This week saw the introduction of a new competition to the timetable of Otley Camera Club, entitled Leeds and Otley. In this competition members could enter any type of photo, but it must be taken between Leeds and Otley. The judge was Tony Caunt LRPS, who was generous in his comments and advice. About 60 entries were received, split evenly into prints and projected images, and each celebrated the beauty of the immediate area.

It was a night of the Trevors, with Trevor Davey taking 1st place in the Prints section with “Rock Faces on Otley Chevin”, and Trevor Howson winning the projected images category with “A View of Leeds Town Hall”

The other results are as follows:

Prints
2nd Kirkstall Abbey by Trevor Davey
3rd Otley Church From Above by John Hirst
Highly Commended Thornton’s Arcade, Reclining Figures, Millennium Family and Eye Contact, Otley Show by Mary Richards
Otley at Easter by Deborah Drake
Harvest Handmaidens in the Arcade by Tony Jennings

Projected Images
2nd Oakwood Clock Top by Mary Thorpe
3rd Rapeseed Oil Purchase by David Ricketts
Highly Commended Cobbled Street in Otley and Kirkstall Abbey by Trevor Davey
Leeds Old and New by Trevor Howson

Our thanks to Tony for judging, and well done to all the members.

Having had a break for half term, this week saw the Landscape competition, where members of Otley Camera Club can submit their landscape photos for appraisal by a judge. With 43 digital images and 36 prints submitted the judge David Powell of Otley Camera Club had a wide choice of subjects ranging from the local views of Fewston Reservoir to more exotic locations such as Patagonia.

First place in the prints category was awarded to David Ricketts for “Glen Nevis” and in the digital images category First was awarded to Trevor Davey with “Cambrian Mountains”. The other results are as follows:

Prints
2nd Mary Richards The Morning Awakes
Joint 3rd Bill Pirie Highland tranquillity
Mary Richards Sea Cliffs on Shetland

Highly Commended Trevor Davey Farndale
Peter Sanderson The English Lake District
John Hirst Sunset at Almscliffe
Mary Richards Yon Lofty Mountain

Digital Images

2nd Randal Metzger Patagonian Fitzroys
Joint 3rd David Ricketts The Coulins
Trevor Davey Winter Landscape

Highly Commended Trevor Howson Heading for Saltburn
David Ricketts View from Beamsley
David Ricketts South Bay Scarborough
Trevor Davey Snow on Beinn Mheadhoin

Our thanks to David for his comments and kind words.

Hi All, a message from our competition secretary Trevor about this weeks meeting – Debbie.

Just a reminder that Grahame Gage who dealt with our Annual Exhibition entries will be coming to the club next Thursday 13th October to discuss the results.  If you submitted an entry it would be appreciated if you could attend and please take your entries home with you afterwards.  Many thanks.  Trevor

On the 6th October Mrs Helen Smith from the Halifax Photographic Society judged the entries for the Street life competition

The results for the Prints were  1st Place – Confrontation – Mrs Mary Richards

Joint  2nd Place – Street Entertainer - Mr Trevor Davey

Joint  2nd lPace - Street Entertainer  Oslo – Mr Trevor Davey

4th Place - At the fountain - Mrs Mary Richards
The results for the Digital Competition were:-

1st Place – Trevor Davey - Food stall german market

2nd Place –  David Ricketts – Street mime artiste

3rd Place – Trevor Howson - The knife seller

Just a reminder to bring your “Landscape” entries next Thursday 6th October, the evening of the “Street Life” comp.  Please bring your digital entries on a USB for David.

Our judge for Landscape will be David Powell.

The Exhibition at the Courthouse has been taken down and everything is ready for the judge to give us his thoughts on Thursday 13th October.

Hello all, please find this years programme now available on-line to view and download.
Thanks to all involved in the preparation of this
Debbie

All the entries for the Annual Exhibition will be on display in the Otley Courthouse from the 30th August for all of September.

The Photographs will be hung in the courthouse after 1:00pm on the 28th August

 RESULTS

                                                                                  ANIMAL PORTRAIT

1st       Owl at Home

2nd      Snake Head

3rd       Mother & Offspring

                                                                             ARCHITECTURAL RECORD

1st        Sheffield University Building

 2nd    Coventry Cathedral

3rd     Men Only – Gentlemen’s Washroom

                                                                              GENERAL SUBJECTS

1st      Bra’an Boots

2nd     Lowry Centre Entrance Portal, Salford Quays

3rd       Tyne Bridges at Dusk

                                                                              HUMAN PORTRAIT

 1st       Eve

2nd     Judy

3rd      Maureen

                                                                               LANDSCAPE

1st       Silky Falls

2nd     The Gateway

3rd     Winter Landscape

                                                                              NATURAL HISTORY

1st       Mandarin Duck

2nd     Stargazer Lily

3rd      Yellow Flag Iris

                                                                                PICTORIAL

1st         Bluebells in Middleton Woods

2nd       Oast Houses of Kent

3rd       Dunstanburgh Sunrise

This week the star of the show was Bella, the rabbit, who was volunteered to be the subject for a talk on pet portraits by Debbie Drake. With the help of Bella, Debbie demonstrated how to set the camera to obtain the best pictures of your furry companions. Her tips included using a large aperture on the camera to blur a distracting background, and allowing a fast shutter speed to be used, and to use the continuous focussing mode as animals are difficult to track.

After taking pictures of Bella, Debbie imported them to her editing program of choice; Adobe Lightroom, and she then talked about some of the changes she would make to enhance the pictures.

We played host to Richard Egan as judge for this weeks’ competition. In a departure from the usual competition, members were invited to submit their best pictures of transport, and the offerings were varied, from dog cart to tram. 45 images were submitted, and were of an exceedingly high quality. Richard gave much advice on how to improve some prints, such as decisive cropping, selective darkening and lightening to draw the eye.

The result were:

1^st John Hirst          20 marks   Alicante flight
2^nd David Ricketts    19 marks   3 Boats
3rd                               Ron Dickenson   18 marks   The Coal Carrier “Mornes”, Manchester Ship Canal
Highly Commended        Mary Richards   17 marks   Ford Model A Roadster Pick Up
Highly Commended        John Hirst         17 marks   Changing Ends

Digital

1st                          Dennis Murgatroyd   20 marks   RNSR Sea King Helicopter
2nd                         Tony Jennings         19 marks   Have You Got A ight Boy
3rd                         Trevor Davey          18 marks    Fishing Boat near Helegoland
Highly Commended  Trevor Davey          18 marks    The Jacobite Steam Train
Highly Commended  Caroline Hill           18 marks    Beached Boat
Highly Commended  David Ricketts        18 marks    Vulcan From Comet Undercarriage
Highly Commended  David Ricketts        18 marks    1911 Bus at Barclays

Our thanks go to Richard Egan for his entertaining judgements.

The challenge for members of Otley Camera Club this week was to produce a record shot of something, that was then submitted for judging. The judge was Frank Ash ARPS, who led the members through the digital and printed images systematically, in order to demonstrate what makes a good record shot. He focussed mainly on achieving the correct exposure, in order to avoid burnt out areas, and choosing a time of day to have the subject well lit. With 53 entries, the results were:
 
Digital Images
 
1st Darwin in Sand by Sandy Crowder
2nd Millenium Bridge by Sandy Crowder
3rd Statues – Florence Cathedral by david Rickets
 
Prints
 
1st Inside the Corn Exchange by Ron Dickenson
2nd Bandstand in Hoar Frost by John Hirst
3rd View up the Tower, Royal Armouries by Ron Dickenson