Competition Four - 22nd April 2008
Last Tuesday saw the final very popular Members Competition night of this season - This was judged for us by Malcolm Cook EFIAP from Leicester - who has judged and lectured at the Society many times in the past.
The print section was by far the biggest with 16 entrants submitting some 31 prints for Malc to Comment on. Having whittled that down to the top ten he then had the invidious task of putting those in his order of preference. The winner seen here on the right was "AUTUMN MIST" by MIKE BUXTON EFIAP APAGB - Although printed out on an inkjet printer the original image was taken on 35mm slide film - scanned then minimally enhanced in Photo Shop.
The Digital section then followed with a surprisingly low entry only 9 entrants submitting 18 images. The winning entry seen below has a simple title "THE DANDY" by Neil Malton DPAGB - A very creative monochrome image with bags of impact that shows the clever use of enhanced differential focus through the use of blurring the background in Photoshop.
The Slide Section then finished off the evening - with again a very small entry 5 entrants submitted 10 slides - slides are very much on the decline. The winning image seen below was entitled "THE OLD CHURCH" by Neil Malton DPAGB - Taken on his dedicated Infra Red Camera - enhanced in Photoshop - then written back to Slide Film - a subject matter very suited to this treatment.
The final scores have now been totaled and the trophy winners for the 2007-2008 Season are:
PRINTS : NEIL MALTON DPAGB
DIGITAL : DAVE HODGSON DPAGB
SLIDES : JANICE JONES
Bill Dunn - Trophy 2008
This year's annual competition for the Bill Dunn Creative Photography Trophy took place on Tuesday the 26th of February. This was the third year since its inception and for the third year running a new name is added to the roll of honour. Ian Haskell won with a digital image right out of Bill's school with "MALLARD TAKEOFF" (seen here below right) which also recently won the SWIFT CUP in the Annual Exhibition. He was presented with the trophy by Peter Cheetham APAGB who was the judge for the event.
It was a close contest beating off competition from both the Slide and Print Entries and by selecting Ian's image we avoided any possible conflict between husband and wife Dave and Judy Hodgson whose images from the print and slides sections were the runners up.
Bill Dunn was ahead of his time and was one of the leading exponents that inspired many photographers with his command of darkroom techniques for making creative slide images in the 1980's that were his trademark and all achieved without the use of current technology. This trophy kindly commissioned by Diana Dunn is now firmly installed as an annual event within the society's calendar.
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2008 - Annual Exhibition Opens
The Society’s 2008 Exhibition of Prints and Projected images are now on display in THE SPACE4 Gallery at the Peterborough City Museum.
The official opening was made by the Deputy Mayor of Peterborough - Councillor Patricia Nash MBE on Friday the 8th of February - accompanied by Deputy Mayoress of Peterborough - Mrs Trudie Meadows - seen here with Janice Jones PPS - President. (Photo courtesy of John Grant)
A selection of the award winning images can now be viewed online in the 2008 Exhibition Gallery found by clicking on "Exhibition" at the top of this page
The trophies will be presented to the award winners in the Museum and Art Gallery at a special presentation evening on the 4th of March.
Our grateful thanks to RAY BRAMMALL ARPS, DPAGB who had the difficult task of selecting all the major award winners - and commented "the standard of pictures in the Natural History category were amazing."
This year's ET award made by there representative once the exhibition is on display has gone to NIGEL GARDNER for his print - "The Train Now Waiting"
The Mayors choice made at the opening from the 270 prints on display has gone to John Miller for his print "Meercat" - This exhibition provides an opportunity to show the creative talents of Society members.
Our thanks go to Clifton Stewart and his team in the Museum for staging our exhibition once again. - and our own Exhibition Secretary Ian Haskell for his hard work in bringing this altogether.
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