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Nature Competition – 28-Apr-2011

Firstly my apologies for the late posting of the competition writeup…..life seems to have got in the way of blogging…….

An interesting evening of Nature photography again showed our clubs strength in this area with many fine images – in fact the set subject entries far exceeded the open entries in every category with over 112 entries in all for the evening and of those more than 2/3 being nature!

Our judge Geoff Smith carefully spent time examining each image and commenting in detail. Unfortunately for Geoff the large number of entries made his task difficult and I dare say tiring, but he did well to comment constructively on each image. Many of the prints entered scored 10, but I can’t show many you those (although I have included one of my own here since its at hand :lol:) – but I have included the top digital entries in set and open. Apologies also for not including any Editor’s Choice images – there were so many good images I’d have to post almost all the entries!

So enjoy the images and please post a comment.

Chris 😉

Posted by ChrisS | 17/05/2011 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Nature Competition – 28-Apr-2011

Corrugations competition – 31-Mar-2011

An interesting night of observation of corrugations around us. Judge Chris Carter examined our efforts and surprised some of our newer members with 10’s for the night. There were some outstanding images overall, and many were pleased with their efforts.

Special mention must be made of the effort made by Jo Tabe who managed to get a stack of 10s in almost every category – well done Jo!

David Tulloch also put in some great images, and his Corrugated Drip Line (far right) deserves a place in this blog post along with Jo’s Corrugated Reflections (at right).

Please have a look at the images in our top images page and see what you think of the corrugations we found.

Cheers

Chris 😉

Posted by ChrisS | 12/04/2011 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on Corrugations competition – 31-Mar-2011

SAPF Annual Exhibition – think about entries now!

As mentioned by Matt in General Business at the last meeting, the SAPF will be holding their Annual Exhibition. We have submitted as a club in the past and done reasonably well. It is also appropriate that we fully support SAPF in its work by getting involved in these events (and hopefully the committee of SAPF for those with some time).

The exhibition details (from the SAPF website) are as follows:

Exhibition Dates:	Saturday 9th July 2011, 12.00 noon through to the Official Opening at 7.30pm Sunday 10th July, 11.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue:	United Eastern Association Masonic Complex 1 Fisher Street, Tusmore, SA, 5065
Entry closing date:	13-May-2011
Contact:	secretary@sapf.org.au
Entry form:	2011 Entry Form (PDF)

Full details of the exhibition conditions, categories, judges etc are in the entry form.

We only have a few weeks to get ourselves organised, so look through your images and find the absolute best! Unfortunately, slides will not be accepted at this exhibition 😦 , but prints and digital projected images are.

Chris 😉

Posted by ChrisS | 01/04/2011 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Comments Off on SAPF Annual Exhibition – think about entries now!

Food Glorious Food competition – 3-Mar-2011

No need for much comment here – I think a few of us were numb after the evening! I’ll let the very few top images and extensive editor’s choice selections speak for themselves.

Please read Jame’s fine post on judging to assuage your feelings.

Chris 😦

Posted by ChrisS | 17/03/2011 | Categories: Blackwood Photography Club News, Competitions | Tags: Competitions | Comments Off on Food Glorious Food competition – 3-Mar-2011

Club outing – Hallett Cove – 13-Mar-2011

Sunday – the Adelaide Cup long weekend – a dreary, cloudy afternoon had many of us in fear of poor photographic opportunities for our outing to Hallett Cove. Only 6 hardy souls met at a windy and cloudy Hallett Cove Conservation Park around 6:45pm – Adrian (our man on the ground who gave weather updates by SMS over the afternoon), Yvonne, Eric, James, Matt and myself.

	As we trekked along the board walk and up the hill to Sugarloaf, the clouds merging into the horizon split enough to suggest our evening would not be in vain!
Eric, James & I stayed on Sugarloaf and were rewarded with not only the golden glow on the hillside and a frying pan beetle I found but also a rainbow!

Meanwhile, Yvonne and Matt had headed down to the cliffs and were catching the low sun (and salt spray) over the waves whilst Adrian wandered the hillside in search of inspiration. The rest of us slowly caught up and managed to get the setting sun – exactly on time!

	As dusk settled, Matt’s earlier email suggestion of painting with light became a reality. We used Eric’s torch on a string whilst Eric, Matt and Adrian took turns in spinning the light and themselves to create what my wife described as a “ball of wool”. James tried another trick of lighting up the rocks around the spinning light with another torch – with limited success.
Then James came up with another great idea – shining the torches we’d brought inside coloured water bottles to create colours which we could photograph by wildly swinging them around. “Darth Vader” (aka Matt) and “Luke Skywalker” (Chris) had a mock light sabre battle declaring that neither of them was their father 🙂 whilst James painted the rocks around them. A bit of running around made some interesting patterns too. And then Matt finished with BPC painted with a torch.
	Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to try James’ suggestion of spinning burning steel wool on a string to make a spark show – as sadly, during our frolicking with light, James had a bit of a disaster with his camera/tripod falling into the sand – hopefully the repair guys will be able to salvage the camera quickly and give us more of James inspiring images.

Despite that unfortunate incident, a good night of photography was had by all. Hope you enjoy the images! There are a few more on the Flickr group too.
Chris 😉