Our third and penultimate round of competitions for the Mayor’s Cups for prints and projected image was judged by Sandie Cox, who is well known to the Club from previous visits both as a judge and a speaker.

The competition subjects were Open and Rural and with the wide definition of the latter subject, some of the images entered into the Open competition would also have fitted well into the Rural category. Several images depicted cold, frosty and foggy scenes indicative of some of the recent weather conditions that we had experienced.

The print competitions received a modest number of entries from the small but enthusiastic core of print photographers and were judged first, with both the print on display and a digital image of the print projected alongside to improve the viewing capability for the audience. The winning open print was Barbury ground squirrel by Nigel Walkley with Stanton park lake from Dave Garmont taking the Rural first place.

As expected, the projected images attracted a healthy number of entries and occupied most of the evening’s judging activity. The winning Open image was ‘Waiting for the rain to stop’ by Jim Bullock who also took first place in the Rural category with a composite image taken by mobile phone ‘ Misty vale at first light’.

Waiting for the rain to stop

With our final competition in April, the league tables are competitively poised and it’s still all to play for!