A warm welcome to a new season, good to seesome new faces amongst us.
This meeting was presented by Derek but we were treated to photos by Derek Grieve and Di Walker on a trip around Iceland where they had enjoyed a ten day Photography Course (according to Di) and a Photographic Holiday in Derek’s opinion! They went with Colin Westgate FRPS of Quest Holidays and with some interesting characters making up the select group, including a Judge and a Russian Lady.
We were treated to a fascinating evening when Paul Berkleley (and his wife) came to tell us about the Triggersmart System.
The day dawned looking slightly unreliable but improved rapidly.
I was taken to Brighton with Martin Tomes and rapidly transported by Di Walker. We needed lunch to support us for the afternoon and I suggested Shoreham Airport's cafe. This proved to be a very good choice and we had a very reasonably priced and tasty snack lunch each. I would recommend this venue to anyone.
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).
