Meeting Report

For the Best of the Year competition, we invited Ken Scott back to adjudicate our images and prints. Ken is a member of Steyning Camera Club and is best known for his mountain landscape photography. A respected judge on the camera club circuit, he is also an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society.

In both competitions there was a disappointing turn out with only 15 members submitting in the print competition and 16 in the PI. Although the objective of these competitions is to find our Best of the Year, it also provides an opportunity to get a second opinion of an image that may have been harshly treated in a previous competition.

First up were the Projected Images where some 32 images were judged. The best of the night was attributed to Di Walker for Stilettos.

During the interval a discussion centred around splitting into two groups for competition purposes. After some debate, the consensus of opinions favoured staying as we are. All comments made during this discussion will be debated at a future committee meeting.

After the interval, came the 30 prints that had been entered. Best of the night went once again to Di Walker for River Tyne.

Meeting Report

We had our panel competition night which was very badly supported in terms of entries, although quite a good number of members attended the night.

There were only seven submissions which were put up on our deluxe print easel by Alex ably assisted by Vice Chairman/lady Anne. the panels had been laid out so that members could have a good look at them beforehand and then they were displayed in a random order and the members present gave a mark out of 20 on a voting paper provided.

After this the authors of each panel was invited up to explain his or her panel.

First panel up was from Chairman Di and was of three butterflies taken on the South Downs. As she pointed out they are very good at taking off just as you are ready to press the shutter. Obviously these did not fly off!

Next was a panel of owl's faces submitted by me and immediately I saw it I decided that I had put them in the wrong order, a good start for me! The audience agreed and then it was suggested that I had the others in the wrong places as well.

The following panel was from Anne and was three abstract shots of tulips from her garden. They were very pretty and the panel held together very well.

Meeting Report

A loyal band of six SCC members attended the Adestra hall in Hassocks for the Crouch PI competition hosted by Mid Sussex CC. Ten clubs were entered with six PIs each. The judge for the evening was Clive Tanner FRPS.

In round one, Ian MacWhirter's 'Glaucous gull with Guillemot prey' was awarded 18 points a very good start as that gave us the lead straight away.

Round two saw Anne Nagle's 'Puma on the rocks' getting another 18, great. However Steyning collected a 20 (one of only five in total awarded) and this gave them the lead.

In round three, Paul Hayward's 'Not funny' got agood 17; but Mid Sussex got a 20 and this tied them with Steyning in the lead.

At the end of the tea break we had the raffle when Martin collected a bottle, but I had not bought any tickets (being treated to a strip by Jean) so we did not win more!

And so to round four when Jane Coward's 'Curly petalled flower' got another 18; but Steyning only got a 15 and Mid Sussex 17 and this put us in the lead tied with Mid Sussex!

Round five was the best as our star from the MacWhirters, Ian (the bionic man), got 19 for his 'Courting Polar Bears' which put us firmly in the lead by one point from Steyning, in spite of another 20 from them.

Meeting Report

A good turnout of stalwart SCC members (eight of us) turned up at Heathfield for the Sussex Fed print competition. Unfortunately we did not do too well (as usual), however, one of our best photographers Jean MacWhirter did very well indeed to get one of only eight 20s out of the 100 prints entered.

Twenty clubs from all over East and West Sussex, and a couple from Kent, including some very good and much larger clubs than us took part, each entering five prints. This is in a different league to the Regnum Crouch competitions when only about ten clubs enter.

In the first round, Daisy Kane's 'Mare and Foal' got 15 marks and we started off in 4th position. Then in round 2, my 'Venice canal' also got 15 and we were in much the same place. By now only three 20s had been awarded.

Things looked up for us in round three when Jean's 'Buff-necked Ibis with Grub' got its 20 and we rose to 12th equal. Very well done Jean.

Round four saw Chairlady Di's 'Walking in Haste' awarded 17, not too bad at all. There were three 20s in that round.