Our very own intrepid traveller John Cross is our speaker this coming Monday with his talk about Nepal.
John has been travelling regularly to Nepal since 1992. He climbed Island peak (6,210 Metres) and a number of minor peaks in the Everest region in 1992.
In 2011 he attempted Mera Peak (6,461 Metres) being beaten back by the weather 90 Metres from the summit. In between he passed through Kathmandu 4 times on his way, to and from, Mt Kailash in Tibet (2007) and the Laya trek in Bhutan (2008).
This talk covers the ancient traditions and mysteries of this unique Himalayan Kingdom and the wonders of the highest mountain range in the world.
We had 25 images going into the 1 in a 100 competition, which took place Thursday, 9th April, at Moot House, The Stow, Harlow, home of Harlow Photographic Society.
For anyone who doesn’t know this competition, four camera clubs get together, 25 images each, and there’s just one winner, the best of the lot. It’s a great opportunity to see what other members of the Federation are up to…
The judging was by Bob Norris.
The great news is that Caroline Preece with her excellent image of Brighton Pier won.
That’s not all! Whilst there shouldn’t really have been any other images placed the judge did, unofficially, state his 1, 2, 3, 4 which included Stephanie Waterman (3rd) for her Harvest Mouse image and Matt Russell for his Alien Apple – winner of round 3 of the Walker Projected.
The next external competition we will be unstoppable!!!
On Monday 30th March we’ll be welcoming Colin Brister to the club to give us his talk about Motocross (MX) photography.
Colin is a full time professional photographer and has been involved in the sport for over ten years, along with his son, both as a rider and a racer as well as a photographer. Once his knees gave way he switched from bike to camera.
Both John Cross and I (Phil Atkinson) have both attended one of his training days which was an experience and a half – One of my lenses still has mud on it! A memorable technique of Colin is to stand in the middle of the track with a wide angled lens and riders zooming towards him.
Don’t worry if motocross isn’t your thing, Colin will be engaging and informative and have some interesting stories. He will be bringing along some of his home made contraptions that he uses for off-camera flash – techniques that can benefit many of us in a wide variety of genres.
It’s sure to be an entertaining evening, so please try to make it.
Pop across to Colin’s website to find a little more about him and his work – IMAGE-MX
Here are the results: in a pretty closely-fought contest, Edmonton won (well, why not, it’s their 70th anniversary and all that…) and WDPS came joint third, with Loughton, out of 8 in total.
Edmonton CC 111 points
Southgate 109 points
Loughton CC 105 points
W&DPS 105 points
Muswell Hill 104 points
Potters Bar PS 101 points
Hoddesdon CC 101 points
Enfield 98 points
The points per image were as follows:
Bleak house – Andrew Robinson 15 points
Breakwater – Antony Wakefield 19 points (held back)
Fidelity – Antony Wakefield 19 points (held back)
Hope Valley – John Cross 17 Points
Skaters – Teresa Elwes 18 points
Tyne Reflections – Philip Atkinson 17 points
Our selection of images primarily reflected success in the Walker Trophy this year.
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