Our first PI competition of the new season saw an excellentturnout of 81 images submitted for evaluation by our judge for the evening, a former member, Mike Davison. Mike is now a member of Chichester Camera Club, having previously been our programme secretary. He gave us a talk last year on 'Trying for an RPS Distinction' encouraging us to 'go for it'.
Our first competition of the new season attracted a high number of entries and it was gratifying to see so many of our new members entering for the first time.
Our judge for the night was Trevor Gellard FRPS, a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Judge, lecturer and a member of the distinctions panel at the Royal Photographic Society.
Trevor has exhibited in International exhibitions and has had several one man exhibitions. He is an active member of the Brighton and Hove Camera club and a member of the Mirage group of Photographers.
This was an evening of two halves, slide shows shown in the conventional manner and those shown with most images at 90 degrees to the norm giving some of us sore necks!
Ian McBean started the evening by showing us some mouth watering shots of Mauritius, having first showed us where in the world it is. I imagine some of us will put it on our list of places to visit one day.
This was the best attended first night of SCC since I joined the club in 2000. Over 30 people came to our first night back with Jane Coward our treasurer working flat out taking subscriptions from 27 members including 4 new recruits.
Sunday afternoon found us meeting in Sainsbury's carpark, Horsham for one of our photo walks.
The weather shone on the righteous as ever, and a pleasant walk was enjoyed by all who attended.
One thing after another. First the visit to the British Wildlife centre, followed a week later by the Annual Exhibition, followed yet another week on by the Barbeque.
Fourteen members of the club (strictly 13 plus a wife) visited the British Wildlife Centre at Lingfield arriving at about 9.30am for a 'cuppa' before a briefing about what we could expect to see during our visit.
Eric Burchell joined us again to judge the final print competition of the season. Not as controversial as some of our judges this season, in fact he was very generous with his marking, 2x15s, 10x16s, 14x17s, 9x18s, 5x19s, 6x20s.
It would appear that birds of all varieties were his favourite subject of the night, but out of left field came Jane Coward with her Funnel Web Spider Boy who triumphed on the night. Eric commented that capturing the moment was all important and that to avoid “record” pictures for competition.
