Friday, 24 January 2014

Abandoned and Discarded

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

At the club meeting held on Thursday 23rd January members were asked to vote on the 37 projected images that the members had submitted in this the 3rd mini competition titled ‘Abandoned and Discarded’. Prior to the images being shown vice chairman Neil Thomas gave members the results of the Brian Jennings Memorial Trophy, this is a competition between 8 camera clubs, this year it was hosted by Trostre Camera club; the judge Roy Thomas of Neath, after viewing all the prints with each club entering 5 with a maximum of 100 points on offer. Llanelli Camera club came 1st with 95 points with Tenby and District Camera club in 2nd place with 94 points, and excellent result for this the first external club competition of the year. The next external competition is the ‘Ace of Clubs’ were 30 projected images have been selected for entry.

Back to the mini competition the members after seeing the images and scoring points from 1 to 5 awarded 3rd place to Roy Packer with ‘No One Lives Here Anymore’, in 2nd place Josephine Wakeman with ‘On the Rocks’ and the winning image ‘One Tank of Gas and Back on the Road’ to Roy Packer.

Following the judging and a coffee break, chairman Roy Packer gave a short talk/workshop on Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 5 making edits and adjustments. Roy answered many questions from members. The members gave Roy a sounding round of applause for this valuable contribution to the club scene.


 30th January – Talk by Chris Warrem – 60 images for 60 years                                               
                  

6th February – ‘An Evening with@ - guest speaker Allan Lloyd