. Liz Barber's 'This Feels Nice' was awarded 17 and this put us 9th. The judge really liked Liz's portrait.

In round 2 there were three more 20s from Uckfield, Battle and St Ore and St Helens CC and Paul Hayward's 'Mothers Meeting' image ( a great shot of six Giraffes with one looking the other way) was awarded 16. This put us in 11th equal position along with five other clubs.

Round 3 gave us a bit of a boost when my 'Golden Eagle with Hare Kill' was awarded 19, and at tea break we rose to 6th equal, tied with three other clubs.

Meeting Report

The first Print competition of the new season was held on the 6th October.  The Judge for the evening was Bob Webzell. Bob is self-taught in Photography and was awarded his Royal Photographic distinctions in 1999 and 2001. A past president of Brighton and Hove Camera Club, he supports educational developments in Tanzania.

Sixty-Five images were submitted for adjudication with some 38%  (5*20, 7*19 and 13*18) receiving scores of 18 or more attesting to the high standard of the prints submitted. It was particularly gratifying in seeing many of the new members submitting images for the first time.

Meeting Report

Our first PI competition took place this week with 73 images submitted for scrutiny.  For some this was a new experience, for others old hat, but just as hard for old and new alike. A new judge was selected for this first competition of the season, John Staples ARPS. The evening started with a run through of all the submitted images as requested by the judge, so he could get a feel of the pictures. Personally I think this is a wrong way to judge, as a preformed opinion can be formed on certain images rather than marking them one at a time. That aside the judging started, with good scoring throughout the evening, which shows the high standard of pictures submitted.  Four 20s, two 19s, seven 18s and twenty nine 17s were awarded.

A few mentions go to:

Ian MacWhirter for his two 20s; "Glaucous Gull with Guillemot prey" and "Courting Polar Bears".

Di Walker for her 20, "Stillettos".

Anne Nagle who scored 20 for her image "Puma On The Rocks" which also recieved best image of the night.

Martin Tomes for his stunning "The Adur From The Sussex Yacht Club", scoring 19.

Alex Swyer for "Sand Patterns", scoring 19.

We look forward to the next competition on the 1st December, which is a set subject print competition.