Blandford Forum Camera Club

On Tuesday 21^st October, the club held its first Points Cup competition for digitally projected images (DPI) side-by-side with the equivalent and traditional slides event.  The club welcomed an old friend, Anne Mahany CPAGB, as our judge for the evening.  With the audience seated in some style, thank you ‘Awards for All’, we turned the lights off (that’s projected images for you!) and listened as Anne made her customary considered judgements.  In doing so, she left members in no doubt of the image-degrading nature of non-critical areas containing lighter patches, and those who hadn’t appreciated this paid the price with points!   In dealing with the entry of sixteen slides, she awarded maximum marks to Eric Langley for a fine landscape and 9½ each to Jan Carey and Julian Forder.  Bernard Smith trailed, but only just, with a score of nine.   In an event of a remarkably uniform standard, the DPI competition had one entry marked with a seven and one with a ten (by Colin Cross and of a lioness with three cubs), the thirty other entries all scored between 7½ and 9½.  Those awarded 9½, and therefore missing the maximum by a whisker, included Jean Bartlett, Jackie Poynter, Norman Carey, Evan Jones and Colin Sansom.  Jean Bartlett (again!), Jacky Stevens and Pam Woodhouse all received nines.   Don’t forget the ‘Dorset County’ competition next week!  Or to bring the prints for Points Cup No 2 the following week!