Our club competitions are always keenly fought, and the standard of our work has been steadily improving as the year's gone on. Earlier tonight we held our latest competition, and as we'd skipped a month due to a busy programme over the summer, there was plenty of high quality entries to be judged.
Each month we can enter up to four images, with a maximum of three in either category: prints or digitally projected images. Prints take a little more effort, as they have to be printed to a high quality and presented on a card mount, but it's still a popular format in higher competitions and so printed entries are very much encouraged. I'd done my usual trick though and left things until the last minute, so I'd spent a couple of hours in the afternoon in the town centre, first at camera store Wilkinsons and then when this didn't work, Morrisons, to get a couple of reasonably sized prints to enter in addition to the pair of digital files I'd already submitted.
All the effort was vindicated though as one of my two prints, a close-up of a hoverfly on a leaf taken in the garden a couple of weeks ago, was declared the winner of the prints section, beating a several others that could easily have been the winner themselves.
Moving into Autumn, the club is preparing for several external competitions against other clubs, some local and others further afield, so we'll soon find out whether the progress we've made this year is backed up wiith better results against other, mostly larger clubs.
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