Wessex Cup competition
May 1st, 2008 by Malcolm Bowditch
On Tuesday 29th April, at a packed meeting, the ladies were in competition with the men of the club for the Wessex Cup. Each side submitted twelve colour prints and twelve mono prints, for judging and marks out of ten in the usual way. On this particular occasion, the club was delighted to welcome Peter Tyrer as the judge and, from the start, he acknowledged the high quality of the entries before scoring and making useful comments on each submission. It was generally felt that, in addition to his informed commentary, he awarded points justly with the highest scores going to the best/most popular pictures.
The net result of this print battle was for the men to win by the relatively narrow margin of 214½ to 204½, in short less than 5% separated the two sides. The results are now even in this new competition, since the women won last year – by a margin of less than 1%! But, when all was said and done, who was counting after such an enjoyable evening? Well, everyone actually!
Malcolm Bowditch
