Subject: Details of meeting on Monday 6th March

The main item on the agenda for Monday evening is our second internal competition of the year – Nature.

Entries for this have shown a healthy interest, particularly the digital projected images, with around 3 dozen to work through. This is partly due to the increase in the maximum entries being raised from 2 to 3, whilst keeping the print entries at ‘up to 2’.

For the newer members, the categories of some competitions may appear confusing, and as we all investigate them further, they seem to get more confusing. If you did enter any images, please come along to see how they do and to receive feedback from our judge on the night. Very few will leave written feedback, and this will disappear altogether once we fully move over to ‘judging on the night’ to save the trouble and expense of delivering them to the judge a few weeks early.

If you didn’t enter any, viewing the entries of other members and listening to the judge’s feedback and recommendations is always very enlightening, so please make the effort to come along and listen.

After appraising all our images, the judge’s final task is to select the winners by awarding a score to each of them – basing this evaluation on a mixture of things – their own knowledge, their own skills and their own photographic experiences, but the thing to remember above everything else is that any one judge can only give their own personal opinions. If any of the members particularly like, or don’t like, that opinion, please let us know – after the judge has left – and this will help us with selection of judges in future years.

I’ve received some short notice details of a couple of events from Camera Clubs/Photographic Societies, which I’ll mention on Monday night – basically: 1 – an exhibition at Hull, open on several days from 10th March to 1st April: 2 – A lecture on ‘Creative Techniques with Camera and Software’ being given at Wetherby. The exhibition at Hull doesn’t mention an entry fee, and the lecture at Wetherby is free, but by ticket only due to a limited number of seats.

This month’s theme is ‘Abstract’ – and I thought it would help if I could find a definition, but rapidly wished I hadn’t started looking.
Despite being a word which can be an adjective, a noun or a verb – with a range of meanings in each, I think we’ll settle on the following:
Abstract – ” ..(an image) that does not attempt to represent reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures” [so it’s just shapes, colours or textures – including monochrome]

I’m just glad we haven’t got an external judge looking at this one…..

see you Monday

Brian