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This was the first competition of the new season judged by Ken Payne on his first visit to the club. There were 38 images on the night and Ken gave a very constructive critique on each during the first half of the evening before whittling down the numbers into a shortlist from which the...
Terry drew on his substantial street photography archives to illustrate PSCC's first talk of the new season. He underlined the advantages of using prime lenses 35-70mm rather than using long zoom lenses which could become somewhat intrusive. He also emphasised that it was important to...
There was an entry of 45 images for the print of the year judged by Chris Forster. Chris made many suggestions as to how several of the prints could have been improved and additionally how the choice of printing paper could have enhanced some of the images. In the end 16 images were held back...
A bumper entry of 76 images (probably rather too many) were entered in this competiton. After the competiton the feeling was that maybe we should exclude the images from the panel competition in future. Tom Peck was an excellent judge and gave constructive critiques on all of the images. 22...
The final league scores have been amended to include scores from the Creative Cup competition.
Without the distraction of colour there is something very appealing about seeing a collection of mono images displayed together. It's another way of seeing the world and is somehow much more than just applying a desaturating filter.
The images we presented to Colin were as usual...
Another round with good images, making life more difficult for the judge, Michael Lurie of Pinner. His analysis of each image was very instructive and good humoured. Not all held back images...
This competition was judged by Chris Drury, St Albans CC, who was faced with 24 very good prints. He examined each print in detail and held back about 12 for further consideration and awarding places and highly commended and commended. No easy task. The final outcome was as follows:
...This was probably a first for PSCC. We promoted Assaf's talk on local Facebook sites and managed to attract a good number of non members who contributed £55 to our accounts.
Assaf took us on a round trip of Israel from the rural farmland where he grew up with his parents helping to...
Terry, a self confessed 'motorhead', gave us an enthusiastic talk about the Silverstone Classics. This is a 3 day event savouring the very best of historic racing, vast displays of classic cars, during which one gets a chance to mingle amongst classic models Formula One, sports cars...
This year the committee decided to make this competition PDI only and not contribute marks towards the Photographer of the Year. It was felt that this might encourage members to be rather more experimental and to try and maximise creativity.
Sarah Sands was once more the judge for...
Another enjoyable evening with Mark, missed by three regular members who were otherwise committed. Mark gave very detailed comments on each print, always welcomed as it helps members to improve their photography. He left the decision on the placed and highly commended and commended prints until...
Having lost a few of the more 'specialised' wildlife photographers in the last couple of years the number of entries for this season's competition were rather disappointing. Nevertheless there were still many good images for our judge Andy Sands to consider for the evenings awards and...
This is a relatively new competition over the last couple of years for the club having been introduced to us and judged by our resident judge Dave Hipperson.
The rules were that between 5 and 15 images including the background could be arranged either as a panel...
Unfortunately Amanda Wright, the booked judge, had to pull out at the very last minute because of illness. We were extremely lucky at such short notice to get Colin Southgate.
As always, his comments were fair and constructive. 20 of the 47 images were held back for further viewing...
Organised and run by Jeremy and what an evening it turned out to be!
We had a good number of our members entering up to 20 images which were divided into groups of 5, and in the first session, members were divided randomly into pairs and instructed to comment on the...
Street photography to studio shots and everything in between were on display during our annual people competition.
Our judge for the evening was Kevin Day who had also judged our first print competition of the season. Kevin as well as being an...
From Slime Moulds to Hares and from Insects to Birds this was another brilliant talk from Andy. The fact that all of these images were shot during the last year is testament to both his skills as a photographer as well as his patience and perseverance. How many of us are willing to get up at 4 o...
Landscape Cups Jan 5 2023
Owing to a number of members being on vacation a small but select audience were present at the annual landscape competition judged on the evening by Rojer Weightman. There were 24 PDIs and 15 prints entered. Rojer an experienced judge, was very constructive...
Unfortunately due to the icy cold weather and some people having flu we had to change the planned pub
visit to a zoom meeting.
It was a very amusing event. It was good to see Barbara there with her customary glass of whiskey on top
form challenging us all.
Everyone seemed to...
A very cold winter's evening outside was appropriate and timely for Jeremy's excellent talk on his travels in Iceland earlier this year.
A map of Iceland indicating the route taken, predominately the west side of the island, together with places of interest was shown at the beginning. The...
Our open prints round 2 was judged by Paul Burwood who held back a few more prints that was needed, so members were kept on the edge of their seats until the final outcome was announced. Each print was commented in detail and some very useful comments made.
The results were:
...Another very interesting Zoom lecture, this time by Huw Alban. There was certainly a good selection of landscape images, but also plenty of outdoor images that probably would not necessarily be classified as landscape.
Clearly, Huw had a good eye for an interesting outdoor...
The open round 2 projected image competition was judged by Michael Lurie who made some very constructive comments on our images.
The results were:
First Place: Ropes Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell
Second place: Show me the way Assaf Frank
Third place:...
This competition was very well judged by Mark Buckley-Sharp who provided useful comments on all the images. An enjoyable evening was had by all those able to attend.
The results were as follows:
1st Place The London Office Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell
2nd Place Desert...