Tenby & District Camera Club News
6th April 2024
Only Mono Competition
This external competition is organised by Cymru Monochrome Camera Club. There were 40 clubs
competing from all over the Uk. Each club submitted 4 Mono Prints to be critiqued and scored by
judge Colin Trow PS FRPS FIPF MPAGB .
The winning club was Dorchester Camera Club with 72/80 points . Tenby CC scored 64/80 and
was 14th .
4th April 2024 BOYS v GIRLS COMPETITION
Tenby and District Camera Club held it’s fun and competitive competition, Boys versus Girls.
We appointed two captains Jan Sullivan for the girls and Rob Cox for the boys. We had 56 digital
entries from as many members as possible. Susan and John Surridge, a husband and wife team,
to judge this important competition, Susan is the past president of the WPF, and John was the
organiser of this years Welsh salon, we couldn’t have chosen a better team, to judge our
competition.
Susan critiqued our images with care and attention . We had a splendid array of images,
Many from members who had never entered our competitions before, It was a very close call, but
the Girls won, with 500 points against the Boys who scored 496 points. Well done the Girls.
Thank you to everyone for entering our fun competition, congratulations to the Girls, and their
Captain Jan Sullivan, and to Rob Cox for being captain of the Boys. Thanks to our judges Susan
Surridge and John Surridge, who devoted a lot of time to choosing our winners.
Awards for competition -:
Commended
Al Rees Hoopoe with bug
John Whitehurst Welsh black twins
Highly Commended
Al Rees Flying High
Neil Thomas Kestrel with prey
Jo Wakeman Lara
Bronze
Lizzie Wallis Shag in the snow
Silver
Dave Bolton The Business page
Gold
Charlie Kidd Northern Harrier eating quail
28th March 2024 The 3rd Open Competition
This year’s 3rd Open Competition had 33 PDI entries and 20 Print entries.
We were grateful to our judge Gareth Martin for his expertise and experience in giving us
constructive critique.
The results are as follows.
Print Results
Gold medal went to Gillian Mackay for her print “At Ciutadella Market”
Silver Medal went to Neil Thomas for “African Queen”
Bronze medal went to Dave Bolton for “Hunting Swallow on the Turn”
Highly Commended prints
Neil Thomas for “Red Kite in Snow”
Commended prints
Cheryl Hewitt for “Blue Hour Surf”
Jan Sullivan for “Keep your Eyes on the Track”
Donald Fraser for “Hall of Buddhas”
Digital Results
Gold medal won by Jan Sullivan for “The Surprise Attack”
Silver medal was won by Cheryl Hewitt for her image “At the Top”
Bronze Medal was won by Neil Thomas for his image “Kestrel with Prey”
Highly Commended images
Gillian Mackay for “Canada Way”
Neil Thomas for “Eurasian Hoopoe Move over Darling”
David Bolton for “Brown Hare in the Rain”
Alistair Mackay for “Paxton Tower through the Mist”
Commended images
Charlie Kidd for “Egyptian Mongoose with food”
Rob Cox for “ Flaming Burnout”
21st March 2024…… Mike Perry
Tenby and District Camera, Club hosted the renown, environmental Photographer Mike Perry to
present his view of Wales and its beautiful land and seascapes.
Mike from North Pembrokeshire is well known in the field of environmental photography,
exhibiting his work in many of the leading exhibition houses throughout Wales and Europe.
Mike, originally from London, when in his late 30s, he moved from London to North
Pembrokeshire. He is a member of Greenpeace and is regularly seen on Channel 4.
In the early days of his photographic career, he acquired a 10 x 8 plate camera, he loves Shooting
in softlight, and in 2002, he photographed a series of images, which he termed Beach 1 - 27,
which sold well in London and the USA and featured in exhibitions throughout Europe. Using his
plate camera, he captured superb images throughout, presenting the beach series as both
individual images and a grid format, which proved very popular.
He related some of the problems using the large format plate camera.
Many of his exhibitions featured images outlining the startling statistics of how much micro
plastic is in our oceans, farmland, and wild life. 95% of seagulls have plastic in their gut. A
frightening realisation.
