Images of the 1970 IOW Pop Festival by Chris Weston

Congratulations Chris on your book launch and upcoming exhibitions

The framed prints look fantastic, I particularly like the over the shoulder shot of Donovan on stage - I might even be tempted!

From Friday 5th June to Monday 22nd June, the exhibition can be seen at The New Rembrandt Gallery, 15 Scarrots Lane, Newport. Further dates and venues will be announced later.

 The images will be available to purchase, as will The Last Great Event, a limited edition book, individually numbered and signed by Chris.

Thanks you all for such a good showing at our  first AGM on Wednesday.   In all the excitement we forgot one very important item - we didn't  formally thank our outgoing Chair.  We all know how tirelessly Christopher worked for Wight Balance from day one,  giving much of his time and expertise to get us up and running. Thanks so much from us all.

I am looking forward to the year ahead, with Wight Balance continuing to grow and be a club we are all proud of.  Thank you for giving me this great opportunity.  I'll do my best to make this year a fantastic one for us all.

Anne

A highly successful evening! 

The Hasselblad Interclub Trophy competition was held at Arreton Community Centre on the 28th February 2009, hosted by the Isle of Wight Photographic & Digital Society.

Three clubs took part, the hosts, Sandown, Shanklin & District Camera Club and Wightbalance Photography Plus.

Each club submitted ten projected images which were judged by Barry Day, visiting from Portsmouth.

A total of ten images were held over for further judging, six of which were our images.

The final result was: 3rd place for the host club, 2nd place for Sandown, Shanklin & District Camera Club and 1st place to Wightbalance Photography Plus.

There were 3 top marked images, 2 from Wightbalance and 1 from Sandown, Shanklin & District. 

Following the presentation of the trophy, Barry Day rounded off the evening with an excellent slideshow of a selection of his own images.

Our thanks to our hosts for providing a very entertaining evening - and we are proud to hold our very first Trophy!

Well done to our contributing members!

Six clubs took part in this year's Jessops Cup competition held at The Buddle Inn and judged by Nick Henry.  Niton and District Camera Club hosted a very enjoyable evening. 

Wightbalance members will be pleased to know the club took second place after Sandown.

A total of 9 images were shortlisted for final judging of which 3 were from Wightbalance:  Desirocco (Alan Marsh) 8.5 points, Soxy Lady (Chris Weston) 9.5 points and Poppy (Anne Lovelock) 10 points.  

Results and scores are as follows:

1)  Sandown & Shanklin  84 points

2)  Wightbalance 78.5 points

3)  IWDIG  78 points

4)  Niton & District  75.5 points

5)  Focus - Ryde Imaging  74 points

6)  Isle of Wight Photographic  73.5 points

 Well done everyone, we can be justifiably proud of our achievements in the last few weeks.

 We must give particular thanks to Denise and Sue for supporting us at the event and to Brian for his tireless work in organising our entries.