Meeting Reports

Delia Trathen

Costa Rican Encounter - Adrian Langdon

The meeting this week was presented by one of our long standing members, Adrian Langdon, who showed us images from 2 of his recent trips to foreign lands.

The first was a trip made last Sept/ Oct time to Yellowstone Park and the Grand Titons. It was just the right time for the Autumn ,or Fall, colours. They were stunning. Adrians principal interest is Natural History and he showed some fabulous images of Elk, Bison, Grizzly Bear, Otters etc. as well as some beautiful landscapes.

After the tea interval, we saw a complete contrast in habitat from a trip the previous November to Costa Rica. Here it was wet and very green amongst the forest where  the smaller animals, insects and birds were more in evidence, with some of them taken actually in their accomodation, which was a little on the basic side.

Adrian was thanked by Paul Craddock, for providing his stunning images together with the well informed commentary.

Iain - Jeremy Northcott 

The meeting was held at St Austell Camera Club hall, but before the critique proper began, we had an update on the condition of Roy Hoar. Roy is a former Wadebridge club, St Austell club and a CWTPG  member. His brother, Brian outlined visiting arrangements and told us that Roy is still in hospital awaiting the results of a biopsy.

Each club had submitted 15 prints, and 15 images for projection. Images from the clubs were displayed alternately and Bob then MC'd as the members gave a short critique on each others work.

As the 2 clubs know each other very well, it was a very friendly and enjoyable evening with much good natured banter being directed at each other.

There was a good turn out from Wadebridge membership despite inclement weather and the meeting being on an evening which is not our usual meeting evening.

Paul Craddock gave a vote of thanks to the St Austell members for their hospitality and an enjoyable evening.

It was provisionally agreed that we would host a similar evening next season on 23rd February 2011!

Roy - Jeremy Northcott 

Well - what a night! Over 40 prints were submitted and many of them designated "cracking image" status, to quote directly from some of the critical comments expressed by the assembled members. Lots of well deserved "silver" awards were assigned and a good few "golds".

There was much energetic debate about some of the more creative aspects of many images and there was also plenty of well received advice, offered where it was felt to be helpful, for our emerging members.

Most of us had our favourites from the diverse range of more accomplished images that we particularly enjoyed looking at through the course of the evening, but two prints from Paul McCullagh stole the show for many of us.

The first was a composite image made up from a variety of angular views of a viaduct, a sort of "Hockney meets the cubists" take on a piece of classical architecture. 

The second was an image harking back to the illustrators of the 50's and 60's children's books by authors like Enid Blyton.  It was a whitened vignette of a little girl playing with a ball and her dog in the garden. The colours were subtly rich, an effect Paul achieved partly through the use of a "Topaz" filter.

We ended the night with a reminder about next week's Thursday night critique evening at St Austell. Our thoughts go out to Roy and his family as news arrives of his more serious condition in Trelisk Hospital.

by Jeremy     

 (Standing in for your regular correspondent Delia, who is currently on tour in Lincolnshire)       

Lottie - Jeremy Northcott 

The meeting held Wed Feb 10th was a Human Portrait Competition.

The evening was introduced by our President, Paul Craddock. He then introduced our Judge for the evening, John Rogers, one of our members.

John had obviously spent much time viewing all the images and gave constructive criticism and advice where he felt necessary. The results were;

DPI'S

1st---John by Adrian Langdon

2nd---Ollie by Emma Wilson

3rd---Lottie by Jeremy Northcott

HC--- Engine Driver by Anne Chapman

HC---Susie, Winning Jockey by Adrian Langdon

HC---Concentration by Delia Trathen

Prints;

1st---Sam by Paul Craddock

2nd---On the Lookout by Delia Trathen

3rd---New England Patriot by Penry Archer

As there were only 10 prints no HC's were awarded.

John was thanked by Paul for his efforts in judging our work.

