The final print competition of the year drew around on
Wednesday and with a number of members within a hair’s breadth of each other,
the evening crackled with anticipation.
The evening was judged by David Mendus and saw a slew of top
marks.
In the beginner’s class, Chris Carrick saw nothing selfish in
walking away with a perfect 30 from his three stunning images.
In the advanced class, there was a 4 way tie for first
place. In the end, Mandy Byatt’s Starling Iridescence was judged to be the
overall winner and pipped the others to the plus:
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| Starling Iridescence - Mandy Byatt |
A special mention must this week be given to the wonders that
can be worked with Photoshop. Dave Stoneleigh entered and was rewarded
handsomely for his two prints – Strawberry Painter and West Ham Tram. Whereas
Strawberry Painter was noted to be very obviously worked on in Photoshop, West
Ham Tram blurred the lines sufficiently to put doubt in David Mendus’ mind:
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| Strawberry Painter - Dave Stoneleigh |
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| West Ham Tram - Dave Stoneleigh |
David Pelling guiltily entered his take on Constable’s The
Hay Wain – Flatford Mill playing host to a heinously “dropped” bottle of Coke. Even
though the bottle was neatly added post-production, it was deemed to be in a
non-optimal position for maximum effect:
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| A splash of red - David Pelling |
Mark smoothly walked away with his second 10 of the season
for his excellently shot and undoctored Ice Water Droplet, although his night image - Light Entertainment was thought to be a little too worked upon. Perhaps a little
Photoshopping may have been necessary to bump those marks up a little? Ahem.
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| Ice water droplet - Mark Bulle |
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| Light Entertainment (and new, furry friend) - Mark Bulle |
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