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September 2018 Theme Competition No.4
Themed Competition No.4 "Sport"
On Thursday 27th September the club held its fourth themed competition of the year in which the theme was "Sport2
Our judge for the evening was Alfred Brown who had a variety of sports images to critique and score. A good range of sports were covered which included Golf, Archery. Cycling, Motor Cycling, Formula One racing, Running, Swimming, Horse riding and many other sports, likened to a mini Olympics in photographs.
The competition is divided into two sections, Print and Projected Digital Image and is open to all members to demonstrate their skill in sports photography.
Our judge decided that in the Print category that there were two images to be awarde the top score of 20 points, and they were
"Chasing the Pelaton" by Mike Williamson "Around Lodge Corner" by Richard Towell
In the Projected Digital Image the image to be awarded top maks of 20 points was
"Mercury Rising" by Dave Liggett
 SeptThemed Print Score Form.pdf | [ ] | 24 kB |
| September 2018 Theme Competition Sport Results.pdf | [ ] | 70 kB |
| 2018 Leaderboards Oct 11th.pdf | [ ] | 91 kB |
September PDI Competition
September PDI Competition No5
On Thursday 20th September the club held its 5th Open Projected Digital Image competiton for Advanced, Intermediate, and Club Level members.
Our judge for the evening was Christine Widdall who proved to be very entertaining as well as being informative and constructive in her critique of the images put forward for her judgement.
Christine was most complimentary about the quality of images from each of the competition levels and that she considered that she had a very difficult task in deciding what scores to give to each. However at the end of each level of competition she had judged the images below as desrving of the top score of 20 points.
In the Club Level competition top marks were awarded to
"Natural light shoot with model Sarah" by Tim Cosford
In the Intermediate Level competition top marks were awarded to
"Time and Light" by Jian Huang
In the Advanced Level competition there were two images that were awarded top marks, and they were
"Into the Unknown" by John Durkin "Old Tree Roots, Loch Druma, Wester Ross" by Mike Williamson
| September Advanced PDI Competition Results.pdf | [ ] | 69 kB |
| September Intermediate PDI Competition Results.pdf | [ ] | 68 kB |
| September Club Level PDI Competition Results.pdf | [ ] | 68 kB |
| 2018 Leaderboards Sept 27.pdf | [ ] | 130 kB |
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News Flash
Don Isherwood Images
In memory of Don Isherwood many of his PDI can be viewed on this Flickr page. Click this link to view them: https://www.flickr.com/photos/185386260@N06/