Calendar & cards:

As well as 13 photos chosen for the 2013 calendar, we will run a competition for the Great Bardfield Greeting Cards.

Top three will be used. Just enter the overall competition and visitors will vote, if entries are appropriate.

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Over the weekend of 17 and 18 September 2011, 113 visitors enjoyed the third annual photographic competition/exhibition. It was the biggest exhibition yet with over a hundred entries from 24 different photographers, competing for places in the 2012 Bardfield calendar and for selection as one of three greeting cards, all in support of the new pavilion.

We also asked visitors whether they wanted us to expand the area from which photos could be sourced and the clear winner was to increase the area to ‘the Bardfields’. This will make finding new images easier for photographers while giving the competition, exhibition and calendar wider appeal.

Once the competition was complete we had to make some difficult decisions which meant that not all the top twelve got into the calendar. This was because as far as possible we have to match photos to the months and after last winter, inevitably we had four snow scenes voted into the top twelve.

Top six positions were as follows:

1. Chris Goddard Morris men outside the Vine

2. Darren Hockley Snow in Brook Street

3. David Yates Boy in Cornfield

4. Lynda Sebbage Shop

5. Doug Joyce Nest at Museum

6. Chris Goddard Frozen Mill Pond

The photos receiving the highest votes as greeting cards were:

1. Chris Goddard Frozen Mill Pond

2. Darren Hockley Snow in Brook Street

3. Chris Morrell Mill with Christmas lights

The fourth Bardfield calendar, (there wasn’t a competition in the first year), should be available to buy in local shops from mid November which leaves plenty of time to send them to friends and families for Christmas. We will again produce three greeting cards which should reach the shops at the same time. This year we hope to make mixed packs available since so many people asked for them last year. We can’t get them from the supplier mixed so we will have to have an evening carefully opening packs, mixing them up and resealing.

There will be a few of last year’s excellent greeting cards available that can be bought now from the Community Information Point.

At the exhibition we displayed the vastly revised new pavilion drawings which visitors seemed to like. The plan stays much the same although we have managed to reduce it by two sets of toilets. The overall look and feel of the building is far less traditional than the previous scheme and uses a far less expensive construction method. The first floor has been removed and we now have just a small mezzanine. We have removed all the ancillary areas and we hope this will reduce what was a £1.3million scheme to less than £400k. We made a new planning application in mid October and we are now at a point where we can seek budget prices. With these prices we can start approaching the major funders again and get the project back on track.

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