The competition was held at Hailsham and six of our members attended. The judge was a very amusing gentleman by the name of Clive Tanner.
In Round One, Daisy Kane was only awarded 15 points for her beautiful picture of an Indian lady surrounded with her cooking pots, which must have disappointed her greatly (she was there). Paul and I both agreed that when projected here, it lacked the real colour saturation that it had when viewed elsewhere previously. This is one of the problems with P. I.s in my opinion. Slides were always the same.
However in Round Two our fortunes changed with one of Chairman Peter's renown naked lady pictures entitled 'Katie' which was awarded 20 points much to our great delight. Very well done Peter.The judge was very taken with both her and you!
Next up in Round Three, we had Paul Hayward's 'Mist Sunrise' with its fantastic recession of hills which was highhly praised and given 17 points. So, at tea time we were lying third and our spirits were high - mine especially as I won a bottle of whisky in the draw.
After the break we had Jean MacWhirter's 'Gentoo Penguin feeding Chicks' which was credited to Ian both here and in our newsletter. Sorry for someone's error Jean, but it made Ian smile with delight when it scored 19 points. This gave rise to rounds of applause and put us up to Second place.
The tension rose for the final round, particularly in the row in front of me where Jane Coward was sitting. However she need not have worried as the judge loved her 'Hammer and Anvil' picture which was blessed with 19 well deserved points and much more applause.
So your photography club should be very proud indeed to finish second out of 17 camera clubs from all over Sussex and some from Kent. In First Place was Crawley with 95 points out of a possible 100; Second Storrington with 90; Third Eastbourne with 85; and trailing in 4th place Chichester with 84! Steyning only managed 12th place with 80!
I must add a self indulgent note that the images were selected by John Gauvin, Clive Trusler and myself - so we deserve some of the credit ??!!
Here is the summary of results:
- Katie (Peter Michell) - BEST OF SHOW 20
- Gentoo Penguin Feeding Chicks (Jean MacWhirter) 19
- Hammer and Anvil (Jane Coward) 19
- Misty Sunrise (Paul Hayward) 17
- Authentic Indian Cooking (Daisy Kane) 15
Derek Grieve (general dogsbody and committee member)
P.S. Please note that the Sussex Fed will be running a slide competition at the end of the season if enough people are interested. It is for individuals, not the club. We have details if anyone is interested in entering themselves.