And the Winners are……

This Thursday is our Annual Social & Prize Giving evening. We get to have a few drinks, embarrass ourselves at Skittles and mingle with all the friends we’ve made at the club. It’s a great night and you should definitely come along. If it’s not really your thing, still come along. You’ll be made to feel more than welcome and I’m sure you’ll have a great time. As well as the Social side of it we’ll also be announcing the winners of our Annual Open Competition.

You get to find out who has won Photographer of the Year, Best Digital Photographer and Best Print Photographer. Not forgetting for the first time in Several years we have brought back our Best Novice Photographer award. Don’t forget we also have to give Arthur & Alison their Trophies for winning the Stan Scantlebury & John Hankin Shield Competitions.

So if you’ve been desperate to know whose won or think you need to clear a bit of space on a shelf for one or two of the trophies, make sure to come along on Thursday and enjoy our very own award’s show.

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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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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