21st February
On the 21st February we were awaiting the announcement of the results of our new competition “ The Hexagon” . The creator and organiser of this competition was Dave Marriott who revealed the scores .
Overall winner, winning the new Hexagon trophy was Dave Bolton, who also won the sport and creative categories. In second place was Al Rees. In third place was Charlie Kidd who also won the Portrait section.
Roy Peters won the Nature section, Jan Hornett won the Architecture section and Dave Marriott the Landscape section.
Members gave their thanks to Dave Marriott for organising this new and well received event.
After all the excitement we were treated to a journey around the world by member Mike Cullis. Mike is currently working with Panasonic using the Lumix G9 so we were shown a preview of images taken on two of his most recent trips experimenting with that camera.
Before Christmas Mike had a special trip to the the Falkland Islands. Penguins, seals and albatross in fantastic natural settings enthralled us all.
Mike had just returned from a trip to Kenya, exploring The Maasai Mara. There were fantastic photos of much of the beautiful wildlife found there from lions, giraffes, black rhino, hippo, leopard and elephants.
After this taster of future talks, Mike carried on with his “Raw China” talk. This was not your usual touristy travelogue lecture . It was a behind the scenes tour, revealing the lifestyle for the Chinese people. Showing how dynamic an environment it is, with a massive landmass, Mike captured the expressions and habits of ordinary people. Images of architecture, bridges, shopping malls to recreational areas. weddings , hot air balloon flights, bamboo river rafts ….and then there were the pandas (and the ahhs from the audience ) , the lakes, rivers and mountains . A very interesting and charismatic country made special with Mike’s talented photography. A special thank you was given to Mike from members, for his interesting talk.
Overall winner, winning the new Hexagon trophy was Dave Bolton, who also won the sport and creative categories. In second place was Al Rees. In third place was Charlie Kidd who also won the Portrait section.
Roy Peters won the Nature section, Jan Hornett won the Architecture section and Dave Marriott the Landscape section.
Members gave their thanks to Dave Marriott for organising this new and well received event.
After all the excitement we were treated to a journey around the world by member Mike Cullis. Mike is currently working with Panasonic using the Lumix G9 so we were shown a preview of images taken on two of his most recent trips experimenting with that camera.
Before Christmas Mike had a special trip to the the Falkland Islands. Penguins, seals and albatross in fantastic natural settings enthralled us all.
Mike had just returned from a trip to Kenya, exploring The Maasai Mara. There were fantastic photos of much of the beautiful wildlife found there from lions, giraffes, black rhino, hippo, leopard and elephants.
After this taster of future talks, Mike carried on with his “Raw China” talk. This was not your usual touristy travelogue lecture . It was a behind the scenes tour, revealing the lifestyle for the Chinese people. Showing how dynamic an environment it is, with a massive landmass, Mike captured the expressions and habits of ordinary people. Images of architecture, bridges, shopping malls to recreational areas. weddings , hot air balloon flights, bamboo river rafts ….and then there were the pandas (and the ahhs from the audience ) , the lakes, rivers and mountains . A very interesting and charismatic country made special with Mike’s talented photography. A special thank you was given to Mike from members, for his interesting talk.