Left Bingham at 7.15pm, how much stuff do 3 photographers need? Car is rammed with camera bags, wellie’s, waders, boots, tripods, and clothes, destination; Car Park, Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland (up north). Sat Nav predicting 520 miles and arrival time of 3am! Wow, that’s a journey and a half. Scott driving (as always-bless him) off we went. Stopped en route for a drink, toilet break and bite (and fuel for the beast)
I was fortunate (?) enough to be chosen to judge the above annual event. All club members from our federation (N&EMPF) are invited to enter, sadly only 15 individuals put work forward, quite a low number but the quantity of images is then ‘topped-up’ from Rushcliffe PS members.
It is with great pleasure to report another record breaking achievement at the Outlaws. 37 clubs entered this years exhibition with a total of over 3000 images across all sections.
The Outlaws finished in 7th place overall, an outstanding result for what is essentially still a small club.
Each year (well this is the 3rd) we have a friendly (?) battle with Melbourne PS, we have won the first 2 encounters, the last one being by just one point, even after several recounts!
This year they promised to avenge that narrow defeat……………………………
One of Scott’s dramatic flowerscape images – Rojo – was “commended” by judges in this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year competition and won a place in the Awards book – Landscape Photographer of the Year : Collection 6 – which is published on October 31st.
The image has also been chosen for the Awards postcard pack that is produced to highlight the profile of the competition & photographers and will appear at the National Theatre exhibition which runs from November to January. The Sunday Times Magazine also pulled out Rojo in its exclusive ‘editor’s pick’ of the finalists.
So another year and another trip ends with a degree of sadness. After all that “looking forwards to it”, it is over.
A great trip as always although not a very inspiring location, most participants took to the Lake District or the North York moors for photo inspiration, so in all the location was reasonably central.
This months theme of ‘Self Portrait’ inspired only a handful of entrants. It was interesting to see though that those of you that did bother came up with some very clever ideas. Michal (Tekel) with a self portrait without any human in it at all, Lesters scary half and half, Steve (Giles) pondering his fate over a cup of coffee and Rick’s studio set up all showed some creative flair, for me though Sue’s (Jackson) portrait of her face ‘being painted’ worked really well and was my winner.
Many thanks for all those that entered.
We always like to celebrate fellow Outlaws achievements, whether they be within the club or elsewhere. Recently two of our members have had great success in their external photographic endeavours.
As part of our 25 year celebrations Nottingham Outlaws have launched our latest photographic exhibition at Nottingham Castle in the Nottingham Life section of the Castle.
