Club news
Competition winners 2009-2010
Ray Cole Memorial Trophy - Photographer of the Year: Joan Hall
Competitor of the Year: Peter Buckton
Newcomer of the Year: Harry McAtominey
Sony Award - Colour prints: Joan Hall
(2nd Fred Lowes; 3rd Peter Buckton)
YMCA Trophy - Monochrome prints: Joan Hall
(2nd Peter Buckton; 3rd Ann Stoddard)
Projected digital images: Peter Buckton
(2nd Joan Hall; 3rd Idse Herrema)
Louis Moore Tankard - Set subject (Speed): Peter Buckton
(2nd Gerry Davidson; 3rd Margaret Daley)
Ron Lovesey Salver - Nature: Peter Buckton
(2nd Terri Henderson; 3rd Allan Beaton)
Print panel: Margaret Daley
Panorama: Arron Storey
Club outing: George Simpson
(2nd Ron Henry; 3rd Peter Buckton)
NCPF Annual Championships 2010
Only a few members entered, but Joan Hall was particularly successful with Highly Commendeds for mono prints Radiance and Escape. Radiance is selected for the NCPF entry in the inter Federation Competition with colour print Mystery a reserve selection.
Well done to Joan.
Narrow defeat for the club - success for Peter
Despite some high scoring images Gosforth lost by two points to Tynemouth in the North Tyne area projected image competition on 26 March. However, Peter Buckton's All about light was adjudged the best image in the competition.
Interclub triumph - 23 February 2010
In the 4 way colour and mono print competition with Cramlington, Gateshead and Morpeth, Gosforth won by two points from Gateshead, thanks to some high scores, including 29 for Joan Hall's Escape and 28 for Ian Whillis's Its been a hard life. Since we had won the projected digital leg by a large margin the combined scores from the two competitions gave us victory for the trophy by 16 points over Gateshead.
Success at the NCPF Club Championships, Washington 7 February 2010
In the projected digital category of this event the club won the Memento trophy competition for those clubs failing to progress from the first round to the final.
In addition Peter Buckton's All about light gained a maximum of 15 and then was adjudged Best Electronic Image from those gaining 15 in any round of the competition.
Review of the season - Ron Henry
7 December 2009
Gosh, here we are almost half way through the season with three competitions under our belt and a clear season leader - and it’s one of our newer members. Two years ago Joan joined our club with little experience and not much confidence, but now she has a clear lead and even with eight events still to be judged, we suspect she will be close to the trophy table on presentation night. But the club isn’t only about competitions and certainly not only about winning competitions. We see competitions as an outlet for our photographs and the better we do in competitions, the more we’ve learned.
The enjoyment of our hobby begins with the friends we make in the club and this couldn’t have been better demonstrated than on the club outing to Whitby in June. It was perfect weather as the thirty or so members joined the thousands of visitors on Whitby’s Lifeboat day. We split into small groups, but kept bumping into others as we toured the circuit of abbey, harbour and pier often using the hop-on hop-off bus. On the journey home Richard’s head was throbbing from the sunburn until Peter produced a cream which, for some reason, lay as a white splodge on Richard’s head, entertaining everyone for the rest of the journey.
Our meetings started in September with a talk from the police. Apart from an unforgettable if rather gruesome illustrated talk from the police photographer some years ago, this is the first time in the club’s sixty year history that the police have been involved in our programme. Our members feel that officials are challenging us more often when we’re simply pursuing our hobby in a lawful manner so information and advice was sought.
It felt rather strange to sit in our comfortable meeting room and listen to a guest speaker telling us how to clean our lens but that’s precisely how Wyn Barnes started her presentation and the effects on our images of dust on the lens was exactly what interested us. A few weeks later we were taken from to another end of our hobby as Paul Wright spent a whole session showing us the best way to colour manage our workflow. On another occasion Mandy Pattullo enthralled everyone with a talk on Memento Mori or gravestones to you and me.
As always, it’s the demonstrations by our own members which intrigue us and Peter’s delve into the innermost workings of Photoshop CS4 was one such evening which was augmented by issuing an unmodified image to everyone and comparing the modified results a few weeks later.
