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

Letter of thanks from RSPB

Club members and guests at our Christmas dinner donated £138 to support the RSPB reserves that suffered so much damage in the storms a few weeks ago.  This amount was matched by Naturediet Pet Foods Ltd so a total of £270 was donated. We have just received this letter of thanks from Dr Mike Clarke, RSPB Chief Executive.

Let's hope the habitats and the wildlife make a good recovery.

Tuesday 3rd December - Focus On ... Getting Creative

We had 37 entries in our Focus On … Getting Creative session.  It should have been 39 because Tim Leonard sent in two images which unfortunately I managed to overlook and we didn’t get to see them last night.  I’ve included them here so we finally get to see them - sorry Tim.

We saw imaginative results achieved in a variety of ways.  I know several people have learnt a little more about PS Elements and other editing software while working on their images.  Congratulations to Heather whose two images 'Twist & Turn' and 'Petals' were voted 1st and 2nd favourite images on the night.  And well done Caroline in 3rd place with 'Inner World'.  These and a few other favourites can be seen here.

Andy Caws

Twist And Turn by Heather Ryder

Petals by Heather Ryder

Inner World by Caroline Tillett

Popeye by Andy Caws

What! by John Ward

My Best Friend by Jan Murphy

Swirling by Sarah Pymer

It's All In The Eyes by Caroline Tillett

Wingbeats by Robin Orrow

City Silhouette by Diana Daniels

Ghostly Mallards by Tom Thurston

Fun On The Rope Swing by Tim Leonard

Give Me A Kiss by Tim Leonard

Tuesday 26 November - Digital Competition Round 1

Many thanks to all club members who submitted images in the first round of our digital competition.  We had 75 images for our judge Andy Wilson to critique and score.  It was an Open competition so any subject matter was allowed and we saw a huge range of topics and some excellent images.  Well done to all those whose images were awarded scores of 19 and 20 - their images can be seen below.

ARCHES by Di Daniels

BURNHAM WINDMILL by Roy Scrivener

BELLE ISLE  KINGS CROSS by John Mills

BLEAK HARVEST by Jan Murphy

BUMBLE BEES by John Jensen

CEILING LINES by John Ward

ENCHANTED FOREST by Martyn Anderson

HOMEWARD BOUND by Di Jackson

OUCH by Robin Orrow

PARASOL MUSHROOM by Geoff Lingwood

TAKING IN THE SUNSHINE by Martin Ryder

SUNKEN DREAMS by Martyn Anderson

SPOOKY CITY by Sue Baldwin

PROUD AS A PEACOCK by Margaret Herbert

TWIN PIERS by Keith Mountford

UNDER THE BRIDGE by Andy Lowe