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sue and graham
 
COMPETITION Round 4 – 9th December 2025
FRAMES, DOORS & WINDOWS (Digital)
 JUDGE Grahame Dunkin
 
The Chairman introduced Grahame Dunkin to judge the 4th round of the competition. Grahame has been before to judge previous competitions.
 
22 members attended to hear Grahame’s comments and marks on a not so easy competition.
 
In the colour section 19 members entered 37 digital images giving Grahame a difficult choice in selecting the winner. After holding back 16 his final selection of the winner in the colour section was Sue Cross’s “The Music Room”.
 
The mono section, 17 members entered 30 images. Grahame held back 12 giving 3, 20 marks and selecting George Fiddler’s “The Busker” as the winner.
 
After giving the two winners considerable attention his final choice was Sue Cross’s “The Music Room”.
 
Sue received the monthly trophy from Grahame as can be seen on the Home page of the website.
 
The Chairman thanked him for a difficult evening judging an unusual, titled competition and giving some good comments that hopefully members would find useful for the future.
 
 
Peter and Bob
COMPETITION Round 3 – 11th November 2025
Fur and Feathers print   JUDGE Peter Jones
 The Chairman introduced Peter Jones, no stranger to the club to judge round 3 of the competition, Fur and Feathers.
 19 members attended the evening to hear the comments of the judge for the colour section and his scoring for each of the photos. 15 entries, 30 photos the judge held back 14 to look at again before making his final choice. Narrowing these down to 5 final photos all receiving 20 marks each and giving his winner too Robert Fish for his photo “Bearded Tit in Flight”
 In the mono section 11 members entered 19 photos. The judge held back 6 photos giving 3 a maximum of 20 marks. His final winner was Mary Fish for her photo “Tawny Owl Landing”
 After considering both winning photos from the colour and mono sections he chose Robert Fish’s photo “Bearded Tit in Flight” as the overall winner.
 The Chairman thanked Peter Jones for giving his personnel comments and marking each photo out of a possible 20 marks.
 
Darren MartinCOMPETITION Round 2 – 15th October 2025
FOOD (Digital) JUDGE Dane Butler
 
The Chairman introduced Dane Butler who’s visited the club on one occasion in the past.
 
The second competition of the new season being FOOD digital photos. 22 members were in attendance to view their digital images in colour and monochrome.
 
In the colour section 18 members entered 34 photos and the monochrome section 12 members entered 24 photos.
 
The colour section, the judge held back 11 images. Giving 20 marks to 4 images, 19 marks to 4 images; 18 marks to 4 images; 17 marks to 9; 16 marks to 8 and 15 marks to 1. Awarding from the 4 20’s, Martin Wright’s, STREET FOOD photo was the most outstanding and kept back to compete with the monochrome winner.
 
The monochrome section the judge held back 10 photos giving 4 of these 20 marks; 2 19 marks; 1 18 marks; 5 17 marks; 5 16 marks and 4 15 marks. Of the 4 held back the judge gave the overall winner to Sue Cross’s SLICE OF PEAR.
 
His final choice as the overall winner went to Martin Wright’s, STREET FOOD. He congratulated the members on such a high standard achieved of the subject “FOOD”
 
The Chairman thanked Dane for his difficult task of judging such a wide variety of subjects chosen by the members. And choosing in his opinion the best winning photograph of the evening.
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Bob Barry

COMPETITION Round 1 - 17th September 2025

OPEN (prints) JUDGE Martin Litchfield CPAGB

The Chairman introduced Martin Litchfield who’s no stranger to the club, judging past competitions and giving talks.

The first competition of the new season, 22 members attended to view the open prints and hear the judges’ comments.

In the colour section 14 members entered 28 prints and the monochrome section 9 members entered 15 prints.

In the colour section Martin gave 8 photographs 20 points, 4 19 points, 11 18, and 5 17 points. After viewing the 8 he held back,

he gave in his opinion the winner to Barry Inman’s ‘Red Kite extracting trout’.

The monochrome section Martin held back 7 photos giving 5 of these 20 points, and the other 2 19 points, 3 18 and 5 17 points.

After reviewing the 5 photos of 20 points he gave his final choice of “I have to disagree m'lord”by Ivan Sedgwick: This to

go forward to be judged with the winner of the colour section.

His final choice as overall winner was Barry Inman’s ‘Red Kite extracting trout’. In his opinion anyone of the 20 points photos

could have won. He congratulated the members on such a high standard achieved.

The Chairman thanked Martin for his difficult choice of picking in his opinion the winner.