Seventeen!

Seventeen I hear you say. Yes that’s the score.

The judge, Andrew Perry, after much deliberating, pacing up and down, stroking his beard announced the score, yes you’ve guessed it, 17. After the first dozen or so images it was too obvious that if an image was not held back then it was going to score seventeen. There was even a murmur going through the audience before the score was announced.

Scoring in this way, does no one a favour when comparing your images against your peers. If only judges would understand that we not only want constructive critique, but also, balanced scoring with a diversity of marks.

A total of 53 images were submitted with the scores broken down as follows:

20s

19s

18s

Mum by Janet Brown was declared best of the night.