Our annual exhibition took place on Saturday 14th of November at Sheldon Heath Community Arts College.

Our thanks and appreciation to Sheldon Heath Community Arts College for the use of their facilities, the selectors, entrants and everyone who made it such a great success.

Comments from our Selectors -

Panels:

"I would like to begin with my congratulations to the winners in the Open Panel section. This was very hard to judge and not being able to accept every entry, as the standard of work and variety of subject matter made it difficult to eliminate any of the work, but this is what I had to do, so sorry if you were not accepted.

For me the winner stood out because it portrayed not only the subject matter but the author had put a great deal of work into the images and the end result was pleasing and suited the buildings. My personal ribbon choice was because again the author had portrayed the work in a very imaginative manner."

Ralph Duckett MPAGB AFIAP APAGB

General Sections of Prints, Slides and Projected Digital Images:

"The selectors thank Yardley Photographic Society for their generous hospitality and efficient organisation. We particularly enjoyed the prints with some excellent work among the award winners.

In the digital section, some images, we felt, were over sharpened. Overall there was a good variety of subjects and generally authors are to be congratulated on the technical quality of their images.

Well done to those who had work accepted, and to the authors who were not successful this year do try again.

We thought the venue was great, with good facilities on the day, and will be an excellent venue for viewing the accepted work"

David Gibbins ARPS APAGB AFIAP, Sue Moore FRPS MPAGB, Ann Miles FRPS MPAGB AFIAP

Nature Prints and Nature Projected Images:

"This year brought another excellent entry, with an extremely high standard of Prints and DPI images, evidence that Yardley PS Nature Section is alive and well and continues to flourish.

I had a most enjoyable afternoon choosing this year's exhibition. The organisation was excellent, the selection process ran extremely smoothly thanks in the main to the patience of the projectionists, and the friendly welcome shown to me by the committee was superb.

I enjoyed seeing quite a wide variety of subject matter, with many traditional pictures interspersed with a good selection of work in the modern idiom. The overall standard of the work submitted was very high, which were varied in both style and treatment. It was also evident throughout the judging, that the authors had given a lot of thought to ensuring that they achieved good composition, excellent lighting with a balanced exposure, which helped them to convey their theme.

The selected prints and PDI images were of such high quality to form an excellent exhibition of a diverse number of varying subjects and subject approach, all keeping within the concept of showing natural history subject matter in order to tell their own individual story.

Because of the very high standard this year many excellent prints and DPI images narrowly missed acceptance. In fact the near miss entries could have made a second exhibition of a very high quality in their own right.

All the award winners were outstanding, and congratulations are due to all who had work chosen for this exhibition. If you didn’t manage to catch the 'Selector's Eye' this year, don’t be too disappointed, the standard was really high, and of course there is always next year."

Dr David Moore EFIAP MPAGB BPE 5*

Yardley Club Members Section:

"The Yardley members sections were a pleasure to judge and again it seemed a pity that there was not enough room to accept them all. The winners were well worthy of the results but it was a difficult choice because the standard in the all sections was high. I would like to thank Yardley for their hospitality on the judging day, for an excellent lunch and efficient working manner on the day by its members."

Ralph Duckett MPAGB AFIAP APAGB & Lucia Duckett

Click Here for a PDF version of the 2009 exhibition catalogue (2.1Mb).

If you have any enquiries regarding the exhibition please contact our Exhibitions Secretary via the following email link: exhibition@yardleyps.co.uk or telephone Mary Jenkins on (0121) 628 6105.