Social and prize giving this Thursday

 Last weeks super fun practical meeting resulted around 40+ of us descending on the streets of the St Annes area in a bid to get photographs to fit the 5 themes we were left by Ruth. The local people were seriously disturbed by us geeky camera carrying brigade and I hear there were a few funny remarks made. Although a few locals were game to helping us out as you will see in the images in a couple of weeks, even the wildlife and teddy bears came out to play and we were treat to a nice sunset as well. I cant wait to see the results. Many thanks to Julie Coombs for helping to arrange the photo rally.

 We have one sneak peek image, taken on the same evening, Myk must have taken an extra card along I think.

This week we have yet another evening of fun scheduelled, but not at the school as per usual, this time we are meeting at the Langton court pub for a night of skittles and prize giving. There will be food provided to give you that extra little bit of energy to play hard at skittles.

Summer is here - image below by Alison Davies

I hope you have all had a chance to get and about in this gorgeous weather with your cameras. I see Andro and Myk certainly managed to capture a lovely sunset at Clevedon and another group of us were out photographing in the beautiful evening light yesterday in south Gloucestershire.  So dont think you have to go out on your own, if you want to team up with others from the group then do shout up at the meetings, or on the Flickr or facebook pages.

Image below by Andro

And the Winners are……

This Thursday is our Annual Social & Prize Giving evening. We get to have a few drinks, embarrass ourselves at Skittles and mingle with all the friends we’ve made at the club. It’s a great night and you should definitely come along. If it’s not really your thing, still come along. You’ll be made to feel more than welcome and I’m sure you’ll have a great time. As well as the Social side of it we’ll also be announcing the winners of our Annual Open Competition.

You get to find out who has won Photographer of the Year, Best Digital Photographer and Best Print Photographer. Not forgetting for the first time in Several years we have brought back our Best Novice Photographer award. Don’t forget we also have to give Arthur & Alison their Trophies for winning the Stan Scantlebury & John Hankin Shield Competitions.

So if you’ve been desperate to know whose won or think you need to clear a bit of space on a shelf for one or two of the trophies, make sure to come along on Thursday and enjoy our very own award’s show.

John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield Results

A.K.A. That’s a bloody good picture!

Last Thursday we had the pleasure of meeting David Southwell for the second time when he judged our Best Print and Best Projected Images of the year competition. His style of judging was superb instead of just describing what was in the picture (we can all see what it is so why do judges do that?) he actually went into great detail about what he saw when he looked at each photograph. Not just “that’s a nice picture” but why he thought it was good. He talked about how his eye travelled around the composition and if it seemed to get caught on any of the detail within the frame. It was probably one of the best explained and detailed bits of judging we’ve had for quite some time. So on behalf of all of us at Reflex I’d like to thank David for doing a superb job.

The winner of the Stand Scantlebury Shield wasn’t present, so she got sent a text message. Her reply was

“Oh my God! You poor proper photographers and to think I don’t know an F stop from a bus stop”

To get our own back we’re going to make her organise every social event for the next 20 years!

Now onto the reason you’re here. The photographs that have won our John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield’s. As you, hopefully, know these are for the Best Print and Best Digital Projected Image taken by a club member this season. Only pictures that had been entered into a previous round of this season’s open competition (including the Trio)  were eligible and I’m glad to say we saw some superb Images.

Congratulations to the winners and a huge thank you to everyone that’s entered picture’s into this year’s Open Competition. You should all be proud of the images you’ve created.

John Hankin Shield (Best Print of the Year)	Stan Scantlebury Shield (Best DPI of the Year)
Winner Lily by Arthur Belton(Previously entered: Round 2, Print)	Winner Unbroken Gaze by Alison Davies(Previously entered: Round 4, DPI)
2nd: Leopard by Barrie Tovey  (Previously entered: Round 3, Print)	2nd: Kilve by Adrian Cook (Previously entered: Round 2, DPI)
3rd: Hats & Tails by Ian Coombs (Previously entered: Trio, Print)	3rd: Liverpool Waterfront by Adrian Cook(Previously entered: Round 3, DPI)
HC: The Mating Game by Joe Scudamore (Previously entered: Trio, Print)	HC: Patterns in Glass by Roy Williams (Previously entered: Trio, DPI)
HC: Charlotte by Ian Coombs(Previously entered: Trio, Print)	HC: Horned Frog by Mark Stone (Previously entered: Round 3, DPI)
	HC: Waiting by Ian Coombs (Previously entered: Round 2, DPI)
	HC: The Eye by Mark Stone (Previously entered: Trio, DPI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Round 4 Winners

 

Yet again some fantastic photographs were entered.  Thanks to Paul Kessler LRPS for proving to be an excellent and entertaining judge.

The pictures either link to the version on the photographers website or Flickr account, where possible, else they link to the clubs Flickr account. If the photographer has a website or Flickr account then their name sends you to that.

