'What an excellent surprise we had last night.  I think everybody agreed that it was a great start to the year thanks to everyone who contributed and made it so enjoyable.  For those that couldn’t make it the evening went as follows.  Irene Hupman started the evening with an AV showing past CPC evenings and outings set to guitar music.  Next up was Christine Stafford with another AV his time featuring the local floods and a foggy walk which was also set to music this time with a more folky flavour.  Colin Bloor really excelled himself with a most interesting talk about stone age remains a lot of them on Scottish Islands, which is worthy of a full evening presentation in the future.  The first half was finished off in style with a series of photos taken by Len Halifax,  many of them taken with his recently acquired macro lens.  After a short break Malcolm Hupman gave us an AV set to classical music of some local landscape ideas.  Andrei Van der Walt excelled himself with a series of before and after images.  The before images were good but we were completely blown away by what Andrei had been able to do with them.  Next up was what must have been a surprise to most people by Paul Matthews who showed us some 40 year old footage of when he was a professional wrestler.  The evening was concluded by Ray Kilham with some excellent wildlife photography which included his LRPS Panel and all set to music. All the timings worked out perfectly with just time for a 10 minute break and the evening concluded just before 10pm.
 

16th December 2020 Monthly Competition - Subject 'Water or Wet'
judged by David Kissmann BPE1*

Congratulations to Christine Stafford for first place
1st Christine - 'Playtime' 20 points
2nd Colin Bloor - 'Water Fun'  19 points
3rd Malcolm Hupman  - 'The Golden Pond' 19 points

Full results on the website members' page thanks to Andrei.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening with some spectacular images taken in Iceland, an excellent presentation, we will all want to book a trip there as soon as we can travel again. Trevor has very kindly agreed to a return visit with us on 3rd March to give us 'Trevor's People'. Another one not to be missed.

Congratulations and well done to the winners of our monthly 'Open' Competition this evening.
1st Christine Stafford - 'Achnambithach Cottage'
2nd Ray Killham - 'Angel of the North'
3rd Fred Parker - 'China Meal'
Full results on the website members' page thanks to Andrei.

Our warmest thanks to Dave Stewart for judging.

This evening we have our Monthly Competition. The subject is 'Open' and the judge is David Stewart LBPPA. Our competitions are all via zoom at this time so are digital images only. Please email the club if you would like to be invited to the zoom meeting.
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David’s website is www.davestewartphotography.co.uk

Tonight we look forward to welcoming our friend Derek Buckett for what we are sure will be an enjoyable and informative evening. All our events are currently via zoom, so you can enjoy from the comfort and safety of your sofa! We have a short interval too so you can put the kettle on (or top your glass up).

CPC now has a facebook page to it's name. A warm welcome to all those who have joined us. And now with this new blog we can look forward to sharing our news and views on everything photography.