Photosub Splash-in 2013

Posted on 13/08/2013 by

A total of 23 people attended the BBQ last night, including the hosts, Godrey and Judith, and the guests of honour Dave and Gill Hughes. It was an excellent evening in the spacious garden with the weather keeping fine for us.

Dave Hughes is a member of Godalming Photographic Club and has a LRPS distinction with the RPS. He has had a number of successes with the Surrey Photographic Association and the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain as well as winning images in the Godalming Photographic Club. He was sent the 15 entries which were just numbered and a brief description but no authors and judged them in advance. All of the images (entries by Alex Tattersall, Keith Lyall, Len Deeley, Rob Robertson, Gill Marsh, Bob Soames) were all projected later in the evening and the results announced. They were as follows:

Highly Commended
Keith Lyall with image of a hermit crab taken at Selsey
Keith Lyall with image of nudibranch taken at Selsey
Len Deeley with close up of Tubularia Indivisa head taken on James Egan Layne

3rd place
Bob Soames with image of plumose anemone taken out of Plymouth

2nd Place
Len Deeley with image of white striped anemone taken on James Egan Layne

1st Place
Len Deeley with image of diver and plumose anemones on Scylla wreck (with heavy plankton bloom).

Dave Hughes gave briefly his reason for his selections. Prize money was £50 to the winner.

Hopefully we will see a greater number of entries next year. At the next meeting we can discuss the timing of the splash in for 2014. My view is that we should move it to later in the season, maybe mid to late July.

Here are the images

: Winner – Len Deeley

: 2nd – Len Deeley

: 3rd – Bob Soames

: Highly Commended – Len Deeley

: Highly Commended – Keith Lyall

: Highly Commended – Keith Lyall

Photosub Annual competition 2012

Posted on 12/03/2013 by

Guest of honour: Martin Edge

There was a good turnout of 37 members and guests for our 2013 Annual dinner, held on 2 March at the Farnham House Hotel. Our guest of honour Martin Edge judged the images. A special thanks to Martin for all of his efforts in making his selection and all those who took part in the competitions.

Results:

Blue Water

1. Wendy Eve

2. Adrian Haines

3. Adrian Haines

Blue Water Advanced

1. Bob Soames

2. Martyn Guess

3. Ken Sullivan

Green Water

1. Rob Robertson

2. Artian Haines

3. Adrtian Haines

Green Water Advanced

1. Keith Lyall

2. Ken Sullivan

3. Bob Soames

Congratulations to the winners and also to JP Trenque and Bert Lee for their efforts in preparing the competition and organising the print stands respectively. Finally a thanks to Hon. Chairman, Keith Lyall for his efforts on the evening.

I hope everyone enjoyed the event. Next year’s dinner is booked for 1 March 2014 at the Farnham House Hotel.

Len.

Photosub AGM – 2013

Posted on 27/01/2013 by

We had 17 people attend the meeting yesterday, which included the AGM and was followed by some excellent food (no surprise there) and presentations of images from Jo, Keith, Joss, Ken, Bert, and myself.

Our thanks once again to Joss for hosting such an enjoyable evening.

The minutes of the AGM can be found here. These also give some information on some dive trips already planned for 2013.

Len

Congratulations Wendy Eve, ARPS

Posted on 16/12/2012 by keith

Congratulations to Wendy Eve who submitted a portfolio of underwater shots to the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and has been awarded ARPS (Associateship). Her portfolio can be seen at Wendy Eve Facebook

Photosub Digital Images Competition 2012

Posted on 04/12/2012 by

This year’s competition was judged by Arthur Kingdon who could not attend on the evening of the presentation but submitted very helpful feed-back for a large number of images.

This year’s winner was Keith Lyall with an image of a peppered moray.

The winners can be seen below.

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Photosub Splash-in 2012

Posted on 19/08/2012 by

About 30 people attended the BBQ on 18 August and our thanks go out to Jo and Keith for an excellent evening with excellent food, the evening made even more enjoyable
because of the perfect weather.

During the evening our honoured guests, Veronica and Alan Barrett, judged the
Photosub Splash-in images. Veronica and Alan are both excellent photographers and
there work can be seen on their web pages:
Veronica = www.vabphotos.com (still under construction) and
www.crystal-lightphotography.co.uk, where you will see among other things her ARPS
and FRPS distinction panels. Alan = www.alanbarrettimages.com .

This year we had a disappointing number of members entering (4 with a total of 11
images), maybe due to the generally bad weather leading up to the Splash-in weekend.
As you probably know in the event the weather on that weekend was excellent, so
hopefully the faint-hearted will participate next year and increase the numbers
entering. The Splash-in is the only Photosub competition where prizes are given in
addition to trophies.

And the results;

In first place was George Mitchell with a profile portrait of a male cuckoo wrasse.
George wins a £25 voucher for Oxygene in Cranleigh as well as holding the Photosub Splash-in trophy for one year, and a glass shield.
In second place was Len Deeley with a group of jewel anemones. Len wins a Beaver automatic safety light.
In third place was Chris McTernan with a diver on the Glen Strathallan wreck. Chris
wins a Lionfish self build model.

Here are the three winning images.

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The next meeting will be on 24th November which will also include the results of the
Photosub Digital Image Competition. We will be in touch with you nearer the time to plan your entries. The venue is likely to be Little Culmer, Wormley. However, building work is
underway so we will let you know if that changes.

I hope everybody who attended enjoyed the BBQ evening and our thanks once again to
Jo, Keith, Veronica and Alan.

PHOTOSUB BBQ AND SPLASH IN RESULTS

Posted on 20/06/2012 by len

Reminder that the Photosub bbq is at Keith and Jo’s place on 18th August. Also the selection of the Splash in winners by two highly respected photographers from Alan and Veronica Barrett . Arrangement will be as usual, small fee for the meal (£6) and bring your own beverage. Usual people bring sweets if you are able. I will email also.

For those entering the SPLASH IN send your images to me (not JP) . They should be 1400 x 1050 pix and you can enter upto 3. There does not look like being many people entering so if you have images put them in as higher chance of walking away with a prize.

Photosub Annual Dinner

Posted on 24/05/2012 by

Please note that the Farnham House Hotel has been booked for our next annual dinner which will take place on 2 march 2013.

Feel free to contact them to book a room if you want to staty the night and make sure you tell them it’s for the Photosub dinner.

More details to come.

Photosub Splash-In

Posted on 14/05/2012 by len

Well I hope many of you managed to get into the water last weekend and got some images for the Splash in competition in August. I had 9 divers on my charter in Plymouth but only 4 were Photosub members. The conditions were the best I have seen for many a year. Calm both days and on Sunday we were at Eddistone Light which was flat calm. Excellent visibility too. You will be notified where to send the images in due course for the competition. Rules as apply on the website. In the meantime it would be useful to know how many people will be entering. Drop me an email and let me know.

Rgds

Len

ps do not forget to contact me re the meeting on 26 May and place your food order.

Photosub Splash-in this weekend

Posted on 09/05/2012 by

Reminder that the Photosub Splash in dive weekend is this weekend.

You can dive anywhere from Southend to Lands End (south coast) and the judging will be on 18th August at the BBQ.

Please remember to set your camera date and time and we reserve the right to ask to see the raw images. There will be prizes for this competition and the weather is looking good. So good diving. (see full rules).