Soon the first part of our 2009-2010 season will come to an end with our wine and cheese night and the fun knockout competition. Our programme secretary has done us proud and that’s likely to continue next year building to the Ray Cole memorial lecture given by Rod Wheelans. We’re planning another exhibition in Gosforth Library in January where we hope to add to our compliment of over fifty members and, of course, joining for half a season means half price.
Your committee work hard to provide an interesting and informative programme but of course none of this would be enjoyable without the enthusiasm and friendship of our members. Thank you for making the job of President so worthwhile, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a snappy New Year.
Ray Cole Memorial Trophy - Photographer of the Year: Joan Hall
Competitor of the Year: Peter Buckton
Newcomer of the Year: Harry McAtominey
Sony Award - Colour prints: Joan Hall
(2nd Fred Lowes; 3rd Peter Buckton)
YMCA Trophy - Monochrome prints: Joan Hall
(2nd Peter Buckton; 3rd Ann Stoddard)
Projected digital images: Peter Buckton
(2nd Joan Hall; 3rd Idse Herrema)
Louis Moore Tankard - Set subject (Speed): Peter Buckton
(2nd Gerry Davidson; 3rd Margaret Daley)
Ron Lovesey Salver - Nature: Peter Buckton
(2nd Terri Henderson; 3rd Allan Beaton)
Print panel: Margaret Daley
Panorama: Arron Storey
Club outing: George Simpson
(2nd Ron Henry; 3rd Peter Buckton)
NCPF Annual Championships 2010
Only a few members entered, but Joan Hall was particularly successful with Highly Commendeds for mono prints Radiance and Escape. Radiance is selected for the NCPF entry in the inter Federation Competition with colour print Mystery a reserve selection.
Well done to Joan.
Narrow defeat for the club - success for Peter
Despite some high scoring images Gosforth lost by two points to Tynemouth in the North Tyne area projected image competition on 26 March. However, Peter Buckton's All about light was adjudged the best image in the competition.
Interclub triumph - 23 February 2010
In the 4 way colour and mono print competition with Cramlington, Gateshead and Morpeth, Gosforth won by two points from Gateshead, thanks to some high scores, including 29 for Joan Hall's Escape and 28 for Ian Whillis's Its been a hard life. Since we had won the projected digital leg by a large margin the combined scores from the two competitions gave us victory for the trophy by 16 points over Gateshead.
Success at the NCPF Club Championships, Washington 7 February 2010
In the projected digital category of this event the club won the Memento trophy competition for those clubs failing to progress from the first round to the final.
In addition Peter Buckton's All about light gained a maximum of 15 and then was adjudged Best Electronic Image from those gaining 15 in any round of the competition.
Review of the season - Ron Henry
7 December 2009
The winner
George won
Our meetings started in September with a talk from the police. Apart from an unforgettable if rather gruesome illustrated talk from the police photographer some years ago, this is the first time in the club’s sixty year history that the police have been involved in our programme. Our members feel that officials are challenging us more often when we’re simply pursuing our hobby in a lawful manner so information and advice was sought.
It felt rather strange to sit in our comfortable meeting room and listen to a guest speaker telling us how to clean our lens but that’s precisely how Wyn Barnes started her presentation and the effects on our images of dust on the lens was exactly what interested us. A few weeks later we were taken from to another end of our hobby as Paul Wright spent a whole session showing us the best way to colour manage our workflow. On another occasion Mandy Pattullo enthralled everyone with a talk on Memento Mori or gravestones to you and me.
As always, it’s the demonstrations by our own members which intrigue us and Peter’s delve into the innermost workings of Photoshop CS4 was one such evening which was augmented by issuing an unmodified image to everyone and comparing the modified results a few weeks later.
Soon the first part of our 2009-2010 season will come to an end with our wine and cheese night and the fun knockout competition. Our programme secretary has done us proud and that’s likely to continue next year building to the Ray Cole memorial lecture given by Rod Wheelans. We’re planning another exhibition in Gosforth Library in January where we hope to add to our compliment of over fifty members and, of course, joining for half a season means half price.
Your committee work hard to provide an interesting and informative programme but of course none of this would be enjoyable without the enthusiasm and friendship of our members. Thank you for making the job of President so worthwhile, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a snappy New Year.