Shaftesbury Camera Club

We had a total of nine A-Vs as follows:-
01_Canada
02_Kingston Lacey
03_A whistle stop tour in verse
04_Celebrate
05_The Punch Bowl Inn
06_Walk to the village
07_12 Days
08_American Odyssey
09_In the garden

Members were asked to vote for their 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites and the final overall result was…
1st 04_Celebrate by Andy H
2nd 09_In the garden by Karen G
3rd 03_A whistle stop tour in verse by Richard B

APOLOGIES- Version posted a little earlier had 2nd and 3rd in wrong order!

Each A-V received votes but Andy’s Celebrate was the overall winner by a good margin. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who entered especially Brian T for running the evening.

We had time after the coffee break for a short Youtube by Don McCullin on his current exhibition “The Stillness of Life” at Hauser & Wirth, Bruton as well as a presentation by Brian on “Travel Photography”

This was the second of this year’s cumulative competition for the Shuffell Trophy to find the Shaftesbury “photographer of the year”.  Although there is one more round to go, this second round completes the print section as our new format dedicates our last round to just PDIs (two per member).  So far, our new format […]

The Bradford Abbas Shield is a local annual derby hosted by Sherborne Bradford Abbas with entries from South Petherton, Wincanton, Yeovil and Shaftesbury.  The judge is always a closely guarded secret even from SBA themselves.  SBA to date has always chosen the subject but they announced in future the subject would be chosen by the winners however since they also won last year, they had chosen “People at work”.  The judge for the evening was Malcolm McNaughton from Dorchester.

PDIs were judged first and left us in the middle of the field even though we got three 19s: Yeovil received two 20s and the only other 20 was  given to SBA.  Our prints didn’t fare too well at all where we were ranked 5th in the prints but with only 3 marks separating these, this did not drag us down from our third place.  Well done to David for helping to save us with his 20, our only one for the evening and shown here together with the other “20” winners.

The competition was covered by the Blackmore Vale Magazine so look out for a brief write-up either this or next week.

Thanks to our hosts and our judge for an enjoyable evening, and SBA have once again to choose the subject for next year’s competition!

 

Bradford Abbas Shield 22/10/2019
Set Subject:  “People at Work”
Judge: Malcolm McNaughton
Shaftesbury PDIs		SCC		SBA	Yeo	Win	S Peth
Calligrapher	Sue Boddington	17		19	16	17	18
French Roofer	Bill Norman	16		17	20	18	17
Industrial manicure	Richard Blake	19		20	17	17	19
The Falconer	Val Saxby LRPS	19		19	18	18	16
The Glassblower	Andy Hargreaves	19		19	20	17	16
	Sub-total	90		94	91	87	86
Shaftesbury Prints		SCC		SBA	Yeo	Win	S Peth
House Fire, Kington Magna	Chris Wildey	17		20	16	17	19
Shaken not Stirred	Jayne Harris	16		19	18	18	16
Reflecting on Work	David Lampard	20		16	19	20	17
The Tree Surgeon	Jeffery Bennett	17		20	18	17	20
Studio through the window	Helen Pothecary	19		17	18	19	20
	Sub-total	89		92	89	91	92
PDI + Print	TOTAL	179		186	180	178	178
POSITION		3rd		1st	2nd	4th=	4th=

This was the first competition of the 2019-20 season and thus the first experience of our new format for the Shuffell series.  To reduce the number of images on any one particular judging evening to a more manageable (and enjoyable) number, we have partitioned the 3-stage competion as follows:- 1st round: 2 Prints &/or 1 […]

We host the Shaston Challenge to bring together a variety of neighbouring clubs each year for a friendly 4-way match with each club submitting just 12 PDIs.  The judge is kept secret, even from ourselves (except of course for Bill who has the nerve-racking task of planning the evening 🙂 ).  This year, our guest clubs were near-neighbours Wincanton plus two more from the far south of the county, Parkstone and Wareham.  The judge was Tony Oliver from Salisbury Camera Club.

By midway when we paused for refreshments INCLUDING CAKE, Tony had held back 5 images spread across all the clubs so it was not possible to work out the relative positions accurately although analysis of the final scoresheet shows all clubs fell into a very narrow range (just 3 marks).  Tony held back a further 4 during the second part, three of which were all from Wareham.  As Held-backs tend to score a minimum of 9 or 9.5 means this is where Wareham managed to pull ahead, ending up with a score of 105.5.  We managed another 10 which helped us consolidate a good second place with 102 leaving Parkstone and Wincanton battling for 3rd and 4th with 95.5 and 95 apiece.  Congratulations to all those who scored one of the six “10’s”.

Many thanks to all the clubs for participating and entering into the spirit of the evening, and to Tony Oliver for providing excellent critiques, scores, and giving everyone a very worthwhile evening.  Thanks also to those who brought along some lovely cakes which were greatly enjoyed.

 

Shaston Challenge	11th April 2019
Judge: Tony Oliver
Subject: Open
Shaftesbury Title	Name	Shaft- esbury		Park- stone	Ware- ham	Winc- anton
Porlock Weir	Andy Hargreaves	8		7	9	9.5
Backlit puffin	Val Saxby LRPS	9		8.5	8	7.5
Honestly Im In The Blue Team	Don Rossi	8.5		10	7	7
Midnight Storm Over Lake Como	Chris Wildey	9		7.5	8.5	7.5
Female Dung Fly	Jeffery Bennett	10		8.5	8	7.5
Reflection at Sunrise	David Lampard	7.5		8	9.5	10
Spiral	Andy Hargreaves	9		8	10	7
Theres always one	Sue Boddington	8		8	9	7.5
Sunrise In Le Havre	Claire Thapa	7.5		8	8.5	8.5
The Squabble	Val Saxby LRPS	10		7.5	9.5	7.5
Top of the world	Bill Norman	7.5		7.5	10	7
Signalling the end of the day	Tony Ward	8		7	8.5	8.5
	TOTAL	102		95.5	105.5	95
	Position	2nd		3rd	1st	4th

This was our third match with Aspley CC who are a similar but slightly stronger club than us, judging by the results.  These international matches are interesting because they break across some of the fashions in photography as well as in judging.  There are also some differences in how competitions are run.  For example, in […]

This was the final round of our annual trophy competition to find our Photographer of the Year. It was originally scheduled to take place at the end of January but we had to postpone it due to the snowfall. We had booked Mike Weeks to come and judge our Ladies v Gents competition on the […]