Meeting Report
Chichester
triumphed yet again! But enough of them, what about the team
that came second? You guessed, it was us!
A
great effort against the giants of the competition, we were ahead at
the half way stage, but were pipped at the post with their last print
which scored a 20, giving them victory by 2 points.
Star
of our show was Derek with his “Golden Eagle with Kill” that won
great praise from the judge Liz Boud. Honourable mentions went
to Daisy for “Upper Cast Neighbourhood” and Ian with “Male
Broad Bodied Chaser”.
Unfortunately
John Gauvin’s “Snowdrop” got marked down because it was not
given its correct name of Amarillidaceae “Galanthus”. Don’t
make that mistake again John!!!
Anyway
coming second out of nine clubs was a tremendous performance, and
should give us encouragement for the rest of the season. I know
we have some great prints for next year’s competition, which of
course we will be hosting.
The
scores achieved by our prints were as follows:
Tonight we had a welcome return visit by 
This evening's meeting kicked off with some of Derek's slide shows. We were shown several collections of images, starting with a couple of short ones. The longer sequence which followed contained an eclectic mix of pictures, I don't think I have ever seen the Eurofighter Tornado and mating damsel flies in the same sequence before. Derek then picked out some of the images and explained what they were and how he had gone about shooting them.
The second half of this evenings meeting was a very comprehensive instruction by Martin Tomes showing us how he deals with his digital images from downloading the camera's card to having it ready for printing. Sadly time did not allow him to show us fully final preparations for printing.