January 2012

6th December
DPI Heat 3 : Judge Darren Woolway LRPS

Before starting our Judge, Darren, gave a brief resume of his career in photography advising his audience that he now helped run a studio and did some teaching besides judging competitions. Martin then gave a quick slide show of the evening’s entry which consisted of 59 images from twelve workers. On the second run through, Darren made his comments, saying what he liked about the image and what he felt might have been done to improve the shot both from a technical as well as artistic viewpoint. As he went, he gave his marks apart from twelve that were held back. His lowest mark was 6.5 points but the vast majority scored 7.5 points or better. In his comments he liked to see if the image was trying to tell a story or convey some sort of emotion to the viewer. From the twelve held back, Darren selected the four heat winners plus awarding three Hon. Men. It was interesting to see several monochrome images entered one of which came first. As usual, Martin’s steady hand on the keyboard saw the show go without a hitch. The results were:

Place	Title	Author
1st	A Breach in Defences	Martin Ridout
2nd	A Grey Day on the Welsh Coast	Mike Spurway
3rd	Storm over Ithaca	Mike Spurway
4th	The Nave, Lincoln Cathedral	Tony Deller
HM	St Michael’s Mount, Garden View of the Castle	Tony Deller
HM	Spanish Beach	Derek Miah
HM	The Quiet Anchorage	Alec Mahood

13th December
Christmas Social

Some twenty-six members and partners came to partake of the Christmas cheer and a jolly good chin wag. The food provided by Anne and Jennifer with a contribution from Lorina were much liked such that there was very little left to auction off at the end of the evening. Tony’s quiz went down well with all the usual grumbles about it being too difficult despite many of the questions related to some of the Society’s outings. The evening ended with the drawing of the raffle prizes.














20th and 27th December: No meetings.