Putting you in the picture about the Southern Photographic Society, Isle of Man
On Wednesday, local professional photographer Clare Payne judged the ‘Food and Drink’ competition for us, which was the third regular competition of our season.
The theme encouraged a huge range of subjects and styles, from still life and close-up, to items on market stalls and people eating or cooking outdoors, to high-speed images of liquid frozen in motion.
Continue reading ““Food and Drink” Competition Results”
The island’s three photographic societies met in St John’s last week for the annual “3-Way Battle”.
This year, it was the turn of the Western Photographic Society to host the Southern and Isle of Man Photographic Societies for this friendly digital competition, in which each club enters 30 digital images with no more than five by any one member.
Continue reading “3-Way Battle 2020”The annual digital ‘battle’ between the island’s three photographic societies takes place on Thursday 19th November.
This year the Western Photographic Society plays host to the Isle of Man Photographic Society and the Southern Photographic Society, and the event takes place at 8pm at St John’s Football Club.
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Before starting this second regular competition of the season, we remembered one of the club’s founders and a former long-serving member, Donald Gellion, who sadly passed away last week.
This was the season’s first ‘Open’, which, as always, meant the entries encompassed a wide range of subjects, styles and techniques. There were 27 prints and 57 digital entries.
Continue reading “November Open Competition Results”
The first point-scoring competition of the new season took place on Wednesday 7th October, judged by David Silvester. A well-known local photographer, instructor and international judge, David is a good friend of the Southern Photographic Society and has hosted practical evenings in the past as well as judging for us.
Continue reading “Results: Barriers Competition”We hope everyone is well and enjoying the relative normality that we are currently fortunate to have on the island. The committee has had a short break to catch our breath at the end of a long eventful season but we will be meeting soon to discuss the next steps.
Continue reading “End of Season Update”For our final digital competition of the season, judge Chris Nicholls was joined by wife Ruth, a fellow experienced photographer, who offered to make a separate critique of each image before they arrived at an overall score.
We are very grateful to Chris and Ruth for judging the Close Up competition from their home and helping us to complete our season, and – as you will see below – giving such in-depth comments.
Continue reading “Close Up Competition Results”Our final competition of the season was themed ‘Close Up’. Due to COVID-19 it remains impossible to run the print section but we are grateful again that the judges agreed to assess the digital entries at home.
‘Close Up’ is a challenging theme and attracted a variety of styles and interpretations. and the 45 entries can be viewed here with titles and names. Comments, scores and results will follow on Friday evening.
Continue reading “Close Up Entries”Steve Woodley judged the final Open and penultimate competition of the 2019-20 season. Due to COVID-19 there are no print entries in the last two competitions and the judges assessed the digital entries from their own homes.
We shared the entries for this competition yesterday, and here is Steve’s overall assessment:
Continue reading “Open Competition Results”Although we are unable to meet in person, the committee are grateful that the judges for our final two competitions have agreed to assess the digital entries at home.
Local professional photographer and friend of the club, Steve Woodley, stepped in to judge the final Open competition when the original judge had to drop out, and we will share his comments, scores and the results very soon.
In the meantime, the entries are available to view now with titles and names.
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