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Thanks to all who attended and submitted entries for our first competition of the season,  ‘Mono’ prints. Thanks also to our judge, Graham Currey for his judging and comments on the night.  Congratulations go to Paul Scott, Anthony Gosling and Denis Jones for taking first, second and third places respectively.  Also, well done to all the people who’s images were Highly Commended and Commended.

As this was the first competition of the season, we won’t be publishing the league table yet.

Martin James, the Ranger at Teggs Nose is keen to utilise the facilities that he manages to the full, and so, having just established a small exhibition space he asked us if we could fill it with a photographic exhibition. We had seven days in which to pull together a range of images that would appeal to the theme requested by Martin “Local wildlife and Landscapes”. The exhibition will be in place until at least 22nd August. Martin will seek to vary the style of exhibition from time to time and he may well ask us to do another exhibition in due course when, under less time pressure, we will be able to widen the number of club members involved. This exhibition contains images from Mark Helliwell, Kevin Blake, David Tolliday, Alison Lomax, Steve Gresty and Conor Molloy. Spread the word and hopefully we can get as many people viewing the work as possible.

Camera Club exhibition at the Teggs Nose tea rooms.

The Landscape dpi competition was our last of the season. Thanks go to our very own Landscape judge, Mark Helliwell, who gave considered and insightful critiques for all the entered  images. The honours go to Alison Lomax in first place, Conor Molloy in 2nd and Paul Scott in 3rd.  The top 10 images are now available to view on the Competitions Page.

With all the scores now in I can announce that the winner of the League is…. Paul Scott (again!), who managed to overtake Anthony at the last. Many congratulations Paul.

The final scores were (remember that the lowest score achieved in a competition is dropped from the final tally):

Paul Scott             – 38 points

Anthony Gosling – 34 points

Conor Molloy       – 33 points

Steve Gresty         – 29 points

Kevin Blake          – 26 points

Len Claydon         – 24 points

Alison Lomax       – 21 points

Louise Acton        – 15 points

David Tolliday     – 13 points

Malcolm Brunt    – 11 points

The full spread sheet will be sent out to everyone in due course.

Hope to see you all at the AGM next week, when Paul will be presented with his trophy.

Kingfisher with two fish by Steve Gresty

Congratulations to Steve Gresty whose wonderfully detailed image of a Kingfisher with two fish won the public vote at our exhibition. There were a total of 192 votes cast, an uplift of nearly 100% on last year marking an encouragingly positive trend of interest in our work by the Macclesfield public matched by our improving standard of photography. I know a lot of you picked up very positive vibes about the quality of the exhibition so well done to all who entered.  Points were awarded as 3 points for 1st preference, 2 points for 2nd preference and 1 point for third preference. The Top 10 scores were :

1st Kingfisher with two fish by Steve Gresty  (76 points)

2nd Kissing Beeeaters by Conor Molloy (72 points)

3rd Over & Under by Anthony Gosling (63 points)

4th Great Grey Owl hunting in the snow by Conor Molloy (47 points)

5th Core of the Milky Way by David Tolliday (42 points)

6th Reflections by Len Claydon (38 points)

7th Still Going Strong by Anthony Gosling (36 points)

7th Gaze by Anthony Gosling (36 points)

9th Grazing Geese by Alison Lomax (34 points)

9th Havanna School Run by Len Claydon (34 points)