Very many thanks to Jonathan Vaines, from Cambridge Camera Club, for judging two annual projected competitions last night.  His thoughtful and informative judging made for a very enjoyable evening.  No easy task to judge two completely different formats and he did us proud.

The Sets of up to Seven competition is much more about the coherence of the set than detail of the individual images and unusually the photographer is given the opportunity to talk briefly about their set giving an insight on their thought process in putting the images together.  With fourteen sets there were a lot of images and we thank Jonathan for his helpful critiques as we went through each one.  Many congratulations to John Draper for his winning set ‘Flower Art’;  Peter Polkinghorne’s ‘Southwold Beach Hut Signs’ was second and Dave Martin’s ‘Flower Art’ third.  Highly commended were Sue Wright Uppington’s  ‘Northern Lights’, Alan Colegrave’s ‘A Camera is Just a Tool in the Artistic Process’ and Mark Buckley-Sharp’s ‘St. Stefan’.

The Winning Set

Annual Projected Nature:  Congratulations to Julia Wainwright for he winning image ‘Starling Squabble’;  Dave Martin took second and third for ‘Parasol Fungi’ and ‘Sparrowhawk Attacks Pidgeon in Back Yard’.  Highly commended were ‘Purple  Swamphen’ by Alan Graham, ‘Serval’ by John Draper and ‘Thick Billed Ravens’ by Ian Roberts.

Annual Projected Nature Winner by                                        Julia Wainwright

Thanks to everyone who took part in the competitions and came along to support the meeting over Zoom and special thanks to Jonathan for his excellent judging.  Our winners will be presented with their trophy when we are back at base. Nature and Sets’ composted images may be viewed on Facebook in due course.

Next week we have a workshop in the club, a combination of a presentation and our version of a ‘trade fair’.

Meanwhile stay safe and well and enjoy the sunshine.