Merry Christmas to Everyone.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas........ 

From Ron and I..... Merry Christmas.....

 

Christmas Party.

I am sure everyone will agree we had a lovely time at Jim and Norma's last night. Thank you to both of you for all your work. Also a big thank you to Mandy for the delicious deserts that she made.

I have added the scores to Portraits in the post below.

The final scores for the year are....

B Grade... 
Mick... 66   4 golds.
Jim......6

Novice....

Helen............ 73    6 Golds    First place
Mandy...........56     2 Golds    Runner Up.         Most Improved.
Francis..........49      1 Gold
Ron.............. 48      2 Golds
Vi..................47     4 Golds
Catherine..... 43      1 Gold
Cath............. 43      3 Golds 
Noeleen....... 37 
Norma..........16
Deb...............13
Vikki.............5

Ron got Photo of the year...... 
Congratulations you wonderful photographer... He made me say that...LOL

 Helen and Vi will go up into B Grade next year.

Once again   Thank you to all the club members who have entered photos during the year. 
Huge thank you to all of our judges.

Our last Judge Fran Cross has judged us a few times now and cannot get over how we are improving... so we just have to keep doing what we are doing and we will get better.

I will take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

See you all again in 2016....... Our first competition is.....

Life wasn't meant to be easy....
A picture of a person or people under undue physical stress or in a state of mental perplexity. The situation may be serious or humorous.  

Good luck with it...... you will have to put your thinking caps on.....

Portraits... Last competition for the year.

Hasn't the year gone by fast..????? Here we are at the last competition for the year... Portraits. I am sure you will all agree we had a fun time getting our portrait shots. I know I did. I did some using a backdrop and the full light set up. Then I also took some using a backdrop and a flash. I was happy with how my two shoots went.

Here are the photos for Portraits..

B.......

1.1 

Indiana  Silver

 1.2

A snake for a necklace.  Merit

Novice

1.1 Silver

 1.2  Silver

2.1

Aunty and Nephew.  Gold

 2.2

Engaged.  Merit

3.1  Silver

 3.2  Merit

4.1

Miss Gablet  Silver

 4.2

The Middle Child.  Silver

5.1

Friends Forever   Merit

 5.2

Look What I've Got.    Silver

6.1

What Cake??   Merit

6.2

The Fisherman  Gold

7.1   Merit

 7.2  Gold 
Photo of the night.

8.1   Merit

 8.2   Silver

9.1    Merit

 9.2   Merit

10.1 

Annie.     Acceptance

 10.2

Lazy Annie.   Merit

Thank you to everyone for putting photos in during the year. It doesn't take an expert to see how much we have improved and that is the whole idea of going into the competition each month. To learn and improve.

See you all at the meeting on Wednesday night and then on Saturday at the Christmas Break-Up.

Photo of the year.....

Here are the photos that will be judged for photo of the year. These are all the photos that won photo of the night in each month's competition. Of course one more is top added, from our portraits theme for this month.

Machinery at Work.

How I see Myself.

Flat Out.

World of Colour.

It's a Small World.

Fire Smoke Steam.

A Piece of History.

Troubled Waters.

 Peace and Tranquility.

Things of the Night.                       

 Portraits

2015 is almost over...

Where has this year gone????? Monday 30th November will be our last club meeting for 2015. Portraits is the theme for this month. I am sure after our photo shoot we had in the hall on the Saturday, there will be lots of really good shots. I know I was very happy with mine.

Our Christmas break up is on 5th December at Jim and Norma's place. We will be announcing the winners for the year. Most points, most improved... oh and Photo of the year.

Don't forget to bring along your secret Santa swap pressie.

See you there..... 

 

Things of the night.

Here we have our next lot of competition photos.
Things of the Night......

B Grade           

1.1

Should I make the call.  BRONZE

 1.2

Telephone Lines.  SILVER

Novice Grade.

1.1 MERIT

 1.2 MERIT

 2.1

Camera under Lights BRONZE

 2.2

Gatton Cultural Centre. SILVER

3.1 ACCEPTANCE

 3.2

Freehand Laser Light Drawing. ACCEPTANCE

4.1 

Highway Night Lights. MERIT

 4.2

Night Falls. ACCEPTANCE

5.1

All Lit Up.  SILVER

 5.2

Christmas Time. GOLD

6.1 MERIT

 6.2 ACCEPTANCE

 7.1

Gatton Late Night Shopping . MERIT

 7.2

Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre.  ACCEPTANCE

8.1

Hay Bailing  ACCEPTANCE

 8.2

Range by Night. ACCEPTANCE

I am sure everyone agrees we have had some testing subjects this year. Next month's competition is Portraits. We will have a Portrait shoot in the Hall where we have our meetings. Shoot is on November 14th. Starts at 10 am.

Have fun....