Our third competition of the season was judged by Peter Ottley from the Bleadon Photographic Group at Weston-super-Mare and a record number of entries had been submitted.

Despite struggling with a slow broadband connection which meant that images and their respective critiques could sometimes lose their synchronisation, Peter was able to provide concise and helpful feedback and offer suggestions how the images could have been strengthened. He appreciated the different viewpoints that had been adopted in several images and challenged some of the tight cropping that had been used which, had in his view, overly restricted the space around the image. This was evident in some wildlife images where he felt that showing more of the environment and the habitat of the subject could have benefitted the image.

The overall winning image was a still life entitled “Forgotten” by Jim Bullock.