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First Competition 2025-26 – Open 1

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Our first internal club competition of the 2025-26 season took place on Wednesday 1 October.

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

As usual, the entries spanned a wide and diverse range of subjects, approaches, and styles – including wildlife (grey and red squirrels, dragonflies, deer, monkeys, baby elephants, and various birds) candid/street, architecture, steam trains, landscapes, seascapes, travel, portraits, minimalist, abstract, multi-exposures, colour, and monochrome, and more.

Our independent judge for the competition was Ben Pike, a photographer, EAF judge and speaker from Biggleswade.

Each entry was marked out of 20 and the marks count towards the season’s Print and Digital Image Championships.

Ben told us that when he was judging photographs he was “looking for the intent – the photographer within the image”.

The top performers were as below:

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Prints (13 entries)

  • 1st – “Bats Head, Dorset” by Tim Gould – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Squirrel Nutkin” by Wendy Taylor – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Winter at the Graveyard” by Tim Gould – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Mudbath Time” by Tim Crabb – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “Waterlily Leaves” by Carol Curd – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Control Panel” by Graham Meers – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Stopping for Water” by Wendy Taylor – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Waiting for the Rain to Stop” by Tricia Meers – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Print Entries (click image for full size)

Digital Images (40 entries)

  • 1st – “Black Tail Skimmers” by Terry Godber – 20 marks

  • 1st – “Life Ring” by Rob Delahunty – 20 marks

  • 2nd – “Serpent D’Ocean” by John Curd – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Alcala El Castillo” by Paul Needham – 19 marks

  • 2nd – “Skylight” by Mike Kitchingman – 19 marks

  • 3rd – “I Can See You” by Patrick Linford – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Belfast Subway” by Val Bolam – 18 marks

  • 3rd – “Great Heron Study” by Terry Godber – 18 marks

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

All Digital Image Entries (click image for full size)

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