The theme for this year’s Chairman’s Competition was “Negative Space”, this refers to the space around the subject which should give the subject room to breath and help emphasize the subject.
Congratulations to Steve Fitchett, Janet Downes & Tim Gilbert
1. Steve Fitchett “In the Eye of the Storm”
2. Janet Downes “Embroidery”
3. Tim Gilbert “Fun in the Sun”
We’re back for a new season! This year starts with the Oatey Cup, a print competition with entries that have to be taken over the summer break, congratulations go to Steve Fitchett, Jenny Lauder & Helen Moore!
1. Steve Fitchett
2. Jenny Lauder
3 Helen Moore
The Bill Mammatt Cup is our final competition of the year, it’s an open competition for members who haven’t won a competition so far in the season.
Congratulations go to Bill Stuart-White and Kerry Crowther
1. Bill Stuart-White
2. Kerry Crowther
3. Bill Stuart-White
The Tony Briard one of the end of season competitions where the members present their own favourite/best digital images they have taken during the past year
Congratulations to Tim Gilbert, Hudson Swan and Helen Moore!
1. By The River - Tim Gilbert
2. Trumpet - Hudson Swan
3. Edinburgh Museum - Helen Moore
The Ken Beard one of the end of season competitions where the members present their own favourite/best images they have taken during the past year
Congratulations to Hudson Swan, Tim Gilbert and Steve Fitchett!
1. Alex - Hudson Swan
2. Holywell Bay - Tim Gilbert
3. Final Berth - Steve Fitchett
The Haworth Cup is our natural history competition for printed images
Congratulations go to Richard Lawrence, James Moore and Lloyd Sluman
1. Cormorant bathing - Richard Lawrence
2. Goshawk in the rain - James Moore
3. Hippo - Lloyd Sluman
The John Armstrong Salver is our natural history competition for digital projected images
Congratulations go to Richard Lawrence, Helen Moore and Janet Downes
1. Ectophasia crassipennis (Twist-winged Parasite Fly) - Richard Lawrence
2. White tailed Eagle landing - Helen Moore
3. Deceiver Fungus - Janet Downes
We are proud to announce we have won the Saltash Battle for 2026!
The Saltash Battle is a 3-way competition between us, Saltash Camera Club and Ivybridge Camera Club, with a single judge who scores images from all 3 clubs without know which club provided which images.
We managed 4 entries that were awarded the full 20 points, all from different photographers!
Prints:
Digital Images:
The second part of our internally judged theme competition, this time the theme being “Smartphone”… the entries had to be both taken and processed on a smartphone.
Congratulations go to Karen Lovick and Jenny Lauder!
1. Karen Lovick
2. Karen Lovick
3. Jenny Launder
We’ve only gone and won the Kingswood Salver! The Salver is open to all clubs within the WCPF (Western Counties Photographic Federation) and has some large clubs so this is a big win for us!
Also a great win for Hudson Swan who won best image overall!
Hudson Swan’s overall winning image
