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PDI Competition Night – Curves

Wednesday January 24th 2024 saw the fourth PDI competition of the club season. The competition theme ‘Curves’ was an interesting challenge, but as always members presented a varied selection of images.

The judge for the competition was Erica Oram, CPAGB AFIAP BPE3 of Sheffield Photographic Club. Erica gave great critiques of the entries with advice on how to improve images. Members appreciated her advice and hope to welcome her back to the club in the future.

In the Monochrome section members submitted 38 images. The winner on the evening was ‘Staircase’ by Phil Drayton with 20 points.

Maureen Smith also achieved 20 points with her image ‘Shell’ for 2nd place. In third place with 19 points was Bill Pickard with his image ‘Spiral’.

After the coffee break Erica judged 38 images in the Colour section. In first place was Ann Dallaway with ‘Going up’.

Gavin Lowe also achieved 20 points with ‘Round and Round’.

Maureen Smith and Dave Nelson both achieved 19 points for ‘Looking Down’ and ‘Red Arrows-Tornado’.

The full scores for the competition are in the members section of the website. This week all images have been added to the members protected section at thumbnail size (800×600). Members can review the images at their leisure if they wish. Feedback to Maureen on this method of sharing of images would be appreciated.

Next week is Editing night available on Zoom and at Hall and as always visitors welcome.

Members Prints Competition Results 22/23

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The final prints competition of the 22/23 season was held on February 8th. The competition was Judged by Phil Hodgson of Poulton le Fylde Club. Phil gave us an entertaining evening and some wonderful images were presented by members for judging.

In the Colour Club Competition Karen Caruthers was leading the seasons league table going into the final competition. Karen finished the season with a winning image ‘Sunlit Fungi’.

Karen finished the season as overall winner in the Club Colour Competition having achieved 3 wins this season with ‘Splash of Red at Glenridding’, ‘Winter Sunshine Tarn Hows’ and ‘Sunlit Fungi’ achieving a total of 108 points.

In the Club Mono Competition the nights winning image was ‘Fisherman’s Huts Lindisfarne’ by Martin Rowe.

This win took Martin into joint 1st place in the season’s results. with Martin having had a previous print win with ‘Mining Museum Roof Detail’. Karen Carruthers shared overall first place with both members finishing on 104 points.

Moving onto the Advanced Mono there were 6 images which received a maximum 20 points on the night.

Dave Nelson achieved a maximum 40 points for his abstract images ‘Drought’ and ‘Frozen in Time’. Laurie Thurlow also achieved 40 points for his images ‘Scout Scar’ and ‘Rydal Lonely Tree’. ‘Scout Scar’ was given the overall winning place in the nights competition.

Also achieving 20 points were Maureen Smith for ‘The Look’ and Peter Kennedy for ‘Southport Pier’

First place in the season’s Advanced Mono Competition was closely fought but finally the win went to Peter Kennedy by 1 point (total 108) with Maureen Smith 2nd place (107) and Kim Rigg 3rd place (105).

Finally, we come to the Advanced Colour Competition which had 5 full point images on the night. Laurie Thurlow with ‘Ullswater Expanse’, ‘The Famous Boswell’ by Russell Millner’, Bill Pickard with ‘Break in The Ice’ , ‘The Famous Boswell’ by Russell Millner’, ‘Night Heron Skimming’ by Peter Kennedy and ‘Winter Scene’ by Jeff Bagnell.

The win on the night was given to Laurie Thurlow for ‘Ullswater Expanse’.

Laurie has presented stunning images this season and took the overall 1st place with 112 points. 2nd place went to Peter Kennedy (108) and 3rd place to Maureen Smith (102).

Full competition results are in the members area of the website.

Thank you to all members who entered the print competitions this year. Your images are always appreciated and enjoyed by the membership and we hope you had fun. Keep entering your images next year.

Next week is a talk by Warren Alani called ‘Through the Years’ available on Zoom or at the Hall. Visitors always welcome see the membership page for details.

Talk by Linda Bembridge

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‘Abstract with a bit of Landscape’

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.

Linda’s website is https://www.lindabembridge.me/gallery/

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.

Repairing Old Photographs with Photoshop

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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.

Richard’s work can be seen on his website http://www.richobphoto.co.uk/.

Once again, a big ‘thank you’ goes to Richard for an informative and enjoyable evening and hopefully we will see another return visit in the future.

Competition Time

Next week is a print competition. (Not available on Zoom).

Please bring your mounted print images on the night. Two colour and two mono images will be judged by Harry Emmett CPAGB.

PDI images on the ‘Sports’ theme need to be with the PDI Competition Secretary by Wednesday 23rd November.

‘My Journey in photography so far’ by Kylie-Ann Martin

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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.

If you would like to join us as a guest cost £3.50 please follow the link below. https://kendalphotographyclub.co.uk/guest

Please note Ann Street will now be closed for up to four weeks

‘Wood’ by Daniel Bridge

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On Wednesday 26th October we were joined by our guest speaker Daniel Bridge for his talk titled “Wood”

Daniel Bridge is a full-time professional photography tutor and nature photographer running photography workshops and provided private photography tuition helping around 300 people a year get more from their photography.

