The entries were rather thin particularly in the ‘virtual’ prints section. Why this should be when they are effectively PDIs at the moment alludes me. Possibly most plump for entering three of their allowed five in the PDIs. However there were certainly enough to make a night of...
The talk by Cliff Hide took us into the world of Photojournalism.
It was illustrated by many stunning images he took during his time as a press photographer, as he now works as a picture editor.
Forget well composed and technically excellent images. In his world,...
The good run continues. Up against Harrow and Ealing we at Park Street might have felt somewhat out gunned at the first North West Fed. round. However once again our judge, in this case Colin Southgate found in our favour and this time he wouldn’t have seen any of our images...
Victory by a huge margin! Actually the biggest I can ever recall in a Rose Bowl round. Helped by our esteemed judge spreading the scores intelligently - that is, ours high and everyone else’s low - but nevertheless an encouraging start.
Many judges talk of not nit...
On Thursday, 28th October 2021, David Butler, Jeremy Fraser Mitchell and Terry Day showed images that they had taken a couple of weeks earlier in London. We started from Blackfriars on South Bank, crossed over the Thames near Jubilee Gardens and ended up having lunch at the Sherlock Holmes Pub....
I am just a competent photographer. I come from an engineering /journalism/competition background. I like clear definitions and hard and fast rules and specs. It was a revelation to me a decade ago when I witnessed and then realised how one could, actually quantify our photographic branch of art...
A break from competitions for a while and we were entertained by Steve Hedges with his presentation on Landscape Photography. With our current focus on this particular genre’s definition inspired by the approaching interclub Landscape event and the inevitable annual furore that this creates, it...
A rather depleted entry even by our standards and sadly some rather poor quality images too. Mark Buckley-Sharp, our judge, did well to contain himself on some occasions. From the couple of dozen, Mark still managed to find five to hold back and in the main they were the best. His remarks on all...
The third competition of the season already! Fear not, next year the plan is to reduce the intensity a bit at the start, particularly as so many of us go away in early September.
Our run of excellent judges continued with Amanda Wright from Ealing who is already well know to us....
Prints is possibly a slight misnomer. Entries having now to be made through our Website, to simplify the issue of cut-off times, these images had, out of necessity, to be the standard 1600x1200 size. Therefore they were really no different from standard PDIs. Is hoped to get back to proper print...
TALK ON DIGITAL CREATIVE TECHNIQUES-JOHN HUMPHRIES- 23RD SEPTEMBER
If any one was not certain what creative photography was all about, John's superb lecture gave a great insight into some of the digital techniques available to take an ordinary image to a stunning creation.
He started...
Prints is possibly a slight misnomer. Entries having now to be made through our Website, to simplify the issue of cut-off times, these images had, out of necessity, to be the standard 1600x1200 size. Therefore they were really no different from standard PDIs. Is hoped to get back to proper print...
A good start with a reasonable number of images bearing in mind the size of our club. An encouragingly even standard as well, which is confidence building for club moral but of course more difficult for the judge to separate out. The man in question this night being Damon Guy who managed the job...
Things like this can easily go wrong. What with the depleted programme this year and the problem with face to face meetings of any kind it might have been expected that the Park Street annually prize presentation could have been a bit of a damp squib. The fact that it wasn’t was much due...
Chance to catch up and to collect and review prints for the Greenwood Gardening Club Exhibition on 14th August.
Thanks to the magic of Zoom it was easy to forget that some of us hadn’t actually see each other in the flesh, as it were, for a year and a half. In the case of Leon no one had ever seen him in person and up until recently your reporter thought he was actually in Australia so was doubly...
What should have been our prize presentation night was handed over to a couple of club members to entertain us. First Ron Brown showed us what he had been up to in the last year. Very much singing the praises of the Olympus E-M1 Mk II camera he explained the potential of it with tele-converters...
Due to practical limitations we did not have a full programme of prints this year. Indeed at one time it looked like we might be having none at all so we slipped in a few successful ‘Set Subject PDI’ comps instead. However rather imaginatively it was suggested that we should...
