The 27 September meeting was designated a critique evening for images submitted for external competitions, in particular, the Horseshoe Trophy competition. Before the critique session got underway, we were pleased to welcome Vernon Whitlock, who is involved in the production of the recently introduced monthly community magazine: “Honiton & Village News”. Vernon gave the background […]
Evenings
Visits or speechers
Award of the President’s Cup
Following the AGM on 7 June, our President, Michael Thompson, judged 14 entries to the President’s Cup competition, which had the subject of “Concentration”. Congratulations to Andy McGarty for submitting the winning entry and being duly presented with the President’s Cup.
Visit by Chris Marsham
We were delighted to welcome Chris Marsham from Newton Abbot Camera Club to our meeting on 10 May. In the first half of the evening, he showed a number of travelogues covering a diverse range of destinations such as the former Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Antarctica and South Georgia, with some images dating back to the […]
End of season competitions (2)
On 26 April, the entries for DPI of the Year, the Dave King Cup (for three on a theme) and the Project Trophy (this year, prints depicting classic book titles) were judged by Paul Jones. A wide variety of images were presented and, for the book titles, some very creative and artistic entries. Congratulations to […]
End of season competitions (1)
At the meeting on 12 April, the entries for the Crystal Trophy (for best floral print), Mono Print of the Year and Colour Print of the Year were judged by Peter Hyett. As usual, there was a good number of images in each of the categories and congratulations go to the following winners:- Crystal Trophy […]
Maldon Battle
The first leg had Maldon leading by 17.5 marks – Maldon 253, Honiton 235.5, so it was fingers crossed for us to make up the deficit in the second leg. Our judge tended to score consistently lower, overall, than the Maldon judge and scores were Maldon 135, Honiton 126, resulting in Maldon winning with an […]
DPI Night
On the 1st March meeting, DPIs from the 2018 South Devon Salon were shown, together with the best images from DPIC 2018.
Visit by Richard Austin
On February 15th we were treated to a talk by Richard Austin – Lyme Regis based press photographer, specialising in wildlife. Richard has been a professional news and sports photographer for over 30 years working at the top end of the newspaper and magazine industry. Whilst he specialises in wildlife, which included deer, foxes, otters […]