Blandford Forum Camera Club

The away leg of this friendly fixture was held on Tuesday 28^th October and thanks are again due to Adrian Oliver and family for transporting our entries to and fro as usual.  The judge was John Murray who marked from five to ten but in what some may consider being a rather quirky way.  Clearly a man who knows his own mind, of the sixty images, i.e. fifteen prints and fifteen slides from each side, he awarded five points to just over three quarters of the total.  The remaining fourteen images were awarded points between seven and ten – no sixes and no half marks. 

Be that as it may, the net result was a satisfactory one for us, winning as we did, by 88 to 82 with our prints and by 90 to 80 with our slides.  In the print section, the highest Blandford scorers were John Burton (10) and Malcolm Bowditch (9) with Dionne Horsfall and Colin Cross both getting seven.  As you will have worked out, the rest got five.  The higher scoring Blandford slides were by Malcolm Bowditch (10) and Dionne Horsfall (9) with Dionne (again), John Burton and Colin Cross all scoring seven.  And the rest got - - - ?, that’s it, five.

 Those with longer memories than mine may recall that we also won both sections in the home leg a month ago by a comfortable margin.  So, all in all, a good, consistent performance by Blandford who were completely unfazed by playing away on unfamiliar territory.