Thank you Mike Perry for such a different but interesting presentation.
14th March 2024 Workshop
Tenby & District Camera Club held a workshop on how to take an image through the post
processing system to the output and final print. We are grateful to Charlie Kidd for showing us the
method he uses to achieve the many brilliant images he creates.
Starting with downloading his images into Lightroom, sharpening, lens correction, colour
correction, contrast control, cropping, composition, adjustments to lighting, shadows and
highlights, burning and lighting areas that need tweaking, and much more.
The second half of the evening was just as interesting, Alistair Mackay demonstrated the art of
mounting the finished print. It can cost a lot of money to buy some of the equipment on the
market, but Alistair demonstrated how, we could use basic materials and a budget cutting kit, that
did the job fine. It’s all in the technique he insisted, warning us to use the correct masking tape,
with recommendations on where to buy the kits and boards locally and at a keen price.
Thank you to both Charlie and Alistair for all the effort they put into preparing the evening.
13th March 2024 Carmarthen Battle
Carmarthen Photographic Society hosted it’s 4 way Battle with camera clubs from Cardigan,
Newquay, Tenby and Carmarthen providing 10 digital images each. The judge for the evening was
Dai Knight . Tenby did well and came 1st with 188/ 200 points . Charlie Kidd and Gill Mackay each
scored the maximum 20 points for their images .
7th March 2024 The Fourtograph Competition
The Fourtograph is an entertaining fun competition with four themes chosen in advance. The
audience present look at the anonymous digital entries then score each image out of 5. The total
points for each image gives a theme winner , an overall winner and the image with the most
points . The themes chosen were “Blue” , “Beach Boys Music”, “Flower Power” and ‘Jane Austin”
Many thanks to Francis White and Alistair Mackay for sorting and collating the results . Special
thanks to Harry Gardiner for stepping up to critique many of the images with useful advice on how
to improve them .
The results were
Overall Winners 1st place Rob Cox , 2nd place Dave Bolton and 3rd place Charlie Kidd.
Image with most points Alan Brown and “Baa Barbara Ann”
The Blue Theme
Joint 1st place Rob Cox and Myrddin Dennis and 3rd Jan Sullivan.
The Beach Boys Songs Theme
1st place Alan Brown, 2nd Jan Sullivan and 3rd Gill Mackay .
The Flower Power Theme
1st place Rob Cox , Joint 2nd Cheryl Hewitt and Charlie Kidd .
The Jane Austin Theme
1st place John Whitehurst , 2nd Dave Bolton and 3rd Gill Mackay
here is the image with the most points ….Alan Brown with Baa Barbara Ann
29th February 2024
Carl Downing …Sports and Wildlife
Tenby & District Camera Club welcomed Carl Downing tonight, Carl, who comes from Newport
Gwent ,what an excellent presenter, with an impressive background of photography.
Carl was a pioneer of digital photography in the early days, buying a small digital camera and
attaching a telescope to the lens to take photos of wildlife. It wasn’t easy to take moving images
and he had to pre focus on where he thought the subject would land, but he produced some
stunning images. He managed to photograph a very rare humming bird while in Columbia, it was
400meters away, but with his combination of camera and telescope, captured a winning image
that was published & gained an award. It was pirated by a Florida magazine, Carl sued them, and
pocketed enough cash to “up his game” and buy a brand new kit of lenses and cameras. He
never looked back, and went on to travel around the world photographing wildlife in South Africa,
Brazil, and eventually running wildlife tours in Columbia, a very experienced photographer,
speaking fluent Spanish as well.
Eventually he returned to Wales, and expanded his love of photography to the sporting scene, he
had a friend who had taken photos at Olympics events and introduced him to the world of sports.
Carl, a keen cyclist and having the velodrome in the Newport area, a natural path for such an
accomplished photographer, practising his technique on the young hopefuls that were training
there,
Carl gained a Sport Accreditation and enjoys the prime spots now, he regularly photographs the
top cyclists.
Carl was enthusiastic and inspiring , offering advice on technique and preparation.
