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were found on the sea wall, one containing rabbit
fur and another consisting of mainly beetle remains.
Our thanks to Mr Parker, Mr Boniface and Mr
Tollfree for assisting with the transport arrangements
and those that offered lifts to members.
Ron Allen.
Wildlife Colour Slide Competition Friday 28th Feb.1975.
One of our most successful indoor meetings for
some time. Some 60 or more people watched a continuous
showing of wildlife slides for nearly 21/2 hours.
Some 200 slides were entered by both members and
visitors. The overall standard was very high making
judging at the rate of a slide a minute very difficult.
Our judges however seemed well able to cope and we
were pleased to welcome Mr Bates of the Photographic
Department of the County Education Department to judge
technical quality (in relation to the type of camera
used). John Fielding of the Essex Naturalists' Trust
assessed the slides on their natural history content.
The range of equipment used varied from a Kodak Insta-
matic through Single Lens Reflex Cameras to several
slides of earthworms taken using a scanning electron
microscope. Two slides were selected as overal best,
one of a seed head on technical merit and one of
a horse fly on natural history interest. The horsefly
was photographed while feeding and was partly selected
because it was one of the few slides which showed an
animal actually doing something. As it happened both
the winning slides were taken by the same person, our
member and Editor David Corke, the prize of 35mm film
was awarded by the Club President, Micheal Parker who
first thanked our judges for an excellant job. David
Corke in his reply explained that the horsefly was feed-
ing at the time on his own knee and that the blood seen
on the slide was his own!
Ron Allen.