Many thanks to Chris Sargeant for judging last night’s competitions and doing a fine job of critiquing across the variety of subject matter in both the Monochrome and Open sections.

Congratulations to Dave Martin for his Monochrome winner ‘Whitby Abbey 2’ and his third placed ‘Multi Stem Tulip’;  Judith Gimber’s  ‘Camel Herder 2’ was second.  Three images were highly commended – ‘Liverpool Street Station’ by Trevor Alexander, ‘Market Trader Uzbekistan’ by Alan Colegrave and ‘Shy Alto’ by Ron Churchill.  Chris also ‘commended’ five images: one each to Dave and Judith, two to Alan Colegrave and  to Peter Keeble for his ‘Holmes in Baker Street’.

Monochrome Winning Image by Dave Martin

In the Open section first place and congratulations went to Avril Candler for ‘A Touch for Reassurance’ and her ‘Wattled Crane Portrait’ was third.  In second place was ‘Camargue Nets’ by Peter Polkinghorne.  Peter Elton’s ‘Dewey Banded Demoiselle’ and ‘Garden Frog’ were highly commended as were Trevor’s ‘Turkish Ceramics’ and Ron’s ‘No it Goes This Way’.

Thanks to everyone who entered and supported the evening with ‘the super set of pictures’ we gave Chris to judge (his words) so very special thanks to him for his judging.

All the images may be seen on our Facebook Page.

Next week we have two print competitions:  Open and People & Portraits which will be judged by Paul Burwood LRPS CPAGB QPSA BPE3* at Hatch End.

Stay safe and well and come and see us next week.