Competition Results 2009/10 Season

Competition results are added here shortly after each competition.

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Previous Results 2008/09 Season

Joint First place Alastair Ruffman
Sentrys Apart

Third place Veronica Congleton
Blue Mosque Sunrise

For the second year in a row the AV competition was won by Mike Sadler with his “Kindness, Beauty & Truth” sequence.

The title is based on a piece of poetry by Albert Einstein and Mike had brilliantly interwoven his excellent images with lines from the poem. The final picture then showed the complete text - a very cleverly thought-out presentation!

Once again we were lucky enough to secure the judging services of Barbara Hogg from Cramlington who clearly has a great affinity and love of this genre of photography. Barbara’s comments were always interesting and thought provoking. She awarded second place to Peter Curran for his “Rock Sculptures” which featured photographs from Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire.

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‘Dancing Bear’ from Peter Curran’s “Rock Sculptures”

“Mallorca” by Mike Sadler

“Spring Lambs” by Peter Curran

Barbara also awarded 3rd place to Mike for his “A Taste of Mallorca” and 4th place went to Peter’s “Spring Lambs”
Congratulations to both members!

The Projected Images competition was judged by Jim Welsh LRPS CPAGB, the Chairman of Blyth Camera Club. Jim had already visited Ponteland in September with his excellent ‘What Pleases Me’ presentation and this competition was a perfect sequel to that talk.

Jim’s winning choice was Alastair Ruffman’s “St James’ Park” which is fast becoming one of this year’s top pictures. An HDR composition, Alastair has worked hard to capture the excitement of an evening match at St James’ Park.

Second place also went to Alastair - this time for “Exploding Bull”. In third place was Hank Craggs with “Hibiscus Factory”.
In all there were over 70 entries for this competition with three entries gaining Highly Commended with a further two photographs being Commended by the judge.

Highly Commended Mike Sadler
Watchful

Commended
Andy Reilly
Suppertime

The first set subject of the season entitled Water/Energy was won by Jean Sadler with a remarkable 19 points for her picture of a restored antipodean railway engine entitled “Steam Power”. This picture really summed up both the Water and Energy aspects of the set subject and was a firm favourite with members.

Second place with 12 points went to Marjorie Wilkinson with her colourful “Niagara Falls” picture narrowly pushing Alastair Ruffman into third spot with 11 points for his summer fun photograph “Breakers”.

There was a total of 41 digital images and 6 prints entered for the competition which was organised on the night by Veronica Congleton.

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This year’s knockout competition was won by Mike Sadler
with his moody “Bamburgh Castle” shot.

This year’s competition attracted a larger number of entries which made the knockout aspect slightly more complex.
The first round comprised 46 photographs with many members opting for the maximum of 2 entries each.
23 photographs went through to the second round plus the highest scoring losing picture to make an even 24.
The second round reduced the numbers to 12.
After round 4 we needed to follow the formula again which resulted in 4 pictures going through to the semi-final.
Once Mike’s winning photograph had been selected members also voted for a third and fourth place photograph.
The two pictures remaining from round 4 were allocated equal fifth place.

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Second place Andy Reilly Turning Tides

Third place Veronica Congleton Swans over Druridge Bay

Fourth place Ian Woodrow
Colourful Dandelion

Equal fifth place Rod Smith
Reflections

Equal fifth place Frank Thomson
Alpine Glow