I’m sure that everyone was impressed with Conor’s successful ARPS panel when he displayed it a recent club meeting; I know I was. We now have it online, so if you’d like another look or if you missed it at the meeting you can find it under the Images & competitions, accreditations menu item above, or you can just click here. Well done Conor.
Conor’s ARPS
One of our aims for 2016 is to get more active in Federation and National level competitions, so our first foray is into the national GB Cup as organised by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain. We have entered the nature section and here is a selection of our images. So far we have 14 images from five club photographers but only the top 10 scoring images will count. There is also a prize for the photographer with the best 3 images. Lets see how we get on.
Six Spotted Burnet by Jan Riley
Only one week left to get your print entries in for the next competition. Entries must be in by 18th Jan. There will be no extensions as the prints will be collected by the judges next Monday evening. Please DO NOT write your name on the back, only the title, as the competition will be judged by a panel of club members. Also, don’t forget to send your entry form to me as usual.
Good luck!
Club photographer Len Claydon has just won a Gold medal and had two other exhibition acceptances at the recent Royal Photographic Society Projected Image competition. His medal was for coming top of the Open Colour section for his “Girl on the Balcony” image. From around 1000 entries, only 200 are selected for exhibition, three of which were Len’s. The images are published in the monthly RPS DIGIT magazine for December. Very well done Len, a great achievement.
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.
