Blackwood Photographic Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Our Annual Exhibition was held on Thursday November 18^th with a good turn-out of members to celebrate our achievements for the year.

It was great to see some different faces among the award recipients, including Sheila Gatehouse who won Top Colour Print with Lily, Ray Goulter with Top PDI, Lillies after Rain and Heather Connolly with the Top Album Print, Wanderer Feeding. Judy Sara’s Spoonbill Perching was the Top Monochrome Print and also earned the Nature Award. Judy also did extremely well in Aggregates!

The Australian Landscape Award was won by Steve Wallace with Lindsay Waterhole and the Portrait Award went to Parry by Frances Allan.

The awards were presented by Julie Goulter, the club’s president.
The full list of awards was as follows:

Projected Digital Images

1^st  Hutt St Photos Award – Ray Goulter – Lillies after Rain

2^nd  Vicki Kramer – Hear the Little People

3^rd  Sam Savage – Screech

Merit   James Allan – Wood Duck Nesting

Merit  Heather Connolly – Magpie Lark

Merit  Paul Hughes – Much Easier after Covid

Click HERE to see a video presentation of all the projected digital image entries.

Aggregate – PDIs

1^st Photographic Wholesalers Award – Judy Sara

2^nd James Allan

=3^rd  Vicky Kramer & Jenny Pedlar

Monochrome Prints

1^st Judy Sara – Spoonbill Perching

2^nd Frances Allan – Pimelia

3^rd Di Gage – On the Prowl

Merit – Frances Allan – Parry

Merit – Judy Sara – Poppy

Aggregate – Monochrome Prints

1^st Blackwood Times Award – Judy Sara

2^nd James Allan

3^rd  Vicki Kramer

Colour Prints

1^st Fotoswift Award – Sheila Gatehouse – Lily

2^nd Sam Savage – Beautiful Firetail

3^rd Judy Sara – Up, Up and Away!

Merit  Di Gage – Coming in for a Landing

Merit  Steve Wallace – Lindsay Waterhole

Merit   Helen Whitford – Bee, Mama!

Merit  Helen Whitford – Cormorant Preening

Aggregate Colour Prints

1^st Blackwood Photographic Club Award – Judy Sara

2^nd James Allan

3^rd Vicki Kramer

Album Prints

1^st Ege Malpas Award- Heather Connolly – Wanderer Feeding

2^nd Sheila Gatehouse – Sean

3^rd Helen Whitford – Willie Wagtail

Merit   Sheila Gatehouse – Sunflower

Aggregate – Album Prints

1^st Vicki Kramer

2^nd Helen Whitford

3^rd Heather Connolly

Landscape Award – Steve Wallace – Lindsay Waterhole

Nature Award – Judy Sara – Spoonbill Perching

Portrait Award – Frances Allan –  Parry

Thank you to our judges, Brad Hodge, Suzanne Opitz AFIAP AAPS and Peter Barrien EFIAP FAPS.

Service Awards

Di Gage was presented the Bill Templer award for service to the club.

Julie thanked the following people for their assistance throughout the year.