Our first meeting of the new year. Members were invited to bring in 5 DPIs each, taken within the previous 40 days, for critique and comment, and a varied selection there was too. This was followed by the highlight of the evening – an excellent audio visual presentation, put together by Steve Eckhardt and Andy McGarty, […]
Evenings
Visits or speechers
Club Competition 22 November
We were happy to welcome Chas Madge from Exmouth, once more, to judge the second competition of the season on 22 November. Chas gave a comprehensive critique, with useful comments, of all 78 images submitted and the winners were:- Mono Print – Set Subject: “Low Key” – Andy McGarty Mono Print – Open – Steve Eckhardt Colour […]
WCPF Travelling Prints Exhibition
The prints were shown at our meeting on 8 November. This year there were only 67 prints, which enabled us to view and discuss all the prints comfortably within the time available. There was a variety of images, both colour and mono, including portraits, nature, wildlife and a host of other subjects. Some of the award […]
25 October Meeting
Club member, Peter Park, gave a very informative and helpful illustrated talk on presenting images for competitions, demonstrating the effective use of cropping, together with removal of “clutter”, to achieve the desired result. The message seemed to be: look for the image within the image. Afterwards, he gave a practical demonstration of print mounting, involving careful measurement […]
Club Competition 11 October
We were pleased to welcome Chris Marsham to judge our first competition of the season. Chris explained his method of judging before the images were presented and commented on. The winners in each of the categories were as follows:- Colour print – set subject: “Bygone Days” – Andy McGarty Mono print – set subject: “High […]
Critique of images for external competitions
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 […]
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 […]