If you have put your winning picture online somewhere or would rather have the link point elsewhere, please let me know.

Thanks to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winners.

_______________________________________ Winning Print The Fighter, Rich Price	___________________________________________ Winning Digital Image Tidal Curves, Roy Williams
-------------------------------------------------- 2nd Place Print Shadows & Reflections, Theresa Driscoll	-------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Place Digital Image Great Tree Nymph (Idea Leuconoe), Mark Stone
-------------------------------------------------- 3rd Place Print Hands of the Vampire, Ian Coombs	-------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Place Digital Image King of the Jungle, Dan Thomas
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Print Holler, Alison Davies	-------------------------------------------------------- Highly Commended Digital Image Unbroken Gaze, Alison Davies
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Print My Gentle Friend, Alison Davies	-------------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Shadows, Adrian Cook
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Riddles in the Dark, Ian Coombs	-------------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Heading Home, Ruth Doyle

Reproduced here with permission. All © remains with the original photographer.

The Other Ones

(c) Alison Davies

Sorry for the delay in updating the Blog and if some of the writing seems to make less sense than normal you'll have to forgive me. 

Last Thursday we had a practical night and it was great to see so many people coming along and enjoying themselves. There were some great pictures taken of the band and Rich's macro demo went down a storm as well. 

Don't forget if you took pictures please send them in via email, Dropbox or bring in on a memory stick or CD.

The band gave up their free time and we asked them to come along. So its only fair that they get something out of it. 

The next meeting is a guest speaker David Southwell who will be giving us a presentation on using HDR and other techniques. Unfortunately the website I have for him no longer exists.

Round 3 results

The results of Round 3 of our Open Competition are in. Thanks to Nick Ball for taking the time to judge the competition for us.
Congratulations to Arthur Belton on winning the Print section and Alison Davies for her first ever win in the Digital Projected.
Thanks to everyone that took part and congratulations if you managed to get in the scoring. Scroll down to see the winning pictures.
I’ve done a few things differently this time. If you have a Flickr account then I’ve made it so that if you click your name you get taken to your Flickr ‘stream (if you have one and even if you haven’t posted anything to it for ages). If you have your winning picture on your Flickr stream then clicking that picture will take you to it on your Flickr ‘stream. If it’s not on your Flickr then you will get taken to the Clubs Flickr ‘stream.
I’m also trying out a new, and hopefully better, way of laying out the pictures. So If something doesn’t seem to be right with the layout then please let me know.

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Winner Digital Projected: Naughty Girls Night Out Alison Davies	Winner Print: Bag, Towel & Shoes Arthur Belton
2nd Digital Projected: Ceratophrys ornata Mark Stone	2nd Print: Dee Barrie Tovey
3rd Digital Projected: Ice Tree Richard Price	3rd Print: Contemplation Richard Price
Highly Commended Digital Projected: Art Gallery Barrie Tovey	Highly Commended Print: Leopard Barrie Tovey
Highly Commended Digital Projected: Sky Dance Julie Coombs	Commended Print: Stand & Deliver Alison Davies
Commended Digital Projected: Flasher Richard Price

Round 2 Results

The results of the 2nd Round of our Annual Open Competition have been announced! It's great to see so many of you taking part and submitting such wonderful photographs. I've managed to get all but one of the winners to show here. Hopefully next time I'll be able to get them all.
Our thanks also go to  Eddie Lane for taking the time to go through and judge them all.

I've tried a slightly different way of laying out the shots on this blog. Please let me know if it works for you or if it still looks as though I've randomly thrown the images across the screen. They really need to sort out a decent system for laying out multiple pictures on these blogs.


The winner for the Digital Projected Image Category was Adrian Cook with his picture entitled Kilve

In 2nd place, Digital Projected Image was Richard Price with Flaming Rose


Adrian Cook also managed to get 3rd place in the Digital Projected Image's with Tokyo Station
 
Barrie Tovey claimed one of the Highly Commended spots with his Digital Projected Image, Puffin in Flight

Highly Commended Digital Projected Image, Roy Williams with Bluetit
 
Last Drop by Julie Coombs, Highly Commended Digital Projected Image
 
Rosie Tomlinson Highly Commended Digital Projected Image titled Do It later
 
Simon Xu with the Digital Projected Image Mask at St. Mark's Square Highly Commended

Highly Commended Digital Projected Image Ian Coombs with The Mystic

The winner of the Print category for Round 2 was Richard Price with Brown Lipped Snail

2nd place Print was Barrie Tovey with Monkey

3rd Place print was Ian Coombs with The Lord is My Shepherd

Highly Commended Print. Amber Glare by Alison Davies
 
Ian Coombs Highly Commended Print with Surf Rider



Also Highly Commended in the Print section was Joe Scudamore with Whose Looking at Me.
Unfortunately I'm unable to display his entry here as I have no access to a digital version.

Congratulations to everyone who placed and a big thank you to all that entered.