Ten club members plus two friends of members visited the British Wildlife Centre at Lingfield.
We assembled at 9.30 and had a welcome 'cuppa'. Then the keeper who was going to take us into the various enclosures introduced herself and off we set.
Anne Nagle started the evening with her report on our year's events and highlights and we all agreed with her that it had been a very good and interesting season.
Walter Benzie was our judge for the evening. Walter startedthe evening by saying that this particular set of images was of a very high standard which was reflected in the scoring.
Seventeen I hear you say. Yes that’s the score.
The judge, Andrew Perry, after much deliberating, pacing up and down, stroking his beard announced the score, yes you’ve guessed it, 17. After the first dozen or so images it was too obvious that if an image was not held back then it was going to score seventeen. There was even a murmur going through the audience before the score was announced.
Well that was it, the end of another season, and what a season it has been. We have had new faces, new judges, new evening activities and some cracking images to look at. All in all I think it has been a very productive season and I look forward to the next one.
The evening was for the members to submit their two best projected and printed images for a different judge to asses and to hope to win the best print of the year cup.
The nights judge was Glyn Edmunds ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAP/b.
This was the last Competition before our best of the year.
There werea total of 51 images submitted for the evening’s competition.
The judge for the evening was Ken Woods. We started off with our usual run through of all the images, and then the judging began.
Our table top photography evening was our second practical evening of the season. There were several table tops set up with different lighting. Liz brought along some stressed plastic and polarising filters to bring out the coloured patterns in the plastic.
On one table we used continuous lights, which consisted of two angle poise lamps with daylight energy saving bulbs (with a diffuser in front of the lamp) and a slide light box (which makes a very good large light source).
On Saturday April 13th, SCC hosted a presentation given by Mark Cottle MA who travelled up from Devon to give us an illustrated talk on 'Shackleton's Endurance Expedition captured on Camera', held at the Ashington Community Centre.,
Sadly our Chairlady Anne Nagle was struck down with a nasty complaint which made it impossible for her to be present, and so our Vice Chairman Paul Hayward stepped in to introduce and MC the evening making a fine job of it.
Mark grabbed everyone's attention from the start being a very polished speaker who knew his subject matter backwards.
This evening we had the very welcome return of Rosie Armes who has previously given us both an evening show and has judged a competition. Rosie has more distinctions than you can shake a stick at, but to me the most relevant are her FRPS and her MPAGB, of which there are only 115 in existence!! She is a member of the advanced photographers of Chichester CC, which is where we first met her.
Chichester CC hosted the 2013 Regnum Crouch PDI Shield at the Assembly rooms in Chichester. The event was organised very well by Mike Davison (trained by SCC!). The Judge for the competition was Tony Riley from Dorking, a well respected Digital expert who has given a talk at SCC and judged a competition, which I remember well as he gave me a 20!!
