2018/19 Prints Round 2

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Results of Round 2 of the print league (judged by Chris Forster) were as follows:

The colour section was won by Colin McInnes and "Boatshed". In second place was "What a Poser" by Chris Bennett, and third place went to Geoff Clinton with "Loading the boat"

A couple of familiar names in the Mono section, with Colin McInnes again taking 1st place with "Pebble beach", and Chris Drury  in 2nd and 3rd with "Low key art nude" and "Sealed with a kiss: Selenium and grain filter" respectively.

2018/19 PI Round 2

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Dave Hipperson was the judge for Round two of the Projected Image league. Chris Bennett took first and third paces with two natural history shots - "Heading for the river" and "Fishing". Chris Drury was the meat in the sandwich with "Crazed Mirror".

2018/19 Prints Round 1

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Results of Round 1 of the print league (judged by Terry Coffey) were as follows:

The colour section was won by Chris Williams with his "St Pauls". In second place was "Stork billed kingfisher" by Geoff Clinton, and third place went to Chris Williams again with "Hebes"

A couple of familiar names in the Mono section, with Chris Williams again  taking 1st place with "Ancient Monument", and Chris Drury  in 2nd this time with "Artist Impression - Mia". Gary Shore was in 3rd with "Wells next the sea"

2018/19 PI – Round 1

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The first competition of the new season. This week's winning entry was Steve Ransom's excellent "Southern chaser, chasing". Second and Third places went to Chris Dundon-Smith with "Daddy's girl" and "Quiraig" by Felix Sproll respectively. Thanks to this week's judge Lloyd Moore.

POTY & BOTR

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Tuesday 8th May saw the annual "Print of the year" and "Best of the Rest" titles awarded.

"Print of the year" is actually awarded in 3 categories - Colour, Mono and Projected Images. Entries are taken from any image placed in the Club competitions through the year.

"Best of the Rest" is open for anyone who did not have a placed entry in the competition categories of projected or prints.

After all that, the winners were....

Colour Print of the Year

Winner : Kieron Keller with "Eastbourne Pier"

Highly Commended : Richard Craddock with "Icelandic Dawn"

Highly Commended : Kieron Keller with "Owl Portrait"

Mono Print of the Year

Winner : Chris Bennett with "Chileshe"

Highly Commended : Kieron Keller with "St Dunstans Church"

Highly Commended : Kieron Keller with "Big Dave"

 

Projected Image of the year

Winner : Peter Tatton with "Red Sea Wreck"

Highly Commended : Chris Bennett with "Heads Up"

Highly Commended : Allan Parker with "Standing Stones"

Print "Best of The Rest"

Winner : Colin McInnes  with "Pretty Polly"

(One award only due to limited entries)

 

Projected Image "Best of The Rest"

Winner  : Steve Else with "Duck Landing"

Highly Commended : Angela McLean with "A Prickly Snack"

Highly Commended : Chris Drury with "Tallships Race"

Projected Images Round 4

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The 4th and final round of the Projected Image league was won by Chris Bennett with her Pelicans in "Heads up". Simon Gadd took 2nd place with his study of "Making music", and Chris Williams was in 3rd place with "The search for water". Well done to all the winners.

Prints Round 4

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Results of Round 4 of the print league were as follows:

The colour section was won by Kieron Keller with his "Owl Portait". In second place was "Getting Ready" by Helen Cullens, and third place went to Steve Else with "Wet Daffodil"

A couple of familiar names in the Mono section, with Helen this time taking 1st place with "Yorkshire tree", and Kieron  in 2nd this time with "Big Dave". Steve Ballard was in 3rd with "Going Out"

Filming insects and birds

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On 6th March, we were treated some fascinating insights into the scientific (rather than the usual artistic) uses of photography. Dr Richard Bomphrey from the Royal Veterinary College presented a talk on “Filming insects and birds: videography as a starting point for science and technology”.

Mainly using high speed cameras to capture motion, but then applying some pretty serious mathematical modelling, Richard and his colleagues are able to study the wing motions of insects and birds, in order to understand different aspects of the subject such as efficiency, speed, landing and take off. The knowledge of this is useful not only in the understanding of the animal kingdom, but also has potential applications to human flight.

Some of the highlights for me were :
A video showing how dragonfly wings beat alternately front and rear, except at the point of take off.
Images and videos showing the square of vortices around insects and planes.
Insight into some of the simple sounding but clever techniques for capturing the required information.

And of course playing with the high speed camera and some party poppers!

2018 Schools Competition

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On Feb 6th, we held our annual Schools Competition, in conjunction with the St Albans Museums and Galleries trust, and sponsored by Taylor Walton solictors. This competition is open to sixth forms and colleges in the local area and gives pupils the opportunity to have their images judged by an independent judge, and also have the opportunity to win some rather nice prizes.

This year there were almost 70 entries from 5 establishments. Thanks to all entrants, judges and supporters.

The images are now being prepared for an exhibition in St Albans Cathedral which will open on 10th March for one week.

Two two winning images shown here are "Steel wool car" by Callum Bowden from Oaklands College, and "Sky high" by Michaella Buer from Marlborough school. Many congratulations to both.

 

Further highly commended images below were "Enlighten" by Michaella Buer (again!), and "Shadows of the morning" by Skye Adams from Sandringham school.