Our fourth internal league competition of the 2024-25 season took place on Wednesday 29 January.

The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images, was “Parallel Lines”.

The Programme notes added  “Create or use parallel lines as the main compositional feature of your image.  Your parallel lines can be actual or perceived, straight, curved or receding”.

All sorts of parallel lines were displayed in the submitted images.  They were derived from architecture (old and new), grills, escalators, stairs and steps, railway lines, floors, paintwork, girders, tyre tracks, and more – including abstract.

Our independent judge for the competition was Jonathan Vaines LRPS CPAGB AFIAP, a member of the London Salon and a very experienced judge of club and inter-club competitions.

He is a member and past President of the Cambridge Camera Club and the judges Secretary for the East Anglian Federation, as well as an Educator for the Royal Photographic Society, and an online tutor (regularly teaching post-processing skills to folk in North America and other corners of the globe).

Jonathan was impressed with the general standard of our images and described the top scoring prints as “superb”.

Each entry was marked out of 20.  Marks for this competition count towards the season’s Print and Digital Image Championships.  (For the rest of this season, there will be no Section Two leagues.  This is because there are so few people currently in Section Two.  The Committee are considering how to best reorganise the leagues.)

The top performers in the competition were as follows:

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Prints (21 entries)

  • 1st – “Salford Quay West Building” by Mike Kitchingman – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Speed Bonny Boat Over the Sea to Skye” by Tricia Meers – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Tyrescape” by David Manning – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Tangled Up in Blue” by Carol Curd – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Metropolis” by David Manning – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “Study in Blue and Grey” by Sally Kitchingman – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Prints (click image for full size)

Digital Images (34 entries)

  • 1st – “Stepping Down” by Martin Wood – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Old Radiator” by Patrick Linford – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Waves” by Paul Needham – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Stacked” by Sandra Eve – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Receding Medal Ribbons” by Patrick Linford – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Twisted Parallels” by John Booth – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Tulips in a Box” by Andrew Coleman – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “Hanging Around” by Emma Burrell – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Just Stones” by Chris Warby – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Digital Images (click image for full size)