A special mention to Karen and Bill for achieving two top scores of 20, to Russell for his 19 and 20 and to Liz for her lovely woodland image which also achieved a 20. Well done.
Thanks to all the members who submitted images it is always great to see our members work.
This year the battle was held at Morecambe Camera Club. Thirteen Kendal members made the journey to Heysham Library for the event.
Each club submitted 30 images divided into 3 categories Open Colour, Open Mono and Nature. The competition was expertly judged by David Gibbins of Beeston Camera Club.
First Round was Open Mono and was a close competition, with three images for Morecambe and three images for Kendal held into the final judging. Both clubs achieved an 18 ,19 and 20. Kendal’s winning images are below.
Egg Heads 20
Airborne Attack 19
Lake Manyara 18
The total scores in the Mono round placed Morecambe in the lead with 168 points to Kendal and 172 to Morecambe.
The Second Round to be judged was Nature. David had a very difficult task as the standard of the images was outstanding. This was reflected in 10 images being held to final judging with five from Kendal and five from Morecambe.
Kendal’s Leading images were:
Dalmatian Pelican and Fish 20
Arctic Dreams 19
Brown Pelican 19
Barn Owl 18
Dalmatian Pelicans Feeding 18
The round was extremely close with the Kendal achieving 178 points to Morecambe’s 173.
After a well organised coffee and tea break with good biscuits and a raffle, it was the final deciding Colour Round.
The standard of images was again very high with David holding 7 Images into the final judging. Kendal was doing well with 6 of the 7 images held and it was all looking very good for a possible overall win.
Kendal’s images achieved;
Wintering 20
By dawn’s early light 19
The Horse Box 19
Hot Dog 18
Trees framed 18
Rocky staircase 18
These strong images gave Kendal a Colour Round score of 176 points to Morecambe’s 163 .
The overall win went to Kendal with a total score of 522 to 508.
A big thank you goes to David Gibbins for his time in providing considered comments on the images and for judging the competition. A thank you also to Morecambe Camera Club for their warm welcome and hospitality.
Morecambe Club have also provided a link to a zoom video of the evening which can be accessed for a week. The link is in the members area of the website along with the full score sheets for the event.
Thanks to all members who attended Morecambe, it was a very enjoyable evening.
Next week it is the final Club Open Print Competition of the season. This will NOT be zoomed and members are asked to bring their prints on the night to the hall. The Judge is Phil Hodson of Poulton le Fylde.
Members are also reminded that entries for the next and Final PDI competition of the 22-23 season are due in by Wednesday to Dave .
On Wednesday 18th Jan 2023, we had a guest speaker, Linda Bembridge who gave a very enjoyable talk on her specific styles of photography.
Linda takes an image and works it in different ways, adding colours, gold painted layers and texture. Linda takes the same image and changes the perspective, rotates the image changes the colours. She produces several individual images from one original raw file. She never duplicates an image or runs off more than one print.
Linda also makes panels from her images, we normally think of a panel of three images mainly landscape. Linda makes all her images in the panels square by squashing up the image. A panel may consist of anything from two images to twenty images all square format, all linked in some way by colour or pattern.
Linda has written a book detailing her photographic journey called “Belief”.
During her talk Linda asked us to think of one word to describe our photography. Several words were running through my mind, that I need to input into my photography workflow, “organised” “productive”, “profitable”,” focused” (in more ways than one). Maybe focussed is the word I need at the moment.
Linda’s talk was enjoyed by members and we would like to say a Big Thank You.
This weeks Guest Blogger was Ann Dallaway. Guest bloggers are always welcome, let the webmaster know if you wish to write a blog.
Next week is competition night and Kylie Martin is our judge for the evening. The topic is ‘Trees’. As always join us on Zoom or at Castle Street. Visitors always welcome.
The first club night of 2023 was a members evening.
The evening started with a short Extraordinary General Meeting to ratify the club constitution. The Constitution is now available in the members section of the website.
The main event of the evening was with five members of the club sharing presentations of their photography.
Phil Drayton was the first member to present his images. Phil shared an extremely interesting selection of macro images of mini beasts accompanied by technical explanation of how he had captured the images.
