Monday evening saw one of our roll-up evenings, but this time dedicated to photographs taken on a phone.
The Members submitted their photos which were randomly split into groups of 6 photos and members were invited to choose their favourite in each group, those photographs were then voted on a second time to get a final 3.
1st Place: Geoff Sargent – Into the Light
2nd Place: Leslie Coombes – Battersea Power Station
17 members entered the Summer Challenge, and we finally managed to collect 20 voters.
The clear winner was “Pottery Painting” (#17) by Angus McKay.
Tying for runner-up were “Silversmith at work” (#2) by Brian Thomas “Making Music” (#36) by Gordon Rae.
4th #7 Hands at work, feet at play by David Bird
5th = #23 Medieval hand writing by Paul Crook
5th = #30 Tightening by Grant Dawkins
5th = #34 The Longest Pray by Gordon Rae
2012 Challenge – Summer Sport With the Olympics dominating our summer I thought this summer’s website photo challenge
should be “Summer Sport”. Even if, like me, you will only see the main action on TV, I am
sure there will be plenty of local opportunities to get a cracking photo for the challenge.
It is with considerable sadness we have to announce the sudden passing of John Gamble. John was a character larger than life, always ready with a joke and for another challenge, somebody we will always remember. He was the life and soul of a party, with many stories about cricket, journalism, Round Table and the RNLI.
Outside his family, John had three great passions, his shooting, his photography and his fishing. John had been a member and an active and loyal supporter of Ludshott Photographic club for over twenty years, joining in with all its competitions, meetings and social occasions. He was a member of the committee, and has organised many of our social events. At some of our early barbecues he was chief cook, and regularly attended the annual dinner each year. He has been a friend and willing helper to many of us, particularly the new and less experienced members. John was always ready and available to help anybody who asked. He was very competitive, always striving for top marks. But we pulled his leg unmercifully about his photography and his photographs. We said he was the only photographer in the club who never entered an image worth less than a 10………. in his opinion! I remember once when he was a governor at the Royal Surrey Hospital he borrowed a skeleton and produced some hilarious photographs, which he entered into club competitions!
John loved the outdoors, shooting and fishing and spent many hours taking wildlife photos. He received an LRPS very early on, I think in 2005, with an excellent wildlife panel.
Although John had not been properly well for several years he had that determined, “bulldog” attitude and approach that was not going to stop him doing anything and everything he wanted to do. His unwillingness to give in and “sheer bloody mindedness” kept John going, sometimes when he should not have done so.
John was just as keen and competitive with his fishing, and that is what he was doing when he died yesterday. Although Sue had tried to persuade him not to go, John was determined to go to meet his mates for whom he had organised a day’s trout fishing. John had tackled up and headed straight for his favourite spot on a little promontory. After his third cast, probably much to his surprise, he hooked a lively trout. John managed to land the fish, summarily dispatched with his priest, stood up, then collapsed and did not recover.
However sad and sudden a shock that was to everyone, it was a way John himself would have chosen, especially if he had known at that point in the day he had caught the biggest trout!
John was a man of strongly held opinions. He could be irritatingly argumentative and curmudgeonly. Then he was like a dog with a bone, but John was also kind, thoughtful, generous, and had a heart as big as a bucket.
We will all have our own individual memories of him. Without doubt John Gamble will be remembered and missed by everyone who had the privilege of meeting and knowing him. Kathleen and Gordon
Congratulations to Harold Russell for winning the Jim Henson AV trophy for the second time with an excellent entry “Call to Prayer”. Harold also won the trophy in 2022 with “Faces of South East Asia”.
A big thank you is extended to the judge Steve Kirkby CPAGB(AV) for spending time to judge the AVs beforehand, a time-consuming task.
The meeting, held in Headley Village Hall, started with Steve explaining the criteria he looks for in an Audio Visual. He showed us some of his AVs, asking us to watch out for specific points. He then commented on each AV in the competition, making this a good learning event as well as an entertainment.
There were 16 entries from a number of different clubs, six of which were from Ludshott members.
Congratulations to the winners
First: Call to Prayer by Harold Russell Second: Kolmanskop, a 21st Century Ghost Town by Jean Hoyle Third: Visions of Ashdown Forest by David Brooker
Highly Commended: The Cold Heart of England by Paul Crook
Barcelona by Richard Knapp
Coco by Kathleen Bird
Commended: A Fallen Branch by Brian Dowdall
My Scotland by Norman Horsham
The Surrey Photographic Association Exhibition 2024
2024 sees the return of the Biennial Exhibition at the Guildford House Gallery. Club members submitted their entries for selection which took place 15-17 February. Suzy Courtnage LRPS had two of her images (Stairwell and Brown Rat) selected for inclusion within the Exhibition. The exhibition will open on the 5th April and close on 27th. The awards dinner will be held in Reigate Manor Hotel on the 5th April.
Aspire Group Day out to Middleton Common Butterfly Gardens February 2024
Rob, Suzy, Geoff and Paul headed off to the Butterfly Gardens for an afternoon of photography. There was much chatter beforehand on the whatsapp group as to what equipment we should take and timings.
Geoff collected everyone and we made good time to our destination. We enjoyed a coffee at the on-site cafe.
We had some time to kill and decided to have lunch. With no hot food available at the venue we were told that the local pub had great food.
Back to the butterflies we had sole use of the venue which was perfect as we didn’t have to worry about getting in the way of other people. You have to check where you are walking as they just land on the path and even on us. They seemed to really like Geoff.
We used a variety of lenses from macro to short telephoto. Some of us tried stacking using in camera and manual techniques. We used flash as well A good day over all and hopefully we all learnt something and maybe some good photos.
The club held its Bi-Annual Exhibition on Saturday 23nd September 2023 where we had over 100 images which looked splendid displayed on stands in the hall of the Holme School.
In line with previous years we had a number of pupils from the school who were mentored by members of the club over the summer holidays. Having taken their photographs, they each chose 3 on which to carrying out some post production work before their images were mounted for inclusion in the exhibition.
A large team of members soon made swift work of setting up on the Friday before the exhibition, gave their time on Saturday to provide a meet and greet service during the Exhibition and clear up afterwards.
From the proceeds of the raffle and the sale of some of the prints, the Exhibition successfully raised £170 for the school which was presented to Sarah Stevenson the school head at the end of the day.
There was a vote for the Best Print of the Exhibition which was won by school pupil Lottie Carter’s Robber Fly which can be seen below with Grant Dawkin’s Cathedral coming second and a whole host of third equals.
Woking Photographic Society held its annual Audio Visual competition for the Keith Hunt Trophy on 17 October 2023. The judge was John Randall from Andover Photographic Club.
Congratulations to Kathleen Bird for winning the Keith Hunt Trophy for the third time with an AV entitled “Golden Treasury”.
Congratulations also go to John Baker who achieved Highly Commended for “The Fallero Museum”.
Kathleen receiving the trophy from Woking’s Chairman and the judge.
