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Our season kicked off at Macclesfield Library on Monday evening (11th September). It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and so good to see lots of new ones. You’re all very welcome. Thank you all for coming.

The evening kicked off with the aims of the club and the programme for the upcoming season. It’s going to be a busy season so hopefully there’s lot for everyone to get involved with and enjoy, so thanks to Val and Vince and their minions for pulling this together. If you didn’t pick up your programme last night it is available on the web site where a PDF version can be downloaded, but there will be printed copies available on Monday evenings.

Vince took us through our new camera challenge. So it’s back to basics for a bit of fun. So no mega-lenses, no auto-focus, no image stabilisation, but the possibilities for plenty of imagination and fun! So find some friends, pick up your camera and get creative. The challenge is up and running, so the first group, your time is ticking and your camera should be clicking, well, up to your allotted 6 clicks!

Dave Boam then took us through part of his on-going photographic journey, lots of wonderful images and great to see the Dave’s being so successful with his images. It’s an inspiration for the rest of us, so thanks Dave for sharing it was very enjoyable, keep going!

So once again, thank you all for coming, for those who couldn’t make it last night, we hope to see you soon, but let the season commence!

Well done to all the camera club members who entered our Annual Exhibition competition which closed today. The entered images were judged by Robert Millin. The cup winners were Conor Molloy (winner of the Open PDI class, the Landscape PDI, the Natural History PDI and the Natural History Print),  Kristina Kokavcova (winner of the Monochrome PDI class), Anthony Gosling (winner of the Open Print class and the Landscape Print class), David Boam (winner of the People & Portraits PDI class), Denis Jones (winner of the Monochrome Print class) and Ian Morison (winner of the People & Portraits Print class).

The overall best PDI was judged to be Great Grey Owl Hunting by Conor Molloy and the overall best print in the exhibition was Twr Mawr Lighthouse by Anthony Gosling. The public voted for Mia by Paul Scott as their favourite image over the course of the exhibition.

Congratulations to all the category winners and thanks to everyone who submitted entries.  A full list of the winning, highly commended and commended prints can be found here (2017 Exhibition PRINT results).  A full list of the winning, highly commended and commended PDIs can be found here (2017 Exhibition PDI results).

For anyone who missed the exhibition, the best prints are now on display in the Tegg’s Nose gallery.

Great Grey Owl Hunting by Conor Molloy

Congratulations to Anthony on taking first place in our annual competition league.  Going into the final round, Paul Scott and Anthony were in joint first place, each with 138 points.  In last night’s competition, Anthony moved one point ahead of Paul to a score of 139.  (Remember that each person’s lowest scoring round is dropped from the final total).  Given the range of competition themes over the five rounds, this shows great consistency.

Also, well done to Paul who was second with 138 and to David Boam who came third with 136.

Finally, thanks to all who have entered images into this season’s competitions.  The full league table can be found here (MCC Scores After Round 5).

Here’s one of Anthony’s highly commended entries from last night.

Thanks to all those who submitted entries for the final round of this season’s internal competitions.  The theme was ‘Advertisement’ and it attracted some very creative entries.  Thank you to Geoff Reader of Alsager Camera Club for his comments on all the submitted images and for his selection of the winning entries.

Congratulations to David Boam who came first with “Blockbuster”, Stephen Bolton who came second with “Limoncello” and David Boam (again!) who came third with “Gin”.

The full list of scores can be accessed here (Advertisement Scores).

Well done to all our club photographers who contributed to us achieving upper quartile positioning in the recent L&CPU competition. We finished 7th overall among the 44 clubs who entered with a mixture of Colour, Mono & Nature images. Macc’s performance was consistently good across both the print and PDI sections enabling us to achieve a strong final result.  The image of the African Fish Eagle by Steve Gresty was one of ours that achieved the maximum mark. 

African Fish Eagle Landing by Steve Gresty