| A
three-way photographic battle between a Devon Camera
club and two clubs from Cornwall ended with a close
result, with Ivybridge and District Camera Club coming
in overall winner.
The hosts for the
battle were Saltash & District Camera Club and members
from the other two teams, Ivybridge and Liskeard, met
at the Burraton Community Centre, Saltash on Monday
19th of February to enjoy an interesting and competitive
battle.
Plymouth Camera
Club’s Eric Cawsey kindly judged the battle, which
had three sections: mixed prints, traditional film slides
and digitally projected slides. Despite winning the
overall competition, Ivybridge narrowly missed out on
top print of the evening which was taken by Saltash
with an excellent monochrome portrait that judge Eric
Cawsey could not fault and gave top points to. Saltash
also managed to gain the best slide accolade with a
colourful image of an acer tree in autumn, but Ivybridge’s
consistently high marks across all images compounded
by top points for Kevin Miller’s dynamic motocross
image in the projected image class won them the battle.
The overall scores were: Ivybridge 363 points, Liskeard,
351 points and Saltash 344 points.
The next interclub
competition will be held at Plymouth Camera Club on
Thursday the 8th March. Called the Tamar Trophy, the
event is an annual monochrome-only contest between a
number of Devon and Cornwall Camera Clubs and usually
produces some excellent quality images. Visitors are
welcome.
Ivybridge and District
Camera Club will be running a month-long exhibition
of over 60 photographs at the South Brent Old School
Centre for all of March. This is a free event, open
at the same times as the community library, weekdays
until 5:00pm and Saturday until 12:30pm. Refreshments
are usually available at most times. All camera clubs
above welcome visitors and their programmes can be found
by typing in the club names into an internet search
engine. Our programme, members’ photographs and
much more are all available elsewhere on this website.
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| Kevin
Miller’s winning motocross image, Flat Out
gained the maximum of twenty points in the digitally
projected image section of the three-way battle. |
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