Romiley Photoshow 2009
Gordon, Joyce, Dorothy, Tony, Alan, Jackie, Dave Billington and myself attended the Romiley Photoshow event, on Thursday 23rd April - this being the Print competition. Romiley members were very welcoming with the audience made up mainly from members of the 7 clubs taking part in the competition.
The L&CPU President – Norman Thompson DPAGB LBIPP - opened the show – he was also the judge for the evening. Some very good prints had been entered and Norman (as all judges do now) pointed out he would be giving his own personal opinions on each entry – which of course may differ from other judges. We were about to witness this difference when it came to the marking of North Cheshire prints. At the end of the evening the results were disappointing for us - we came joint 5th with Hyde PS – 74 points. The winning club was Bramhall with 80 points.
However it was a good evening and as always great to see the different images entered by other photographers.
On Friday 24th ten clubs entered the Digital Image competition – David, Linda and myself were there to wave the flag for North Cheshire. Norman Piper was the judge who took quite some time talking about the images and made some useful comments – there was quite a range of images - some monochrome some manipulated some landscapes and of course natural history. After coffee break he then quickly went through the images again and gave the scores – ranging from 13 to the one 20. Oldham won the competition with 82 points whilst North Cheshire and Stockport came joint 2nd with 81 points. A big improvement on the previous evening.
This is the last external competition for this season – it’s been an interesting experience attending the competitions as they are quite social events where old friends and acquaintances catch up with each other but also its great to see the many images caught by other photographers, also the results of new techniques used in Photoshop. So I would definitely encourage others to go along and see for themselves.