Huge round of applause for Jocelyn Horsfall who received no less than 5 awards at the recent International Garden Photographer of The Year Competition
3rd Place Dappled Dreams Captured at Kew
Finalist Fire and rain Abstract Views
Finalist Leaf artistry Captured at Kew
Highly Commended Textural Foliage Captured at Kew
Commended Cool Fairy -tale Foliage captured at Kew
Dappled Dreams, Fire and rain and Leaf artistry are all currently on display at Kew.
Winners have been announced for this year’s International Garden Photographer of the Year competition and RTPS member Jocelyn Horsfall is once more on the roll call of honours.
Jocelyn, https://www.jocelynhorsfall.com/ a fine art photographer, was a Finalist in the Captured at Kew category with her image Magnolia Whispers and received a Highly Commended with Glasshouse Window Leaf Patterns.
Jocelyn also received a Highly Commended for her Rye Salt Marsh image in the Abstract Views category. Many congratulations Jocelyn. 
The IGPOTY competition celebrates the genres of garden, plant, flower and botanical photography and is run in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The competition attracts up to 20,000 individual entries submitted from photographers all over the world. You can see all the winning images at https://igpoty.com/garden-photography-winners/and the outdoor exhibition is at Kew Gardens until 5th March.
Jocelyn will be giving a demonstration at our annual photography exhibition at the Landmark Arts Centre on 8 April showing how you can create startling designs and patterns using the cyanotype printing process (or sun printing as it is often known). The charge is £5 but this then gives you free entry to the exhibition. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/487995727357
Two RTPS members, Dick Hawkes and Wendy Akers have been recognised in the International Garden Photographer of the Year, the world’s premier competition specialising in garden, plant, flower and botanical photography.
Dick won the National Trust Riverlands category with his beautiful image ‘Grey Wagtail Capturing Insects.’ Dick said: “Several times I came to stand, watching, fascinated by the skill of the grey wagtail catching insects in mid-flight at a hatchpool on the River Avon in Woodford Valley, Wiltshire. The recently cut weed was a haven for a variety of insects. It took several trips to capture this exact moment, showing insect in beak combined with swirling water in the background.”
Dick’s image of some old eel traps also secured third place – a remarkable achievement in a competition which is so hotly contested. “The old eel traps preserved on the River Test at Leckford are of historic significance, as they illustrate how the once prolific migration of eels was harvested – providing an important contribution to the local economy. The eel traps are visible from a public road bridge from where this photograph was taken; a polarising filter was essential, to reduce glare and show the lush green of the plant life,” explained Dick.
Wendy achieved a Highly Commended in the Still Life category for her image ‘Cabbage & Pears.’
It was great to be back at the club on Thursday evening after the summer break and wonderful to see such a big crowd to welcome our guest speaker Mike Curry, whose talk “Fleeting Reflections,” is likely to see many of us heading off to Canary Wharf to see if we can emulate some of his watery magic.
It was also an opportunity for President Lorraine Clifton to present competition trophies to members who were not able to attend the Summer Social awards ceremony.
John Phillips came suitably armed with an ‘elephant’ sized carrier bag to take away his horde of trophies: the Dunn Rose Bowl for Pictorial Monochrome, John Morris Salver for Best Print in any Class, John Bardsley Cup for Portrait/Theatrical/Figure Study/Dance; Randell Webb Trophy for Documentary/Candid/Street plus a number of certificates.
Nick Tsinonis was presented with the Reynolds Trophy for Nature while certificates went to Diana Loch, Colin Clarke and Phil Mundy. Well done everybody. 
It was good to be back at the Fulwell Golf Club last Thursday for our Summer Awards Dinner. Good food, great conversation and lots of well deserved competition winners. Many thanks to Eddie Hyde for coming along to present all the trophies and certificates, to Emma Durnford for organising such a great event and to Robert Charnock for officiating. Congratulations to all.
The Open Evenings of our Annual Exhibition are always rather special but last night was particularly so given our forced two year absence. It was good to be back in the magnificent setting of the Landmark Arts Centre last night which was a wonderful backdrop for our images which spanned so many different genres.Read More >
The club’s Infra Red Special Interest Group has just returned from a wonderful weekend away photographing the surreal promontory of shingle, Dungeness, which sits in the shadow of two nuclear plants on a headland on the south part of Romney Marsh.
The skeletons of old boats piercing the horizon, graffitied abandoned huts, the world’s smallest public railway, wartime acoustic mirrors and two lighthouses all proved great subject matter as did the nearby town of Rye where many of us stayed and the beautiful petite 12th century Fairfield Church.
Many thanks to the group’s leader Susi Petherick for organising.
Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9NN
14-24 April 2022 (including weekends & Bank holidays)
Daily: 10am – 5pm
Admission £2.50 (Children free)
If you are interested in finding out more about the club and our work, then come along to our Annual Exhibition which will be returning to the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington, from 14 to 24 April 2022. Once again the RPS’s Visual Art Group will be joining the event with a display of its 2022 Print Exhibition.
There will be hundreds of images on display with a range of genres and creative techniques from a society which is one of the oldest and largest in the country. Images from pupils at St. Catherine’s School for Girls in Twickenham will also be on show.
Most of the prints will be available to buy, with a selection of greetings cards and second hand photographic books and equipment and tea and coffee will be available in the Landmark café where visitors can watch an additional display of digital images.
The Society has around 100 members from beginners to professionals. Some members will be displaying panels of images which recently gained them distinctions from the RPS and PAGB and there will also be displays from the club’s Special Interest Groups including Post Processing, Infra red, Nature, Monochrome, Pictorial, Studio and Creative Eyes.
The club meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. at St. Luke’s Kew Community Centre, the Avenue, Kew, TW9 2AJ plus mid week meetings for the special interest groups. There is a two month summer break in July and August. www.rtps.org.uk. New members are warmly welcomed.
Congratulations to three RTPS members, Jocelyn Horsfall, our president Lorraine Clifton and Dick Hawkes for being on the roll call of honours in the prestigious International Garden Photographer of the Year competition (IGPOTY).
All three succeeded in the ‘Captured at Kew’ special awards category; Jocelyn took 1st place with her beautiful ‘Glasshouse Window Leaf Patterns’ image; Dick gained two finalist places with ‘Sweet Chestnut’ and ‘Japanese Festival in the Temperate House’ and Lorraine achieved a Highly Commended for her infrared ‘Princess of Wales Conservatory.’
Many congratulations to Mike Woodman who won the George Morris Salver for the Overall Best Print in the club’s Open Print Challenge, which took place last Thursday (11 November). Well done Mike.