Images included spiders, frogs, ants, grasshoppers, bees and beetles. Many taken within Phil’s garden. The images gave members insight into the lives of the tiny creatures living around us, which could easily be overlooked as great subjects for macro photography.
Our second photographer of the evening was Suzy Bray. Suzy is a newer member of the club. She wished to share a range of her photographic interests, which includes landscape, industrial heritage within the landscape, abstract and the intimate landscape and mono photography.
After a short coffee break there were three further presentations.
Bill Pickard shared his first ever audio visual presentation. Bill explained the background to making the audio visual presentation about Roa Island a village on the Cumbrian Coast. The presentation accompanied by music included a variety of images taken around Roa Island including land and seascapes, wildlife and sporting images.
Russell Millner share a selection of images from an elephant safari in Africa. Russell discussed the environmental dangers these magnificent animals are subject too and their risk of extinction. His images included intimate portraits of the elephants in their habitat alongside images of elephants’ interactions with humans.
Out fifth contributor of the evening, Dave Nelson, shared a collection of aviation images, taken in Cumbria. Dave provided information on the flight paths of low flying aircraft through the Lake District National Park. He shared the best locations for capturing images and informed the group of the types of aircraft that most often fly over Cumbria.
A massive thank you to Dave , Russell, Bill, Suzy and Phil for their hard work.
Members enjoyed the evening. It was wonderful to see the photography pursued by members and not just the single images we see in regular competitions.
The evening will have provided inspiration for members to pursue their own photographic projects.
Next week we have Linda Bembridge, who will be giving her talk entitled “Abstract with a bit of Landscape”.
Please join via Zoom or at the hall in Castle Street. Details available on the membership page.
The Final PDI Competition of 2022 was a Sports Image Competition which was judged by Vincent Scothern.
Vin from Nottingham had previously given a zoom presentation to the club, sharing his knowledge as an experienced sports photographer.
The evening was entertaining as members entered a varied and idiosyncratic selection of sports images. Images of Cumbrian wrestling, fell running, husky racing and Innuit wrestling provided variety from the more traditional rugby and motor sports.
In the Club Mono Section, Gordon Bramwell’s image ‘Race Leader’ took first place with 20 points with Derek Mackie achieving 19 for his image ‘Scrambling Trails’.
In the Club Colour Section Liz Bagnall took first place with ‘Sand Yacht’ with Ann Bench taking second place with 19 points for ‘Out in Front’.
In the advance section Ann Dalloway achieved first place in both the Colour and Mono Sections with ‘Sting in the Tail’ and ‘Junior Grand National..
‘Trail Rider’ by Jeff Bangell and ‘They Can’t See Me’ by Dave Nelson both held second place in the Advance Mono.
‘Wear Yellow in Paris’ by Maureen Smith and ‘Sand Yachting’ by Jeff Bagnall both achieved 19 points and second place in the Advance Colour.
Thanks to all members who shared their great images and to Vin for judging.
The next club meeting is on 11th January 2023.
Merry Christmas to all our members and blog followers and see you again in 2023.
On Wednesday the 30th November we joined Keswick Photography Club via zoom to enjoy Colleen sharing her macro photography with images ranging from insects and flowers to some extremely original and abstract photography.
Colleen Slater is a fully qualified and experienced teacher with a BA degree in Fine Art and a postgraduate Art Teacher’s Certificate. She is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and member of Brighton and Hove Camera Club.
The subject was inspirational with something for all levels and members of the group. Some of the most thought provoking was her abstract photography inspired by ‘urban surfaces’ in Brighton including phone boxes and the surface of a concrete wall. It has definitely opened our eyes to some new photographic possibilities.
Collen was happy to share her behind the scenes set up and explain the settings and equipment used to achieve the images which added to an all round informative evening. Thank you Colleen.
Wednesday 7th December
Next week is our last meeting before the Christmas Break 🧑🎄and we will having our 3rd Monthly PDI competition with a subject ‘Sport’ which will be judged by Vincent Scothern. (Vincent may also be judging whether we were listening when he gave his Sport Talk last season 😉)
Harry Emmett CPAGB was the judge for this weeks Print Competition, the second of the 22-23 season.
