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.

 

60 Iconic Images Of Pembrokeshire by Chris Warren

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

The chairman opened the club evening asking Charlie Kidd to give the results and show the images of the clubs entries in the W.P.F Memorial trophy competition. From the 24 Welsh clubs that entered, Tenby and District came a very credible fourth with Gary Jenkins image ‘Tipping Point’ gaining 19 points.

Our guest speaker needed no introduction to the members, as Chris Warren, a commercial photographer has been a club member for many a year. Tonight Chris was talking and showing images of his commission for the Pembrokeshire National Park, “60 iconic images of Pembrokeshire”. He took the images in the Autumn of 2012, but before showing members the images he explained what pre-planning had to be carried out following receipt of his brief. Planning – what view points and where, planning a working route, working out best times of day, was it to be a sunrise or sunset shot? The times for the beach and harbours – tide in or out? And finally the weather forecast.

His introduction to the 60 images started with a few statistics, such as the Pembrokeshire National Park being the only coastal path in Britain with an area of 243 square miles and was created in 1952.

The tour around the Park was in bite size sections starting from Amroth along the south coast taking in Saundersfoot, Tenby, Manorbier, Freshwater East to the Green Bridge. Chris gave interesting facts and history on many of the locations. His commission took in a range of locations and while the coastline is spectacular, the woodlands, hills, and the waterway is equally spectacular. His images showed just that, the inland waterway of Carew, Cresswell Quay and up to Llangwm, the Milford Haven Waterway with stunning images of Angle Bay, Thorn Island, Dale and Watwick Bay. The contrasting differences in coastline, and scenery from the north to the south of the County was evident when the images of St Brides, Haroldston Chins, Solva, St Davids and north to Abereiddi and Strumble Head were projected, leaving the audience spell bound. Chris then took us inland to the hills with images of Carn Igili, Pontfaen Woods, Castell Henllys and finishing at Pentre Ifan.

Photographing the Park in its 60^th year was a dream commission Chris stated and was proud to be part of a project recording this magical and fascinating world class landscape for generations of people to come.

Many of the images were published in the National Park paper Coast to Coast, Wales Online and in the local papers, and with some of the images being displayed on the National Park vehicles.

The chairman thanked Chris for a most interesting evening.

All 60 images can be seen at the National Park offices, Llanion Park, Pembroke Dock.

6^th February – A Journey through Norway – a talk by Paul Richards

13^th February – Judging of Landscape entries and hand in of Creative images

Abandoned and Discarded

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

At the club meeting held on Thursday 23^rd January members were asked to vote on the 37 projected images that the members had submitted in this the 3^rd 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 1^st with 95 points with Tenby and District Camera club in 2^nd 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 3^rd place to Roy Packer with ‘No One Lives Here Anymore’, in 2^nd 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.

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

                  

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

2nd Open

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

The club meeting held on Thursday 9^th January was the judging night for the member’s entries in the 2^nd Open competition, the judge, Vince Pentecost AWPF who is the chairman of the Western Valley Camera Club a position he has held within the club for 16years. Vince made the two hour drive from his home in Cross Keys to give his critique and scores to the 23 print images and 24 digital images submitted.

Vince explained to members how he viewed the prints, looking at them in harsh and soft lighting, then writing is critique then scoring.

The subject matter in the print competition ranged from kingfishers, sea eagles, kestrels, otters, lions, landscapes, flowers and people in different settings.

Twelve of the prints scored 17 marks or more with the winning image scoring 20 marks, Roy Packer with ‘Kestrel Prey’ in both second and third places was Gary Jenkins with ‘Drying out’ and ‘Kingfisher with catch’.

Following the coffee break the 24 digital images were displayed and once again a high standard of photography was on show, fourteen prints gaining 17 marks or more. Being an open competition the subject matter varies considerably and judging is no easy task, these ranged from dogs playing ball, view of Seville by twilight, landscapes, meerkats, squirrels and the winning digital image of ‘Tigers of Ranthambore’, once again Roy Packer being the winning photographer with Paul Richards in 2^nd place with ‘Kingfisher’s are it’ and in 3^rd place Andrew Weaver’s image ‘Losing It’.

Members thanked Vince for his honest and very useful hints on all images displayed to the 32 embers present.

New members are always welcome, please come along and meet us all, every Wednesday Thursday evening at the St Florence Village Hall at 7.30pm.

                                    

Xmas Bash

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

A very happy and melodious Christmas party was held on Thursday 19^th December bringing to close another successful year in the life of the camera club.

The evening started with the Tenby Male Voice Choir leading us all in the singing of Christmas Carol’s. This was then followed by a number of songs from the choir’s expansive repertoire, during the choir member’s short break, Paul Vallero one of the choir’s soloists sang a wonderful piece from the musical ‘Les Miserable’.

An extensive buffet was prepared by club members Mike Rowe and Charlie Kidd supported by both their wives Carol and Pauline. Donna McKay and Andrew Weaver gave members a chance to win wonderful prizes in the Christmas raffle. Members also took part in a Festive Quiz – University Challenge has nothing to worry about.

The choir continued to entertain those present with more Carol’s and songs to round off a most memorable evening.

The committee wishes to thank all the members and guest who supported the evening and wish you all a Happy and Prosperous photographic New Year.

   The next meeting of the camera club will be on Thursday 9^th January 2014 with the judging of the 2^nd open competition.