2018
Snowy Weather
The snowy weather saw some of our members braving the elements to record the event.
See the results of their hard work
here.
Midphot Success
Congratulations go to Terry Wall for achieving the following at Midphot 2018.
MCPF Ribbons for Bobcat Yellowstone Winter.
Acceptances for
Mono Prints
Snow Patterns 12
Yellowstone Trees 13
Nature Prints Prints
Bobcat Yellowstone Winter 13
Gannet Surfacing 13
Hard Winter 13
Open Projected
Soft Light Skye 12
Terry had a very high success rate with his images having submitted 16 images in total.
See the selected photos here
Congratulations go to Amanda Cornes and Heather Elliot for gaining their places in a Club Competition. We hope to see many more of your images reaching the top of the tree.
Friday 16th February saw our Annual Battle with Monmouth.
It was judged by Nick Jenkins, who was fair and gave excellent critique.
At the half way stage with prints scoring 175 against Monmouth scoring 168, it was close.For the dpi's Ross sored 172 against Momouth at 170.
Total for the evneing Ross 347
Monmouth 338.
A good win. Well done to all who had their images selected for this battle.
Wednesday night gave us a new Supermoon. The media were saying about the Super Blue Moon, but it looks quite white and very bright.
Members, not wanting to miss an opportunity, sent in their images of the super moon.
It was slightly disappointing in colour though but very bright. I think we were all hoping for a bright orange moon and got a silver grey one instead, with great detail.
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Credit : Steve Betts
Fujifilm X-T2
Focal Length 400ml
1/250 sec, f/11, ISO 200 Manual |
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Credit : Sandra Walding
Fujifilm X-T20
Focal Length 211ml
1/480 sec, f/5.0,, ISO 200 Aperture Priority |
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Credit : Martyn Duggan
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Wednesday 31st January saw our annual AV evening. The challenge this time was to theme our AV's with no travelogues. Having said that, travel did feature but was very well themed.
The members took this challenge to an excellent level. There were some very funny AV's with Chris Hawkins making us laugh with his Hot Cross Bunnies. We will never look at Chocolate Bunnies in the same way again.
Also, some stunning AV's from Allan Ockenden with Ice, Barbara Nash with Poppy, Steve Betts with ICM and Steampunks, Rod Lamb with Trees.
Roger Irwin produced his normal topical AV's relating to cars and REME, but his Church recording was great. Mike Hepden with Englands Green & Pleasant Land,(which we should have got up and sung to). Brian Wiltshire, the Light of Iceland, Haze Reid with Teddies and Darion Churchill with Ellie. Brian Challis with Remembrance, Allan Ockenden with Russian Liturgy, Terry Wall, California Tea Time, Martyn Duggan with Building of the Hereford Bridge and Sandra & Roger Walding with Forest Gems.
Well done everyone, cant wait to see what you do next year, when hopefully more members will take part.
We visited Beacon for the Annual Three Way Battle, judged by Phil Cooling and the scores were:
Beacon 372
Newent 336
Ross 335
It was very close for 2nd and 3rd place with Newent just getting across the line first.
There were some excellent images on show with Ross scoring 20 on 5 occasions. We scored the highest number of 20's. Well done to the following members.
The top images were
| Little Owl - Trevor Lane |
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| Kingfisher Blast off - Terry Wall |
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| Orderley - John Ryland |
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| The Boathouse - Ron Lines |
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| Wild River - John Ryland |
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Thanks to all who entered their images into this Battle.
Last night saw our first evening of the season with presentation of the Presidents Choice by Barbara Nash to Rod Lamb for Dovercourt Lighthouse. Our congratulations to Rod Lamb.
The Society ran a Peoples Choice this time and the best print was awarded to Ron Lines for Steam on Fire. Our congratulations to Ron Lines.
Our first evening went very well with members bring in prints for others to critique. It was a lively, entertaining evening with Rod Lamb receiving a bottle of wine for the Chairmans Choice for the evening.
