First of all, congratulations to our Club Competition trophy winners from our 2024-2025 season!

See above our Tier 1 winners, Dianne Ashton and Tony Palmer. (The other winner, Phillip Payne, was not pictured as he was away.)

Tony also won the shield for the Most Improved Photographer of the Season.

In Tier 2, Jez Wood had a clean sweep in all categories, except for Projected Image of the Year, which Craig Harriss (Left) won.

David Hazleton won Landscape of the Year.

Then, on Tuesday 16th, WPS had the first cumulative competition of their 2025-2026 season, judged by Stephen Carroll over Zoom.

In Tier 1, Nick Coates came out on top with his montage of 5 images called ‘Busy Bugs’. The judge liked the colour palette used and how there was always something new to find in the image.

Nick Coates told the magazine:

“For me, macro photography is a magical entry into another world. It is often only when I come to edit the images on a large screen that I see for the first time the intricate detail of flowers and the life on, around and within them. ‘Busy Bugs’ is the result of many hundreds of shots taken in order to see the bugs close up, and then be able to select five with broadly matching hues that could be combined into one harmonious whole.”

In Tier 2, it was Jez Wood again who came out on top with his image of a Blue Tit called ‘Hunting Spiders’. The judge liked that Jez had caught some natural behaviour, and the bird was very sharp despite the speed of flight, with feather detail and claws standing out.

Both images scored a maximum score of 10.