'Horse & Tree in Fog' -Tony McDonnell,

London Salon'09 Exhibition Medal Winner

The meeting was introduced by our President Paul Craddock, and we were treated to a viewing of a Digital presentation of the prestigious 98th London Print Salon. A total of 182 prints had been accepted but in order not to make the presentation too long, just 80 images were put onto the CD.  The aim of the London Salon is to encourage an artistic approach to photography and we were shown a wide range of images.

After the tea break we viewed the Guernsey Salon acceptances from the General Mono, the Mono Portrait and the General Colour sections. These were of a more traditional style in comparison to the London Salon images.

There was a reminder to get our entries for the WCPF Knightshayes trophy in next week. The subject being Ground Level.

Jeremy Northcott - Broad Bodied Chaser

The meeting held on 27th January, was the 4th DPI evening. It was introduced by our President Paul Craddock who led the discussion for the first half of the meeting. After tea break the discussion was led by our Vice President, Jeremy Northcott.

A wide variety of images were projected and voted on, with members then commenting on each image.

A total of just 2 Gold Awards were given, plus 16 Silver Awards.

The recipients of these awards were;

Gold

Curlew-----Adrian Langdon

Broad Bodied Chaser-----Jeremy Northcott

Silver

At a Gallop-----Adrian Langdon

Board Master-----Chris Curtis

Camel Trail-----Eva Kocianova

Grey Squirrel-----Penry Archer

Ionia-----Brian Galbraith

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-----Emma Wilson

Straw Swirls-----Delia Trathen

Roche Rock by Moonlight-----Paul Craddock

Peto Lake-----Jane Pickles

Polzeath-----Eva Kocianova

Deer at Frozen Lake-----Penry Archer

Storm Swell-----Paul Craddock

Sunrise, Mount's Bay-----Delia Trathen

The Visitor-----Anne Chapman

Thin Ice-----Nick Payton

Red Squirrel-----Jenni Cheesman

Brian Galbraith also reminded us that our entries would soon be required for the WCPF Knightshayes Trophy, the subject this year is 'Ground Level'.

Natural History: 20/01/10

Adrian Langdon - Copulating Kingfishers

Brian Galbraith chaired the meeting and introduced the judge for the evening who was Steve Bulford,a member of the St Austell Camera Club and an accomplished wildlife photographer.

Steve made a point of finding plus points in all the images shown, but was also able to point out where he felt an image could have been enhanced. One of his recurring suggestions was using the crop tool, to eliminate parts of the picture which  didn't add to the overall effect.

We went through all the images in each section before he announced the results; which were;

DPI's

1st--- Grey Heron Landing by Adrian Langdon

2nd---Broad Bodied Chaser by Chris Curtis

3rd---Garden Spider and Wasp by Emma Wilson

HC---George the Egret by Penry Archer

HC---Field Mouse by Chris Curtis

HC---Goslings by Jeremy Northcott

Prints

1st---Frogs by Jeremy Northcott

2nd---Copulating Kingfishers by Adrian Langdon

3rd---Reed Warbler by Jeremy Northcott

HC---Ibex by John Evans-Jones

HC---Albino Squirrel by Penry Archer

HC---Damselflies by Chris Curtis

Steve was thanked by Brian for the hard work and attention to detail which had been put into the judging of our images.

WCPF Travelling Critique: 13/01/10

Anne Chapman - Remembrance

The first meeting of the New Year finally got underway on Wed. 13th January with a showing of the WCPF Travelling Print Critique.

This is a collection of 100 images which almost made it to the WCPF Members Exhibition. They are boxed and sent on a rota around the member clubs for viewing and discussion.

Brian Galbraith organised this for the club and he suggested a different way of viewing the images. Rather than the usual one at a time viewing, he set up panels of a dozen at a time so that members could judge them as a group of images and select their own favourites. He also encouraged members to get involved by thinking about what was good and what could be improved.  We ended up with 6 or so best images which we then voted on to find an overall winner.

Members agreed this approach worked very well, by encouraging discussion and critique, and Brian was thanked for collecting and displaying the images.

Print 3: 6/01/10

Adrian tries in vain to get to the meeting . .

(Cancelled due to snow)

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