| February
may be the shortest month of the year, but the Ivybridge
& District Camera Club still managed to hold five
exciting events in just twenty-one of the month’s
fleeting days.
It all kicked
off with a Practical Evening on the 3rd of the month
hosted by David Rayner and covering the topical subject
of how to improve winter scenes followed by a group
discussion on the relative merits of DSLR, Bridge and
Compact camera types. Many thanks are due to Keith Miller,
Keith Mullin and Keith Mason who all displayed their
cameras and supported the discussion.
Seven days later,
Mr Larry St Croix from Torquay kindly critiqued the
first leg of a multi-club digitally projected image
competition with clubs as far away as Mersea Island.
So far, the best we can say is we are not bottom of
the league but there are several more legs yet to be
played. The competition is between twelve clubs and
is the first of what we hope will become an annual event.
With the clubs located so far apart all the images and
organisation are conducted by post and internet, with
each club recruiting an independent judge to visit and
score the local leg.
Just a couple
of days later the club improved its performance over
last year in an all-day digital photo battle against
40 other clubs from the Western Counties, scoring a
respectable, if middling, 254 points. Four of our images
scored maximum points from at least one of the three
judges and these were entered by Keith Miller, Alan
Davey, Margaret Martin and David Rayner.
Our best inter-club
performance was reserved for a three-way battle held
by Saltash Camera Club at the Ashtorre centre, with
Liskeard being the third club. At the halfway point
in the competition Ivybridge was a nail-biting one point
ahead and it could have gone either way. However a strong
set of images in the second half saw Ivybridge beating
Saltash by eleven points with Liskeard trailing a few
points behind. The top image of the evening was judged
by Mr Eric Cawsey to be Great Blue Heron by
Ivybridge club member Bernard Howley.
Finally, towards
the end of the month we managed to squeeze in a ‘normal’
competition between members. The year’s 1st Challenge
Cup competition saw record numbers of entries resulting
in competition secretary Keith Mullin using the ‘R’
rule to reduce the numbers to a manageable level for
the judge, Mr Max Danby from Paignton.
The winning
Colour print was Lake District Falls by chairman
Keith Miller from Ivybridge. House of Hymns
by Rosalind O’Dell was judged to be worthy of
second place, with Dandelion Clock from Bernard
Howley of Saltash taking third place.
In the Monochrome
print section a well-toned mountain and lake scene entitled
Sprit Island Revisited recaptured the look
of Ansel Adams’s famous photograph and took first
place for Ugborough member Bruce Thomas. Second place
was awarded to Stuart Barnes from Plymouth with Wild
Dartmoor whilst View Under the Arch by
Bruce Robinson from Ivybridge took third place.
The Digitally
Projected Image section was won by Sue Bishop of Newton
Abbot with Forgotten Corner. Norman Simpson
of Ivybridge took second place with Hong Kong Waterfront
and Tony Clements, also from Ivybridge won third with
Home Before the Storm.
Visitors are
always welcome to club meetings and we meet at Bittaford
Community Hall from 7:30 pm on the second and fourth
Tuesdays in the month. Our programme, members’
photographs and much more are all available elsewhere
on this web site.
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Great
Blue Heron photographed in the Corkscrew Swamp,
Florida by Bernard Howley was judged to be the
top print of the evening in a three-way battle
between Ivybridge, Saltash and Liskeard Camera
Clubs. Ivybridge & District Camera Club won
the battle by 11 points. |
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