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Page 16 THE HERALD 11 A look at 91 March has been for quite some years now the month Halton Hills lovers of photography are waiting for and this year is no ex ception Photoart the juried exhibition sponsored by the Halton Hills Camera Club has opened at the Gallery of the Cultural Centre in Georgetown and will continue to be on view there to March The judges selected photographs for the exhibition from a total of 168 entries They also selected the following photographs for best awards Fishing Dory by Peter Philpott got the award for best photograph in the exhibition Untitled by A got the first prize in black and white photography Clown in Store Window by Paul Scheare got the first prize in color photography A second prize in color photography was given to Silk Stream by Sam Arm strong The judge s favorites are Grave Yard by KoUonay Out of Business by M and Mauthausen Concentration Camp by Sdnja There are four honorable mentions Man on the Old Silk Road by Nancy Mux Empty House by Fred Cat at Academy by Una 0 and Township Ar by Elaine mann At the opening of the exhibition on February Joy Thompson from the Halton Hills Parks and Recreation Department con the award winners on behalf of the Town The wife of the mayor Ms Geraldine Miller who traditionally presents the awards at the opening of Photoart was unfortunately booked for another function that night What Is photography To most of us it is a way to record events in our lives In every house today one finds albums with photographs that record bir thdays weddings picnics in the backyard and trips to foreign countries Ideas and The Arts by John Beside these mundane uses the camera Is also an instrument for art making The great photographs of the last 150 years have left us a legacy of unforget table images that have become icons of our collective con To make art with a camera re quires the same amount of sen and daring that is needed to make art with a penal or a brush or a chisel Since only a few of us have what it takes to make art of any kind our attempts at art making will be mostly failures But every attempt might bring us closer to an understanding of art s For that reason alone the amateur needs to be told to try again and again and to measure himself against the achievements of the greatest of mankind with a humble heart How well is this year crop of photographs standing up to the exhibitions of former years Peter Philpott judging by his three entries has become a reliable photographer with his own point of view Nancy Murphy has four entries that are up to her usual high standard Bruce An drews with five entries is quite likely the most interesting photographer in the show But I personally miss the kind of artist who in the past turned Photoart into a special event I am thinking of Ted Brown Paul Savoie Peter Delroy Elise David Bianchi Graham Tyler and Barbara Stephens to name a few Maybe this impres comes from the belter POSTAGE BLOWOUT POSTAGE AT LAST YEARS PRICES It now costs to mall a 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