Camera club takes summer break after busy schedule
WITH a fairly late Easter this year the second half of the spring/summer term for the members of Shepshed and District Camera Club was only five meetings long before the summer break started at Spring Bank Holiday weekend.
Included among those meetings were an ‘inhouse’ evening where members attempted to answer each other questions regarding editing photographs with various software packages and to finish the term an excellent photo tour by motorcycle of France and Northern Spain by Kevin Padmore who regularly visits different parts of France with his wife, both touring and camping with their motorcycles.
The first meeting back after Easter was a presentation by the well known photographer from Mil- ton Keynes Don Byatt, called ‘There’s Nowt So Queer As Folk’ which was warmly received by all members present.
Later in the month the results of an in-house challenge, where members used a rather old fashioned camera to take photos in the manner of predigital days, were announced and the winning picture of an old Derbyshire Pumphouse by Fred Ing was declared the winner.
Finally round three of the 2017 Competition League took place with the judge being the well known Natural History photographer from the Sileby Photographic Society Gianpiero Ferrari. Gianpiero gave a good account of himself as he commented on all the entries in both classes and imparted quite a bit of his extensive knowledge with the natural history images in particular.
The following were selected as the award winners: Prints - Nature/Animals 1st. Brian Walbey - Laetiporus Sulphureus - Chicken Of The Wood: 2nd. Fred Ing; 3rd. Garry Rennocks Projected Images - Open Subject 1st. Sue Hutton LRPS - Carnival Elegance; 2nd. Brian Walbey; 3rd. Fred Ing
The club now takes its summer break and meetings start again on Tuesday, September 12, at the council Offices, Charnwood Road, Shepshed at 7.30pm.for a 7.45pm.start.