Thanks to all who attended and submitted entries for our first competition of the season, ‘Mono’ prints. Thanks also to our judge, Graham Currey for his judging and comments on the night. Congratulations go to Paul Scott, Anthony Gosling and Denis Jones for taking first, second and third places respectively. Also, well done to all the people who’s images were Highly Commended and Commended.
As this was the first competition of the season, we won’t be publishing the league table yet.
Many congratulations to Conor who has been awarded his ARPS.
In order to gain his ARPS, Conor had to submit 15 images to the judging panel and then attend the assessment day in Bath. He commented:
“ The first three panels that were assessed on the morning all failed due to technical faults with image sharpness so as you can imagine I was a nervous wreck sitting there in the audience when the fourth panel up was mine. Having four natural history expert judges plus a Chairman taking your pictures off the stand to examine them in detail for all of five minutes, talking to each other in low whispers about their thoughts on your work can’t help but induce some tension. Five minutes seems like ages. But when the Chairman asked them to vote on my panel they passed it unanimously and the relief was terrific, all the effort, print and re-print, trip down to Bath etc all seemed worthwhile”.
Conor is planning to bring along his Associate panel to the President’s evening on 4th January. If you can’t wait that long, here’s one of his winning images.
Longstanding Macclesfield Camera Club member, David Tolliday, has won The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2015 competition organised by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The results were announced on 17th September. David’s image had already been included in a book of winning and shortlisted images.
The image was taken during David’s first serious attempt at astrophotography from a dark sky site in mid-Wales in November 2014.
Chris Bramley, one of the judges, commented ‘To capture such a delicate image of this region in Orion is impressive, but to do it on a first night imaging under the stars is remarkable! A worthy winner’.
More details of the image and award can be found here.
During last week’s talk by John Smith on AV, John mentioned that the Great Northern Festival is approaching. This is a weekend of Entertainment, Competition and Learning for all Audio Visual enthusiasts. It takes place in Chorlton from 4th to 6th December.
For anyone interested, more details can be found at www.gnfestival.org.uk.
Val has continued her good form in the Amateur Photographer Of the Year competition this month. This month’s theme was Macro photography. Val’s image of a snowdrop gained 17th place. The judges commented “By using a shallow depth of focus, Val has isolated this single snowdrop”.
Val was also placed in the top 50 in last month’s round on the theme of ‘Shallow Depth of Field’.
Well done Val.
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