The first internal club competition of the 2020-21 season took place on Wednesday 16 September. As print handling is impracticable in current circumstances, the Committee has suspended all print competitions until further notice. Accordingly, our competitions are being confined to digital images.
So this was an “open” competition for digital images. As usual, entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscape, seascape, cityscape, candid/street, animals, flowers, colour, and monochrome, and more.
Our judge for the competition was Martin Patten DPAGB, LRPS, BPE4*, QPSA. Martin is a professional photographer, the former president of Watford Camera Club, and the current President of the Chilterns Association of Camera Clubs. He is also an experienced judge.
Before commencing, Martin explained that he had been sent the images in advance. So rather than judging on Zoom, he would be basing his assessment on the original digital files as submitted. He also explained that his marks were likely to vary between 12 and 20 and that the appropriate score for “an average camera club image” was 16 marks.
Marks for this competition count towards the season’s Projected Digital Image (PDI) League Championship (Sections One and Two) – see the Internal competitions, Rules for Entry 2020-21, page of the website for details.
Each entry was marked out of 20. The top performers were as follows:
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PDI Section 1 Competition (41 entries)
1st place – “Pasqueflower Seedhead” by Tricia Meers – 20 marks
1st place – “The Path to be Travelled” by Paul Needham – 20 marks
1st place – “Big City Bustle” by Patrick Linford – 20 marks
2nd place – “Poppy” by Carol Curd – 19 marks
2nd place – “Gun Hill Dunes” by David Manning – 19 marks
2nd place – “Wells White Sand” by Clive Rayment – 19 marks
2nd place – “Sunflower Bud” by Pam Cruise – 19 marks
3rd place – “Hyena Pups” by Nigel Harding – 18 marks
3rd place – “Poppy Lantern” by Pam Cruise – 18 marks
3rd place – “Angry Hippo” by Terry Godber – 18 marks
3rd place – “Lunchtime” by Chris Warby – 18 marks
3rd place – “Loch Etive Scotland” by Barbara Fleming – 18 marks
PDI Section 2 Competition (16 entries)
1st place – “Gaudi Roof Barcelona” by David Saunders – 20 marks
1st place – “Resting on a Salvia” by Val Bolam – 20 marks
2nd place – “Stevington Postmill” by Val Bolam – 18 marks
2nd place – “Grace” by Roger Turner – 18 marks
3rd place – “Fields of Barley” by Mark Eve – 17 marks
3rd place – “Red Kite” by Roger Turner – 17 marks
3rd place – “Summer Storm” by Rob Delahunty – 17 marks
3rd place – “Harris Hawk” by Mark Eve – 17 marks
3rd place – “After the Scream” by Iola Samuels – 17 marks
3rd place – “A Welcome Rest” by Sandra Eve – 17 marks
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