ACCRINGTON CAMERA CLUB
AT our first meeting of the year members were entertained with a host of colour prints from the Inter Club Photographic Alliance (ICPA) which achieved high marks at the association’s annual competition.
The ICPA consists of 17 member clubs mainly in east Lancashire, and the high-quality prints were testament to the talent of the area’s photographers and their imagination in the variety of subjects they choose to point a camera at.
Along with a brew and a biscuit, members were also encouraged to put their name down for a number of roles which will become vacant when the club holds its AGM next week, as well as a reminder about our January dinner, which will take place at Sykeside Country House Hotel this weekend and is a chance to enjoy a meal and a natter in a relaxed setting.
Our monthly competition before Christmas was the usual mix of largely high quality varied images both in prints and projected images.
Barry Noon took first in the projected images with Sunset at Durdle Door and At the Going Down of the Sun by John Hurst was placed second by judge Colin Douglas. Oliver Doree was third with View from Bridestones Rocks.
The judge chose Mary Braithwaite’s monochrome Cramond Island Causeway as the winner in the large prints, with Rusty Blue Metalwork placing Oliver Doree in second and Tulips putting Wendy Stowell in third.
Early Morning Walker gave John Lovell the top spot in the small prints, with Tewkesbury Abbey putting Mary Braithwaite in second and Inverrarry giving Jonathan Tustin third.