The judging of the fifteenth Two Hemispheres International Competition has been completed and the results can now be announced.

The Two Hemispheres is an annual bilateral photographic competition between LBPC in the UK and Camberwell Camera Club in Melbourne, Australia.

Since the competition started in 2009, LBPC have previously won six times, Camberwell seven times, and there has been one dead heat.  So the clubs appear to be pretty well matched.

Each club enters 30 PDIs and these are judged both in the UK and in Australia.  Each entry is scored out of twenty and all the scores (from both the UK and the Australia judges) are aggregated to determine the winning club.

The competition is an “open” competition and the 60 entries this year presented – as they always seem to – a wide variety of subjects, approaches, styles, and genres.

Our independent UK judge was Dave Hipperson from Park Street Camera Club (at Bricket Wood), an experienced photographer and a CACC judge since 2012.  He provided his comments and scores at our meeting on Wednesday 21 February.

The independent Australia judge was Nigel Beresford IAPJA, also an experienced photographer, a member of Warragul Camera Club (in Victoria), and a Victorian Association of Photographic Societies judge.  He produced written comments and scores which were revealed, alongside the UK judge’s comments and scores, at the Camberwell CC meeting on Monday 11 March.

After all the judging was completed and all the scores totalled, the result was as follows:

  UK Judge Australia Judge Totals
Leighton Buzzard PC 487 marks 393 marks 880 marks
Camberwell CC 472 marks 416 marks 888 marks

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The winners of the Two Hemispheres International Competition 2024, therefore, are Camberwell CC.

Many congratulation to Camberwell on their victory!

Top LBPC Images (based on highest score from either judge)

 

  • “I Taw I Taw a Puddicat” by Martin Wood – 20 marks (Oz)

  • “Cosmos” by Val Bolam – 19 marks (UK)

  • “The Conversation” by Terry Godber – 19 marks (UK)

  • “Woodland Fungus” by Patrick Linford – 19 marks (UK)

  • “Autumn in the Lake District” by Alan Chapman – 18 marks (UK)

  • “Twit Twoo” by Tim Crabb – 18 marks (UK)

  • “Deliveroo Team” by Tricia Meers – 18 marks (UK)

  • “Catch the Morning Tide” by David Manning – 18 marks (Oz & UK)

  • “DLR Canary Wharf Station” by Graham Meers – 18 marks (UK)

Top LBPC Images (click image for full size)

Top CCC Images (based on highest score from either judge)

 

  • “A Bee Eater in Flight” by Gaynor Robson – 20 marks (UK)

  • “Winterthorn Forest Lower Zambezi NP” by Julie Mitchell – 20 marks (UK)

  • “Broiga Display, Lara Wetlands” by Alex Threlfall – 20 marks (UK)

  • “Leaving the Nest” by Duane Harris – 20 marks (UK)

  • “Spring Bouquet” by Fiona Anderson – 19 marks (UK)

  • “Ascending the Innovation Staircase” by Geoff Ince – 19 marks (Oz)

  • “On a Lake in Canada” by Janette King – 18 marks (Oz)

  • “Sacred Kingfisher in Flight” by Anne Matthews – 18 marks (Oz & UK)

  • “The Amazing Lake Tryell” by Ken Spence – 18 marks (Oz)

Top CCC Images (click image for full size)

Judges Comments and Scores