Our first internal club competition of the 2024-25 season took place on Wednesday 2 October.

This was an “open” competition (ie, with no set subject) for both prints and projected digital images.

The entries displayed the usual diverse range of subjects, approaches, and styles – including landscapes, seascapes, birds and animals, travel, architecture, candid/street, portraits, close-up, still life, abstract, colour, and monochrome, and more.

Our independent CACC judge for the competition was Chris Drury, a semi-retired professional photographer from St Albans.

Each entry was marked out of 20 and Chris told us he regarded 16 marks as the “standard club score”.  The marks count towards the season’s Print and Digital Image Championships (Sections One and Two).  The top performers were as follows:

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Section 1 Prints (19 entries)

  • 1st – “It’s Mine and I’m Not Sharing” by Wendy Taylor – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Browsing” by Tricia Meers – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Beach Pebble Twister” by Graham Meers – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Flamingo” by Wendy Taylor – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Downtime” by Tricia Meers – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Found Still Life with Flint” by Paul Stokes – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Evening Catch” by Paul Stokes – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “The Barbers Dog” by Clive Rayment – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Eyes on the Prize” by Tim Crabb – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “The 18.12 Express Train Departs” by Tim Gould – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Section 1 Prints (click image for full size)

Section 1 Digital Images (28 entries)

  • 1st – “The Gentle Motion of Dance” by Dale Rockell – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Stork” by Sandra Eve – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Nigella Damascena” by David Bolam – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Here’s Looking at You Kid” by Patrick Linford – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Emu” by Mark Eve – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Wet Morning Run” by Val Bolam – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Autumn Dawn” by Martin Wood – 20 marks

  • 1st – “British Summer” by David Saunders – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Juvenile Peregrin” by Chris Collier-Woods – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Cheetah Cubs Await Mums Call” by Terry Godber – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Now Listen to Me” by Val Bolam – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Tawny Owl Chick” by Chris Collier-Woods – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “All it Takes is All of Us” by Terry Godber – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “St Pauls” by Rob Delahunty – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “The Conversation” by Chris Warby – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “Standing Stone Slumber” by David Saunders – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Reflected Light” by Emma Burrell – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Now at Ikea” by John Booth – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Three Shires Head” by David Bolam – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Section 1 Digital Images (click image for full size)

Section 2 Digital Images (4 entries)

  • 1st – “Rainy Day Rose” by Andrew Coleman – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “My Happy Face” by Daphne Hughes – 18 marks

  • 2nd – “We Need a Bigger Whisky Glass” by Andrew Coleman – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Over the Bridge” by Daphne Hughes – 15 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Section 2 Digital Images (click image for full size)