The recently elected Mayor of Royal Wootton Bassett, Councillor Pat Farrow was the guest of honour to present the awards to the winners of our Annual Competition for prints and projected images which spanned three categories; Action; Portrait and Open subject. This is the first year that prints have been included since 2019 due to the pandemic and attracted a pleasing number of entries. The winning entrants were as follows:
Action Print – Nigel Walkley “Shake those feathers”
Portrait Print – Nigel Walkley “Smile please”
Open Print – Paddy Bohan “Wild flower”
The projected image section attracted a healthy response with over 60 images which were evenly distributed between the three categories and dominated by one member’s entries
Action Projected – Robert Slade “Splash down”
Portrait Projected – Robert Slade “Hamster portrait”
Open Projected – Robert Slade “Christchurch college”
The best overall print was judged to be “Shake those feathers” and the best overall projected image was “Splash down”.
Best Print – N Walkley
In addition to the Annual Competition, our Mayors Cup competition for projected images, which comprises four competitions throughout the season, was awarded to Robert Slade who received the trophy.
Mayors Cup DPI – R Slade
Finally, Honorary Life Membership was conferred to Bob Nunns for his long-standing contribution of service to the club in various capacities and a certificate presented.
Bob Nunns HLM Award
After the formalities were over, members socialised with some refreshments and took the opportunity to chat with the Mayor who expressed a genuine interest in photography and enthusiastically explored members approaches to both seeing and successfully capturing images.
