There's been some discussion of this in AP too.
I think it's down to two factors: Lack of imagination among the members, and
that deceased members families think it's a good idea to donate a trophy in
remembrance.
I used to be a member of Lincoln Camera Club in the late '70s- early '80c,
which had lots of competitions, but it also had two activities which appealed
much more to me.
First they had what was called the Project Group. We would organise a team of
photographers to produce a set of photographs of a local group. We photographed
a local amateur theatre group production of "Guys and Dolls", the local folk
dancers, a group renovating a local beauty spot. We gave them a free set of
pictures for their own use, with the only condition that they credit the LCC.
So we had interesting things to photograph and they had some publicity pics.
The other thing we had was "Photographer of the Month". We said aside a large
section of one wall of the club house, and each month a photographer put up
their own work. It worked a lot like our Olympus Gallery. In fact some of my
images on the site were in my display back then.
Both these ideas are a lot of fun, very satisfying to do, and non-competitive.
Chris Barrett
Malvern
Sam Shiell wrote:
Well golly-gosh, I got a letter to a magazine printed, and got to be =
the Editor's choice no less. First time in the 50-odd years I've been on =
this planet someone's thought something I had to say was worth paying =
any attention to.=20
(If you're interested, the July edition of UK publication Photography =
Monthly - I'm just bemoaning the fact that you can't find a camera club =
that isn't tied up with competitions all the time, instead of just =
enjoying taking pics and sharing them).
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