Only Mono Competition
This external competition is organised by Cymru Monochrome Camera Club. There were 40 clubs
competing from all over the Uk. Each club submitted 4 Mono Prints to be critiqued and scored by
judge Colin Trow PS FRPS FIPF MPAGB .
The winning club was Dorchester Camera Club with 72/80 points . Tenby CC scored 64/80 and
was 14th .
4th April 2024 BOYS v GIRLS COMPETITION
Tenby and District Camera Club held it’s fun and competitive competition, Boys versus Girls.
We appointed two captains Jan Sullivan for the girls and Rob Cox for the boys. We had 56 digital
entries from as many members as possible. Susan and John Surridge, a husband and wife team,
to judge this important competition, Susan is the past president of the WPF, and John was the
organiser of this years Welsh salon, we couldn’t have chosen a better team, to judge our
competition.
Susan critiqued our images with care and attention . We had a splendid array of images,
Many from members who had never entered our competitions before, It was a very close call, but
the Girls won, with 500 points against the Boys who scored 496 points. Well done the Girls.
Thank you to everyone for entering our fun competition, congratulations to the Girls, and their
Captain Jan Sullivan, and to Rob Cox for being captain of the Boys. Thanks to our judges Susan
Surridge and John Surridge, who devoted a lot of time to choosing our winners.
Awards for competition -:
Commended
Al Rees Hoopoe with bug
John Whitehurst Welsh black twins
Highly Commended
Al Rees Flying High
Neil Thomas Kestrel with prey
Jo Wakeman Lara
Bronze
Lizzie Wallis Shag in the snow
Silver
Dave Bolton The Business page
Gold
Charlie Kidd Northern Harrier eating quail
28th March 2024 The 3rd Open Competition
This year’s 3rd Open Competition had 33 PDI entries and 20 Print entries.
We were grateful to our judge Gareth Martin for his expertise and experience in giving us
constructive critique.
The results are as follows.
Print Results
Gold medal went to Gillian Mackay for her print “At Ciutadella Market”
Silver Medal went to Neil Thomas for “African Queen”
Bronze medal went to Dave Bolton for “Hunting Swallow on the Turn”
Highly Commended prints
Neil Thomas for “Red Kite in Snow”
Commended prints
Cheryl Hewitt for “Blue Hour Surf”
Jan Sullivan for “Keep your Eyes on the Track”
Donald Fraser for “Hall of Buddhas”
Digital Results
Gold medal won by Jan Sullivan for “The Surprise Attack”
Silver medal was won by Cheryl Hewitt for her image “At the Top”
Bronze Medal was won by Neil Thomas for his image “Kestrel with Prey”
Highly Commended images
Gillian Mackay for “Canada Way”
Neil Thomas for “Eurasian Hoopoe Move over Darling”
David Bolton for “Brown Hare in the Rain”
Alistair Mackay for “Paxton Tower through the Mist”
Commended images
Charlie Kidd for “Egyptian Mongoose with food”
Rob Cox for “ Flaming Burnout”
21st March 2024…… Mike Perry
Tenby and District Camera, Club hosted the renown, environmental Photographer Mike Perry to
present his view of Wales and its beautiful land and seascapes.
Mike from North Pembrokeshire is well known in the field of environmental photography,
exhibiting his work in many of the leading exhibition houses throughout Wales and Europe.
Mike, originally from London, when in his late 30s, he moved from London to North
Pembrokeshire. He is a member of Greenpeace and is regularly seen on Channel 4.
In the early days of his photographic career, he acquired a 10 x 8 plate camera, he loves Shooting
in softlight, and in 2002, he photographed a series of images, which he termed Beach 1 - 27,
which sold well in London and the USA and featured in exhibitions throughout Europe. Using his
plate camera, he captured superb images throughout, presenting the beach series as both
individual images and a grid format, which proved very popular.
He related some of the problems using the large format plate camera.
Many of his exhibitions featured images outlining the startling statistics of how much micro
plastic is in our oceans, farmland, and wild life. 95% of seagulls have plastic in their gut. A
frightening realisation.
