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Ramsbottom Exhibition

Bury Photographic Society exhibited members prints in May as part of the first Bury and Ramsbottom Arts Week. Work in the 130 photographs at the Grant Arms in Ramsbottom included some of the prints from the club's 2010 annual exhibition in Bury Art Gallery and some from members collections. The exhibition raised more than £100 for Bury Hospice. All the best Martin Henfield

Annual Exhibition Print Results

Pike Fold Golf Club

Bury BPS members Jean Neville, Eb Swarbrick and Martin Henfield line up with members of Pike Fold Golf Club for the official hand over of the photographs that will hang in the Pike Fold Clubhouse.

Just One Click In It: Bury defeat Bolton by one point in a memorable print and digital image battle.

After a trouncing by Bury in the previous contest, Bolton put up their very best photographs and what a night it turned out to be. Judge Tillman Kleinhans told members of both clubs that he was not only very impressed by the high standard of all entries but that it was very hard to separate the top entries from either side.

The subject of horse driving trials has done very well for Bury's James Hargreaves and he picked up a maximum 20 marks for his "Water Splash"- an pin sharp action shot with dramatic expressions on the faces of the riders and straining muscles standing out on the flanks of the horses. But Nigel Howard of Bolton was not to be outdone. His "Puffins Squabbling Over a Sand Eel" was also awarded a maximum 20. An angry confrontation between two puffins, so angry that they dropped the eel while other puffins arrived to see what they could pick up..

Bury's Eb Swarbrick's had the audience chortling with his "In A Previous Life"....a photograph reworked into a cartoon image of a drooping tulip in a vase looking sadly at a framed picture of a colourful and blooming tulip.George Steel's "Gannets In Flight was a terrific composition of two huge birds flying below him and Dave Wilkinson again vividly captured Superbike action at Oulton Park.

Bolton fought back with a moodly skyline of Ilkley Moor and a delightfully happy shot of young girls in an Indian slum district but it was not enough. Bury won 180 points to 179 and Bolton promise the return will be a tough one.

(by: Martin Henfield)

(Andrew Kirby) Closed for business	(Barrie Kelly) Skeleton tree Namib Desert
(David Crabtree) Beech Margins	(David Wilkinson) Taking the bend
(David Lyle) Mallard in flight	(Eb Swarbrick) In a previous life
(Jame Hargreaves) The water splash	(Frank Findlow) The blue boat
(George Steele) Gannets in flight	(Keith Hughes) John