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Next Project Group Meeting

The next meeting will be Thursday 16th February 2023 at 7.30pm at the Guild.
 
Thanks to those who came to the last meeting and also to those who contributed but were unable to attend. The chosen subjects for this next meeting are:
 
1. Public Transport …as usual, interpret in any way you like any aspect of this fascinating subject, steam locomotives also qualify. 
 
2. Music… Venture into a little video if you wish, otherwise hone your photographic skills and imagination  on this subject.
 
A longer term subject was requested by some group members, it is due to be shown at the seasons last meeting on 18th May. The chosen theme is Alphabet letters , found in the environment.
    A test of observation is this one, we are looking for anything that forms the shape of a letter of the alphabet wherever you may find it. It does not however include letters on road signs and the like. 
 
Remember the group is not competitive, its about stretching your normal photographic boundaries and having a reason to get out with your camera.
 
Bill Salkeld

Twelve Years Ago

It’s exactly 12 years since the January 2011 issue of Cheshire Life was published, including an article about the Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society.    It’s almost entirely written by our then-chairman Gary Schultz, who said:

“The Wilmslow Photographic Society was formed in the 1930s and now has about 70 members on its books – ages range from 20-odd to 60-odd – and they have excelled in competitions locally, nationally and even internationally.

They came third overall out of almost 70 clubs in the Natural History Print Section of last year’s Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union Annual Competition and finished in seventh place overall.”

There are photos from Bill Salkeld, David Lewis, Kevin Lee, Claire Metcalfe, Geraldine Hillmer and Brian Smith alongside the text.

The above is a brief extract and you’ll be able to view a copy of the full article at our next meeting, at the start of January 2023.

December Monthly Competition Results

At the very end of November we held our December monthly competition.  In this digital image competition the winning picture in the ‘Scapes category was ‘Low Tide at Aberffraw’ by Mary Dolan.

Low Tide at Aberffraw
Low Tide at Aberffraw

In the Open Mono category the winning picture was ‘Blackpool, a Trip Down Memory Lane’ by Pat Sawas.

Blackpool, a trip down memory Lane
Blackpool, a trip down memory Lane

Congratulations to both photographers! Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

Our next monthly competition is on 18th January so remember to submit your DPIs via Photoentry by the 11th of January.  Categories are ‘Open Colour’ and ‘Low Light’.  It should be easy to find some low light at this time of year!

Our First Print Competition of the Year

On the 9th of November we held our first print competition of the year.  The winning print in the Open Colour section was ‘Iris’ by David Royle.

Iris
Iris

And the winning print in the ‘Perspective’ section was’Blown Up in a Bubble’ by Mary Dolan.

Blown Up in a Bubble
Blown Up in a Bubble

Congratulations to both photographers! Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

We are moving quickly on to our our next competition, which will also be in November this year because of the Guild calendar.

 

 

First 2022/23 Competition Results

In the words of Tess Daly “the scores are in”…

…and on the 5th of October we held our first competition of the season.  DPI Open Mono + the subject ‘Water’.

Our judge chose Mary Dolan’s image ‘Tulips’ as the winning mono picture.

Tulips
Tulips

For “Water” the winner was John O’Brien’s ‘Yorkshire Falls

Yorkshire Falls
Yorkshire Falls

Congratulations to Mary and to John! Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

Coming Soon

Our new season will be starting in September and to quote The Two Ronnies;  have we got a packed programme for you?  

Well yes we have; and details will be here shortly, so please visit in a few days’ time to see the new 2022-23 programme.

Fifth 2021/22 Competition Results

On the 23rd of February we held our fifth competition of the season.  This was our 2nd print competition of the season and to encourage entries we removed the requirement to mount the prints.   The first half of the evening was “Open Colour” prints and the set subject in the second half was “Panoramic”.

Our judge was John Riley and he chose Michael Hilton’s image ‘Rose’ as the winning colour picture.

Rose
Rose

For “Panoramic” the winner was Gary Schultz’s ‘On the way to the North Cape’.

On the way to the North Cape
On the way to the North Cape

Congratulations to Michael and Gary! Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

Fourth 2021/22 Competition Results

On the 19th January we held our fourth competition of the season; this time it was ‘Open Monochrome’ in the 1st half and the set subject of ‘Geometry’ in the 2nd half.  Both were digital projected images.

Our judge was Chris Boyes and he selected David Royle’s image ‘Pelican’ as the winning monochrome picture.

Pelican
Pelican

In the ‘Geometry’ section the winner was Mary Dolan with ‘Spiral’.  Congratulations to them both!

Spiral
Spiral

Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

Third 2021 Competition Results

On Wednesday we held our 3rd competition of the 2021/22 season. This was a DPI (digital image) competition.  Our judge was Mike Lawrence who provided us with some excellent comments and coped with the very large number of entries.

Double congratulations to John O’Brien who won the Open Colour competition with ‘Emotion’ and also the Landscape competition with ‘In the Golden Mist’.

Emotion
Emotion
In the Golden Mist
In the Golden Mist

Full results are available on Photoentry as usual.

Second 2021 Competition Results

Last night held our second monthly competition of the 2021/22 season, and our first print competition for some considerable time.  

Our judge David Butler from Chorley PS provided lots of interesting and useful comments on the pictures, and the relatively low number of entries meant there was time to discuss some of the pictures too.

