Photography

Photography Competition 2008

Nick Milligan

The 2008 FORK photography competition was a definite success, with entrants making the most of the recent weather and sending in some excellent photos. We had a lot of photographs to go through. many of them very high quality and many from very young photographers, making the high standard even more impressive. The winners are as follows:

Under 16:

Wild Kelvin and Overall Winner – Stephen Marshall
Architecture and the Kelvin – Liam Cooper
People and the Kelvin – Katrina Terry
Highly Commended – Morgan Mcbain

Over 16:

Wild Kelvin – Lucy Reynolds
Highly Commended – Garry Milligan

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the entrants. The competition was not at all easy to judge. Many thanks to Jimmie Macgregor for this hard task. The winning photographs and many others were on display at the Gala. Thanks also to Stravaigin, Peckhams, Offshore, Firebird, and Papyrus for their generous prizes and support of the event. We are hoping to produce a calendar featuring the winning entries; more news of that to follow. We hope you’ll enter next year!

FORK Photography Competition Report 2007

Nicholas Milligan

The first-ever FORK photography competition was very successful, with a very high standard of talent in all the entries. The competition was judged at the Gala and the winners were as follows:

Architecture – David Barry
Wild Kelvin – Tim Dyer
People and the Kelvin – Stephen Moore
Under 16s – Thomas Crowe

Certificate of Special Commendation – Clare McDowell
Certificate of Overall Commendation – Thomas Crowe

Friends of the River Kelvin would also like to thank Stravaigin Restaurant, Papyrus, Timorous Beasties, the Glasgow Camcorder Centre, and Firebird Restaurant for kind donation of the prizes. (Thanks also to Dernijohn, Grassroots, Willow Trading and Oned World for generous support of the Gala.) Congratuations go to all entereants, who each exhibited a great deal of talent and I hope you will all enter next year. Many thanks to Sally Johnston, who did a huge amount of work to make the competition a success.

Update

In spring 2008, Friends of the River Kelvin was granted use of the communities’ exhibition space at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the country’s most visited museum, with 14 million people through its doors every year. The exhibition put across messages about the environmental impact or rubbish left by the Kelvin – and of non-soluble things flushed down the toilet, which can find their way into the river at times of heavy rainfall. It displayed the winning photos from the 2007 photography competition, and textile designs inspired by the Kelvin by Cardonald College students. Poems and artwork about the river by Mandy Haggith were on display.

You can see a selection of photographs from the competition below.