Camera club competition

THE spring term for the members of Shepshed and District Camera Club has continued online via Zoom with each meeting attracting a large number of attendees.

A talk entitled “The Power Of Sport” was given by Peter Wilson. He gave an entertaining talk which started with a section of some of his wildlife images, but concentrated on his real passion of sports photography.

As a former athlete himself he is able to get trackside access to big events via his connections in the sport.

This has given him the ability to take photos of

Olympic athletes, and para-athletes, such as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Hannah Cockroft. However, he also discussed a range of more accessible sports to photograph, such as slalom canoeing, jet ski and motor sports.

Another talk was given by Carmen Norman, a professional photographer based in Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, entitled “Lake District Moods”.

Carmen’s selection of photographs were certainly moody as most of them were taken either early in the morning or later on in the evening allowing for creative use of the morning and evening light, as against the brighter light during the middle of the day.

Also included were several tutorial sections including making use of the facilities on modern digital cameras and her approach to taking her photographs out in the Lake District landscape.

The first Competition League round for 2021 took place in late January, the judge being Peter Wells, a long standing member of Wakefield Camera Club. Peter, online from his home via Zoom, commented on each of the images, which he’d had the opportunity of seeing in advance of the competition, and made the following awards;

Open Section: 1st. Martin Wyatt Please “Don’t Eat Me”; 2nd. Mick Jelly; 3rd. Martin Wyatt; HC. Sue Hutton; HC. Alan Harris. Themed Section -

Landscape/Seascape: 1st. Alan Harris “Foggy Day On The Beacon”; 2nd. Mick

Jelly; 3rd. Mick Jelly; HC. Angela Edwards; HC. Brian Walbey.

The most recent meeting saw the members split into three groups and each group had to supply one image for each of six different subjects following which club member Sue Hutton, ARPS, used her experience to comment on each image and award points to it.

The final result, of what was in essence a fun evening, resulted in the winning group gaining 142 points with the other two groups tying on 136 points each.

The club continues to meet on Tuesday evenings on Zoom with a full programme for the next few months, further details are available from the Club Chairman at 07733 314605.