Tuesday 25th Feb NH Digital Competition

First a big thank you to Peter Simpson who stepped in at short notice to judge our Natural History competition.  Peter not only judged and scored the images but offered some tips for improving our wildlife shots.

Scroll down to see the images which scored 19 and 20 in this round of our digital competition.

ENGLISH BLUEBELL by Margaret Herbert

TURNSTONE by Heather Ryder

BULL SEALS FIGHTING by Caroline Tillett

FIELD SCABIOUS by Dave Angood

GREEN GARDEN LIZARD by Andy Caws

SANDSTONE FORMATIONS by Francesca Shearcroft

SPHINX LIGUSTRI by Christine Alcock

SOLDIER BUG by Martin Ryder

RESTING FROG by Martyn Anderson

FALLOW DEER by Tom Thurston

BABY BLUETIT by John Ward

BULL SEAL AGGRESSION by Caroline Tillett

ARCTIC FOX ON THE TUNDRA by Robin Orrow

HONEY FUNGUS by Christine Alcock

THICK LEGGED FLOWER BEETLE by Roy Scrivener

Sunday 2nd February - Day trip to Cambridge 

I don’t know how we do it but we struck lucky with the weather once again.  Cambridge looked absolutely magnificent in the winter sunshine and 24 of us (including 2 very welcome day members) enjoyed a fantastic day’s photography.  The sun was so bright it actually made conditions quite tricky but hopefully everyone managed to grab some interesting images.

22 of us descended on The Mitre pub without any pre-booking and they did us proud providing us with excellent Sunday roasts and various other delicious lunches.

This was our first club trip were we hired a coach and judging by the excellent, good value service offered by Salec Travel, I can envisage that it won’t be our last.

See below for some images from our day in Cambridge

Di Jackson

Events Secretary

Pam's Knockers by Pam Rutty

Getting Set Up by Di Jackson

Mathematical Bridge by Jan Murphy

Punting in Cambridge by Jim McConnell

Seat of Learning by Sue Baldwin

Man at Work by David Wilkin

Bridge of Sighs by Roy Scrivener

Passage of Learning by Christine Alcock

A Fine Pair by Di Jackson

Looking Up by Sarah Pymer

Triptych by Di Jackson

Shadows by Francesca Shearcroft

Too Much Fun by Andy Caws

The Organiser by Roy Scrivener

Tuesday 28 January - Print Competition Round 2

We welcomed judge Wes Gibbon and he had a busy evening assessing 55 print images across the three classes.  After giving detailed comments on each print, he then held several back and gave them another critical once-over.  He finally awarded 8 images top marks of 20/20 and a further 8 were given 19/20.  Thanks to everyone who entered and many congratulations to everyone whose images scored 19 or 20.  You can see these top scoring images again below.  

These 8 scored 20/20.

LONELY SEA AND THE SKY by Margaret Herbert

BUTTERMERE AND BEYOND by Christine Alcock

SKIDDAW HOUSE by Christine Alcock

GRAVE OUTLOOK by Andy Lowe

ARCTIC TUNDRA by Di Jackson

INTO THE VALLEY by Mark Clayton

KATHERINE GORGE WA by Jan Murphy

ROCK WAVES by Francesca Shearcroft

The following 8 images scored 19/20.

CRISP WHITE MORNING by Ron Wheeler

WESTLETON HEATH by Sue Baldwin

WINTER SUN by Martyn Anderson

DERBYSHIRE STREAM by Di Daniels

LA PLAGE BLANCHE by Andy Lowe

SUNSET OVER ST BENETS by Di Graham 

WESTERN AUSTRALIA PINNACLES by Jan Murphy

SUNRISE OVER HOPE VALLEY CEMENT WORKS by Di Jackson

Cambridge Interclub Digital Competition

What a great start to 2014!  With a total score of 87 out 100, WDPC finished in 11th place (out of 36 clubs) in the 2014 Cambridge CC Interclub Digital Competition.  The competition is in five rounds: Monochrome, People, Landscape, Natural History and Open and clubs enter one image in each round.  The final scores were very close and we were thrilled to bits to do so well at our first attempt.  Three of our images were awarded maximum scores of 20 and were in the running for the Best Image Award.  Di’s Loaves, Fishes and the 500 made it through to the last 14 (out of 180 images) and Robin’s Arctic Terns and Arctic Fox went right through to the final 7 - a fantastic achievement, well done Robin and Di.  Here are all five images which represented our club.

If you’d like to see the entries from the winning clubs, have a look here http://www.cambcc.org.uk/digital/dic_results.php .

Arctic Terns by Robin Orrow

Driftwood by Keith Mountford

Arctic Fox by Robin Orrow

Loaves, Fishes and the 5000 by Di Jackson

Older and Wiser by Andy Caws