Club News

2010
Well the new year is upon us already and after a good start to the season in late 2009 we have a lot still to look forward to in 2010. The club is ever expanding in numbers and we have had some very enjoyable evenings so far this season including the practical portrait evening (Thanks to Susan), Wild life on a budget lecture by Brian Pettit as well a some fantastic competitions and Social evenings. So what do we have to look forward to in 2010: as well as the many great competition nights we also have the Taunton Battle, a still life practical evening, members critique and many more still to come see the programme for more details.

Next week...
Taunton Battle the highlight of the cross club battles, after loosing to Taunton last year we are looking to take it back this year on home ground, fingers crossed. Be there early to get a good seat as it could be a full house.

Previous Weeks

Dec 3rd
This week we had an interesting lecture on the history of Burnham and Highbridge told through a seri ers of old photos a real trip down memory lane.

November 12th, 15th, 16th & 19th
What a Month all started Thursday 12th Nov at the club with a fantastic portrait evening organized by Susanne Akerstrom. Everyone had a chance to get some first hand experience taking studio portraits with a professional model (Victoria Summers).

Then on Sunday night we had our social evening at the Puriton inn and everyone who came enjoyed a few drinks some fine food and good game of skittles. A big thanks to Marcia for organizing the evening and congratulation to her for having the winning score on the skittles.

This Monday 16th we had the great result at the Segemoor Battle which was held at Yeovil, we won for I be live the third year in a row congratulations to all who had pictures in a thank for everyone giving picture for selection. A big thanks to all the members that went and supported the club on monday night.

Then Thursday 19th we had our live lecture from Brian Pettit 'Wild Life On A Budget' this showed us that there is wildlife photography for all. He showed us pictures from his lifetime in the wild and explained that with a little research and perseverance you can get the shots you are looking for wether that's British flora and fauna to places and animals a bit more exotic.

Finally on Thursday 26th Nov we had our monthly completion Red, White and Blue Prints and Open Projected images. The scores looked like this:

October 22nd
Tonight we had a great live lecture from Leo Rich he took us on a photographic journey from the UK all the way to India. His pictures gave us inspiration and the promise that we could all take pictures as good as if if not better than those in his slide show.

October 29th
This week we had our monthly competition which was Print Seen better days and
Digital Sport/Action. Prints were won by Keith Perry with Don Christ in second and Darren Hillman in Third. Joint Forth place went to Don Cristofoli and Chrispen Kerton and joint Fifth was Brian Facey and Keith Perry. The digitally projected was won jointly by Susanne Akerstrom and Mervyn Jones, Second place went to Ken Hocking with Third place going jointly to Phil Nayler and Keith Perry. Forth was jointly awarded to John Dolling and Keith Perry and Fifth place went to Brian Bateman. The standard was once again high and this as you can see by the amount of joint places made it very hard for the judge choose the winners congratulations to all.

November 5th
This years enprint competition was one of our largest ever entry's for this competition and we saw some great pictures worth enlarging for future competitions. The competition was judged by the entrants using voting slips, the winners were

1st  Andy White
2nd  Andy White
3rd  Chrispen Kerton
4th  John Wynn
5th  Ken Hocking