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.
Congratulations to all the annual award winners:
Lisa Edie George Morris Salver – Best print overall
Lisa Edie Shenton Cup – Creative/altered reality
Andrew heaps George Cooley Cup – Landscape/urban
Andrew Heaps John Bardsley Cup – Portrait/theatrical
Andrew Heaps George Bunzl Cup – Open Colour
Peter Highton Courlander Cup – nature
Deborah Highton Dunn Rose Bowl – Monochrome
Wendy Akers Fry Memorial Trophy – Set of 3 related
Mike Woodman Randall Webb Trophy – Street/Documentary
Thankyou to Tony Drummond-Murray for being official photographer for the evening and a very big thankyou to Emma Durnford for organising the whole event.
‘Sunrise at the Pen Ponds‘ – ©Andrew Heaps
Best print overall 2023 Open Print Challenge – the George Morris Salver – and winner of the Shenton Cup for first place in the Creative altered reality category.
Well done Lisa !
‘Two tribes’ – ©Lisa Edie
The RTPS won top club in the open class at the SPA May Interclub Competition.
We are proud to announce that out of 27 Clubs we were number 1. Well done to everyone who took part.
Congratulations to John Phillips for winning a Judges award with his image ‘The Lost Shoe’.
Image ©John Phillips
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 >
