Macclesfield Camera Club are launching their Annual Print Exhibition at Macclesfield Library, with an open evening on Monday 15th May @20:00.
The exhibition photos will be on display for two weeks and showcase a wide range of colour and monochrome prints spanning a wide range of photographic genres.
The exhibition is open to the public and located on the first floor of the library.
Whilst we may not have been busy with news items we have though been busy with a full photographic season. Our current season is nearly over with the culmination of our season being our Annual Exhibition which is being hosted by Macclesfield Library in the library’s gallery on the first floor. It’s on for two weeks starting on the 15th May so please come along and enjoy a feast of great images taken by our members.
In the meantime here’s just a taste of the results of one of our member’s trips during the winter to Finland.
The trip was to Kuusamo and run by Kuusamo Nature Photography and lasted for about 10 days including our travels from Manchester. The main reason for the trip, as well as enjoying the stunning Finnish landscape, was to photograph Golden Eagles at the Oulanka Eagle Hides. Over the week we saw over 17 different species of birds but others were still elusive so a return trip is planned. There are also many tales to tell of our adventure but that will have to wait for another time.
With well over 4,000 images taken by each of us here’s just a few of the various birds we saw.
We held our first internal club competition last Monday (24th October) which was an Open DPI competition. We had a total of 40 entries from 14 members so thank you all those who entered.
This competition was a “club judged” one, where the members get an opportunity (if they wish – which was entirely optional!) to review the images, score them and provide constructive feedback.
We undertook a similar exercise last year and members really enjoyed the experience, so we repeated the process.
The format was broadly similar to last year where we issued scoring sheets on the night so members could record your scores and we totalled the result at the end of the evening to find out which were the most popular images.
Congratulations to the following photographers for the contested first and second place slots, scoring 19 & 20 points
Congratulations to Steve for his winning image Black Bear Up a Creek.
The full set of the top scoring images can be found on the competitions page: Internal Competitions 2022 – 2023. The details of all the scores and images can be found in the following PDF document: October 2022 – Open DPI Results
Our first external competition of the season was held on 13th October and hosted by Crewe Camera Club. As holders of the trophy we were hoping to emulate last season’s success but in a magnanimous gesture we decided to give one of the other clubs a chance in fact we gave three other clubs a chance. This season’s competition was hosted by Crewe Camera Club via Zoom. Sixty images were reviewed in total, with twelve images from each of the five participating clubs – Crewe, Leek, Macclesfield, Blythe Bridge and Holmes Chapel and judged by John Smith.
As always, the judge’s decision is final and as usual there will always be some debate about the scoring of some of the images.
The results for the evening were:
Our images can be found below and their scores can be found in the attached document: Robert Shaw 2022 Results (PDF)
Thank you to John Smith for the judging the competition, to Crewe for hosting this season’s competition and to Steve Gresty for pulling our entry together. Next year maybe we wont be quite so generous.
Roy has managed to feature in the Macclesfield Express with an half page spread. It’s great to see our members getting recognition for their images. Great image Roy, keep up the good work and posting and hopefully we’ll see more images posted soon.
