Norman Marsh, Chair of Dorchester C.C, judged our first digital competition of the new season. Norman was new to our club, and a self-confessed fan of mono, street and landscape images.
He provided us with sound commentary and useful suggestions for improvements throughout the evening, and more than anything gave us the encouragement to experiment in order to inspire our audience.
He was intrigued and sometimes puzzled by Pamela’s abstracts, and wondered out loud about others’ intentions or technique, but his comments were concise and fair and he was warmly thanked at the end of the evening.
In the colour section Graham Nicholls prevailed with his image, Nigella and Friend, and also earned ‘commended’ for his Double Snowdrops entry. Louise Bailey was hot on his heels with a second for her patiently awaited ‘Kingfisher’ and third for the excellent animal study of her ‘Solemn’ monkey.
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Jill Toman’s dynamic ‘Surfing Concentration’ and Jenny Short’s ‘Fading Memories’ were both ‘highly commended’, while Christine Cilia-la-Corte was ‘commended’ for her emotional animal portrait ‘Looking for Dad’.
Jill Toman took first place in the Mono section with ‘Rocks at Welcome Beach’, and was also ‘highly commended’ for ‘Lady of Legend on the East Somerset Railway’.
Second place went to Pamela Bruce-Lockhart for ‘Double Reflection’ which confused everyone in terms of its presentation, including Pamela herself - anyway, it was second whichever way we looked at it. Christine was again placed on the board with her very well-presented bird portrait ‘Unimpressed’.
‘Highly commended’ were Louise Bailey, ’Four Trees’, and Jenny Short ‘s rarely seen effort at bird photography, ‘Deep Clean’, Graham Nicholls and Louise Bailey were ‘commended’ for ‘Flying High’ and ‘Look Up’ respectively.
Congratulations to those who took part. We are hoping for a full entry for the Open Print Competition, the hand in deadline for which is our next meeting on Thursday, October 10, when we will also welcome speaker Josh Drury, who will be showing us some of his astrophotography.