The 'Oscars' - Trophy Presentation Evening

HPIC recently held its much-awaited ‘Oscars’ presentation evening, awarding prizes to winners of the club's annual competition.

More than 30 members and guests gathered at the Parish Centre, with the evening also streamed online to members both in the UK and overseas, all eagerly waiting to find out who had been successful this year.

As is tradition, we worked through each category, with all shortlisted images being displayed in turn before the winner of each was announced. Our president, Carla Lloyd, handed out the gongs, even collecting one herself this year in the Travel Print category.

In all, trophies were handed out to the winners of 16 different categories across print and digitally projected images. Additional certificates were also awarded for the highest combined score by a single author for a panel of 4 prints and the same for DPI. A full run down of the winners of each category and their images can be seen here.

For the runners-up, certificates were awarded to high scoring images were deemed by our judges to be either Commended or Highly Commended.

Winners present on the night who collected trophies are shown below.

As ever, it was a most enjoyable evening, finished off with wine, nibbles and a chance for members to socialise.

From 6 July to 12 August members of the public are invited to come along and take a look at a wide selection of images that were entered this year. Details of where to find us are shown below.

Workshop - Glenys Garnett - 14/06/23

Back in October, Glenys gave her talk ‘Get creative’ via Zoom – see an earlier page of news. We so enjoyed her thought-provoking talk that we invited her back this time in person to conduct a workshop at our club room.

Her presentation was about being creative using ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) and Multiple Exposure. She explained the techniques and how she used them in her work. Glenys showed lots of examples and provide instruction on using the techniques to best effect. The emphasis was on doing as much as possible in-camera using blend modes and overlay techniques. Many members had brought their cameras so after Glenys’s introduction we spent a good half hour outside the club room and in the churchyard opposite trying out ICM and experimenting with our cameras’ multiple exposure settings in the evening light. It certainly got our creative juices flowing. Thanks again Glenys for getting us to ‘think outside of the box’ and also for referencing your own influences including the ICM ‘king’ Andrew S Gray. The attached image taken from Glenys’s website with her permission gives a flavour of her work.

Judges’ feedback on our Annual Competition entries – April & May 2023

A high point of our club year is the Annual Exhibition which we hold during the summer. A lot of preparation goes into this both from members who enter their work, our four external judges and the committee members who work behind the scenes to organise the competition and put the exhibition together.

Over four weeks in April and May we were pleased to welcome four respected Yorkshire Photographic Union judges to review our entries. Two of them, Richard Hall and Sally Sallett, visited us to give face to face feedback on our prints and two others, Mike Barnard and Jonathan Neale, joined us on Zoom. We’re grateful for all their efforts in going through every image, giving their comments and choosing which ones merited commendation. Those whose work was held back will be looking forward to seeing who will win the 16 trophies this year when we hold our Oscars night on 28th June 2023.