TENBY
AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB
Roy Packer club chairman opened the club
meeting on Thursday 13th March and welcomed guests and the judge for
the evening Mr Ed Cloutman. After a short introduction Ed went on to give his
critique of the18 prints submitted in the clubs 3rd Open
Competition. The winning print ‘Dipper with Prey’ by Paul Richards was
described by the judge as technically a perfect print and a fantastic print of
the bird in its natural environment. Paul also secured second place with his
print named ‘Kingfisher Strike’ and 3rd
Place Mineral Lake
After a short interval Ed went on to judge
the 24 digital images submitted, wildlife again took pride of place when Roy
Packer’s image ‘Jumping Squirrel’ was declared the winner, the judge telling
members that this was an excellent example of capturing a sharp image of a
creature on the move. The image of the ‘Lone Fresia’ by Dylan Harries came
second with Dave Bolton’s ‘Bike Race’ awarded third place.
The Five
Way Battle –
projected image competition was held Thursday evening 13th March at
the Bethany Chapel, Priory Street Carmarthen . This competition is between 5
photographic clubs each submitting 8 images. The clubs taking part this year
were Amman Valley ,
Cardigan, Carmarthen , New Quay and Tenby and
District Camera club. Charles Kidd the external competition secretary selected
the images for Tenby and was successful in winning the event with 146 points
from a total of 160, 2nd place was Carmarthen
club with 141 points. Two images submitted gained a maximum of 20 points ‘The
Greedy One’ – Neil Thomas and ‘Kingfishers Are It’ – Paul Richards and one
image gaining 19 points ‘Porlock Weir’ – Gary Jenkins. Congratulations to all
members whose images were used in the competition.
27th March – Journey Through India
with Roy packer.
