2011 Annual Exhibition & Awards Night (& a little bit of news)

As Ashley mentioned in the last post the Blackwood Photographic Club Annual Exhibition has been run and won.

We had a great selection of entries in all categories, and once again, members entries were of the highest standard. Its a pleasure to view the work that is submitted each year from such a talented group of people. Many thanks to our judges for their great effort, and of course thanks to our scorers, collaters and Mark Pedlar for putting together the award booklet.

Without any further ado, here are the winners and the awards.

Firstly, the Bill Templar Award for 2011 has been awarded to Julie Goulter. Julie’s contribition to the club over many years has been far beyond the call of duty, always with a smile, and this award salutes her enormous contribution to the club. Congratulations Julie!

The slideshow below documents the awards ceremony (thanks to Ray Goulter for taking the photos). Oh – and the guy in the blue shirt that seems to be in every image is just me…. 😆

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Over the year, we see many outstanding images – and those with the highest scores in each category are rewarded with the following awards.

Aggregate points awards

Album prints – JV Spick Chemist Award
1st	Jo Tabe	220 points
2nd	James Allan	211 points
3rd	Heather Connolly	197 points
Colour prints – Blackwood Photographic Club award
1st	John Vidgeon	242 points
2nd	Jo Tabe	231 points
3rd	James Allan	227 points
Mono prints – Blackwood Times Award
1st	Jo Tabe	235 points
2nd	James Allan	209 points
3rd	Theo Prucha	191 points
Projected images
1st	John Vidgeon	241 points
2nd	James Allan	225 points
3rd	Ursula Prucha	223 points

After our Annual Exhibition night, our best images were:

Annual Exhibition Top images

Album prints – Edge Malpas Award
1st	Helen Whitford	Wisteria
2nd	Heather Connoly	Banged up
3rd	Helen Whitford	Antenna up
Colour prints – Mal Klopp Blackwood Pharmacy Award
1st	Jo Tabe	Night Quarters
2nd	John Vidgeon	Blown away
3rd	Jo Tabe	Searching for water
Mono prints – I’ve been Framed Award
1st	Helen Whitford	White Cheeked Gibbon
2nd	Helen Whitford	Wild Dogs
3rd	Mark Pedlar	Louvre observed
Projected images – Fotoswift Award
1st	John Vidgeon	Young Owl
2nd	Chris Schultz	Iceland poppy detail
3rd	Jo Tabe	Busted

Latest news

The awards night also had a bonus. The Mayor of the City of Mitcham, Michael Picton, attended our awards night and saw the many images we produce. We also were informed that we were successful in our Community Development Grant application with the City of Mitcham for the purchase of a Spyder3 Pro calibration device to correctly calibrate our digital projector and laptop. On 5-Dec-2011 Ashley & I attended a Civic Reception in the Mayor’s Parlour at the Mitcham Council Chambers to receive the award. We sincerely thank the City of Mitcham for their support and will utilise this device to improve the presentations both within the club and with visiting speakers and within the community. This has already started, as on the night of the reception a number of groups also receiving awards approached us about photographic opportunities and education within the community. We’ll keep you informed.
Our 31 day Challenge is running running – and there are lots of great images popping up – keep putting them in and watching!
We also have an exhibition of 29 images from a number of club members at the Stirling Library, Mount Barker Rd, Stirling. If you’d like to pop in and see what we look like framed 😆 the exhibition runs until mid-January. I’ll pop an image of the display in here when I get a chance

Finally, I’d like to wish all club members and regular readers of our little missives a Very Happy & Joyous Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
See you next year (unless we meet up for a shoot!)

Cheers

Chris 😉