Judge: Pauline Martindale
Unexpectedly scored 19/20 for this heron.
Kitten scored 16/20, which was expected!
The scoring was properly weird. I’m surprised there’s not been more comment about it on the club forums because it genuinely appeared that the judge had brought the wrong glasses - misdescribing fundamental elements of the images. There was also a strange obsession with verticals (even for elements that were not vertical in the first place such as V-shaped architectural butressing) and leg-separation (even for face-forward animals on which separation would have looked absurd and been compositionally jarring.)
Judge was viewing them for the first time on the night and that appeared to put the pressure on her.
I’m not saying my images were worth much - I chucked them in fairly thoughtlessly - but the commentary and scoring were both baffling.