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Waterstones Summer Exhibition 2018
Our Summer Print Exhibition has now ended its four week run at Waterstones Bookshop in Deansgate, Bolton.
There were 47 prints lining the walls of the staircase in store from a cross section of our members, and the public were invited to vote for their favourite print via the voting slips provided. A total of 252 votes were cast, and the print with the highest number of votes 28) was "A Tom Boy called Poppy" by Alan Bromiley.
In 2nd place was "Winter in Le Mans Crescent Bolton" by Brian White and third was "African Leopard Early Morning Hunt" also by Brian White. Two prints tied for fourth place, "Great Crested Grebe Feeding Juvenile" by Richard Towell, and "Castlerigg Stone Circle" by Judy Bell.
The full list and votes cast can be seen by opening the pdf file below.
We appreciate the members of the public who took time to vote for their favourite print, and we thank the Manager and staff at Waterstones for their continuing support to allow us the space to display our prints.
We look forward to our autumn exhibition later in the year.
 Summer Exhibition Public Vote | [ ] | 108 kB |
2018 May Theme Competition No.2
2018 May Theme Competition No.2 "Macro / Close-Up"
On Thursday 24th May th eclub held its second themed competiton of the year with the theme being Macro or Close-Up photography.
There were quite an assortment of images entered and they were ably judged by Toni Pioli. Our judge Toni commented on each image as it was shown and as to what determined his score for that particular image that was being shown.
The competition is in 2 parts, Prints and Projected Digital Images, with all levels of club members competing together in one pot.
In the Print Competition the top mark of 20 points were awarded to 3 photographers, and they were:
"Clematis Seed Head" by Peter Maddock "Hoverfly" by Mike Williamson
" 3 1/4 mm " by Nina Thomasson
In the Projected Digital Image Competition top Maks of 20 points were awarded to 2 photographers;
"A Bee Does a Flower" by Jian Huang "Fuse from the Somme" by Stephen McDonald
| May Themed Print Score Form.pdf | [ ] | 28 kB |
| 2018 May Theme Competition No 2 Macro Results.pdf | [ ] | 71 kB |
| 2018 Leaderboards May .pdf | [ ] | 126 kB |
A photograph taken by one of our members
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Bury Battle March 2018
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NCPS Competition
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AV Comp November 17
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