The Photography Club of Beaufort has announced the winners of the semi-annual Spring Competition, held Monday night, March 10th. Judging the event were Beaufort Gazette photographer F. Brian Ferguson; Ben Ham, nationally acclaimed large-format landscape photographer and Eric Horan, well-known outstanding nature photographer. Prints were judged using the criteria of superb technical quality, composition and interest. During the competition, judges shared their expertise and offered constructive critiques to photos to help the photographers improve their skills.
Bill Meadwasn’t always a painter of promiscuous produce. A navy brat who landed in the Lowcountry in 1969, Mead, a self-proclaimed “old hippie,” started drawing as a teenager, and for years experimented with dark, disturbing images he calls “erotic surrealism.”