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Kendal Photography Club Exhibition 2024

The weekend of 12^th -14^th April 2024 saw Kendal Photography Club’s exhibition at the Roundhouse, Staveley. This was the first exhibition the club has staged in many years and it was a fantastic success.

Over 200 people visited the Roundhouse. I think everyone found the venue interesting and an enjoyable display space. It certainly met the needs of the club.

Saturday was the most popular day with over 100 visitors of all ages including children who also talked about their interest in photography. There were locals, tourists visiting the area, family, friends, work colleagues, past club members, and members of local camera clubs visiting the show. New contacts were made with local photographers some of whom were kind enough to promote the exhibition further via social media.

Everyone enjoyed the show and there were lots of glowing comments and positive feedback about the quality of the exhibition, the diverse images on display and the interesting venue.

A number of club members were successful in selling images and cards with contributions being made to club funds.

A number of visitors expressed an interest in joining the club and we look forward to welcoming new members for our 2024-25 season in September. The new programme will be on the website over the summer alongside membership forms. The club secretary can be contacted over the summer for further information if required.

Thanks goes to all those who attended the exhibition and asked questions, talked about photography with us and enjoyed the images. We ran a small tally of visitors favourite images over the weekend, the most successful was a triptych of ‘Scout Scar’ by Laurie. Very close seconds were ‘Wet Sleddale Dam’ by Jeff and ‘Kestrel and Mouse’ by David P. 20 members exhibited images and every member had an image chosen by a visitor as their favourite image from the show. I think this demonstrates what we already knew, that in photography there is something for everyone.

Thanks goes to Ann Dallaway the driving force behind the exhibition. To Stuart Hann www.theblindchocolatier.co.uk for the delicious chocolate, Janet and everyone at the Roundhouse www.staveleyroundhouse.com who visited the exhibition and to Facebook friends who gave us publicity.

Thanks also to all our members who contributed images, marketed and prepared for the exhibition and gave freely of their time to set up and staff the exhibition and take it down at the end. I think the pride members have in displaying their work and the enjoyment of participating in the event has certainly encouraged the club to consider another exhibition in the future.

Maureen

Club Secretary

PDI Competition Night – Curves

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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.

Intentional Camera Movement (ICM).

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This week at Kendal Photography Club, Bill Pickard shared his journey into ICM photography. Bill has many years’ experience in ‘intentional camera shaking’ to create painterly, artistic images.

ICM is a tricky photographic technique to master. The images achieved are not the sharp, composed images of traditional photography but are creative, sometimes abstract surprising works of art. ICM photographic images convey movement, mood and arouse curiosity.

Bill’s body of work is extensive and inspirational. Members enjoyed Bill’s excellent talk, in which he shared flower and garden images, sports photography, landscapes, street photography and wildlife images, all taken using ICM techniques.

Bill discussed his reasons for taking ICM images and the techniques he uses. He provided advice to members who wish to try or improve their ICM photography including a handy advice sheet.

I know members of the club thoroughly enjoyed Bill’s talk and a number of members have been out in the last few days ‘shaking cameras’, I am sure in the hope of creating images as wonderful as Bill’s.

Huge thanks goes to Bill for sharing his images and his advice. Hopefully we will see an ICM competition in the club programme next year.

Next week (24th January) we have a PDI competition on the theme of ‘ Curves’. Members can attend at hall or via Zoom. Visitors are always welcome.

Finally a reminder that edited images for the Editing Evening on 31st January must be sent to Phil before Friday 26th January.

Club Panel Competition.

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Wednesday 8th March saw the clubs panel competition judged by Sally Sallet ARPS CPAGB AFIAP and BPE3* of Wakefield Camera Club. Sally joined us on Zoom with members joining at the hall and at home.

The panel competition was a whole of club competition with no club or advanced section. Members submitted panels in three sections Monochrome, Nature and Colour.

Sally provided us with a entertaining evening reviewing a varied selection to panel themes. I am sure members will have found her comments informative and supportive in developing their skills in developing their panels. A winning panel was awarded in each section, with Commended and Highly Commended awards also being made.

MONOCHROME SECTION

The first section judged consisted of 16 panels in the monochrome section. The winning panel was ‘Bruce’s Bike Shop’ by Ann Dallaway. Ann linked the images together rather than separating the three images by a frame.

Ann Dallaway -Winner for ‘Bruce’s Bike Shop‘
Bill Pickard – Highly Commended for ‘Variations on a Running Jump’
Kim Rigg – Commended for ‘Dandelion’
Dave Nelson – Commended for ‘Frozen In Time’
Maureen Smith -Commended for ‘Midland Stairs’

NATURE SECTION

Before the coffee break the 11 Nature panels were judged. The winning panel was ‘Garden Visitors’ by Bill Pickard. Sally enjoyed the movement and quality of the bird images.

Bill Pickard -Winner for ‘Garden Visitors‘
Phil Drayton – Highly Commended for ‘Insects’
Gordon Mills – Commended for ‘Little Egret and Fish’
Russell Millner – Commended for ‘Morning on Hudson Bay’.
Kim Rigg – Commended for ‘Tree Bumble Bee’.

COLOUR SECTION

After the coffee break Sally judged the final 15 Colour Panels. Phil Drayton taking the winning place with his colourful and well layed out panel ‘Fireworks’.

Phil Drayton -Winner for ‘Fireworks’
Karen Carruthers – Highly Commended for ‘Windermere Ferry Workings’
Maureen Smith – Commended for ‘Rock Abstracts’
Russell Milner – Commended for ‘Bee Eaters’
Suzy Braye – Commended for ‘Temple of Piety Reflections’.

Thanks as always to all members who contributed to an enjoyable evening.

Next week we have a talk by the wonderful photographer Margaret Soraya with her talk ‘A Life Less Ordinary’. https://www.margaretsoraya.com/ .

Please feel free to join us either at the hall or on Zoom. Details on how to join as a visitor at https://kendalphotographyclub.co.uk/about/membership/

Portraiture with Graham Currey -Behind The Scenes

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Last Wednesday we had an amazingly fun evening photographing Graham Currey from Sessions Days in Manchester. Graham came to the club with all his lighting, background and props. https://sessiondays.co.uk/

Everyone who attended enjoyed the photo shoot and will go away with plenty of images from the night.

Graham has offered to score and critique our images. Please can you email your images with “Titles” to Ann By Wednesday 8th March so that she can transfer them to Graham.

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.

Russell Millner’s Images Exhibited at Thornthwaite Gallery

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Club member Russell Millner is currently displaying his wildlife images at The Thornthwaite Gallery, near Keswick.

Russell wildlife images are regularly enjoyed by club members.

Russell is exhibiting three very large A0 and one A1 size image for sale, printed on Aluminium with the Chromaluxe process.

Chromaluxe is a process of dye sublimation which produces particularly vibrant images and can be applied to metal or wood.

Russell’s images on aluminium are extremely light for the size and easy to handle. There is more information at www.russellmillnerphotography.com.

The Thornthwaite Gallery is under new ownership and is being relaunched with a wide selection of art and a little less focus on purely Lake District images. www.thornthwaitegallery.co.uk

The gallery is well worth a look if you are in the area, and not just for Russell’s images!

Kendal v Morecambe Annual Photo Battle 2023

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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 .

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.