Club News

Rosie Armes,who has more photographic honours after her name than you can wave a stick at, gave us a rare showing of the most amazingly wonderful prints second to no other collection that I have ever seen at SCC. They were simply inspiring.

Rosie started by showing us her ARPS panel of 15 prints which were taken at a fairground and it was awash with bright colours. It illustrated how a collection of prints arranged properly can hold together and create a wonderful spectacle although some of the images on their own would not have impressed.

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.

Martin gave us a very well prepared and thorough talk about flash photography. He was assisted by Liz Barber and used our ever willing vounteer Alex as a model. (He started off taking a couple of shots of Paul in his usual position at the front but thought better of it as the results were a bit scary!) Those of us who use Canon gear were asked to bring their flash guns, which I duly did, but forgot the batteries, plonker!

Our second set competition was judged by Tony Riley, and the subject was "Patterns in Nature".

The second Print competition of the new season was held on the 1stDecember. The Judge for the evening was Rosie Armes . Rosie is a member of Chichester Camera Club, lives on Hayling Island and has been photographing for about seven years and in that time has gained a plethora of distinctions.

Samples of her work can be seen at http://www.rosiearmes.com/rosie/Portfolio/Portfolio.html

To quote the Chairman!

We had a really enjoyable last night of our pre Christmas programme, thanks to a small band of people who really worked hard to make it.

Anne Nagle, Alex Swyer, the Chairman (Di Walker) and Audrey all were responsible for:

The venue was Wivelsfield Village hall and the competition was run by our friends at Steyning CC, and aloyal band of seven Storrington CC members turned out to see the fun.

This competition is altogether a step up from the Regnum Crouch events as there are always at least 20 clubs from East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent taking part, amongst whom there are some very good competitors.

Last night we had a real treat when Pete (as he is known to his friends) gave us a really entertaining talk about Photoshop. He is one of Chichester CC's top photographers and we have seen his work over many years at Chichester's annual exhibition at South Mundham village hall. This is an event not to be missed as Chichester have a large number of very talented photographers including Mike Davison who we trained at Storrington!!

The first Print competition of the new season was held on the 6th October. The Judge for the evening was Bob Webzell. Bob is self-taught in Photography and was awarded his Royal Photographic distinctions in 1999 and 2001. A past president of Brighton and Hove Camera Club, he supports educational developments in Tanzania.

The Regnum print competition was hosted by Bognor Regis CC at the St Mary's centre Felpham.

The Judge was Caroline Colgate ARPS and she was very good giving very specific reasons for all her marks for the entries.

Eleven clubs took part, but the evening was dominated by Chichester CC who started of with a 20 in the first round and followed that with two more out of a total of only six awarded altogether. Their lowest score was 16 for the brilliant shot of Carmarge Horses taken by Rosie Armes!!