| Autumn
is a busy part of the year for the Ivybridge & District
Camera Club. Following on from the members’ travelogues
and audio-visual presentations in mid-September, the
club has held three more meetings in quick succession
and by the time this is printed, will have also taken
part in a 4-way inter-club competition!
Late in September
we held three special competitions on one evening –
The Ken Miller Sports Photographer of the Year competition,
the Eric Foster Memorial Challenge Cup and the Bill
Watson Memorial Slide Trophy. It was a busy evening,
kindly judged by well-known nature photographer, Mr
Peter Norwood from Plymouth.
The Eric Foster
Memorial Cup is a monochrome only competition and this
year the set subject was ‘silhouettes’ which
should have proved tricky but there were more entries
than usual; perhaps a testament to the progress members
are making in producing good black and white images.
First place was awarded to Stuart Barnes (Eggbuckland)
with On the Beach. Second place was also awarded
to Stuart with The Lookout and third place
was won by Geoff Brimblecombe (Ivybridge) with Hand
in Hand.
The judge awarded
the Ken Miller Sports Photographer of the year accolade
to Geoff Brimblecombe with a dynamic horse image almost
exploding from the print. Second place went to Club
Chairman Keith Miller (Ivybridge) with 1st Corner
Action, another of Keith’s amazing motocross
images. Third place was taken by Graham Buckler (Ivybridge)
with an image called Scat Cat depicting a leaping
speedboat.
There were only
a few entries for the open-subject Bill Watson Memorial
Slide Trophy and first place went to Alan Davey (Ivybridge)
for a sailing boat image called Two Gaffers Racing.
Peter Norwood awarded second place to Stuart Barnes’
portrait, Gina and third place was also given
to Alan Davey for America, another sailing
boat image.
For the first
meeting in October, David Rayner hosted the 8th practical
evening of the year showing us a slide show of why colour
fringing occurs and demonstrating how fringes may be
reduced with a Photoshop practical session. After a
refreshment break David hosted a group discussion about
the new digital image standards being introduced and
also demonstrated the key Photoshop decisions for producing
an image output suitable for digital competitions.
The following
Tuesday, the club held the fourth of the year’s
Merit competitions with the set-subject of ‘Industry’,
kindly judged by Mr Ernie King from Dawlish. The wide
interpretation of the subject by our members set Ernie
a difficult task, he said, noting that he had to “…consider
the ‘activity’ in the images as well as
whether the photographs fitted the subject.”
In the monochrome
section Ernie awarded first place to Keith Mullin (Ivybridge)
for a Kenyan street of shops and workhouses called The
Retail Industry. Second place went to David Rayner
(Ivybridge) for No Room for a Job, a cluttered
mining repair workbench covered with tools and a build
up of trash. Keith Mullin also took third place with
Shipping Industry, surprisingly perhaps, for
this area, it was one of only a few shipping-related
images entered.
Ernie King awarded
first place in the colour print section to David Rayner
for The Forge, depicting an early water-powered
forge sending sparks from a white-hot work-piece. Potting-Cottage
Window, by Geoff Miller (Ivybridge) won second
place while Carpenter’s Workshop by David
Rayner was awarded third.
Visitors are
always welcome to club meetings and we meet at Bittaford
Community Hall from 7:30 pm, normally on the second
and fourth Tuesdays in the month. However in November
we will be holding events on four evenings. Our programme,
members’ photographs and much more are all available
elsewhere on this website.
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Winning
entry from David Rayner of Ivybridge taken at
the Finch Foundry, Sticklepath, near Okehampton,
which used to make sickles, scythes and shovels
for West Country farmers and miners. |
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