Arriving in Ashburton I was looking to join a few clubs and the Photographic Society was first on the list. Arriving at the first meeting it was instantly apparent that the average age was significantly lowered by my being there and the first meeting was unfortunately a quick run through of some holiday snaps! I was assured by the younger (middle aged) members that things would get better and as everyone was very welcoming the next few meetings were attended and were indeed
a bit more interesting though there was little room for contribution at this stage. Unfortunately the monthly "field trip" is always at the weekend and as we have been heading out and about it has proved impossible to get
along to any of these trips. I did however put 4 prints forward for the monthly competition, this one with the theme of "Photojournalism", tinkering with a few of my many travel pictures. Rather disappointingly 3 fell by the wayside pretty quickly, apparently not up to standard, with the gradings being unaccepted, accepted and honours. Waiting for my final print to meet a similar fate the accepted images were soon critiqued and then th
e honours were started. Much to my surprise my final image, the Chinese soldiers marching through the streets of Lhasa, was then given the title of that evenings best print! The comment was that he would have liked to have seen the colour version though as the judge was sceptical of monocrome images which is ironic as I had printed both versions but felt the submitted version more powerful. As pleasing as i was the unaccepted images were not critiqued and so I am not sure
where they fell down for fuure reference. I will include them here for your opinion along with the colour version of the succesful image. The next theme is landscapes and while another 4 prints have been submitted I am not holding out much hope for them as it was a bit of a rush job to get them sorted in time. I'l let you know in a month!
Arriving in Ashburton I was looking to join a few clubs and the Photographic Society was first on the list. Arriving at the first meeting it was instantly apparent that the average age was significantly lowered by my being there and the first meeting was unfortunately a quick run through of some holiday snaps! I was assured by the younger (middle aged) members that things would get better and as everyone was very welcoming the next few meetings were attended and were indeed 
a bit more interesting though there was little room for contribution at this stage. Unfortunately the monthly "field trip" is always at the weekend and as we have been heading out and about it has proved impossible to get 
along to any of these trips. I did however put 4 prints forward for the monthly competition, this one with the theme of "Photojournalism", tinkering with a few of my many travel pictures. Rather disappointingly 3 fell by the wayside pretty quickly, apparently not up to standard, with the gradings being unaccepted, accepted and honours. Waiting for my final print to meet a similar fate the accepted images were soon critiqued and then th
e honours were started. Much to my surprise my final image, the Chinese soldiers marching through the streets of Lhasa, was then given the title of that evenings best print! The comment was that he would have liked to have seen the colour version though as the judge was sceptical of monocrome images which is ironic as I had printed both versions but felt the submitted version more powerful. As pleasing as i was the unaccepted images were not critiqued and so I am not sure 
where they fell down for fuure reference. I will include them here for your opinion along with the colour version of the succesful image. The next theme is landscapes and while another 4 prints have been submitted I am not holding out much hope for them as it was a bit of a rush job to get them sorted in time. I'l let you know in a month!
Not sure about the dog pic, presumably the live animals in the cage were for the chop next? Do they realise? God, I hope not.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting all the same, thanks Alex
Didn't mean the last comment to be anonymous.
ReplyDeleteI hope not to, not quite like animal markets back home and a definite murmur went up when people realised what they were looking at! I put the image forward for a bit of controversy, didn't figure there would be anything similar submitted, and in part it is the caged animals behind which i think makes it a more interesting image as it makes you wonder the very thoughts you expressed...
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