Stamen sticks out

The first print competition of the season saw Carole SpeightARPS return to adjudicate our images. Carole is a member of Chichester Camera Club.

In the previous print competition Carole marked in the range 13 – 20, this time the marking was in a much narrower band. From 15 to 20. Carole had asked whether we segregate our members into groups and having been told that we do not, opted for the safe option of not wanting to discourage (in her words) beginners. Something she touched on more than once during the evening. Carole provided some good constructive comments that we will no doubt take on board to improve our overall

A total of 63 images were submitted with the scores broken down as follows:

20  3
19  4
18  8
17 15
16 19
15 14

In my opinion, this is far better marking in the top range (18-20) than our previous judge who managed to credit nearly 15% of the images with the coveted score of 20. What this scoring lacks is the depth of marking that enables images at the lower end to be assessed against each other.

20s

19s

18s

After much deliberation Gladioli Stamen was declared best of the night.