Earth, Wind, Fire & Water – Competition May 9th

Well we kinda sorta had a competition!  As our scheduled judge had unfortunately fallen by the wayside our Vice President, Mark Pedlar, withdrew his images and stood in to give commentary and scores but, in fairness to all, the competition was voided and will not be included in Aggregate scores.

Members again supported the set subject well, with around half of entries each in Set and Open categories.

Judy Sara captured earth and fire in her excellent composition of Mining Sulphur.  Meredith Retallack captured reflections in Still Water and Bev Langley caught the fire in the sky and the rage of the water in Tempest.

Mining Sulphur – Judy Sara

Still Water – Meredith Retallack

Tempest – Bev Langley

Heather Connolly captured earth and water in her simplistic Receding Sea, Helen Whitford caught a watery illusion with Running Man and Bev Langley’s Sunset caught the foamy waves on the sand nicely.

Receding Sea – Heather Connolly

Running Man – Helen Whitford

Sunset – Bev Langley

In the Open category wildlife images featured strongly, as is often the case in our animal-friendly club, with James Allan’s Hobby, Gordon Linqvist’s Australasian Gannett and Welcome Swallow and Helen Whitford’s Contentment all showing well.

Hobby – James Allan

Australasian Gannet – Gordon Lindqvist

Contentment – Helen Whitford

Welcome Swallow – Gordon Lindqvist

But it wasn’t all animals, Di Gage’s Cairngomes Hut was also impressive.

Cairngomes Hut – Di Gage

Some of the top print entries can be found here! and the top projected digital images can be found here.

Thank you to Mark for stepping in to judge and provide feedback on our images!

Members please note that as this competition is not being included in Aggregate scores, all images are deemed to have been withdrawn and are therefore still eligible to be entered twice in regular competitions.

10/05/2019 | Categories: Competitions | Leave a comment

Coming out of the “Shadows” – Competition March 28th

There was a great standard of images presented in our “Shadows”competition on Thursday night.  We were very appreciative of the constructive feedback from our judge, David Rowlands, who particularly encouraged creativity and “fine art” photography.  James Allan’s Escher impressed, Jenny Pedlar’s Dog Shadow was simple but striking and Mark Pedlar’s Boots was another with a creative twist.

Judy Sara found Wildebeest on the city streets and Don McLeod found apples tempting but out of reach.

Di Gage found intriguing multi-toned shadows in the cloisters, Heather Connolly’s simple piece of seaweed threw up an interesting twisted shadow and Kerry Malec’s minimalist pylon image demonstrated how shadows can actually enhance detail.

There were some great images in the Open category with Bev Langley’s Tempest, Jenny Pedlar’s Looking for a Wave and Steve Wallace’s Stack of Yellow making  an impression.

Tempest – Bev Langley

Looking for a Wave – Jenny Pedlar

Stack of Yellow – Steve Wallace

It wouldn’t be a BPC competition without a few animal images.  New member Trent Riddle captured a great giraffe portrait (coming soon), Helen Whitford caught a gull catching a crab and Judy Sara got up close and personal with a beautiful kite.

Come back soon to check out more images from the night and you can find all of the top images at Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images.

01/04/2019 | Categories: Competitions | Comments Off on Coming out of the “Shadows” – Competition March 28th

We’re off and running with a static set subject – Architecture Feb 14th Competition

What a fantastic start to our competition year with 22 people entering images, including several new members!

We embraced the set subject of Architecture  with more than 60% of entries in this category and a total of 93 images for the night.

Our outing to the North Terrace medical and entertainment precinct yielded a number of images and it was great to see many different interpretations of the same buildings.

Convention Centre 1 – James Allan

Contemporary Design – Ron Hassan

SAMHRI at Night – Don McLeod

Door 5 – Steve Wallace

Of course there was some international flavour with James Allan capturing contemporary architecture in Seville beautifully and Judy Sara taking us to the amazing Singapore Garden.

Seville Parasol – James Allan

Way of the Future – Judy Sara

Regular judge Peter Phillips gave useful feedback on each image, stressing the importance of good lighting to enhance composition and keeping us entertained with his bad jokes!  He provided many helpful hints on technique both during capture and in post processing.

There was a wide variety of styles ranging from Jenny Pedlar’s abstract NGV to David Hope’s more traditional Inspiring and from Don McLeod’s high-key Tokyo Roof Skeleton to Judy Sara’s low-key Car Park at Night.

NGV – Jenny Pedlar

Inspiring – David Hope

Tokyo Roof Skeleton – Don McLeod

Car Park at Night – Judy Sara

For more images from the night visit our Top Prints and Top Projected Digital Images pages.

15/02/2019 | Categories: Competitions | 1 Comment