JULY MONTHLY PDI

Phew what a scorcher, An evening that needed to have the windows open, oh we did, shame we had to have the curtains pulled. I know that the heat affects Jim, but I think the shock of Norwich signing a decent goalkeeper and forward was too much for him and he had to have a lie down. It is always good to see Howard considering the distance he now lives from the club. I was trying to work out if there was any pattern to when he came. Then it hit me, he waits a few weeks until he has some winning tickets to collect and they are presented to him so that he gets a bigger round of applause.

We had another stunning photo of a Pelican from Gordon, I was a bit disappointed that he has shown lots of pictures from the Dalmatian Coast, we have not seen one picture of a Spotty Dog. Is it that those Pelicans with their big beaks can eat one whole.       

My Favourite picture of the evening was "A Drink At Sunset". I liked the vertical letter box, I'm not sure that I agreed with Gordon that the photographer should have waited half an hour to let the sun sink lower, I know that they were having leisurely drinks on the terrace, by that time the drinks would have been sunk by then.

Leisurely drinks at all inclusive holiday

JULY PDI WINNING IMAGES

ADVANCED

1st Greater Flamingo & Stilt

by Reg Mellis

2nd Red Kite

by Gordon Bramham

3rd Dream

by Ping Lin

H.C. White Pelican

by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Roller Chasing Magpie

by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Sneaking In

by Howard King

INTERMEDIATE

1st Sharp Lines

by John Hastings

2nd Rainham Marsh Ducks

by Martyn Addison-Smith

3rd Sri Lankan Bird On A White Stick

by Richard Saville

H.C. Lilac Roller

by Harry Hodgkin

PRELIMINARY

1st Awaiting Occupants

by Sharon Brown

2nd As Found

by John Baker

3rd Homeward Bound

by John Baker

H.C. Checking The Nets

by Peter Owen

H.C. Anchored Up

by Dennis Goodman

BIJOU

This week we were lucky to have a judge that is a self made man. A self taught photographer and nature expert.  And with all these self assembly kits there is always some bits over to make something else.  In this case it was as judge. It is quite refreshing when we have a non judge judging as they come up with their own way of doing things. First we had a change to the score, which in the end did not make a difference to the result, then we had a version of Play Your Cards Right, were he gave the score, and then came the audience participation bit where we were asked to go higher or lower. The person whose image it was,shouted higher and their neighbour thinking if it goes higher they will beat me, shouting lower. 

In the end we got the right result, well those of us that that got first, second, third and highly commended. Think so.

  

BIJOU CUP & TROPHY

WINNING IMAGES

BIJOU TROPHY

1st GORDON BRAMHAM

Dalmation Pelican

Siberian Lynx

Lammergeier (The Bone Breaker)

2nd REG MELLIS

Great Grey Owl in Snow

Lammergeier Eating Bone

Little Owl With Food

3RD DAVID LUND

Crested Crane

 Hyacinth Macaws Fighting

River Otter

NORMAN BONHAM TROPHY
PETER OWEN

Amphiprion Bicintus 

Red Sea Clown Fish

BIJOU CUP

FLOWERS & ANIMALS

1st ANDY TAYLOR LRPS

Orchid Duo

Point of Focus

Unique Colours

2nd ANDY LAING

Tiger

Wild Garlic

Pink Poppy

3rd HARRY HODGKIN

Having Lunch

Concentration

Leopard

JULY MONTHLY PRINT

A week in which we discovered that we do not have a very good head for figures. Unfortunately none to our advantage.

It started with Dave's email about the cost of the Christmas dinner which would have meant him being out of pocket to subsidises the shortfall. 

It was my turn next, when updating the points for the print competition. Thanks to Dick for pointing out that whilst I was trying to publish the figures I had swapped my points total with Andy Taylor's, normally this would not have been a problem (for me). However, this year Andy has not got fewer points than myself so I had fiddled myself.

The next was Mandy and the two twenties. Easy mistake to make, personally I think that she thought they were marking one of her prints, this is one of the perks of the job, you can always state that there were two twenties given as one of the judges will think that the other two have given maximum marks. However, like the referendum you cannot have another vote if you do not like the result.

The last number cock up was down to good old technical problems, my mother in law always used to say never trust anything that runs off a three pin plug.

After the usual good old fashion methods of poking the key pad with a good old prod, bashing the computer screen and turning the computer off and then on. I think it was at this point that Brian showed us that not only that he is a good photographer but a great magician. As after all the technical stuff was completed his key board was working but Bob's was not, he obviously swapped them over during all the confusion, remarkable as Bob had his in his hand all the time.

My favourite image of the evening was a "A Deer Called Steve" very creative image and title, and ironic as Stephen was commenting on the prints he did say that he did not have different coloured eyes but did not mention if he had antlers or not I always wondered why he always back combed his hair.

I have thought of a way to spice up the announcing of the scores by introducing a bingo type call, for instance "three steps from heaven" 57, "these pixels are fine" 59. 

JULY MONTHLY PRINT

 WINNING IMAGES

Advanced

1st A Quiet Corner

by Ping Lin

2nd Dream

by Ping Lin

3rd Cloud 99

by Dave Wilcox

H.C. Fresh Delivery

by Gordon Bramham

H.C. Red, Yellow & Blue

by Ping Lin

3rd Chicago Inside Out

INTERMEDIATE

1st Lilly

by Martyn Addison-Smith

2nd Lego

by Colin Smith

3rd Chicago Inside And Out

by Cloin Smith

H.C. Pond Lillies

by Colin Addison-Smith