| Members
of the Ivybridge & District Camera Club arrived
to a big surprise at their 14th March meeting. The first
of a series of new equipment had arrived - a flipchart
and mobile whiteboard - and was proudly displaying (with
the aid of a deft turn of hand from chairman Keith Miller
at the appropriate moment) an Award Certificate from
the National Lottery showing the club had been awarded
a grant of £4,250 to buy a digital projector,
computer and other equipment for a training project.
Councillor Brian
Scown kindly visited, as also did honorary president
Dorothy Watson to take part in a photoshoot of the celebrations.
Brian had acted as independent referee for the award
application, having long been a keen supporter of local
clubs in the Ivybridge area.
Despite the huge
excitement at receiving the grant, the evening’s
planned event was waiting and members were pleased to
welcome Mr Ernie King of Dawlish to judge the annual
Portrait Competition.
The judging -
or appraisal, as Ernie King preferred to call it - was
a tricky portrait theme entitled ‘body parts’.
“I’ve never had such a difficult subject
to appraise,” he said, “but you have managed
to come up with a variety of images that kept me engaged
for some time before I could decide on the top entries.”
There were only
two categories, Monochrome and Colour Prints. Keith
Mullin of Ivybridge took first place in the Monochrome
section with ‘In Thought’, an unplumbed
depth of female age and wisdom. Next came ‘The
Hand’ from Colin Lennox-Jones, also of Ivybridge
with third place taken by Peter Pearce from Bittaford
with an image of hands buried in a mixing bowl.
In the Colour
Print section the winning place was awarded to Ivybridge
man Keith Mason, who’s image ‘The Beak’
fairly seemed fairly ready to snap out of the canvas
at any passing finger. Geoff Brimblecombe, also from
Ivybridge, gained second position with a pair of luscious
red lips, while Bernard Howley of Saltash won third
place with ‘Some Beak’, the tittle aptly
describing a good proportion of the image.
The club’s
exhibition of members’ photographs is currently
underway until the end of March at the Corridor Gallery,
the Old School, South Brent. Entry is free and the exhibition
is open from 10 am to 5pm, 12:30pm on Saturdays.
The next meeting
will be held on Tuesday March 28th when we will be pleased
to welcome Mr Ian Foster from Liskeard to judge the
second of the year’s Merit competitions. April
the 18th will see the first of a series of ‘practical
evenings’. Visitors
are welcome to attend from 7:15 pm at the Community
Hall, Jubilee Terrace, Bittaford. Further information
and directions are available elsewhere on this website.
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