2024/25 Competition Round 1 Judged!
Round 1 of the 2024/25 season of our internal competition took place on Tuesday 4th June 2024 with a 'Landscape' theme. The judge was Slawek Staszczuk
. A report of Salwek's general comments is available in the blog (see link below).
Eleven members presented prints in the first half of the evening.
Two images were held back for a second look in the print category. Ultimately, 19 points were awarded to "Hazy sunset' by Deborah Smyth and the maximum 20 points were awarded to 'Sunderland Sunrise' by Chris Murray. Their photos can be seen in the blog (see link below) and the galleries (see link below).
Twenty-two members entered the DPI competition in the second half of the evening.
Two images were held back for a second look in the DPI category. Ultimately, 19 points were awarded to 'Dead Vlei March 23' by Justin Smith and the maximum 20 points were awarded to 'A relaxing golden hour' by Deborah Smyth. Again, their photos can be seen in the blog (see link below) and the galleries (see link below).
Thanks to Stephen Ingall & Dennis Law for managing the image projection, & to Colin Page and Rob Wilkinson for handling the Prints.
There is a full report on the evening on the Society’s Blog at:
Blog
and you can see all the images in the latest Galleries and slideshows below:
Print Gallery
DPI Gallery
The results for Round 1 can be found here:
Internal Competition Results Round 1 2024/25 PRINTS
Internal Competition Results Round 1 2024/25 DPI
2024/25 Competition Totals
After this, the first competition of our Internal Competition Season 2024/25, cumulative totals are limited but can be found via these links:
Internal Competition Totals after Round 1 of 2024/25 Season PRINTS
Internal Competition Totals after Round 1 of 2024/25 Season DPI
*PLEASE NOTE before you contact the Competitions' Secretary that the “Ranked Scores” (the lower table in the linked pages above) show the scores for each image for each member from highest to lowest scoring (from left to right), NOT the round scores!
2023/24 Competition Winners
The results of last year's internal competition were:
In the Print Competition, Dan Waller came third, with 69 points. Nick Bowman came second, with 70 points. The winner, with 75 points and, therefore, the current holder of the Marston Trophy was Debbie Smyth.
In the DPI Competition, Paul Shelley and Susi Luard came second equal, with 70 points. The winner, with 74 points and, therefore, the current holder of the Howe Trophy was Colin Page.