Monday, January 30, 2017

OUTINGS COMPETITION

A week in which we saw an new double act, Andy & John, with the sketch, you say Bodiam, I say Boodium and other interesting pronunciations, not helped by some bad speeling! eh Sylvia?
The best joke was if it's Welsh and unpronounceable try and catch the judge out and get him to pronounce it. However, Dai the judge got it right. 

We also learnt that one of the club's favourite places to visit on the Essex/Suffolk border, that is associated with the famous landscape artist John Constable, has been bought by the Lord of The (Irish) Dance, Michael Flatley, and is now to be known as Flatley Mill. The art studio has been turned into a dance studio, so the tapping we heard in June was not the hitting of staples to make picture frames but the sound of clogs on the wooden floor. I did wonder how they managed to hammer in unison and with an unusual rhythm. 
  
You may remember that a few weeks ago we had a visit from the residents of the Home For The Bewildered, and their warden Jeff, who wanted to break the world record for the most people in a selfie, unfortunately his arm was not long enough to take the picture with his iphone, so he had to resort to high tech method instead. See the result below.


What's that black box on top of that thing with three legs?

Friday, January 27, 2017

OUTING COMPETITIONS 2016-17

WINNING IMAGES

PDI

1st Cactus in Flower
by Sharon Brown

2nd Welsh Daffs on a Stormy Day
by Richard Saville

3rd Golden Age of Steam
by Richard Hallam

H.C. Glowing Leaves
by Martyn Addison-Smith


COLOUR PRINTS


1st Captive 
by Stephen Deer

2nd The Charwelton
by Richard Hallam

3rd Durdle Door
by Dick Williams

MONOCHROME PRINTS


1st Lines of Life
by Richard Hallam

2nd Chatham Man
by Martyn Addison-Smith

3rd It's Still Raining
by Stephen Deer 

H.C. Kimmeridge Bay
by Dave Wilcox

Friday, January 20, 2017

JANUARY MONTHLY PDI 

WINNING IMAGES

PRELIMINARY

1st Cyril
by Andy Brett

2nd Lyrical Landscape - Cotswold
by John Baker

3rd Reach For The Sky
by Sharon Brown

INTERMEDIATE

1st Wexford Sunrise
by Richard Hallam

2nd A Wet Crow
by Martyn Addison-Smith

3rd Link Tunnel,Canary Wharf
by Martyn Addison-Smith


H.C. The Diver
by Paul Vine

ADVANCED

1st Inverary
by Mandy Deer


2nd Griffon
by Gordon Bramham

3rd Black Sand Beach of Stokksnes
by Dave Wilcox

H.C. Hoopoe With Grub
by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Sifaka Lemur on the Run
by David Lund

H.C. It's My Perch
by Reg Mellis

Monday, January 16, 2017

JANUARY'S MONTHLY PRINT

It's always an education at the camera club. This week I learnt that there is an animal called a Vicuna. The title of Sharon's print was called Lone Vicuna, now my eyes are not so good and at first glance it looked like a Goat, I thought it must be a Billy (Goat) no mates.
My education was completed when someone said it was a little deer. Then they were contradicted when someone else said it was dear Deer as it was quite expensive. By that they meant there coat. I have got no sympathy for anyone who wears an expensive coat in an area where mugging and gun crime is rife, you are asking for trouble, it is like using the latest iphone in a well known crime area you are going to get mugged. Actually they are camelids?

We had one or two technical problems on Tuesday, my Mother-in-Law always use to say "Never trust anything that runs on a three pin plug, as it will let you down eventually", taking heed of her advice I decided to run the laptop on Tuesday off the battery. All was fine until the screen decided that it needed colour calibrating. Trying to stop it proved to be easier said than done, clicking on the white cross in the little red square only seemed to encourage it, but eventually we worked out how to stop it. After a few minutes of peace the battery decided that it had enough for one night and that it needed  sustenance in the form of electricity. Many thanks to Alf for stepping forward and providing the much needed fuel for the laptop in the form of a plug and lead.

Thanks to Kevin for stepping in to put up the prints on Tuesday, when I first saw him on the stage I thought Andy has grown a bit over Christmas, then  I realised who it was. I must however, apologise to him on behalf of myself and Mandy. As we unintentionally played an impromptu game of Confuse A Kev. He was doing a brilliant job of placing the prints in order of points so that he had 1st, 2nd & 3rd in order, only for us to tell him to take the print in third place down, confused he came over and said "I haven't got a third place now" Then it dawned on us that we knew the print that was being commented on had got a higher score but he didn't.
Still it all turned out o/k in the end.  
 

Billy No Mates?

JANUARY MONTHLY PRINT

WINNING IMAGES

PRELIMINARY

1st Pit Worker
by Glen Crawford

2nd Race Car at Brands
by Glen Crawford

3rd St. Ives
by Sharon Brown

INTERMEDIATE

1st Horizontal Surfing

2nd Iron Bridge
by Pete Wills

3rd Senorita
By Richard Hallam

ADVANCED

1st Eastbourne Pier
by Kevin Sykes

2nd Bear Brawl
by Gordon Bramham

3rd Mountain Lion
by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Mormon Barn
by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Sun Voyager
by Dave Wilcox