PICTURES: Thurso Camera Club members enjoy success at Highland Challenge competition
Members of Thurso Camera Club have been recognised as being among the best across the Highlands in their photographic field.
During the spring and summer, they exhibited a range of photographic work at two separate venues. The first exhibition in April/May was held at the Art Gallery space in Thurso Library. That was followed by another show at Nucleus: the Nuclear and Caithness Archives in Wick during July and August.
Visitors made some very positive statements in the comments book available at each venue.
The club has now made a very successful start to the autumn/ winter season at the Highland Challenge, in which eight camera clubs from throughout the region participate in this annual event.
Each club takes a turn at hosting the event and this year it was hosted by Dingwall Camera Club on Saturday, September 21.
Each club chooses a selection of their 10 best images to present in a range of up to four categories, such as digital, printed, mono and colour, making 80 entries in all from all the clubs.
The entries at this event are of a very high standard with an experienced external judge giving a critique and scoring each image with up to a maximum of 20 points. The judge this year was Ken Lindsay MPAGB EFIAP.
He gave a presentation in the morning entitled “Making the most of your images”, which was very interesting and informative with lots of tips about editing and improving images.
Success for both participating individuals and their club at this event is much valued. So it was a great achievement against such tough competition that two of the Thurso’s club members won first and third place in the colour digital category.
First place was achieved by Jason Ridgley, who scored a maximum 20 points for his image of Fire Training in the colour digital category. Duncan McLachlan scored 18 points for his image of “Night Bus Lines”, putting him in third place in the colour digital category.
Thurso Camera Club achieved third place overall out the eight clubs participating with a total score of 163, only one point behind Nairn Camera Club in second place with 164. East Sutherland Camera Club won the shield for the most number of points.
The club’s meetings for the autumn/winter season have commenced at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso and are planned for the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
The club organisers describe it as a small but enthusiastic club which always welcomes new members whatever their level of skill. When possible there are presentations from guest speakers or sometimes members visit places of photographic interest.
You do not need expensive cameras or equipment, just an interest in photography, maybe to revisit an old hobby or start new one. Visit the website at https://www.thursocameraclub.co.uk to find out more or visit the public Facebook group, Thurso Camera Club.