Congratulations to Michael Hilton for winning both the Open Monochrome section with ‘In the Countryside’, and the Minimalism section with ‘Sea Pool’.

This year we are simplifying things by not publishing all the entries on the website; members will have received emails from the Photoentry system with all the results and images.

In the Countryside
In the Countryside
Sea Pool
Sea Pool

First 2021 Competition Results

We held our first monthly competition of the 2021/22 season last week.  Congratulations to Pat Sawas for winning the Open Colour DPI section with ‘Not your run of the mill mannequin’, and to John O’Brien for his winning entry in the Double Exposure DPI section with ‘Cracked Actor’.

This year we are simplifying things by not publishing all the entries on the website; members will have received emails from the Photoentry system with all the results and images.

Not your run of the mill mannequin
Not your run of the mill mannequin
Cracked Actor
Cracked Actor

The Calendar is Now Available

You can now see the full 2021 – 2022 calendar and sync it with your phone calendar etc. if you wish.

For an overview of the year, you can also download a PDF of the printed programme.  Members can also collect a printed programme at a Wednesday meeting.

MOMENTS IN MONO

For the first meeting of 2020 the packed audience were thoroughly entertained by Neil Hulme and his presentation “Moments in Mono”.

Neil started by explaining about having taken up photography some eight years ago and having ‘found’ his preference for a minimalist long exposure black and white style and the photographers, for example, Michael Kenna and Rohan O’Reilly who provided inspiration. He then took us on a journey of favourite locations from ‘a ten minute walk from home’ to his beloved Venice. He demonstrated over and over again that within a few minutes walk and certainly a few hours drive, for example, to the Wirral, North Wales and the Fylde Coast, there are so many potential photographic subjects but ….you just have to have the vision to see them.

The audience were fascinated as he explained his ‘unsophisticated’ post processing method which he demonstrated on several of his images which invariably resulted in an uncluttered and simple composition with a delicate tonal range.

Neil’s amusing anecdotes kept the audience smiling and his modest and humble attitude to his photographic achievements kept them absorbed as he walked us through his wonderful images.

A really enjoyable evening was had by all!

Neil’s work can be seen on www.neilhulme.smugmug.com, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram.

Monthly Competition – November 2019 – Open Colour

MONTHLY COMPETITION – NOVEMBER 2019 – OPEN COLOUR

Michael Hilton’s excellent image,“One More Time”,  was rightly judged into first place in the Open Colour Section of November Monthly Competition.

The print competition was well supported with a great variety of types of photograph being entered.

 

This variety was recognised in David Royle’s “Wild Flowers’ which was placed second.

 

 

 

 

 

The judge, John Riley, then awarded Les Stringer’s impressionistic image “Lone Tree” third place.

Generally the entries were of a high standard and John Riley’s critique was helpful to all entrants by explaining what constituted a ‘strong’ competition image and suggesting areas for improvement on individual images.

For full results click on  to “COMPETITIONS”.

Success at Southport Exhibition

Three members of the Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society, had their prints accepted in the Members Exhibition of the 72nd Southport National Open Exhibition of Photography and displayed in the beautiful setting of Wayfarers Arcade in Southport.  Southport has long been a leading National Photographic Exhibition and the overall quality of entry was very high, with 504 entrants submitting over 4000 entries in total this year.

The Photographic Society was especially pleased that Barbara Cook’s print ‘Together’ came first in the Open Colour print section, winning the Golden Jubilee Trophy. Her print ‘Snow Urchin’ did very well in the exhibition and won a Ribbon award. Barbara also had her print ‘Marta’ accepted.

The two other successful members with print acceptances were Les Stringer, with his print ‘Young Monks’ and Margaret Green with ‘Mont Blanc’.  The Society thanked Margaret for co-ordinating our entries and also organising a Society visit to Southport to view the exhibition.

left to right: Margaret Green, Les Stringer and Barbara Cook

Together by Barbara Cook
Snow Urchin by Barbara Cook
Mont Blanc by Margaret Green
Young Monk by Les Stringer
Marta by Barbara Cook

 

 

 

 

 

2018 -19 Comp #6 Results PRINT

Results from this and previous competitions are available here

Another enjoyable evening viewing another set of top notch images.

Hold your breath for the results of the Photographer of the Year Competition to be announced at our next meeting – the final scores are VERY tight – reflecting the high quality of entries in all this years comps.

Project Group – next meeting Friday 26 April

We have Peter R to thank for suggesting the next two themes, as usual you can enter images for either or both  themes. Resizing the images to 1600 x 1200 pixels is not critical for the Project Group but necessary if you want to use them for club competition purposes.

The interpretation is up to you, both subjects lend themselves to using either observed or contrived (sorry created) pictures.

1. Broken

2. Clashing Colour

Bill Salkeld

Project Group – next meeting Friday 15 March

The Themes!

  1. Illustrate a favourite photographic tip or technique.   As much as an exercise for yourself in before/after or with/without or ?? The idea of this is to show others something which they may not normally consider doing. It might consist of several frames outlining a photographic process or include some screen grabs if post processing forms part of it.
  2. Looking Up. (or a View from Below, in the same spirit, and the opposite of, the theme from last November). This should get us all out and about!

Bill Salkeld.