On 4th March, we had an inter-club competition with the American Pikes Peak Camera Club. Each club provided 25 images of any subject to be judged first in the USA and then by an English judge. There was a great array of differing images and subjects, from bisons on the plain, zebras, the Milky Way, landscapes, studio shots, and more. At the end of a closely fought contest, Wymondham Photographic Society came out on top with a score of 399. PPCC achieved another high score of 363.5. WPS member Dominic Byrne’s image ‘Girl in a Bubble’ was the only one of the 50 images to score a 10 from both judges!

On March 18th, WPS also had their usual cumulative print competition for our Tier 1 and 2 photographers. In Tier 1, judge Simon Ciappara FRPS declared a good standard of images, with three scoring between 9 and 10. The judge’s overall favourite was ‘Lighting Up’ by Phillip Payne. The image’s exposure and colours were said to have done very well, with the blues in the shadows being offset by the match light’s orange to good effect.

In Tier 2, there was again a great collection of very differing images, with seven scoring between 9 and 10. The overall favourite was a landscape shot by Charles Phillips called ‘Sunset at Hardknott Roman Fort’. The judge commented that the detail in the image was ‘delicious’: an exceptional landscape image that would look good on anyone’s wall.