The weather wasn’t the best for Harry’s drive to Kendal, and despite a delayed start due to technical difficulties arising from a missing light box wire, the judging of images was informative and appreciated by members.
Open themed competitions draw a wide variety of photographic subjects and the evening included, architectural, portrait, landscape, nature and abstract images.
Whilst judging images Harry discussed the impact mount colours can make to a image and gave advice on composition and image toning.
Advanced colour images were judged first, the winning image was ‘Bearded Tit’ by Peter Kennedy.
In the Club colour section congratulation went to Karen Carruthers for her image ‘Winter Sunshine Tarn Hows’.
The Advanced mono section saw two images achieve 20 points, ‘Vicar’s Close’ by Maureen Smith and ‘Chloe’ by Kim Rigg. Maureen image was awarded overall first place.
In the Club Mono section first place went to Martin Rowe for ‘Mining Museum Roof Detail’.
November 23rd saw a return visit to the club of Richard O’Brien. Richard previously shared a zoom presentation earlier in the season on architectural photography.
Richard’s return visit provided an informative evening on repairing and recolouring photograph.
Richard demonstrated how he repairs old family photographs using tools within photoshop. The techniques used and the tips provided will be equally relevant to many photograph editing situations.
Richard’s clear communication style and wealth of photoshop knowledge was appreciated by members.
Richard has again provided pdf notes of his talk, which I am sure members will return to as they try out some of the techniques demonstrated. The pdf is available in the Members Protected Area of the website.
Minimalistic photography is defined as extreme, austere simplicity. It emphasizes sparseness and focuses solely on the smallest number of objects in the composition.
The 9th November saw a Minimalist PDI Competition night judged by Caroline Preece. Caroline gave great advice and constructive comments on the images shared. There was a varied selection of images presented in both the Club and Advanced Sections.
In the Club Mono Section, Cathy Cash took the top sport with ‘Spring Time’ followed by Derek Mackie achieving 19 points with his image ‘Lapwing’.
In the Club Colour Section. Cathy and Derek again were leading the group, both receiving the maximum score of 20 points for their images ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and ‘Raindrops’. Derek’s image ‘Raindrops’ was given first place.
19 points were awarded to Martin Rowe for his image ‘Fallen Leaf’ and Elaine Elrick for her image ‘Sea View’.
Moving to the Advance Mono Section, the winning image was ‘Grass’ by Suzy Braye
Gavin Lowe also had a great night achieving a maximum score of 40 for his two mono images, ‘Cliff Diver’ and ‘Into the Light’.
Finally we have the Advanced Colour Results with ‘Pateley Bridge’ by Ann Dallaway achieving 20 points and first place. ‘Lavender’ by Peter Kennedy also achieved a maximum score of 20 points.
‘Tidal Jetty Marker’ by Maureen Smith and ‘Homeward Bound’ by Bill Pickard achieved 19 points.
Thanks to all members who shared their great images and to Caroline for her encouraging words and advice.
The meeting next week will feature Richard O’Brien giving his zoom talk entitled “History Re-Coloured”.
Richard will be giving a demonstration of repairing, retouching and recolouring techniques for historical photographs using Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
On Wednesday the 2nd November we were joined via zoom by our guest speaker Kylie Martin with her talk “My Journey In Photography….So Far”
Kylie took us on her photographic journey from her first image in 2006/7 upto the present day, below is just a small selection of her images.
Despite barriers due to health restrictions, which have impacted on her photography Kylie-Ann has earnt a number of distinctions, EFIAP, BPE 2 and LDPS.
The talk was well attended in the hall and via zoom with Kylie-Ann sharing her images which contributed to all the exhibition acceptances and some of the stories behind them.
Kylie-Ann explained some of the techniques behind how she created one of the award winning images and ended the evening sharing her CPAGB panel.
Despite a few technical issues in the hall we all enjoyed a very eclectic mixture of photographs and no doubt some of us will be trying out some of the techniques in the near future. A big thank you to Kylie Ann for a very enjoyable evening.
Wednesday 9th November
Next week we will have our 2nd Monthly PDI competition with a subject ‘Minamalistic’ which will be judged by Caroline Preece.
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