Dear Member,
The Third and Last League Match.
Monday evening at Southampton CC saw the 3rd round of the league. The evening did not start that well being locked out of the hall for quite sometime as the key holders turned up minus the keys!
Eventually they got the evening under way with Rosie Armes being the 3rd choice judge, however, it all ended well with ourselves and Southampton tying the prints section with 70.5 points. This result that means we have won the right to progress into the semi finals. The PDI section resulted in a second place on the night. I cannot publish the individual results just in case it might prejudice future judging. So if you want to know the scores and who will be going forward to the finals you will have to look on the club's notice board.
Marwell Zoo. We do not have sufficient take up of places at the moment so if you want to go please let Mark know ASAP.
The army turned up on Tuesday evening and gave a superb presentation on the make up of the Army Film & Photographic Unit, its work and some excellent images were shown. Their last minute appearance threw me and I forgot to ask for someone to do the tea/coffees, so my thanks to Elizabeth and Joanne who jumped in at the last minute to help out.
Unfortunately the army projector was not calibrated to their laptop and the screen images were not as sharp as they could have been.Members who sat behind the laptop told me how good they were. The practical demo of the kit they wear going into the field was not only an eye opener but also a knee buckling experience. Below is a photo of the mug who got the short straw, taken on a mobile phone. Double click to see the true majesty of the result! Thanks to Roy for recording my discomfort!!
Another thing I forgot to do was to announce that although the AFPU guys Russ and Adrian would not take any payment for the evening we have agreed to make a donation to the 'Help for Hero's' charity/campaign, so Andrew will be sending a cheque for £50 to them.
However, the next time we see in the newspapers photos from Afghanistan we will be able to know what it takes to get those images and more importantly who may have taken them. I'm still trying to get my head around Adrian's quiet rather bland statement that he ran 500 yards under enemy fire got down and took photos, with all that kit on!! I think I would have been shooting back, but not with a 'Nikon'.
Club AV evening 16th March, we are still looking for a few more DAVs to make a full evening.
Next week we have Caroline Colgate to judge the Les Frederick trophies, with new, previously unseen work on two chosen themes we can expect to have an interesting evening. Malcolm thinks we will get lots of PDIs so please ensure you send your images with your preferred order clearly shown.
Tripods. I'm not sure how many of the tripods are still available, Sheila Read says they were selling fast, check out the Salisbury CC website for the details and deal direct with the vendor.
Club fund raising evening on 23rd March. Please get your tickets ASAP from Andrew and, once again, if you have any small items you would like to donate to the evenings raffle bring them on the night. Don't forget to bring your friends along because not many of us will get a better chance to see Madagascar's images taken by a very good photographer.
Hope to see you soon
Regards & keep snapping
Terry
Monday evening at Southampton CC saw the 3rd round of the league. The evening did not start that well being locked out of the hall for quite sometime as the key holders turned up minus the keys!
Eventually they got the evening under way with Rosie Armes being the 3rd choice judge, however, it all ended well with ourselves and Southampton tying the prints section with 70.5 points. This result that means we have won the right to progress into the semi finals. The PDI section resulted in a second place on the night. I cannot publish the individual results just in case it might prejudice future judging. So if you want to know the scores and who will be going forward to the finals you will have to look on the club's notice board.
Marwell Zoo. We do not have sufficient take up of places at the moment so if you want to go please let Mark know ASAP.
The army turned up on Tuesday evening and gave a superb presentation on the make up of the Army Film & Photographic Unit, its work and some excellent images were shown. Their last minute appearance threw me and I forgot to ask for someone to do the tea/coffees, so my thanks to Elizabeth and Joanne who jumped in at the last minute to help out.
Unfortunately the army projector was not calibrated to their laptop and the screen images were not as sharp as they could have been.Members who sat behind the laptop told me how good they were. The practical demo of the kit they wear going into the field was not only an eye opener but also a knee buckling experience. Below is a photo of the mug who got the short straw, taken on a mobile phone. Double click to see the true majesty of the result! Thanks to Roy for recording my discomfort!!
Another thing I forgot to do was to announce that although the AFPU guys Russ and Adrian would not take any payment for the evening we have agreed to make a donation to the 'Help for Hero's' charity/campaign, so Andrew will be sending a cheque for £50 to them.
However, the next time we see in the newspapers photos from Afghanistan we will be able to know what it takes to get those images and more importantly who may have taken them. I'm still trying to get my head around Adrian's quiet rather bland statement that he ran 500 yards under enemy fire got down and took photos, with all that kit on!! I think I would have been shooting back, but not with a 'Nikon'.
Club AV evening 16th March, we are still looking for a few more DAVs to make a full evening.
Next week we have Caroline Colgate to judge the Les Frederick trophies, with new, previously unseen work on two chosen themes we can expect to have an interesting evening. Malcolm thinks we will get lots of PDIs so please ensure you send your images with your preferred order clearly shown.
Tripods. I'm not sure how many of the tripods are still available, Sheila Read says they were selling fast, check out the Salisbury CC website for the details and deal direct with the vendor.
Club fund raising evening on 23rd March. Please get your tickets ASAP from Andrew and, once again, if you have any small items you would like to donate to the evenings raffle bring them on the night. Don't forget to bring your friends along because not many of us will get a better chance to see Madagascar's images taken by a very good photographer.
Hope to see you soon
Regards & keep snapping
Terry
Terry where is your helmet? I know that is also very heavy having tried it on when they came to Salisbury CC last year.
ReplyDeleteBy the way they will be coming back to Salisbury later this year. I do not have the date at present.
Peter
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