Open - Print 12-1-2023

This was quite fun. I’d mounted Gabo in a mid-denim blue mount to pick out the darker blues of the image and informal feedback on the night was “Oo-er… a coloured mount eh? Good luck with that.”…! Well the judge was rather taken with it and scored it 19/20, commenting positively on the mount - though stressing that it in no way swayed her. She liked the overall thrust of the image upwards, which was nice given that I’d hastily decided to display it that way up on the way to the club…

Judge: Naomi Saul

Smoke | 17/20

Gabo | 19/20

To Cambridge | 14/20 (This doesn’t get enough love!)

Scape - Print 1-12-2022

Autumn Morning | 17/20

I managed to submit three images to this that stretched the definition of a landscape really; partly intentionally and partly because I had no regular landscapes to submit. Autumn Morning did best, but lost points due to being somewhat dark. Very irritating since I knew this when I picked it up from the shop. On-screen it is great (to my mind). I need to learn about processing for print.

(Wedge Wood scored the same, but suffered due to my insistence on taking images that are tricky to parse…!)

Judge: David Steele

Wedge Wood | 17/20

Going Underground | 16/20