This competition was clearly about quality over quantity.  More digital images than prints but the judge, Alan Denison, was particularly complimentary about the standard of both.  Alan had taken a lot of time to preview the DPIs and gave feedback to match that.  He said he was impressed with the quality of the prints and found it very difficult to decide on the placings.  Well done to everyone who submitted images. The results are as follows:

Shoot a Theme Competition (Jan 2024)

This competition saw a wonderful and wide range of images around the theme of "motion blur" chosen by last year's winner Ally. This year's winner, by some margin, is Chris Dowding with an absolutely stunning image of a Damsel fly.

The Iris Overton Cup (Nov 2023)

What a wonderful evening we had on Tuesday night for the Iris Overton Cup – some great photos, great judging and feedback, and some very difficult decisions to be made.

Thank you to John Tilsley for making the evening entertaining with constructive critique and encouragement on all images.

Congratulations to the winners and those whose photos were highly commended.

Bradford Abbas Shield Competition (Oct 2023)

Another great night with a hall full of members from the 5 participating camera clubs! The quality of the images was exceptional as always, with Wincanton leading the first half with a strong DPI submission. The prints were shown in the second half, but Wincanton couldn’t hold off Shaftesbury, who pipped them to the post my just one point!

The judge, Norman Marsh, provided some very valuable and noteworthy feedback.

Congratulations to Shaftesbury for taking the top spot, worthy winners of this years shield. Thank you to everyone who came, helping to make this a very enjoyable evening.

The final results were as follows:

1st - Shaftesbury - 169 marks; 2nd - Wincanton - 168 marks; 3rd - South Petherton - 167; marks 4th - Yeovil - 162 marks; 5th - Sherborne Bradford Abbas - 157 marks

These were the 10 images put forward to represent our club's submission for the Bradford Abbas Shield competition.

Macro and Close-up Competition (March 2023)

Iris Overton Cup (November 2022)

A great turn out of members attended our Overton Cup Competition and there was a record number or digital entries too. There were also 9 prints which was great to see. We also welcomed some new members to the meeting.

The entries were all of a very high standard which made our judge, Penny Piddock’s job very hard indeed!  Thank you for doing such a sterling job Penny.

The results were as follows: