John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield’s

 

Near the end of each season we hold the John Hankin and Stan Scantlebury Shield competitions. These are not part of the Open Competition that we hold each year but they are linked to it.

Let me try and explain. All through the year you’ve spent quite some time trying to pick out your best photographs and entering new ones into each round of the Open Competition. The John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield competitions are slightly different. You don’t get to enter new photographs. You can only enter the ones you have already submitted to any of the previous rounds of the Open Competition. You can even use a single picture from your Triptych panels. All the other rules are exactly the same as a normal Reflex competition. It doesn’t matter if a judge has praised it and declared it the best photograph he’s ever seen or heaped scorn upon it and said it’s only fit for the dustbin. As long as it’s been into a round of the Open Competition THIS SEASON it is eligible for the John Hankin or Stan Scantlebury Shields.

By now your probably thinking so why the different rules for these two shields. It’s easy enough to explain. The John Hankin Shield is for the Best Print of the year. The Stan Scantlebury shield is for the best Digital Projected Image of the year. So if you win you can say you took the best picture in the club this season! That’s quite some achievement.

So now’s the time to start going through the pictures you’ve submitted this season and pick the best three prints and digital images that you’ve already entered. Give them a polish, wipe off the coffee stains and submit them in the usual ways for next Thursday night, the 14th of April. If your wondering what the usual ways are, “Where have you been hiding all season?”. Prints should be brought in on Thursday night, Digital Image files can be sent in via Dropbox (sign up by going here and then email the club to let me know you’ve done it.), by email, or if you’d like to receive Steve’s best disapproving stare, you can bring them in on a memory stick on Thursday night.

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