Half the Story – Competition July 15th
In a rather different night, we broke with tradition and ran this competition with “community
judging.”
“Half the Story” proved challenging, with only one third of the 64 entries being in Set Subject, most
of which were images showing half of an object or creature.
Vicki Kramer’s “Fill in the Blank” was probably the most creative take on the theme.
With the exception of Judy Sara’s Delicious, images showing a whole image or scene which was half
of a story requiring interpretation did not fare as well.
In Open, Di Gage impressed with Blue Heights and Chameleon, Frances Allan’s Parry got everyone’s
vote and James Allan’s From another Dimension was popular.
It was an interesting change which gave everyone the opportunity to step into the judge’s shoes for
a night. Some liked the fit, some didn’t but there was general agreement that the right photographs
rose to the top.
Thank you to James for organising the evening!
Follow the links for Top Projected Images and Top Prints.
Head & Shoulders Portrait Competition – June 3rd 2021
Members embraced the Set Subject of Head and Shoulders Portraiture with more than two thirds of entries being portraits. There was some stretching of the Head and Shoulders definition though which gave judge Brad Hodge a few headaches.
Brad gave thoughtful comments and clearly explained his thinking, taking a casual and amiable approach which put members at ease. Sheila Gatehouse’s strength emerged in this Set Subject,
She was joined “on the podium” by Judy Sara and Vicki Kramer.
It was great to see a good number of prints and an increase in monochrome photographs.
Other high scoring images can be seen here.
Click the links for Top Prints and Top Projected Images
Blue Hour – Competition May 6th 2021
Thursday night saw us feeling blue, but not in a bad way! Finding lovely Blue Hour light can be quite a challenge, requiring you to be in the right place at the right time, and to have a bit of luck, so in this competition our Set Subject images were significantly outnumbered by Open section photographs.
Helen Whitford’s Double Bolt got a “Wow!” and Judy Sara’s Ghost Mushrooms impressed judge, Peter Phillips, in both the image and the degree of difficulty, while Vicki Kramer’s Melbourne Blue and Judy Sara’s Brisbane River were seen as classic Blue Hour shots.
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Helen Whitford – Double Bolt -
Judy Sara – Ghost Mushrooms -
Vicki Kramer – Melbourne Blue -
Judy Sara – Brisbane River
In Open Subject a number of images caught Peter’s eye. Top Print images will be added as they are received.
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Frances Allan – Raw Energy -
James Allan – Landscape -
James Allan – Architectural -
James Allan – Bristled -
James Allan – Migratory -
James Allan – Rhinoceros -
James Allan – Granites -
Judy Sara – Autumn, Mt Lofty -
Judy Sara – Red Arch
NOTE: Apologies – the Top Images Gallery and Top Prints and PDI pages will be updated later. WordPress has completely revamped the way it is used. The easy “Classic Editor” which I always loved using seems to have disappeared and I am stumbling my way through trying to work out where to find things in the new system, when I really don’t have time. Not happy, WordPress!
Helen
In the meantime, the Top Open PDIs are here.
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Frances Allan – Reflections of Boat Shed 2 -
Gordon Lindqvist – Shearer at Work -
Vicki Kramer – Mt Gambier Goal -
Gordon Lindqvist – Comb Crested Jacana -
Peter Schmid – Self -
Di Gage – Sunrise at Milang 2 -
Judy Sara – Talia Splash -
Ray Goulter – Yellow Bongo
What a Load of Rubbish! – Competition April 8th 2021
Thursday was a rubbish night with our Set Subject being Rubbish/Trash. Being just after Easter it was in danger of being all over very quickly with very few entries but we rallied and had just enough to make a competition. (Yes, we’ve learned a lesson – no comp just after Easter!) Few members were willing to commit to printing their Rubbish photos, with only six prints in Set Subject, while 23 were in Open.
The challenge was to “capture the subject artistically”, which proved difficult for some. The only photograph which convinced judge David Rowlands that it had done so was Jenny Pedlar’s Elsehul Wilderness.
Jenny Pedlar – Elsehul Wilderness
Some others seemed to achieve the goal to a lesser degree.
In Open subject Jenny and Mark Pedlar impressed with Sea Ice, Drive Safe and Survival! along with Vicki Kramer’s The Orphan and Helen Whitford’s MY Grevillea!
In projected images these were also of interest.
For Top Prints and Top Projected Images from this and other 2021 competitions click the links.
A Surreal Evening – Competition March 11th 2021
Our Surreal competition was a challenge to everyone – entrants, viewing members and the judge! Members came up with a wide variety of interpretations of this set subject which stretched our imagination. Here is a selection of the more creative entries.
Judge, Tim Newberry, seemed to get caught up in the “dream” part of our definition “Surreal – Seeming like a dream or Fantasy” but he appreciated the creativity in images, as long as they didn’t include a cat!
It was great to see the top scores spread around a bit, including to new members. View Top Prints and Top PDIs here.
