Third Open and Carmarthen Five Way Battle

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

Roy Packer club chairman opened the club meeting on Thursday 13^th March and welcomed guests and the judge for the evening Mr Ed Cloutman. After a short introduction Ed went on to give his critique of the18 prints submitted in the clubs 3^rd Open Competition. The winning print ‘Dipper with Prey’ by Paul Richards was described by the judge as technically a perfect print and a fantastic print of the bird in its natural environment. Paul also secured second place with his print named ‘Kingfisher Strike’ and 3^rd Place was Dylan Harries with his landscape ‘Mineral Lake’.

After a short interval Ed went on to judge the 24 digital images submitted, wildlife again took pride of place when Roy Packer’s image ‘Jumping Squirrel’ was declared the winner, the judge telling members that this was an excellent example of capturing a sharp image of a creature on the move. The image of the ‘Lone Fresia’ by Dylan Harries came second with Dave Bolton’s ‘Bike Race’ awarded third place.

        

The Five Way Battle – projected image competition was held Thursday evening 13^th March at the Bethany Chapel, Priory Street, Carmarthen. This competition is between 5 photographic clubs each submitting 8 images. The clubs taking part this year were Amman Valley, Cardigan, Carmarthen, New Quay and Tenby and District Camera club. Charles Kidd the external competition secretary selected the images for Tenby and was successful in winning the event with 146 points from a total of 160, 2^nd place was Carmarthen club with 141 points. Two images submitted gained a maximum of 20 points ‘The Greedy One’ – Neil Thomas and ‘Kingfishers Are It’ – Paul Richards and one image gaining 19 points ‘Porlock Weir’ – Gary Jenkins. Congratulations to all members whose images were used in the competition.

               

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