Daniel’s love of woodland inspired the talk, which was not only based around the plants and animals found within them but also the wood itself, either in its natural state, or used as a building material. Talking about the techniques employed, and the reasons for shooting,

Daniel showed us over 120 photos, covering macro, wildlife, abstracts and more, talking about the techniques employed, and the reasons for shooting them.

A big ‘thank you’ goes to Daniel for a very enjoyable evening which was enjoyed by members at the hall and via zoom.

Below is just a small selection of the images from the evening

Wednesday 2nd November

Architecture, Exposure to Edit with Richard O’ Brien

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On Wednesday 26th September we enjoyed a Zoom talk by Richard who shared his architectural photography with the club. Richard’s work can be seen on his website http://www.richobphoto.co.uk/.

In the first part of the evening we enjoyed images from around the world including public and religious buildings. Richard gave information on the equipment he used. He shared tips for capturing great images in camera.

During the second part of the evening Richard demonstrated live edits of two of his images using Lightroom and Photoshop. He shared his workflow and gave tips and tricks to improve efficiency when editing images.

A big ‘thank you’ goes to Richard for an informative and enjoyable evening.

Richard has provided pdf. notes of his talk, which are available in the Members Protected Area of the website.

Competition Time

Next week is our first competition of the season. Members, please bring your mounted print images on the night. Two colour and two mono images will be judged by Nick Hilton, DPAGB EFIAP BPE5*

Also remember PDI images for the first PDI competition must be email to the PDI Competition Secretary by Wednesday. kendalphotographyclub@gmail.com

An Evening of Audio Visual Sequences

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On Wednesday night we were treated to our first talk of the year from an old friend of the club, Dave Bibby, CPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* of North Fylde Club.

Parking and technological issues were an early feature of the evening but once these were overcome we had an enjoyable and interesting talk.

Dave guided us though his interest in audio visual production from his early use of slide projectors in the days before digital photography to the use of modern software.

Dave shared how he creates his audio visual productions. We had the pleasure of enjoying Dave’s images and his interest in a variety of musical genres which accompany his audio visual sequences.

A big thank you to Dave for a very enjoyable evening.

Next week we have a talk by Richard O’Brien entitled “Exposure to Edit”.

New members are always welcome in person or via zoom. Check out the website membership page if you are interested in attending.

2021-2022 Season Trophy Presentations

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Last season the club ran a number of competitions which included the Annual Prints and PDI’ competitions, ‘The Cumbrian Trophy’ and Members’ Evening PDI competitions (scores of which are added together to give overall winners for the year),

Our first event of the season was to present the trophies and big congratulations go to the members outlined below 🏆

Best Colour Print – Gordon Mills
Best Monochrome Print – Bill Pickard
Best People/Portrait Print – Ann Bench
Best Nature Print – Gordon Mills
Best Open PDI – Jeff Bagnall
Best People/Portrait PDI – Jo Knight
Best Nature PDI – Gordon Mills
Best Monochrome PDI – Kim Rigg
Lakeland Trophy – Jeff Bagnall
Members Evening Club Monochrome – Kim Rigg
Members Evening Club Open PDI – Kim Rigg
Members Evening Advanced PDI – Dave Nelson
Members Evening Advanced Monochrome PDI – Dave Nelson

The second half of the evening ‘Program Secretary’ Jeff Bagnall inspired us with a short film on Minimalistic photography, a theme of one of this seasons Members Evening Competitions and Club Treasurer David Nelson gave us an entertaining demonstration and insight into drone photography. Great start to the season!

Summer Break

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On 13th April we held our Annual Print competition for the first time in two years, having previously been unable to meet in person due to Covid restrictions. There were no leagues, with all members competing equally, and 4 categories: open colour, open monochrome, nature and people.

Due to the competition being for physical prints I sadly have no digital images to show you, but huge congratulations go to all our winners which were:

Open Mono
Bill Pickard with ‘Maasai Warriors’

Open Colour
Gordon Mills with ‘Sunset Klong Muang Beach’

Nature
Gordon Mills with ‘Dalmatian Pelicans Lake Kerkin’

People & Portrait
Ann Bench with ‘We Can All Be Different’

In addition, we hold an annual Lakeland Trophy competition which consists of a panel of 3 prints depicting Lakeland or Cumbria, and our 2022 winner was Jeff Bagnall with ‘Wansfell ponies’ – well done Jeff!

Our season has now finished and we are embarking on a summer break. Although formal meetings won’t be taking place, Club members will be meeting regularly in small, informal groups for days out and details can be found on our private Photoshoots Facebook page.

Our 2022/23 season starts in September. Details of the new programme will be available on the programme page of our website shortly. In the meantime, we hope you all have a wonderful summer – fingers crossed the weather will be kind and we can get out and about with our cameras!