October 2009

1st September
PAGB Slides of the 2006 Print Exhibition

Tony Deller, as acting Chairman, apologised for Bob's absence and opened the meeting by welcoming members back to the first meeting of the new Season. He then went on to say the Programme was available from Eddie and was also posted on the Website. A reminder was given that entries for the first heat of the Digital Projected Images (DPI) was due on the 15th of this month. Tony then gave details of the next two forthcoming meetings. Members were then told of their President's (Alec Mahood) health and that he had undergone some serious surgery which appears to have been successful. A get well card was signed by all. Mention was also made of Norman's problems and our best wishes were sent via Joyce who was present. Last but not least, members were reminded the subscriptions were now due.

There being no recorded commentary for the slides, the acting Chairman called out the titles of each picture as it was shown along with some comment on the image being viewed. This encouraged those present to participate in the discussions. For some it was obvious why they had been selected but others left members wondering what the judges were doing. There were rather a lot of nature and high key photos in the selection. It was nice to see the KCPA were overall winners in 2006 even if none of the pictures came from West Wickham.


8th September
Jazz to Calypso

Once again the meeting found Tony Deller standing in for Bob as Chairman. Those who arrived early were entertained by our speaker, Stuart Pickford, who played some '78' Jazz records on his wind-up 1930's gramophone. After all the usual announcements, Stuart was introduced and the show began. The slides were taken by Stuart during a Cruise which commenced in New Orleans. We were shown pictures of both the new an old, particularly the French Quarter of the City. Stuart pointed out how low lying the land was, a fact that a few years later was to be driven home to the residents in no uncertain manner. Having seen a genuine Mississippi River Steamer, the cruise continued down the Florida Coast towards our ultimate destination, the Caribbean Islands. Each part of the journey was punctuated with a glimpse of the ship's dancing girls providing the on board evening entertainment. Stuart pointed out the features of interest along the way. The declining sugar cane industry, the ever buoyant rum supplies. Our journey ended at Barbados. The members thanked Stuart for sharing his journey from Jazz to Calypso with them.


15th September
Members' Evening

The members present welcomed back Chairman Bob who was to run the evening's entertainment. Members had been asked to bring in digital images taken on Society Outings. To help proceedings, Jennifer brought along a complete list of all the outings since the present series started with a 'Treasure Hunt' organised by Bob Zwolinsky back in August 2002. Since then there has been 59 outings. Bob Cooke opened proceedings with some pictures taken on recent outings. The evening then saw various pictures from members taken over the last couple of years. Tony then put some pictures which covered some of the earliest outings including those to Brugge and Amsterdam. Members had been told there was no need to resize the pictures for projection and this was true. Unfortunately, some of Tony's shots were 30 Mb tif files which took a very long time to load on to the computer. That apart, an enjoyable evening with a trip down memory lane for many of the members.


For two weeks the Society had a photographic display in the local Library which many members went to see. For arranging, collecting prints and setting up the display a big THANK YOU to Norman and Joyce and of course the Librarian for agreeing to the display.


22nd September
Members' Competition

Bob, after the usual announcements introduced our Judge for the evening, Steve Lawrenson ARPS, APAGB. Steve said how he had had a large selection of prints over the summer and how he came to select a number for comment on this evening. He said he had not made up his mind on which print would be the winner, he was going to decide that during the evening. First to go was the colour prints and Steve had selected thirty five for comment. As he went through the prints he made comments on each, saying what he thought were strong and those images that were not so strong. He said which he particularly liked. He held back ten prints from which to select the winner. Apart from the winner, all the other prints held back were awarded Hon. Men. Certificates. He then turned hi attention to the monochrome images, a much smaller selection of twelve prints, reflecting the smaller entry in this class. After comments some five prints were put aside from which one was selected as the winner and one other given a Hon .Men. Cert. Bob thanked the judge who then presented the trophies. The results were:

Peggy Howell Trophy Colour Prints

Award	Title	Author
Winner	Top Floor, 30 St Mary Ax (2)	Vic Tokarski
H.M.	Textures	Joyce Bernard
H.M.	King Raedwald's Mask and Helmet	Norman Bernard
H.M.	Hats Off	Eddie Gawan
H.M.	Trick of the Light	Matt Richards
H.M.	Cosmic Crab	Bob Richards
H.M.	Barcelona Bustle	Bob Richards
H.M.	Changing Sides	Bob Richards
H.M.	Brass Distortions	Bob Richards
H.M.	Opponents	Vic Tokarski

Lumiere Trophy Monochrome Prints

Award	Title	Author
Winner	Decommissioned Boats, Mull	Alec Mahood
H.M.	Dawn at Durdle Door	Vic Tokarski

Saturday 26th September
Treasure Hunt at Guildford

Unfortunately, at the time of going to press, no reports have been received of this outing. Your editor was unable to attend this trip he was otherwise engaged. In the absence of any photographs of the event, your Editor has taken the liberty of illustrating what he was doing on the day of the outing.
























29th September
Digital Projection Competition Heat 1

Bob welcomed Alec back after his period in Hospital, announced a change to the venue for the next Outing due to unforeseen circumstances and made all the usual announcements. He then introduced our Judge for the evening, Len Johnson LRPS who after a chat about his recent adventures got straight into the judging. There were 59 entries with a wide range of topics. If Len's scoring was anything to go by, he seemed to like our work with an average score of around 8 points. Len wasted no time in saying what he liked and what he viewed less favourably. At the end of the first run past, Len had awarded 14 images 10 points. He now set about thinning this number down to arrive at a final selction which was:-

Award	Title	Author
1st	African Darter	Hilary Walker
2nd	Vertigo	Bob Richards
3rd	The Conversation	Tony Deller
4th	River Whispers	Bob Richards
HM	Honesty Seeds	Joyce Bernard
HM	Abbie	Lorina Dean