Club battle against A1

 

As the result was announced at last nights meeting I’m finally able to write about the club battle.

Around 12 of us made the trip down to Weston Super Mare to visit A1 Camera Club and enjoy their hospitality for the evening. Rich & Andro did their best to eat their own  bodyweight in cakes & biscuits and don’t you believe them if they try to say they didn’t. We were made to feel very welcome and our thanks go to everyone at A1 for making us feel at home.

Now on to the competition. Marks were given out of 20 and the first to be judged was the Digital Projected section.

A1 scored a very respectable 251 points and we managed to just beat them with 259! Out of the 30 DPI’s only two scored the maximum 20 points and those were by Ruth Doyle with “Cooling Off” and Mark Stone with “The Eye at Night”.

In the Print section A1 scored 249 and Reflex 262 which gave us an overall win with 521 points to A1’s 500. And there were three prints that scored the maximum 20 points. From A1 Andrew Thompson with “Still” and Reflex’s Richard Price with “Common Blue” & Adrian Cook with “Kilve Beach”

R.O.C Round 3 Results

 

First off I’d like to thank Roger Mallison for taking the time to cast his expert eye over and  judge all of the images.

Here are the winners from Round 3 of the Reflex Camera Club Open Competition.

(As usual images link to the image on Flickr (or the creators website) Names link to Flickr or website)

1st Place Digital Projected Image Bubbliness by Angi Nelson	1st Place Print Marie Anne by Ian Coombs
2nd Place Digital Projected Image Eye on the Ball by Richard Price	2nd Place Print Rhossili by Richard Price
3rd Place Digital Projected Image Alfie Reflection by Eddie House	3rd Place Print Very Moorish by Sian Perry
	Yet again hasn’t bothered to send in a digital version
Highly Commended Digital Projected Image Remembrance by Adrian Cook	Highly Commended Print The Beach by Ian Coombs
When he remembers how to switch his computer on I’ll have it…
Highly Commended Digital Projected Image Evening Light by Roy Williams

 

Congratulations to the winners and a huge thank you to everyone that took part.

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John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield Results

A.K.A. That’s a bloody good picture!

Last Thursday we had the pleasure of meeting David Southwell for the second time when he judged our Best Print and Best Projected Images of the year competition. His style of judging was superb instead of just describing what was in the picture (we can all see what it is so why do judges do that?) he actually went into great detail about what he saw when he looked at each photograph. Not just “that’s a nice picture” but why he thought it was good. He talked about how his eye travelled around the composition and if it seemed to get caught on any of the detail within the frame. It was probably one of the best explained and detailed bits of judging we’ve had for quite some time. So on behalf of all of us at Reflex I’d like to thank David for doing a superb job.

The winner of the Stand Scantlebury Shield wasn’t present, so she got sent a text message. Her reply was

“Oh my God! You poor proper photographers and to think I don’t know an F stop from a bus stop”

To get our own back we’re going to make her organise every social event for the next 20 years!

Now onto the reason you’re here. The photographs that have won our John Hankin & Stan Scantlebury Shield’s. As you, hopefully, know these are for the Best Print and Best Digital Projected Image taken by a club member this season. Only pictures that had been entered into a previous round of this season’s open competition (including the Trio)  were eligible and I’m glad to say we saw some superb Images.

Congratulations to the winners and a huge thank you to everyone that’s entered picture’s into this year’s Open Competition. You should all be proud of the images you’ve created.

John Hankin Shield (Best Print of the Year)	Stan Scantlebury Shield (Best DPI of the Year)
Winner Lily by Arthur Belton(Previously entered: Round 2, Print)	Winner Unbroken Gaze by Alison Davies(Previously entered: Round 4, DPI)
2nd: Leopard by Barrie Tovey  (Previously entered: Round 3, Print)	2nd: Kilve by Adrian Cook (Previously entered: Round 2, DPI)
3rd: Hats & Tails by Ian Coombs (Previously entered: Trio, Print)	3rd: Liverpool Waterfront by Adrian Cook(Previously entered: Round 3, DPI)
HC: The Mating Game by Joe Scudamore (Previously entered: Trio, Print)	HC: Patterns in Glass by Roy Williams (Previously entered: Trio, DPI)
HC: Charlotte by Ian Coombs(Previously entered: Trio, Print)	HC: Horned Frog by Mark Stone (Previously entered: Round 3, DPI)
	HC: Waiting by Ian Coombs (Previously entered: Round 2, DPI)
	HC: The Eye by Mark Stone (Previously entered: Trio, DPI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Round 4 Winners

 

Yet again some fantastic photographs were entered.  Thanks to Paul Kessler LRPS for proving to be an excellent and entertaining judge.

The pictures either link to the version on the photographers website or Flickr account, where possible, else they link to the clubs Flickr account. If the photographer has a website or Flickr account then their name sends you to that.

If you have put your winning picture online somewhere or would rather have the link point elsewhere, please let me know.

Thanks to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winners.

_______________________________________ Winning Print The Fighter, Rich Price	___________________________________________ Winning Digital Image Tidal Curves, Roy Williams
-------------------------------------------------- 2nd Place Print Shadows & Reflections, Theresa Driscoll	-------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Place Digital Image Great Tree Nymph (Idea Leuconoe), Mark Stone
-------------------------------------------------- 3rd Place Print Hands of the Vampire, Ian Coombs	-------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Place Digital Image King of the Jungle, Dan Thomas
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Print Holler, Alison Davies	-------------------------------------------------------- Highly Commended Digital Image Unbroken Gaze, Alison Davies
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Print My Gentle Friend, Alison Davies	-------------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Shadows, Adrian Cook
-------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Riddles in the Dark, Ian Coombs	-------------------------------------------------------- Commended Digital Image Heading Home, Ruth Doyle

Reproduced here with permission. All © remains with the original photographer.

Round 2 Results

The results of the 2nd Round of our Annual Open Competition have been announced! It's great to see so many of you taking part and submitting such wonderful photographs. I've managed to get all but one of the winners to show here. Hopefully next time I'll be able to get them all.
Our thanks also go to  Eddie Lane for taking the time to go through and judge them all.

I've tried a slightly different way of laying out the shots on this blog. Please let me know if it works for you or if it still looks as though I've randomly thrown the images across the screen. They really need to sort out a decent system for laying out multiple pictures on these blogs.


The winner for the Digital Projected Image Category was Adrian Cook with his picture entitled Kilve

In 2nd place, Digital Projected Image was Richard Price with Flaming Rose


Adrian Cook also managed to get 3rd place in the Digital Projected Image's with Tokyo Station
 
Barrie Tovey claimed one of the Highly Commended spots with his Digital Projected Image, Puffin in Flight

Highly Commended Digital Projected Image, Roy Williams with Bluetit
 
Last Drop by Julie Coombs, Highly Commended Digital Projected Image
 
Rosie Tomlinson Highly Commended Digital Projected Image titled Do It later
 
Simon Xu with the Digital Projected Image Mask at St. Mark's Square Highly Commended

Highly Commended Digital Projected Image Ian Coombs with The Mystic

The winner of the Print category for Round 2 was Richard Price with Brown Lipped Snail

2nd place Print was Barrie Tovey with Monkey

3rd Place print was Ian Coombs with The Lord is My Shepherd

Highly Commended Print. Amber Glare by Alison Davies
 
Ian Coombs Highly Commended Print with Surf Rider



Also Highly Commended in the Print section was Joe Scudamore with Whose Looking at Me.
Unfortunately I'm unable to display his entry here as I have no access to a digital version.

Congratulations to everyone who placed and a big thank you to all that entered.