We are pleased to announce the results for this years Dyment Trophy. In a highly competitive battle, Stuart Chapman took 1st Place with his image entitled "Old Boat at Corpath". Dave Collerton took 2nd Place with "Is it coming yet?" and Mike Bond took 3rd Place with "Cot Valley Slow Water". All of the placed entries, including those that received Highly Commended awards can be seen by visiting The Competitions Gallery

The judge for this competition was the well liked and regarded Kay Wilson who clearly went to some considerable effort if her comments on each mage are anything to go by. In addition to the photographers mentioned above, other placed entries were received from Nick Webb, Darran Thompson and Sharron Godfrey. Congratulations not only to these photographers but of course, to every photographer who contirbuted some amazing images to the competition.

In order to provide you with the full results, including all of the images, please take a look at the following PDF's that you can download for review in your own living rooms.

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Dear All There was a very good variety of great images on Monday.  Well done to all those who were placed. All the images can be viewed elsewhere on this website. For anyone who is interested in Don McCullin, it is worth a trip to Bruton in Somerset to visit Hauser and Wirth who are running an exhibition of his work.  The exhibition, titled The Stillness of Life is there until 4 May.  Entry is free, they just ask for donations.  It has a very nice restaurant, but I would suggest booking a table if you want to eat, as it is very busy.  Have a look at the website if you are interested https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/26511-don-mccullinthe-stillness-life. See you all on 16 March when we have Jack Lowe from the RNLI.  Angie Cottis

News from the PAGB: Check out E-news 249 with lots of photographs from Hilary Bailey, Tim Pile and Christine Widdall, a great article explaining plagiarism, a feature about keeping records by Dorchester CC, another chance to book an APM Advisory session at The Photography Show and much, much more.

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We are pleased to announce the results for this years Kingsbridge Battle. In a highly competitive battle, Paignton emerged triumphant over Kingsbridge by the slimest of margins, just 10 points from 60 entries. The final scores were Kingsbridge 446 to Paigntons 456.

Judging by the informative and relevant comments associated with each image from competition judge Pedro Landers who, in his intro says, "I am a physicist by training without an artistic bone in my body", some considerable effort must have gone into the judging process. Top scorers on the Paignton side included Julie MacGowan for 'Winter at the Buchaille', Carlo Bragagnolo for 'Gone Fishing', Julia Rich for 'The Pass through Widdale', Tony Mathews for 'Male Orange Tip' and Stuart Chapman for 'Cornering to Victory'. Congratulations not only to these photographers but of course, every photographer, on both sides, for their amazing images.

In order to provide you with the full results, including all of the images from both Kingsbridge and Paignton, Alex Hamer has manfully redacted the judging overview into a manageable PDF that you can download, review and cherish.

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As mentioned at the Club a few weeks back and in my recent email, we are proposing to set up two groups to share editing knowhow.  

The first will be the ‘Essentials’ group, which will take a fairly structured approach to some of the core editing skills.  This would be useful for those in the early stages of their editing journey, and for those who would like a refresher. The second will be the ‘Freestyle’ group, which will take a more informal approach with various members explaining how they edited particular images with their own preferred techniques and style.  

In relation to the Essentials Group, we are conscious of the fact that members may be using a range of different software packages.  We will do our best to accommodate these, but will need to know what we are dealing with in advance.  This is of less importance for the Freestyle Group. 

So, two things.  First, if you are interested in taking part in either of these groups, please let me know.  Second, if it is the Essentials Group that interests you, please could you let me know which software package you currently use. Assuming there is sufficient interest, we can then start planning things in a little more detail. I look forward to hearing from you. Alex