‘Dorset County’ competition
Oct 29th, 2008 by Keith Chaloner
by Malcolm Bowditch, posted by KC
On Tuesday 28th October, the club held internal competitions for prints and slides with ‘Dorset’ as the theme. Our judge for the evening was Martin Western DPAGB from Bournemouth Photographic Society. Martin was also our judge for the slide competition for the Davies Cup back in March of this year. On this occasion though, the twenty-seven entries in the print competition were for the Committee Cup, and after a considered critique of each image, he awarded the trophy to John Burton for a very fine coloured seascape, ‘Portland waves’. In second place was a monochrome shot of Corfe Castle by Malcolm Bowditch and Jean Bartlett was third with ‘Dorset at Kimmeridge’. Jean was also highly commended for a second photograph ’Kimmeridge Sunset’. Dionne Horsfall and Peter Watts were also highly commended for their work.
The slides competition attracted twelve entries and was for the Carillon Trophy. Martin made an equally measured assessment of each entry and after due consideration, awarded the first place – and the trophy – to Bernard Smith for a rather different and effective treatment of Kingston Lacy. Eric Langley’s ‘Tollard Royal’ was placed second with Bernard featuring again in third place with a classic shot of Ashmore, featuring its village pond. Julian Forder was highly commended.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, attributable largely to the pleasure of enjoying some nice images but due also in no small part to Martin Western’s judging in which he focused on what was good rather than on what was bad.