One might expect from a man as experienced at judging as Peter Prosser that he would have started occasionally to sound just a bit jaded or even bored when faced with yet another huge mountain of images to sort through. However no matter how many we throw at him he seems to be able to shrug of...
THE TREASURE HUNT….PSCC………27.5.2021
Perhaps a slight misnomer but it had of course originally been planned as an outdoor club activity evening so this title was close enough. Contestants were asked, in effect, to take one shot in a series of twelve set subject competitions. Pretty...
Large projects indeed but the sub-title to this talk -‘It’s a lot more than clicking the shutter’ didn’t do it justice. Ted Kinsey brought us inspiration to take on photographic projects the like of which I have not heard before. He detailed three of his ‘works’ in ascending order of magnitude...
Again, this was for high resolution projected images, but allowed for more scrutiny if necessary.
Our judge, Alan Taberer was confronted with a wide range of subjects. Like all our judges he was asked to give marks between 12-...
It shouldn’t be astonishing when a visiting judge for a set subject night actually works to the specification we supply him. It shouldn’t be but it is and it was! Michael Lurie who came to us for our Landscape Night simply did as we had asked even down to the scoring range. Didn’t seem to strain...
Why not? We had become so conversant with zoom it seemed illogical to stop just because there was s public holiday around the corner. The club members were therefore invited to come along as usual and have a natter. This interaction works pretty well because we can see...
I wasn’t counting so I have no idea how many images Steve showed us on this night but it seemed a constant flow for well over 90 minutes so possibly many hundreds! Pictures from all sorts of places and of varying success but that was the point. By its very nature...
It makes a pleasant break to be reminded what we actually have cameras for. Recording things that we want to look at in the future whether its places we have been to or people we have met or know. So it was that Rod Bird visiting us via Zoom once again brought a taste of the outdoors with...
Our PDI event 4th round was judged by Micki Aston. She can be relied upon for spotting bits you have missed but not quite as reliable regarding spreading the scores realistically. Slightly suprising that no club up until now had explained to her the possibilities of the annotation tool. Jeremy...
Scores: Park Street 261 Well done to Angela McCarty for her starred image of Kestrel
Leighton Buzzard ...
THE PDIs
Sarah Sands is our regular judge for the Creative night. I believe we are the only club she judges for. One might think that that could mean she might become detached for the principles of the process and lose her way a bit. This is not the case. In fact on...
As usual a Zoom arrangement and Paul Burwood our judge for the night was back again after his last visit in April. Throughout he was most observant. Not critical for the sake of it, just observant and there is a subtle difference. His manner was also very non judgemental which also sound like a...
Most of the World is discovering how effectively companies, businesses, groups, families and clubs
can stay together keep in touch and keep operating during the current circumstances with the use of
Zoom conferencing. We photographic clubs are possibly amongst the most lucky as...
A reprieve for the Print competition! For the interim they are being run as full resolution PDI events. This was the first such experiment and saw the return of the ever welcome Colin Southgate. To many he might have come as a breath of fresh...
Park Street 270pts
XRR 269pts
Hemel Hempstead 257 pts
St Albans 253pts
Both Star Images also from Park Street - Low and Fast by Angela and Dalmation Pelivan by Jacqui
We didn’t over inundate him with entries. Really we should have done even just to the memory of a
really fine fellow John W. who we lost a year or two back and to whom this competition is
dedicated – hence the wide variety of subject matter – he was a bit of an all-rounder.
...
I have been in Andy Sand’s kitchen. It’s something out of the 22nd Century and that’s before he assembles the colossal concoction of gismos and gadgetry he finds necessary to take his macro photography to another level. By his own admission it all went this way with the advent of...
Projected Image of the Year: Judge Peter Prosser APAGB (Harrow CC) 4th June 2020
First a comment about the standard of images. We might have been expecting it to be high but on this occasion Park Street excelled itself. Sure the event takes from all our best authors and in...
All meetings until at least the end of 2020 will be held by Zoom. The situation will be reviewed for the rest of the current season depending on the Covid risks in due course. All print competitions in the programme are subject to change.