First photo-walk of the year and we headed to Portwrinkle Beach to take in the sunset, unfortunately you can’t book the weather so what started as a quite promising evening soon deteriorated but there were still opportunities to be had, including the waves crashing over the harbour wall at high tide!
For those of you who may be interested, Lisa Woollett, photographer and author from Looe who visited the club last year will be showing her photographs and presenting her books of photographs at The Liskerrett Centre Sunday 8th May 7 p.m. The event also includes live music by the Book Shop Band.
Details about the event:
http://www.liskerrett.co.uk/events/event/08-May-2016/talk--book-signing-followed-by-live-music
Lisa's work can be found here:
http://www.photographsofthesea.com/
Well, I think everyone is fat-n-full after a lovely end of season meal held at The Cheesewring in Minions with plenty of awards and laughter to see us through the evening!
We would like to say a hearty thank you to our outgoing chairman Brian Price and our longstanding secretary Janet Downes, we know you will both be around next season but your enthusiasm and expertise in running the club will give us all a challenge to fill next year!
We would also like to welcome in our new chairman Richard Squires, an avid and enthusiastic photographer with many years experience, and our new club secretary Tim Gilbert... here's to a great season for 2016!
We are planning on organising some photo-walks over the summer period (May through August), once we have some dates we will announce these on the website so make sure you come back and check the events page.
Even if you are not a member, feel free to drop us a line via the contact page as these walks will be free for anyone to join!
Six of us went along to support our Club and a very enjoyable evening was had. It’s always nice to meet up with other clubs and see different work and find out what clubs are up to.
The judge was David Snowdon from Exeter Club and he did a good job. He made positive comments about all the images and some useful observations suggesting improvements. Overall Liskeard came 3rd with 230 points – Ivybridge won with 242 points and Saltash was in the middle with 239 points. However, in the projected images we tied first with Ivybridge, both clubs getting 121 points, with Saltash scoring 120.
As is usual in this sort of competition it only takes a couple of images to score highly for a club to take them to the winning position. This is what happened in the print section with Ivybridge scoring an 18 and two 17’s and Saltash getting one 18 and three 16’s. The remaining individual scores were all in the 13 to 15 bracket (highest score possible was 20 which no-one received).
Liskeard’s best scoring prints were “Motocross” and “The Long Journey” – both scoring 15. In the projected section our highest scores of 17 were given to “One Man and His Dog” and “Time By the Sea”.
An enjoyable evening of “friendly rivalry”.
