Landscape comp

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

The chairman Roy Packer gave a very warm welcome to Mr Rob Mitchell MA, who made a return to the club on Thursday 13^th February to judge the 22 print images and 31 digital images in the landscape competition.

Rob who lives and works in Swansea, lecturing in photography at the Swansea Metropolitan University and will be retiring from his teaching post at the end of this term.

Rob explained to members before showing the prints, that he would be looking for technique, the rule of thirds, horizontal lines, he also explained that it was important for the photographer to name his image and that the interpretation of that title matched the photograph. Taking a closer look at these creative weapons to use to compose more artful images, straight, horizontal lines are calming and draw attention left to right across the frame, vertical lines accentuate height while diagonal lines create visual energy. Circles contain information and can be used to hold the viewers attention, squares and rectangles are solid and create visuals stasis, while triangles are more dynamic creating a sense of energy and finally the rule of thirds, a tried and trusted photographic technique. The rule states that the main subject should be positioned in one of four points where imaginary vertical and horizontal lines, drawn at third intervals, intersect. The reason it works is by positioning the subject in one of these points, it emphasises the wider area; so drawing the viewers attention to objects in the part of the scene.

The 22 print images of landscapes and seascapes showed the beauty of Pembrokeshire, Iceland, France and the Yorkshire Dales. The winning print was an image called ‘Scour Hole’ by Paul Richards with Peter Bierbrach being awarded second place with ‘Foreshore Lights’ and third place Dylan Harries ‘The Copse’.

After the coffee break Rob gave his critique and scores to the digital images with many of them showing Pembrokeshire’s magnificent coastline. The winning image was ‘In the Cool of the Night’ by Gary Jenkins who also took second place with ‘Last Colours of Autumns’ and third place to Liz Wallis with ‘Devils Claw Viewpoint.

Rob was asked to choose an overall winner for the evening and Paul Richards with his ‘Scour Hole’ was awarded the accolade.

Thursday 20^th February – An evening with Chris Warren and handing of 3^rd Open.

                     

  

Thursday 27^th February – Photographing live music and events with Graham Harries

Paul Richards Norway

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

Paul Richards an accomplished nature photographer was brought up in rural Wales where is love of nature began, following 20 years in countryside management, he now devotes his time to photography, running courses and giving talks on nature photography. Back in 2012 Paul had planned a trip to Norway and Sweden in his camper van; the 3 weeks that he and his partner Liz, who is also a photographer planned in 2013 turned into a 10 week adventure. The camera club were entertained on Thursday 6^th February to their trip with the evening being called ‘To Have an Adventure – a Memory in Photographs’.

On arriving in the Artic circle they drove on the RV17 one of the finest coastal roads, an exciting 650km long stretch of road between Steinkjer in the south and Bodo in the north. Norway is home to an impressive number of species of birds in particular the Blue Throat Divers and Sea Eagles, images were also shown of the Artic Fox and Fox puppies – sadly these have been in decline due to the over hunting around the turn of the century, with approximately 150 breeding pairs being recorded to date. Sweden is a land of incredible contrast, home to a vast array of landscapes, from dense pine forests, craggy mountains to rolling hills, all this was portrayed in the images shown.

Norway and Sweden lies north of the Artic Circle which means immense contrasts in seasons, that is temperatures, darkness and light. This was shown to club members in the form of an audio visual presentation called ‘Norway – Land of Midnight Sun’.

The chairman thanked Paul and Liz for an exciting and memorable evening enhanced by the wonderful images shown.

                

Thursday 13^th February – Judging of Landscape entries and handing in of Creative images.

                    

                                                                         

Thursday 20^th February – An evening with Chris Warren and handing in of 3^rd Open.