ANNUAL PRINT COMPETITION

The evening started with an announcement that some of the videos were unaccounted for, they all appear to be natural history videos, my guess is that Gordon and Reg are responsible for this, as they do not want the rest of us to pick up any useful tips and information we may get from the videos.

Something else also went missing, my black and white picture of the Clematis, who ever it was thought they had got a masterpiece. I did get an anonymous call from someone demanding £20 for it's safe return. After a lot of intense negotiation I sent them £50 and a box of matches.

Our judge for the evening was another in a long line of would be performers, he said he was doing an imitation of another judge, lucky the other judge was male, although we have not had a female impersonator yet,so that could be interesting.

After an interesting and entertaining evening in which an another judge thought he could get a better deal trading in his wife for a few Goats,we came to the winning print.

Congratulations to Stephen for producing the winning print, he always sends both his and Mandy's titles in, it seems strange that he always enters the maximum he is allowed while Mandy only has one print, and she tells me it is not the one she wanted to enter. She tells me that her side of the side board is now looking bare and requires dusting where the trophies used to be and Stephens side is now begging to look cluttered.

Not worth the paper it was printed on

 

 

ANNUAL MONO WINNING IMAGES

ADVANCED

 1st & Best Mono Print of The Year

Waiting by Stephen Deer

2nd Motocross

by Adrian Looby

3rd Spoonbill Feeding Young

by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Nuclear Mud Race

by Dave Wilcox

H.C. The Flat Iron Building New York

by Dave Wilcox

H.C. Mick

by Adrian Looby

H.C. Rain Raven

by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Look At Thia

by Stephen Deer

INTERMEDIATE

1st Shard Reflection

by Colin Smith

2nd A Lone Drinker

by Ping Lin

3rd Auschwitz

by Colin Smith

H.C. Hongkong Tourist

by Ping Lin

H.C. Sandal Store

by Ping Lin

The Hoody Man

by Ping Lin

FEBRUARY DPI WINNING IMAGES

ADVANCED

1st Pelican Reflection

by Gordon Bramham

2nd Common Darter Dragonfly

by Reg Mellis

3rd American Lynx

by Gordon Bramham

INTERMEDIATE

1st Booted & Suited

by Alan Layton

2nd Emerald Lake

by David Lund

3rd Friends

by Ping Ling

H.C. Spirit Island

by John Hastings

H.C. Osbourne House Not Amused

by Richard Saville

H.C. Sleeping Angel

by Alan Layton

H.C. Silver Light

by Ping Ling

PRELIMINARY

1st Evening Calm

by John Purvis

2nd Garden Visitor

by Martyn Addison-Smith

3rd Cotswold Cottage

by Andy Brett

FEBRUARY MONTHLY PRINT WINNING IMAGES

INTERMEDIATE

1st Hongkong Tourist

by Ping Ling

2nd The Footprints

by Ping Ling

3rd The Hoody Man

by Ping Ling

ADVANCED

1st Two Tree Island

by Kevin Sykes

2nd The Gift

by Gordon Bramham

3rd The Breakwater

by Kevin Sykes

H.C. Hadleigh

by Kevin Sykes

H.C. Wakeboarder Take Off

by Annie Moring

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MEMBERS EVENING

When Dick brought his one man show to the provinces

The first print that Dick showed was of  a member of the cat family he tried to convince us that he was the first wildlife photographer in the club and that the image was of a Scottish Wild Cat that he had been stalking for several days. The only thing wild about it was that he took it's photo without asking.

We saw several more pieces of art then he bought out his most famous piece so far the famous the dragster. (no wonder we had security guards at the club this week.) there were ever only two of these made and one seems to have been stolen and sold abroad. The reason there were no more made was that the police raided his yard and advised him not to do anymore "cut and shut".

After this Dick entered his posterization phase, again only a few produced to keep the value up. When we first saw these at the club we wondered is this some new progressive art movement or that Dick had been on the Waccy Bacca. As he did not smoke or agrre with taking of the latter it must have been the former.

The final part of the first half of the evening was a selection of panels, these might have been inspired by his day job. I'm sure his clients would have been happy for his prints on their walls, although I'm not sure how impressed we would have been to see Pine and Oak paneling entered in club competitions.

As usual with this type of Art event Champagne and canapes were served, o/k it was tea, coffee and biscuits, if Sylvia was there it would have been. You were truly missed Sylvia get well soon.

However, Sylvia's absence was soon made up with her doing the voice over on one of Dick's AV's which was the theme of the post tea session. We heard several members doing the voice overs on subsequent AVs. The final Av of the evening showed the credits and who had contributed to it's making. Speaking to George afterwards he confirmed that his agent. on hearing how poorly paid Peter was for doing a voice over for Dick, had insisted that George was credited, this allegedly
has led to lucrative offers for work.

Peter's meagre wages for doing a voice over for Dick