Thank you Mike Perry for such a different but interesting presentation.
14th March 2024 Workshop
Tenby & District Camera Club held a workshop on how to take an image through the post
processing system to the output and final print. We are grateful to Charlie Kidd for showing us the
method he uses to achieve the many brilliant images he creates.
Starting with downloading his images into Lightroom, sharpening, lens correction, colour
correction, contrast control, cropping, composition, adjustments to lighting, shadows and
highlights, burning and lighting areas that need tweaking, and much more.
The second half of the evening was just as interesting, Alistair Mackay demonstrated the art of
mounting the finished print. It can cost a lot of money to buy some of the equipment on the
market, but Alistair demonstrated how, we could use basic materials and a budget cutting kit, that
did the job fine. It’s all in the technique he insisted, warning us to use the correct masking tape,
with recommendations on where to buy the kits and boards locally and at a keen price.
Thank you to both Charlie and Alistair for all the effort they put into preparing the evening.
13th March 2024 Carmarthen Battle
Carmarthen Photographic Society hosted it’s 4 way Battle with camera clubs from Cardigan,
Newquay, Tenby and Carmarthen providing 10 digital images each. The judge for the evening was
Dai Knight . Tenby did well and came 1st with 188/ 200 points . Charlie Kidd and Gill Mackay each
scored the maximum 20 points for their images .
7th March 2024 The Fourtograph Competition
The Fourtograph is an entertaining fun competition with four themes chosen in advance. The
audience present look at the anonymous digital entries then score each image out of 5. The total
points for each image gives a theme winner , an overall winner and the image with the most
points . The themes chosen were “Blue” , “Beach Boys Music”, “Flower Power” and ‘Jane Austin”
Many thanks to Francis White and Alistair Mackay for sorting and collating the results . Special
thanks to Harry Gardiner for stepping up to critique many of the images with useful advice on how
to improve them .
The results were
Overall Winners 1st place Rob Cox , 2nd place Dave Bolton and 3rd place Charlie Kidd.
Image with most points Alan Brown and “Baa Barbara Ann”
The Blue Theme
Joint 1st place Rob Cox and Myrddin Dennis and 3rd Jan Sullivan.
The Beach Boys Songs Theme
1st place Alan Brown, 2nd Jan Sullivan and 3rd Gill Mackay .
The Flower Power Theme
1st place Rob Cox , Joint 2nd Cheryl Hewitt and Charlie Kidd .
The Jane Austin Theme
1st place John Whitehurst , 2nd Dave Bolton and 3rd Gill Mackay
here is the image with the most points ….Alan Brown with Baa Barbara Ann
29th February 2024
Carl Downing …Sports and Wildlife
Tenby & District Camera Club welcomed Carl Downing tonight, Carl, who comes from Newport
Gwent ,what an excellent presenter, with an impressive background of photography.
Carl was a pioneer of digital photography in the early days, buying a small digital camera and
attaching a telescope to the lens to take photos of wildlife. It wasn’t easy to take moving images
and he had to pre focus on where he thought the subject would land, but he produced some
stunning images. He managed to photograph a very rare humming bird while in Columbia, it was
400meters away, but with his combination of camera and telescope, captured a winning image
that was published & gained an award. It was pirated by a Florida magazine, Carl sued them, and
pocketed enough cash to “up his game” and buy a brand new kit of lenses and cameras. He
never looked back, and went on to travel around the world photographing wildlife in South Africa,
Brazil, and eventually running wildlife tours in Columbia, a very experienced photographer,
speaking fluent Spanish as well.
Eventually he returned to Wales, and expanded his love of photography to the sporting scene, he
had a friend who had taken photos at Olympics events and introduced him to the world of sports.
Carl, a keen cyclist and having the velodrome in the Newport area, a natural path for such an
accomplished photographer, practising his technique on the young hopefuls that were training
there,
Carl gained a Sport Accreditation and enjoys the prime spots now, he regularly photographs the
top cyclists.
Carl was enthusiastic and inspiring , offering advice on technique and preparation.